--- title: "Kiril Simov — author profile and papers · Universal Dependencies" description: "Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kiril-simov/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kiril-simov/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kiril Simov # Kiril Simov Kiril Simov has 3 papers in our library, in 2020–2026, most of them on [Universal Dependencies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/), [Treebanks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Petya Osenova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/petya-osenova/), [Nikolay Paev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-paev/), [Stefan Marinov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-marinov/). 3 papers in our library · 2020–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5135316969) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5135316969) · [15 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5135316969) · [3 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5135316969&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kiril-simov/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 5 times in our library · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9888](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/99/#star-9888) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Kiril+Simov) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kiril+Simov) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kiril+Simov) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kiril+Simov) ## Affiliations [🏛️**Bulgarian Academy of Sciences** Sofia · Bulgaria 2021–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/bulgarian-academy-of-sciences/) · [🔬**Institute of Information and Communication Technologies** Sofia · Bulgaria 2022–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institute-of-information-and-communication-technologies/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Literature and Literary Theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Treebanks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) · [Universal Dependencies · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Morphology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kiril-simov/year/2026/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kiril-simov/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Quantitative Linguistic Investigations across Universal Dependencies Treebanks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alzetta-2020-quantitative-linguistic-investigations-across-universal/)** *(2020 · 10 citations)* The authors propose a method for quantitatively comparing how syntactic dependencies are distributed in the UD treebanks of typologically different languages. 2. **[Small Can Be Beautiful in LLMs for SSH: a Case for Bulgarian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/simov-2026-small-can-be-beautiful-llms/)** *(2026)* The authors argue that core Bulgarian NLP tasks, which Social Sciences and Humanities research relies on, do not require multi-billion-parameter systems. 3. **[Towards a Bulgarian Historical Newspaper Corpus – Construction of Reading Order over the Text in Searchable PDFs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/paev-2026-bulgarian-historical-newspaper-corpus-construction/)** *(2026)* Before any linguistic processing, a corpus of Bulgarian newspapers from 1878 to the mid-20th century needs the text on each page placed in its intended reading sequence. ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Petya Osenova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/petya-osenova/) ×3 - [Nikolay Paev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-paev/) ×2 - [Stefan Marinov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-marinov/) ×2 - [Chiara Alzetta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chiara-alzetta/) - [Felice Dell'Orletta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/felice-dell-orletta/) - [Giulia Venturi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giulia-venturi/) - [Simonetta Montemagni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simonetta-montemagni/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/clicit/): [Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/clicit/2020/) - [Shaping Multilingual, Multimodal AI for the Social Sciences and Humanities @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/llms4ssh/): [Shaping Multilingual, Multimodal AI for the Social Sciences and Humanities @ LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/llms4ssh/2026/) - [Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/pressmint/): [Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/pressmint/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 5 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). 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