CV - Zornitsa Kozareva

Zornitsa Kozareva – Curriculum Vitae
Contact
Information
Yahoo! Inc.
700 First Avenue, Building E
Sunnyvale, CA
http://www.kozareva.com
Research
Interests
Large Scale Knowledge Acquisition, Semantics, Information Extraction, Sentiment Analysis, Metaphors
and Graph Algorithms
Work
Experience
Senior Research Scientist
Yahoo! Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA
Research Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Research Scientist
Information Sciences Institute
Marina del Rey, CA
Education
Internships
September, 2011 – January, 2014
August, 2009 – January, 2014
Ph.D., Computer Science
University of Alicante
Alicante, Spain
October 2004 – February 2009
B.Sc., Computer Science
University of Plovdiv
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
October 2000 – July 2004
Research Intern
Information Sciences Institute
Marina del Rey, CA
August, 2007 – August, 2008
Research Intern
University of Sheffield
United Kingdom
April, 2007 – May, 2007
Research Assistant
University of Wolverhampton
United Kingdom
April, 2004 – July, 2004
Research Assistant
New University of Lisbon
Portugal
Research
Grants
Obtained
January, 2014 – currently
March, 2003 – August, 2003
Funding Agency: IARPA
Grant: MICS: Metaphor Interpretation for Cultural Schemas
Total Funding: $12,784,041.00
Duration: 5 years
Investigator Zornitsa Kozareva is a Co-PI, ISI/USC
Teaching
Experience
Instructor
January, 2013 – May, 2013
CS544 Applied Natural Language Processing
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/teaching/cs544/spring13/index.html
Instructor
January, 2012 – May, 2012
CS544 Introduction to Natural Language Processing
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/teaching/cs544/spring12/index.html
Instructor
January, 2011 – May, 2011
CS544 Introduction to Natural Language Processing
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/teaching/cs544/spring11/index.html
Instructor
Information Extraction at Reconnect Summer Tutorial Program
http://ccicada.org/Reconnect/2010/
June, 2010
Instructor
January, 2010 – May, 2010
CS544 Introduction to Natural Language Processing
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/teaching/cs544/spring10/index.html
Teaching Assistant
Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics
Plovdiv University, Bulgaria
Tutorials
January, 2004 – March, 2004
• Knowledge Acquisition from the Web and Social Media at the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2013), Santa Monica, March 2013
• Web Knowledge Extraction and Applications at the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Conference (RANLP 2011), Bulgaria, September 2011
Invited Talks
• Multilingual Sentiment Analysis of Metaphor-Rich Texts, Sentiment Analysis Symposium, New
York, May 2013.
• Knowledge Extraction and Taxonomization from the Web, City University New York (CUNY),
May 2013.
• Learning and Inducing Lexical Taxonomies from Scratch, UCLA, Los Angeles, January 2013.
• Learning Arguments, Supertypes and Selectional Restrictions of Semantic Relations, University
of Utah, Salt Lake City, May 2011.
• Graph-based Knowledge Acquisition using the Web as Corpus, eBay, San Jose, February 2011.
• Cause-Effect Relation Learning from the Web, ICT, February 2011.
• Learning the Encyclopedia of the World using the Web, USC, January 2011.
• Semantic Class Learning from the Web with Hyponym Pattern Linkage Graphs, Plovdiv University, Bulgaria, January 2009.
• Semantic Class Learning from the Web with Hyponym Pattern Linkage Graphs, Yahoo! Labs
Barcelona, Spain, December 2008.
• Techniques for information extraction and visualization, Soria, Spain, July, 2008.
• The Role and Resolution of Textual Entailment in Natural Language Processing, University of
Sheffield, United Kingdom, May 2007.
• Named Entity Recognition using machine learning, Joint Research Center of European Commission, Italy, September 2005.
Conference
Organizer
Conference Organizer of Reconnect, June 6-12, 2010.
