Borbála Katalin BENKŐ

  • Research fellow
  • MSc in Technical Informatics
  • email: bbenko AT hit.bme.hu
  • phone: +36-1-463-3278 (work)
  • room: BUTE, Building I, Room IB112

Teaching

Current subjects (2009/2010)

Old subjects

  • Object Oriented programming (in English)
  • Specialization Laboratory 1A (in English)
  • Számítástechnika labor I. (Computer technology lab 1, in Hungarian)
  • Számítástechnika labor II. (Computer technology lab 2, in Hungarian)
  • Projekt labor (Project laboratory, in Hungarian)
  • Számítógép labor II. (Programming languages lab 2, in Hungarian)
  • Projekt labor (Project laboratory, in Hungarian) at Selye János University, Slovakia)
  • Számítógép labor 3 (Programming lanuages lab 3, in Hungarian) at Selye János University, Slovakia
  • Java programozási nyelv (Java programming, in Hungarian) at Selye János University, Slovakia
  • Java programozás (Java programming) at Széchenyi István University

Projects

Ongoing projects (2009/2010)

  • Natural language text-shrinker
  • BodyAurae (proposal writing)
  • Web based visualization
  • Blog mining
  • Mass spectrometer mining

Recent projects

  • CASCADAS (EU IST-FET, Call 4)
  • QoE: distributed end-to-end quality of experience measurement system for mobile services (funded by MIK)
  • Ambient Networks (EU IST-FET, Call 4)

Scientific interests

  • Intelligent systems: autonomic systems, pervasive computing, situation-awareness
  • Data mining, machine learning, business intelligence
  • Language technology: Formal NLP models, Efficient natural language processing (heuristics or statistics based approaches), Information retrieval
  • Robust and flexible software: design patterns, Java, web technologies, object-oriented world
  • Parallel/distributed systems

Publications

Papers, book parts:

  • B. K. Benkő, N. Brgulja, E. Höfig, R. Kusber: Adaptive Services in a Distributed Environment, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks, ISBN 0-7695-3389-6, page 66-75, Kassel, 2008 - see in ACM Digital Library
  • B. K. Benkő, R. Schulcz: Mapping External Functionalities into Autonomic Services, in Proceedings of BIONETICS2007, 2007, ISBN 978-963-9799-05-9 - see at IEEE XPlore
  • B. K. Benkő, T. Katona, R. Schulcz: CASCADAS – Autonomic communication and pervasive situated services (in English), Híradástechnika (Telecommunications) English Edition vol 2007/1, 2007 - download from publisher
  • B. K. Benkő, T. Katona, R. Schulcz: CASCADAS – Autonomic communication and pervasive situated services (in Hungarian) , Híradástechnika, 2006/12, Budapest, HU ISSN 0018-2028, 2006 - download from publisher
  • B. K. Benkő: Increasing the syntactical parse efficiency using "strong rules", Linguistics in the Twenty First Century, ISBN 1904303862 , Cambridge Scholar Press, 2006 - see cover & TOC at Cambridge Scholar Press
  • B. K. Benkő, T. Katona: Information retrieval in homogeneous document sets using syntactical parse information, Linguistics in the Twenty First Century, ISBN 1904303862 , Cambridge Scholar Press, 2006 - see cover & TOC at Cambridge Scholar Press
  • E. Höfig, B. Wüst, B. K. Benkő, A. Mannella, M. Mamei, E. Di Nitto: On Concepts for Autonomic Communication Elements, in Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments, Dublin, 2006 - download
  • Benkő B. K., Pándi Zs.: Document cathegorization in a telecommunication problem (in Hungarian), Híradástechnika, 2005/11, HU ISSN 0018-2028, Budapest, 2005 - download from publisher
  • B. K. Benkő, T. Katona: On the Efficient Indexing of Grammatical Parse Trees for Information Retrieval, In Proceedings of INISTA2005, Istanbul, Turkey, 2005 - download
  • B. K. Benkő: Increasing the syntactical parse efficiency using "strong rules", In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium for Social Communication, ISBN 959-7174-05-7, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 2005
  • B. K. Benkő, T. Katona: Information retrieval in homogeneous document sets using syntactical parse information, Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium for Social Communication, ISBN 959-7174-04-9, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 2005
  • B. K. Benkő: On increasing the syntactical parse efficiency, In Proceedings of UkrObraz2004, Kyev, Ukraine, 2004
  • B. K. Benkő: Efficiency in syntactical parsing with strong rules (in Hungarian), In Proceedings of HTE2004, Budapest, Hungary, 2004
  • B. K. Benkő: Sentence level parsing for Hungarian (in Hungarian), MSc Thesis, BUTE, 2003
  • B. K. Benkő, T. Katona, P. Varga: Processing Hungarian texts for information retrieval (in Hungarian), In proceedings of OTDK2003 - National Scientific Student's Conference (1st prize of the conference), Győr, Hungary, 2003

Scientific presence

Recent TPC memberships

International competition results

  • KDDCUP 2008 (annual ACM SIGKDD data mining challenge): 6th prize award (precision) on breast cancer identification, the best solution from Europe

Invited talks: