Associate Professor Nataša Logar, PhD
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kardeljeva ploščad 5, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
e-mail: natasa.logar@fdv.uni-lj.si
Education and training
Bachelor: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1999; Bachelor of linguistic sciences and sociology
Masters: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Slovene Language, Masters thesis (title: Word-formation Stylistics), 2004; Master of science (field: Slovene standard language and stylistics)
Doctoral studies: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, PhD theses (title: The Corpus Approach to the Obtaining and Presentation of the Language Information in Terminological Dictionaries and Terminological Databases), 2008; PhD (field: linguistics)
Occupation and position held
1999, 2002 and 2006 – teaching assistant (field: Slovene language and stylistics), University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
2008, 2015 and 2020 – assistant professor, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
2021 – associate professor, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
Employers
1999–2004: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
2004–: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences
Research leadership and collaboration
a) national projects, leader:
– Terminology data banks as the bodies of knowledge: The model for the systematization of terminologies (Slovenian Research Agency, 2011–2013)
– Promotion of a language game application for mobile devices (Ministry of Culture, 2018–2019)
– The use of dictionaries and corpora in judicial practice: current situation, needs, guidelines (bilateral project, Slovenia – USA; Slovenian Research Agency, 2018–2020, ext. 2021)
b) national projects (Slovenian Research Agency), researcher:
– Designing Corpus-based Dictionary and Grammar Descriptions of the Slovene Language (2004–2006)
– The upgrade of the Military Dictionary: a Multilingual Military Dictionary (2006–2008)
– Voice TRAN II: Multilingual mobile speech communicator for 21th century warriors (2006–2008)
– Slovene Terminology Web Portal (2007–2009)
– Slovene Scientific Texts: Resources and Description (2016–2018)
– Collocations as a Basis for Language Description: Semantic and Temporal Perspectives (2017–2020)
– Synonyms and Collocationa 2.0: The Expansion of Dictionary and other Language Datasets, Centre for Language Resources and Technologies, University of Ljubljana (Slovenian Ministry of Culture, 2021–2022)
c) national research programme (Slovenian Research Agency), researcher:
– Slovene Language: Basic, Contrastive, and Applied Studies (1999–2024)
d) projects funded by the EU, researcher:
– Communication in Slovene (Slovenian Ministry of Education, Science and Sports; European Social Fund, 2008–2013; person responsible for the consortium partner University of Ljubljana)
– ECOPSI: European Communication Professionals Skills and Innovation Programme (European Commission, Lifelong Learning Programme, 2011-2013)
– COST actions: European Network of E-Lexicography (2013–2017); ELN stands for European Literacy Network (2016–2018); Study Abroad Research in European Perspective (SAREP, 2016–2018)
– RSDO: Development of Slovene in a Digital Environment – Language Resources and Technologies (Slovenian Ministry of Culture and European Regional Development Fund, 2020–2022)
Teaching abroad
2013 and 2014: Universiteit Gent, Faculteit van de letteren en wijsbergeerte, Belgium (6 weeks)
2016: Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts, Slovakia (4 weeks)
2017: Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (4 weeks)
2019: Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (5 days)
Commission and board membership
2008–2009: member of the National Team for Evaluating EU Terminology at the Government Office for Development and European affairs, Republic of Slovenia
2011–2015: member of the Commission for quality self-assessment, Faculty of Social Sciences
2013–2015: member of the Expert Group for Slovenian Language at the Ministry of Culture, Republic of Slovenia
2017–: member of the Senate, Faculty of Social Sciences
2017–: delegate of the Project Council, Centre for Language Resources and Technologies, University of Ljubljana
2019–: member of the Orthograpy Commision (Extended Section) at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) and the Research Centre of the SASA
2021–: head of the Chair of Journalism at the Faculty of Social Studies