David Bordon is a young researcher and PhD student at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. His primary research interests are in the fields of digital linguistics, development of language technology tools and sociolinguistic analysis. He provides technical support for web conferences, webcasts and live events, and organises a music festival and concerts.
He has been collaborating with SLORI since 2019 as part of the technical team for the development of language technology tools: development of the LORIS language consultant, creation of a corpus of Slovene texts written in Italy, development of the architecture of other language tools, production of training and demonstration videos.
He is currently working on his doctoral thesis on the Slovenian parliamentary discourse community using corpus linguistic methods and modern computational approaches. He has been involved in the RSDO project, namely in the development of linguistic tools, the construction of databases and as web portal administrator. He is also actively involved in the CLARIN ERIC consortium of European research infrastructures. His paper Do you Speak Neuralese? How People Comprehend the Language of Modern MT Systems was selected as the best student paper at the Language Technologies and Digital Humanities 2022 conference.