Workshop
Organizer
Workshop
Workshop
Workshop
Workshop
Scientific
Challenge
Organizer
SemEval 2013 Challenge Organizer “Sentiment Analysis on Twitter”
SemEval 2013 Challenge Organizer “Free Paraphrases of Noun Compounds”
SemEval 2012 Challenge Organizer “Choice Of Plausible Alternatives (COPA)”
SemEval 2010 Challenge Organizer “Multi-Way Classification of Semantic Relation Between Pairs
of Nominals”
Seminar
Organizer
Seminar Organizer USC/ISI, August 2010 - September 2011
Olympiad
Organizer
Organizer of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO 2013) for high
school students SoCal
Awards
RANLP’2011 Young Researcher Award, 2011
PhD with Cum Laude, University of Alicante, Spain, February 2009
Project
Participation
Organizer
Organizer
Organizer
Organizer
“Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing” (EMNLP 2013)
“Metaphor in Natural Language Processing” (NAACL 2013)
“Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition” (RANLP 2011)
“Relational Models of Semantics” (ACL 2011)
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MICS: Metaphor Interpretation for Cultural Schemas. Funding Entity: IARPA
eRule-BIRD: A Framework for Multidimensional Analysis of Text. Funding Entity: NSF
MRP-BBN: Learning by Reading. Funding Entity: (DARPA)
Text-Mess: Intelligent, Interactive and Multilingual Text Mining. Developed at University of Alicante, Spain. Funding Entity: CICYT (TIN2006-15265-C06-01) Spanish Ministry of Education.
Total Funding Amount: 266.200 euro
• R2D2: Question Answering in Digital Documents. Developed at University of Alicante, Spain.
Funding Entity: CICYT (TIC2003-07158-C04) Spanish Ministry of Education. Total Funding
Amount: 190.440 euro
• Development of a multilingual ontology in the medical-pharmatological domain. Developed at
University of Alicante, Spain. Funding Entity: Spanish Ministry of Health and Consumption.
Total Funding Amount: 8.330 euro
• New Computer Technologies for Access to Vast Arrays of Multilingual Information. Developed at
New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Project Type: ICI (R&D in collaboration with international
companies). Funding Entity: European Commission - Research Directorate General (RTD). Total
Funding Amount: 21.648 euro
Services to
Government
Agencies
National Science Foundation Grant Reviewer, USA, 2013
European Commission Grant Reviewer, Brussels, Belgium, 2012
National Science Foundation Grant Reviewer, USA, 2012
Research Grant Council (RGC) Grant Reviewer, Hong Kong, 2011
National Science Foundation Grant Reviewer, USA, 2010
Chair
Workshop Chair EMNLP 2015
Area Chair ACL 2015
Program
Committee
2014: ACL, EMNLP, COLING, EACL, AAAI
2013: ACL (serving Lexical Semantics and Ontologies, NLP and Creativity, NLP for the Web and
Social Media tracks), WWW, AAAI, CIKM (demo track), *SEM (serving entailment and lexical
semantics tracks), K-CAP, RANLP, GSCL, NLDB, EPIA, WASSA, IJCNLP
2012: ACL, NAACL, AAAI, EMNLP-CoNLL, EACL (served the Text Mining and NLP Applications, Semantics, and Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining tracks), Coling, WWW, LREC,
NLDB, NAACL student workshop, EACL student workshop, TextGraphs-7 Graph-based Methods
for Natural Language Processing (ACL workshop), The Peoples Web meets NLP: Collaboratively
Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP (ACL workshop), Computational
Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (EACL workshop)
2011: IJCNLP, EMNLP, NLDB, AAAI, ACL, IJCAI, Search and Mining User generated Contents
(CIKM workshop), GEMS: GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics (EMNLP workshop), MWE: Workshop on Multiword Expressions (ACL workshop), Computational Approaches to
Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (ACL workshop), ICLWorkshop (SEPLN)
2010: EMNLP, Search and Mining User-generated Contents (CIKM workshop), SemEval-2, LREC,
Multiword Expressions (COLING workshop), Computational Approaches to Analysis and Generation of Emotion in Text (NAACL workshop), Semantic Search (NAACL workshop)
2009: EMNLP, MSM, EACL
2008: CLEF, CITII
2007: ACL (student research workshop), EUROLAN (doctoral consortium)
2006: EACL (student research workshop)
Reviewer
2014: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
2014: Journal of Affective Computing
2012: Journal of Computational Linguistics
2011: Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Guest Editor; Journal of Language Resources and
Evaluation for the Special Issue on WordNets and Relations, Journal of Language Resources and
Evaluation for the Special Issue on SemEval-2010 (2011), Journal of Language Resources and Evaluation, Special Issue on ShortTexts, Journal of Transactions on Speech and Language Processing
2010: Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Journal of Computational Sciences, Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, Journal of
Computational Intelligence, COLING
2009: Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Journal of Web Semantics, Journal New Generation
Computing, RANLP
2008: NLP-KE, CICLing, INS-Information Sciences Journal, DATAK-Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal
2007: NLDB, SemEval (Affective Text), SemEval (Web People Search), RANLP, SEPLN, MICAI
2005: RANLP,NLDB
2004: EsTAL 2004
List of
Publications
Book Chapters
1. Zornitsa Kozareva. Simple, Fast and Accurate Taxonomy Learning. In Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing, Springer Verlag ISSN: 2192-032X, 2014
2. Oscar Ferr´
andez, Zornitsa Kozareva, Antonio Toral, Rafael Mu˜
noz and Andres Montoyo.
