Awards 

On November 10, 2025, the World Science Day for Peace and Development, at a special ceremony at the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, the First Prize of the Ministry of Education and Science for overall contribution to Open Science "ORBIT" 2025 was awarded to a research team from the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMI-BAS), Prof. Desislava Paneva-Marinova, PhD, and Chief Assist.Prof. Maxim Goynov, PhD, for "The Development and Implementation of Open Access Digital Libraries for Scientific, Educational, and Public Institutions in Bulgaria". The award was presented by the Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Acad. Nikolay Vitanov.

In 2024-2025, the team developed and implemented open access digital libraries for scientific information at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgarian Digital Mathematics Library), the University Library of Sofia University (available here), and the National Statistical Institute (accessible here), integrated with the Bulgarian Open Science Portal. The digital libraries provide open access to more than 55,000 digital objects in the field of science. The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, BAS is a leader in initiatives for Open Access to Scientific Publications and Data in Bulgaria, organizer of the annual Workshop and Info day on Open Access to Scientific Publications, Data and Data Science, Bulgarian Open Science Cloud.

At the beginning of 2016 Prof. Dr. Vladimir Pericliev from the Mathematical Linguistics Department (IMI-BAS) was awarded the prestigious Sejong Prize for academically distinguished papers of Sejong University, South Korea.

In 2012, Junior Assist. Prof. Dr. Desislava Paneva-Marinova and Assist. Prof. Dr. Detelin Luchev participated in a competition for young scientists and PhD students "The Bulgarian Contribution to Contemporary Research", organized by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Ikuo Hirayama Center. "Open Access to Research in the Republic of Bulgaria" and "FolkDressCode. Preserving the Past for the Future" and reached the final stage of the competition for which they were awarded with diplomas. The project "FolkDressCode. Preserving the Past for the Future" was awarded as the winner in the PhD category.

Information and communication sciences and technologies

Discovery systems in diverse linguistic fields (semantics, typology, historical grammar, etc.) are developed. In typology, the first program is built which describes its discoveries as a whole text in English and two such texts are published in a journal without any further human editing. This is the first computer program to generate a scientific article. In the field of historical grammar,  a computer-generated hypothesis is proposed for the existence of genealogical relationship among a language family in South America, on the Atlantic, and a language family, spoken on most islands in the Pacific. The results obtained are important not only for linguistics and computational linguistics, but also for other scientific disciplines such as genetics, archaeology, anthropology and prehistory. These investigations on machine discovery are positively reviewed in leading journals. (Principal investigator Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vladimir Pericliev)

The result is published in the official report of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for 2011, available here.

A conceptual model of GRID-based European research infrastructure of centers for digital lexicography and their digital language resources is developed. The model covers all types of advanced language technologies and all kinds of digital language resources that should be included in a research infrastructure for Slavic lexicography, namely: grammars, corpora, dictionaries, lexical databases, lexicons, thesauri, ontologies. The concept of the technological platform maintaining such research infrastructure is presented in details.

The conceptual model is developed under the successfully completed 7FP European project MONDILEX, coordinated by IMI of BAS. The partners are research organizations from Bulgaria, Poland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Russian Federation and Ukraine. (The leader of the international team is Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ludmila Dimitrova)

The result is published in the official report of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for 2010, available here.