Dr. Božo Bekavac is assistant professor at the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. In April 1997, he obtained B.A. degree in general linguistics and information science at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb. He began to work as a research fellow at the Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in September 1997 on the project Machine Processing of the Croatian Language. He received his PhD (2005) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb with the dissertation Automatic Named Entities Recognition in Croatian Texts and became assistant professor in 2007.
His scientific work focuses on linguistics formalism, computational tools and language corpora for processing of the Croatian language. He participated in several international and Croatian conferences and he have around twenty published papers in the fields of computational linguistics, linguistic language modeling, corpus linguistics, Named Entity Recognition and Classification (NERC), linguistic tools and mark-up languages. He participated as research scientist in several nationally and EU funded projects (ACCURAT, XLike, LetsMT and CESAR).