Tackling Haremn’s Portuguese Named Entity Recognition task with Spanish resources. In
Reconhecimento de entidades mencionadas em portugus /editors Diana Santos and Nuno Cardoso/, Linguateca ISBN 978-989-20-0731-1, Chapter 11, pp. 137-144, November 2007
Journal Articles
1. Zornitsa Kozareva and Eduard Hovy. Tailoring the Automated Construction of Large-Scale
Taxonomies using the Web, in Journal of Language Resources and Evaluation (LRE journal),
2013
2. Zornitsa Kozareva, Oscar Ferr´andez, Andres Montoyo, Rafael Mu˜
noz, Armando Suarez
and Jaime Gomez. Combining data-driven systems for improving Named Entity Recognition.
In Journal Data and Knowledge Engineering (JDKE journal), Volume 61, number 3, pp.
449-466, April 2007
Refereed International Conference Proceedings
1. Zornitsa Kozareva, Multilingual Affect Polarity and Valence Prediction in Metaphor-Rich
Texts. to appear in Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013), Bulgaria [acceptance rate: 26%]
2. Laura M. Smith, Linhong Zhu, Kristina Lerman and Zornitsa Kozareva, The Role of Social
Media in the Discussion of Controversial Topics. in Proceedings of the ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, 2013, (SocialCom 2013), Washington D.C., USA
[acceptance rate: 9.9%]
3. Jihie Kim, Jaebong Yoo, Ho Lim, Huida Qiu, Zornitsa Kozareva and Aram Galstyan, Sentiment Prediction using Collaborative Filtering. to appear in Proceedings of the 7th International
Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2013), Boston, USA
4. Zornitsa Kozareva, Learning Verbs on the Fly. in Proceedings of the 24th International
Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), India [acceptance rate: 27%]
5. Zornitsa Kozareva, Konstantin Voevodski and Shanghua Teng, Class Label Enhancement
via Related Instances. in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
Language Processing (EMNLP 2011), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK [acceptance rate: 24%]
