Croatian Language Teacher | 03/2019 to Current

Languages Unlimited – Bruxelles, Belgium

·    teaching adults Croatian as a second and foreign language

Freelance Proofreader | 09/2018 to Current

Wispra d.o.o. – Zagreb, Croatia

·    checked and corrected grammatical and spelling errors in diverse texts (scientific papers, PhD thesis etc.)

Croatian Language Teacher | 09/2018 to 11/2018

Wispra d.o.o. – Zagreb, Croatia

·    teaching adults Croatian as a second and foreign language

Associate | 12/2016 to 11/2018

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing – Zagreb, Croatia

·    Assisting with a PhD thesis in the field of argumentation mining – transforming natural language claims into logical form defined by the ontologies (which have been pre-created for diferent controversial topics)

·    Working on two projects within Text Analysis and Knowledge Engineering Lab:

        – EVERBEST project – annotation of event mentions in news stories, with a goal of researching event-focused information needs of general public and professionals and developing event-based representations of news content 

        – SenseHive project – annotation of lexical substitutes, identifying substitutes for target words in context (english and croatian language)

Internship | 11/2017 to 11/2018

Osnovna škola Silvija Strahimira Kranjčevića – Zagreb, Croatia

·    Croatian language teacher training in primary education

FREELANCE Proofreader | 06/2013 to 06/2014

PRglas – Zagreb, Croatia

·    checked and corrected grammatical and spelling errors in diverse texts in the field of public relations

·    researched content and grammatical issues to check accuracy of informations

·    managed finished works and version edits for a comprehensive record of each file

EDUCATION Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences – Zagreb, Croatia | Master of Arts Linguistics with emphasis on Computational Linguistics; Croatian Language and Literature with emphasis on Teaching, 2017 • awarded (Award for Excellence in the Study of Linguistics) • graduated with 5.0 • coursework in Language Technologies, Translator and Computer, Artificial Intelligence, Statistical Methods, Recognizing Notifications in Text (Information Extraction, Local Grammars for NLP), Computer Grammatical Models • assisting with POS tagging of Croatian National Corpus (HNK) Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences – Zagreb, Croatia | Bachelor of Arts Linguistics; Croatian Language and Literature, 2014

Skills

·    by working on proofreading texts for PRglas and ČEMU I was well acquainted with the team work, with the fulfillment of obligations within maximum dedication, independence and responsibility

·    great mediating skills acquired by internship in school and also good negotiating skills acquired by being a student representative at the faculty council

·    experience in working with children and adults

·    developed academic writing skills thanks to the many obligations in the study

·    intercultural skills acquired by giving Croatian language lessons to people of different nationalities

·    involved in organizing whole process of classes, courses, teaching materials

·    organized and guided school debate for kids

·    programming in Python (Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLTK, NumPy, Spacy, Scikit-Learn, Pandas, Matplotlib, Tensorflow), familiar with Perl

·    experience with HTML

·    proficient in MS Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

·    languages – Croatian (native), English (C2), German (B2), Dutch (A1), French (A1)