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Yolina Petrova, PhD

Chief Operations & AI Officer, Identrics

Yolina combines Cultural Studies and Cognitive Science. She is Chief Operations & AI Officer at Identrics and lectures Statistics and cognitive courses at NBU. Her research focuses on trust dynamics between humans and AI systems and cognitive modelling.

Credentials

  • PhD Cognitive Science
  • Lecturer, New Bulgarian University

Areas of expertise

  • Cognitive science
  • Responsible AI
  • Human-AI trust
  • Large language models

Selected appearances

  • 2022

    The Importance of ELG for the Media Intelligence Industry

    Speaker, European Language Grid META-Forum

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Research and publications

  • 2025

    WASPer: A Bulgarian-Language Model for Detecting Propaganda in Social Media Content

    Lead author

    With Todor Kiriakov, Devora Kotseva, and Boryana Kostadinova

    Read the paper

  • 2021

    Monitoring Fact Preservation, Grammatical Consistency and Ethical Behavior of Abstractive Summarization Neural Models

    Co-author, RANLP 2021

    With Iva Marinova, Milena Slavcheva, Petya Osenova, Ivaylo Radev, and Kiril Simov

    Read on ACL Anthology

  • 2019

    Relation-based categorization and category learning as a result from structural alignment: The RoleMap model

    Co-author, Frontiers in Psychology

    With Georgi Petkov

    Read the paper

  • 2019

    Crossmodal Spatial Mappings as a Function of Online Relational Analyses?

    Co-author, Cognitive Science Society proceedings

    With Yoana Zafirova and Georgi Petkov

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Projects

  • 2024-2025

    WASPer

    Research lead and co-author

    An open-source Bulgarian-language model for detecting synthetic text and propaganda techniques.

    Explore WASPer

  • 2026

    PROPer-BG and Bulgarian AI-text detection research

    Co-author

    Bulgarian-language datasets and methods presented through the CLIB research programme.

    View research announcement

Posts by Yolina Petrova