6. Zornitsa Kozareva and Eduard Hovy, Insights from Network Structure for Text Mining.
in Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics:
Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT 2011), Portland [acceptance rate: 26%]
7. Preslav Nakov and Zornitsa Kozareva, Combining Relational and Attributional Similarity
for Semantic Relation Classification. in Proceedings of the Conference on Recent Advances in
Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2011), Bulgaria [acceptance rate: 17%]
8. Zornitsa Kozareva and Eduard Hovy, A Semi-Supervised Method to Learn and Construct
Taxonomies using the Web. in Proceedings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
Language Processing (EMNLP 2010), Boston, October 2010 [acceptance rate: 25%]
9. Zornitsa Kozareva and Eduard Hovy, Learning Arguments and Supertypes of Semantic Relations using Recursive Patterns. In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010), Sweden, July 2010 [acceptance rate: 25%]
10. Zornitsa Kozareva and Eduard Hovy, Not All Seeds Are Equal: Measuring the Quality
of Text Mining Seeds. In Proceedings of Conference of the North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL/HLT
2010), Los Angeles, June 2010 [acceptance rate: 31%]
11. Eduard Hovy, Zornitsa Kozareva and Ellen Riloff. Toward Completeness in Concept Extraction and Classification. In Proceedings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
Language Processing (EMNLP 2009), Singapore, August 2009 [acceptance rate: 34%]
12. Alexandra Balahur, Zornitsa Kozareva and Andres Montoyo. Determining the Polarity
and Source of Opinions Expressed in Political Debates. In Proceedings of Tenth International
Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2009),
Mexico City, Mexico, March 2009 [acceptance rate: 26%]
13. Zornitsa Kozareva, Rumen Moraliyski and Gael Dias. Web People Search with Domain
Ranking. In Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
(TSD 2008), Brno, Czech Republic, September 2008 [acceptance rate: 45%]
14. Zornitsa Kozareva, Ellen Riloff and Eduard Hovy. Semantic Class Learning from the Web
with Hyponym Pattern Linkage Graphs. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, (ACL-HLT 2008),
Columbus, USA, June 2008 [acceptance rate: 25%]
15. Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vazquez and Andres Montoyo. Domain Information for Finegrained Person Name Categorization. In Proceedings of the Ningth International Conference
on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, (CICLing 2008), Lecture Notes
in Computer Science, Haifa, Israel, February 2008 [acceptance rate: 26%]
16. Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vazquez and Andres Montoyo. Discovering the Underlying Meanings and Categories of a Name through Domain and Semantic Information. In Proceedings
of the Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2007),
Borovetz, Bulgaria, September 2007
17. Sonia Vazquez, Zornitsa Kozareva and Andres Montoyo. How can Context and Semantic
Information help a Machine Learning Word Sense Disambiguation system. In Proceedings of
6th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (MICAI 2007), Mexico
18. Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vazquez and Andres Montoyo. Multilingual Name Disambiguation with Semantic Information. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Text,
Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2007), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 2007
19. Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vazquez and Andres Montoyo. The Usefulness of Conceptual
Representation for the Identification of Semantic Variability Expressions. In Proceedings of the
Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics,
(CICLing 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Mexico City, February 2007 [acceptance
rate: 29.6%]
20. Zornitsa Kozareva and Andres Montoyo. An approach for Textual Entailment Recognition
based on Stacking and Voting. In Proceedings of 5th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2006), Lecture Notes in Artificial Inteligence, Mexico, November
2006
21. Sonia Vazquez, Zornitsa Kozareva and Andres Montoyo. Textual Entailment beyond Semantic Similarity Information. In Proceedings of 5th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2006), Lecture Notes in Artificial Inteligence, Mexico, November
2006
22. Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vazquez and Andres Montoyo. The effect of Semantic Knowledge
Expansion to Textual Entailment Recognition. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2006), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence,
Brno, Czech Republic, September 2006
23. Zornitsa Kozareva and Andres Montoyo. Paraphrase Identification on the basis of Supervised Machine Learning Techniques. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on
Natural Language Processing (FinTAL 2006), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Turku,
Finland, August 2006
24. Zornitsa Kozareva and Andres Montoyo. The Role and Resolution of Textual Entailment
in Natural Language Processing Applications. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2006), Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, Klagenfurt, Austria, May 2006
25. Ted Pedersen, Anagha Kulkarni, Roxana Angheluta, Zornitsa Kozareva, Thamar Solorio.
An Unsupervised Language Independent Method of Name Discrimination Using Second Order
Co-occurrence Features. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent
Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, (CICLing 2006), Lecture Notes in Computer
Science [acceptance rate: 30.4%]
26. Zornitsa Kozareva. Bootstrapping Named Entity Recognition with Automatically Generated Gazetteer Lists. In Proceedings of EACL student session (EACL 2006), Trento, Italy,
April 2006 [acceptance rate: 27%]
27. Zornitsa Kozareva, Boyan Bonev and Andres Montoyo. Self-training and Co-training applied to Spanish Named Entity Recognition. In Proceedings of 4th Mexican International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2005), Lecture Notes in Artificial Inteligence,
Monterrey, Mexico, November 2005
28. Zornitsa Kozareva, Oscar Ferr´andez, Andres Montoyo, Rafael Mu˜
noz and Armando Suarez.
