Publications

Publications 2025

• Mariana Damova, Stanko Stankov, Emil Stoyanov, Hermand Pessek, Hristo Hristov. Flood Simulation and Forecasting based on Earth Observation and AI for Sustainable Planning of Climate Change Adaptation. Poster. Living Planet Symposium 2025, Vienna, Austria, June 2025.

• Mariana Damova, Stanko Stankov, Hristo Hristov, Emil Stoyanov, Hermand Pessek. Flood Simulation with Earth Observation – a Powerful Policy Support Instrument in Climate Change Adaptation and Response Planning Context. Poster. Living Planet Symposium 2025. Vienna, Austria, June 2025.

• Elena-Simona Apostol, Ciprian-Octavian Truica, Mariana Damova, Purificacao Silvano, Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene, Chaya Liebeskind, Dimitar Trajanov, Anna Baczkowska, Emma Angela Montecciari, Christian Chiarcos. Multiword Discourse Markers Across Languages: A Linguistic and Computational Perspective. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Wiley. April 2025 https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12755

Publications 2024

• Purificacao Silvano, Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene, Chaya Liebeskind, Mariana Damova. Questions in Monologues: an Analysis grounded on ISO. In: Linguistics. De Gruyter, 2024.
• Mariana Damova, Emil Stoyanov, Stanko Stankov, Hermand Pessek, Hristo Hristov, Plamen Chernev.

  Flood Simulation and Forecasting for Sustainable Planning of Response in Municipalities. International Water Conference, Barcelona, Spain, October 2024. Best Presentation Award.

• Mariana Damova, Emil Stoyanov, Stanko Stankov, Hermand Pessek, Hristo Hristov, Hristo Enchev, Rumen Stoykov. ISME-HYDRO: An Intelligent Web-based Workflow for Sustainable Exploitation of Dams and Rivers  Based on Earth Observation and AI. 2024 Canadian Dam Association Annual Conference “Navigating the future together”, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, September 2024.

• Mariana Damova. Earth Observation and AI for Sustainable Flood Management through Long-term Forecasting and Resource Planning. (Panel presentation). UN Austria Symposium “Climate action: transforming space-based technology projects into sustainable services that support policy-making”, Gratz, Austria, June 2024.

• Silvano Purificacao, Giedre Valuanaite Oleskeviciene, Mariana Damova, Chaya Liebeskind. Reproduction of dialogues in monologues: A semantic pragmatic analysis of questions. In Proceedings of 7th ESTIDIA Conference Exploring Real-Life, Fictional and Virtual Dialogues: Similarities, Differencea and Compelementarities 2024. Vilnius, Lithuania, June 2024.

• Mariana Damova, Stanko Stankov. Forecasting Discharge with EO4AI Along the Danube River (poster). 2024 Danube Water Forum, Brasov, Romania, May 2024.

• Emil Stoyanov. A Novel Way to Provide Information for Water Resources Management: AI, Earth Observation, Forecasting. World Water Day Conference “Water resources: management, preservation and effective use”, Sofia, Bulgaria, March 2024

• Mariana Damova. Sustainable Exploitation of Dams and Rivers. World Water Day Conference “Water resources: management, preservation and effective use”, Sofia, Bulgaria, March 2024.

Publications 2023

• Mariana Damova. Intelligent Web-based Workflow with Embedded Early Warning Based on Earth Observation and AI: A Case for Water Resources Management. (poster) UN World Space Forum. Vienna, Austria, December 2023.
• Mariana Damova. Forecasting Discharge and Water Levels of Rivers and Dams using Earth Observation and AI. UNOOSA Third Space4Water Stakeholder Meeting, Vienna, Austria, October 2023.
• Mariana Damova,  Emil Stoyanov,  Stanko Stankov, Hermand Pessek. An Information e-Infrastructure for Monitoring of Water Resources or  Rivers and Dams for  Sustainable Exploitation of Dams and Rivers,  based on Earth  Observation  and AI.  KosmosBG 2024, Sofia, Bulgaria, September 
• Christian Chiarcos, Purificação Silvano, Mariana Damova, Giedre Valunaite Oleškeviciene, Chaya Liebeskind, Dimitar Trajanov, Ciprian-Octavian Truica, Elena-Simona Apostol, Anna Baczkowska. Building an Owl-Ontology for Representing, Linking and Querying SemAF Discourse Annotations In: Rasprave: Časopis Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Vol. 49 No. 1, 2023

• Stanko Stankov, W. Alexander Breugem, Mariana Damova, Theofano Koutrouveli, Boudewijn Decrop. TELEMAC Hydrodynamic Models over Time: A Case Study with the Danube. In Proceedings of TUC2023, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2023.

• Mariana Damova, Kostadin Mishev, Giedre Valunaite Oleškeviciene, Chaya Liebeskind, Purificação Silvano, Dimitar Trajanov, Ciprian-Octavian Truica, Elena-Simona Apostol, Christian Chiarcos, Anna Baczkowska. Validation of Language Agnostic Models for Discourse Marker Detection. In Proceedings of LDK2023, Vienna, Austria, September 2023.

