Dan Cristea

Prof. Dan Cristea is a faculty member at the Faculty of Computer Science, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (UAIC), specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. He holds a PhD and is a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy. His research focuses on computational linguistics, knowledge representation, and historical document deciphering, with notable projects like DeLORo for old Cyrillic texts and EUROLAN Summer Schools. He has supervised numerous students in AI and NLP projects, including systems for question-answering, sentiment analysis, and agent-based models. His work bridges theoretical linguistics with practical applications in digital heritage preservation and multilingual technologies.

Education: PhD (not explicitly stated in text), but his academic rank implies doctoral qualifications.

Research Interests: AI applications in NLP, discourse analysis, computational linguistics, and cultural heritage digitization. Projects include MappingBooks for geographical text navigation, CoBiLiRo for bimodal corpora, and Sentimatrix for sentiment analysis. He collaborates internationally on corpora like EuReCo and has developed tools for dependency parsing and semantic annotation.

Key Achievements:

• Corresponding member of the Romanian Academy
• Lead developer of the Corpus of Contemporary Romanian Language (CoRoLa)
• Pioneered AI-driven historical document transcription systems

Grants and Collaborations: Involved in EU-funded projects like i-Librarian and i-Publisher. Collaborates with institutions globally on NLP and corpus linguistics.

Labs/Teams: Director of the NLP-Group@UAIC-FII and heads the DeLORo project team.