#machova

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Assoc. prof. Kristina Machova

“...I was fascinated by possibilities of computers to simulate intelligent properties of humans”

Good sunny morning dear followers,

let me introduce one of the last core researchers of our center, assoc. Kristina Machova. Please enjoy her answer on traditional self-introduction questions.

Q: Why are you at academia?

A: I am happy to be at academia. There are two main job types: teaching and researching. Both of them are interesting for me. I like to teach something after I have learned and comprehended it. I like to search an appropriate way how to describe knowledge to be understandable for students. I like to compose examples and tasks for students. And I like students because of their youth, enthusiasm, intelligence, free thinking and sense of humour. With regard to research, I love the process of problem formulation and finding methods for its solution or designing new approaches - all in the discussion with my students and my colleagues from our department. I love also to join conferences and to discuss with foreign people of the same professional interests like me but with different thinking and different opinions on the discussed problems.

 Q: What is your domain and why are you interested in that domain.

A: I am interested in the following domains, ordered from the most actual to the very first in my professional career: mining within conversational content – the dictionary approach and the machine learning approach to the sentiment analysis with focus on the opinion and emotion classification for an application in robotics, semantic web technologies and intelligent searching of the Internet, text document processing in the information retrieval using classification and clustering machine learning methods, theoretical and practical aspects of the machine learning including bagging and boosting methods, knowledge-based systems and artificial intelligence. Why? After my joining the Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, I was attracted mainly by artificial intelligence because I was fascinated by possibilities of computers to simulate intelligent properties of humans. Within the field of artificial intelligence, I concentrated my attention on knowledge-based systems, which use algorithms for the automatic generation of knowledge bases. It has me led to machine learning algorithms. I love to work with these clever algorithms, to modify, design or select them for some real problems. And one of such problems is emotion and opinion identification within the social media conversational content – my actual domain.

More information about assoc. prof. Machova can be found on her website.

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I'll be living in a Machova quad. What's it like? Was it inconvenient that you didn't have your own kitchen?

The living arrangement in Machova was great. You share the kitchen with your floor which is your suite technically, so it's really not that big of a deal. I lived across the "hall" (the landing between the flights of stairs) from the kitchen and the boys who lived on our floor (they had the kitchen right by their rooms. So really, the walk to the kitchen in Machova is shorter than the walk from my bedroom to the kitchen in my house, so no big deal, and sharing wasn't a problem. You get a mini-fridge in your room so you can put some drinks/food in there. The top floor has their whole suite together (not across the floor) since it's the top. As for the bathroom we didn't run into any problems with not being to get in or whatever when you needed it, except maybe some times in the morning when we'd go to class, but there's the full bathroom with two sinks, a toilet, and a shower/tub and there's the half bath with the toilet and sink. I was in a double and my room was so big; there was so much extra space. The laundry, however, was the worst thing on the planet. The washers were fine, but even though they got new dryers, they still sucked. I think we all paid way more than we had to to do a few rounds in the dryers, but we lived. Also there are only like four or so of each (washer/dryer) so be forewarned.