• Mariana Damova, Emil Stoyanov, Stanko Stankov, Hermand Pesssek. Water Resources Management of the Danube with ISME-HYDRO (Poster) 2023 Danube Water Conference. Vienna, Austria, June 2023.
• Mariana Damova, Emil Stoyanov, Stanko Stankov, Hermand Pesssek. Intelligent e-Infrastructure for Sustainable Management and Exploitation of Rivers and Dams based on Earth Observation and AI. New Capabilities and Countries in European Space Conference, ESTEC-ESA, Nordwijk, The Netherlands, May 2023.
• Mariana Damova, Emil Stoyanov, Stanko Stankov, Hermand Pesssek. Early Warning Embedded in Intelligent Web-based Workflow for River Monitoring through Earth Observation and AI. EGU General Assembly Conference, Vienna, Austria, April 2023.   
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  Damova, M., Stoyanov, E., Stankov, S., and Pessek, H.: Early Warning Embedded in Intelligent Web-based Workflow for River Monitoring through Earth Observation and AI, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-17149, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-17149, 2023.
• Mariana Damova, Stanko Stankov. Forecasting Discharge and Water Levels of Rivers and Dams using Earth Observation and AI. EGU General Assembly Conference, Vienna, Austria, April 2023.
  cite as:
  Damova, M. and Stankov, S.: Forecasting Discharge and Water Levels of Rivers and Dams using Earth Observation and AI, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-17141, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-17141, 2023.
  

Publications 2022

• Mariana Damova, Emil Stoyanov, Hermand Pesssek, Stanko Stankov. Intelligent Information Infrastructure for monitoring and exploitation of water resources. 4^th Cope4BG Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, December 2022.

• Mariana Damova, Emil Stoyanov, Hermand Pesssek, Stanko Stankov. Intelligent Web-based Workflow for River Monitoring through Earth Observation and AI for Sustainable Development. 25^th International River Symposium 2022 (IRS 2022), Vienna, Austria, November 2022, video presentation.

• Mariana Damova. Information Systems for Water Resource Management. 1^St UN Space for Water Stakeholder Meeting, Vienna, Austria, October 2022.

• Mariana Damova, Stanko Stankov. River Dynamics Forecasting using Telemac, Earth Observation and AI. In Proceedings of Telemac User Conference 2022 (TUC 2022), Paris-Saclay, France, October 2022, pp. 281-289.
• Emma Angela Montechiari, Kostadin Mishev, Stanko Stankov and Mariana Damova. Machine Learning Methods for Discourse Marker Detection in Italian. In Proceedings of Workshop on Deep Learning and Neural Approaches for Linguistic Linked Data 2 (DL4LD), A NexusLinguarum Workshop. Vilnius, Lithuania, September 2022.
• Christian Chiarcos, Purificação Silvano, Mariana Damova, Giedre Valunaite Oleškeviciene, Chaya Liebeskind, Dimitar Trajanov, Ciprian-Octavian Truica§, Elena-Simona Apostol, Anna Baczkowska.An OWL Ontology for ISO-based Discourse Marker Annotation. In Proceeding of “LLOD approaches for language data research and management” (LLODREAM2022), A NexusLinguarum Conference. Vilinius, Lithuania, September 2022.
• Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Mariana Damova.. (Common) ground and Discourse Development Prediction Associated with the Role of Intonation in the Interpretation of Communicative Connectives. SLE 2022, Bucharest, Romania, August 2022.
• Purificação Silvano, Mariana Damova, Giedre Valunaite Oleškevicien, Chaya Liebeskind, Chaya Liebeskind, Christian Chiargos, Dimitar Trajanov,  Ciprian-Octavian Truica, Elena-Simona Apostol, Anna Baczkowska. ISO-based Annotated Multilingual Parallel Corpus for Discourse Markers. Poster. LREC 2022, Marseille, France, June 2022.
• Mariana Damova. ISME-HYDRO – an e-Infrastructure for Monitoring Groundwater Resources Based on Earth Observation and AI. Lightning Talk. 5th Invernational Conference on the Use of Space Technology for Water Resources Management, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), Accra, Ghana, May 2022.
  Link to the presentation
• Mariana Damova, Stanko Stankov. Forecasting of River Runoff and Sediment Deposition with Methods of EO4AI for Fairway Modification Prediction. Poster. Living Planet Symposium 2022 (LPS’2022), Bonn, Germany, May 2022.
• Purificação Silvano, Mariana Damova. ISO-DR-core plugs into ISO-dialogue acts for a crosslinguistic taxonomy of discourse markers. DiSLiDaS 2022 workshop, NexusLinguarum, Jerusalem, Israel, May 2022.
• Kostadin Mishev, Mariana Damova, Giedre Valunaite Oleškevicien, Chaya Liebeskind, Chaya Liebeskind, Dimitar Trajanov, Purificação Silvano, Ciprian-Octavian Truica, Elena-Simona Apostol, Christian Chiargos. Evaluation of Cross-Lingual Methods for Discourse Markers Detection. ISO-DR-core plugs into ISO-dialogue acts for a crosslinguistic taxonomy of discourse markers. DiSLiDaS 2022 workshop, NexusLinguarum, Jerusalem, Israel, May 2022.

• Mariana Damova, Emil Stoyanov, Hermand Pesssek, Stanko Stankov, Mihail Kopchev. ISME-HYDRO – an Integrated System for Monitoring of Water Resources for  Sustainable Exploitation of Dams and Rivers. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Water Resources Management and Sustainability: Solutions for Arid Regions, EXPO2020, Dubai, March 2022, pp.98-102.

Publications 2021

• Giedre Valunaite Oleskevicienė, Chaya Liebeskind, Dimitar Trajanov, Purificação Silvano, Christian Chiarcos, Mariana Damova. Speaker Attitudes Detection through Discourse Markers Analysis. In: Proceedings of Workshop “Deep learning and Neural Approaches for Lingusitic Data”, NexusLinguarum, Skopje, October 2021. 
• Stanko Stankov, Mariana Damova. Fairway Modification Mapping based on AI Models for Sediment Deposition and River Runoff Forecast. In: Proceedings of The ESA Earth Observation Φ-week The New Space Economy, Virtual event, October 2021.
  link to the presentation
• Mariana Damova, Emil Stoyanov, Mihail Kopchev, Hermand Pessek, Martin Petrov, Stefano Natali. Linked Data Meet Deep Learning to Empower Water Resources Monitoring of Dams. Big Data From Space 2021 (BiDS’2021), Virtual Event, Originally planned to be hosted by University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (UPB), May 2021.

Publications 2020

• Svilena Gospodinova, Mariana Damova. GIS-Based Representation of Lexical Geolinguistic Elements of the Bulgarian Language Territory – an Interactive Map of Bulgarian Dialects. In: Bulgarian Language – Historical and Contemporary Aspects. Edition in Hounor of 140 Anniversary of Acad. Stefan Mladenov. Institute for Bulgarian Language. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2020, ISBN 978-619-90884-1-8. 

• Martin Petrov, Mariana Damova, Emil Stoyanov. Forecasting Water Volumes in Dams Based on Deep Learning Over Satellite Data.  In: Proceedings of the ESA Earth Observation Φ-week EO Open Science Digital Earth Twin, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, (online conference) 2020.
  link to the presentation

• Mariana Damova. Linked Open Data Prototype of the Historical Archive of the European Commission.  In: Proceedings of IS&T Archiving Conference, Washington, DC, USA, 2020.
  link to the paper 

• Mariana Damova, Bernhard Kerpen. 2017.01 ISA² Action: Standard-based archival data management, exchange and publication Phase 2: Work Package 4, Link Open Data. European Commission which ran within EPRS/ARCH/SER/16/013, Lot 1 ‘Analysis and Studies’: ISA² Programme: Interoperability Solutions for Public Administrations. Brussels,  2020.
  link to the deliverable

Publications 2019

• Mariana Damova, Emil Stoyanov, Mihail Kopchev, Hermand Pessek. Ontology-Based Semantic Search Over Linked Satellite, Geospatial, Numeric and Symbolic Data in the Water Management Domain. In: Proceedings of The ESA Earth Observation Φ-week EO Open Science and FutureEO, Frascati, Italy, 2019.
  link to the presentation
• Mariana Damova, Emil Stoyanov, Mihail  Kopchev, Stefano Natali, Katerina Kuzmanova. Linked Data Approach to water resources Management of Hydropower Reservoirs, In: Proccesings of ISDE’2019 (11th International Symposium of  Digital Earth), Florence, Italy, 2019. IOPScience, Volume 509, Paper 012011.
  link to the proceedings

Publications 2018

• Mariana Damova, Emil Stoyanov, Martin Petrov. An Information System for Monitoring of Hydropower Reservoirs in Bulgaria, In: Proceedings of Cope4BG, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2018.
  link to the presentation in Bulgarian 
• Mariana Damova, Emil Stoyanov, Martin Petrov. Linked Data Infrastructure for Monitoring Large Hydropower Reservoirs. In: Proceedings of The ESA Earth Observation Φ-week EO Open Science and FutureEO, Frascati, Italy, 2018.
  link to the presentation
• Mariana Damova, Margaret Dimitrova. Mapping the Routes of Paisij Hilendarski’s Istorija slavjanobolgarskaja: The Start of the Site “Geography of Letters”. In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Bulgarian Society for the Study of the 18th Century, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2018.
  link to the proceedings

Publications 2014

• Mariana Damova, Dana Dannells, Ramona Enache. Multilingual Retrieval Interface for Structured Data on the Web. In: Proceedings of NLIWod 2014, ISWC’2014, Trento, Italy, 2014.
• Mariana Damova, Dana Dannells, Ramona Enache. A Multilingual SPARQL-Based Retrieval Interface for Cultural Heritage Objects. In: Poster at ISWC’2014 P&D, Trento, Italy, 2014.