Combining data-driven systems for improving Named Entity Recognition. In Proceedings
of Natural Language and Data Bases (NLDB 2005), Vol LNCS3513 of Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, pp. 80-90, Springer, Alicante, Spain, May 2005
29. Zornitsa Kozareva, Joaquim Ferreira da Silva, Pablo Gamallo and Gabriel Pereira Lopes.
Cluster analysis of named entities. In Proceedings of the International IIS:IIPWM Conference
(IIPWM 2004), Lecture Notes in Artificial Inteligence, Zakopane, Poland, May 2004
30. Joaquim Ferreira da Silva, Zornitsa Kozareva and Gabriel Pereira Lopes. Cluster Analysis
and Classification of Named Entities. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on
Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), Lisbon, Portugal, May 2004
31. Joaquim Ferreira da Silva, Zornitza Kozareva, Veska Noncheva and Gabriel Pereira Lopes.
Extracting named entities. A statistical approach. In Proceedings of the Conf´erence de Traitement de Language Naturel (TALN 2004), Marrocos, Abril 2004
Refereed National Conferences
1. Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vazquez and Andres Montoyo. The Influence of Context during
the Categorization and Discrimination of Spanish and Portuguese Person Names. In Journal
Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, (SEPLN 2007), Sevilla, Spain, September 2007
2. Sonia Vazquez, Zornitsa Kozareva and Andres Montoyo. Contribuci´on de la informaci´
on
sem´
antica en un sistema de aprendizaje autom´atico para resolver la implicaci´on textual. In
Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, (SEPLN 2006), Zaragoza, Spain, September 2006
3. Oscar Ferr´
andez, Zornitsa Kozareva, Andres Montoyo and Rafael Mu˜
noz. Nerua: sistema
de detecci´
on y clasificaci´on de entidades utilizando aprendizaje autom´atico. In Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, (SEPLN 2005), Granada, Spain, September 2005
Refereed Symposium
1. Zornitsa Kozareva, Eduard Hovy and Ellen Riloff. Learning and Evaluating the Content
and Structure of a Term Taxonomy. In AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium on Learning by
Reading and Learning to Read, Stanford, USA, March 2009
Refereed International Workshops
1. Ekaterina Shutova, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Joel Tetrault and Zornitsa Kozareva (editors).
Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2013 Workshop on Metaphor in NLP. Atlanta, GA
2. Preslav Nakov, Zornitsa Kozareva, Alan Ritter, Sara Rosenthal, Veselin Stoyanov, and
Theresa Wilson, Semeval-2013 Task 2: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter. in Proceedings of the
SemEval-2013 Workshop (SemEval 2013), Atlanta, GA
3. Iris Hendrickx, Zornitsa Kozareva, Preslav Nakov, Diarmuid Saghdha, Stan Szpakowicz
and Tony Veale, SemEval-2013 Task 4: Free Paraphrases of Noun Compounds. in Proceedings
of the SemEval-2013 Workshop (SemEval 2013), Atlanta, GA
4. Zornitsa Kozareva, Cause-Effect Relation Learning. in Proceedings of the TextGraph-7
Workshop (ACL 2012), Korea
5. Andrew Gordon, Zornitsa Kozareva and Melissa Roemmele, SemEval-2012 Task 7: Choice
of Plausible Alternatives: An Evaluation of Commonsense Causal Reasoning. in Proceedings
of the SemEval-2012 Workshop, Montreal, Canada
6. Zornitsa Kozareva and Sujith Ravi, Unsupervised Name Ambiguity Resolution Using A
Generative Model. in Proceedings of Workshop on Unsupervised Learning in NLP (EMNLP
2011), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
7. Zornitsa Kozareva and Eduard Hovy, Learning Temporal Information for States and Events.
in Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Annotation for Computational Linguistic Resources (ICSC 2011), Stanford
8. Preslav Nakov, Zornitsa Kozareva, Kuzman Ganchev, Jerry Hobbs (editors). Proceedings of
the RANLP 2011 Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition. Bulgaria
9. Su Nam Kim, Zornitsa Kozareva, Preslav Nakov, Diarmuid Saghdha, Sebastian Pad, Stan
Szpakowicz (editors). in Proceedings of the ACL 2011 Workshop on Relational Models of
Semantics, Association for Computational Linguistics. 91 pages. ISBN 978-1-932432-98-5,
Portland
10. Iris Hendrickx, Su Nam Kim, Zornitsa Kozareva, Preslav Nakov, Diarmuid Saghdha, Sebastian Pad, Marco Pennacchiotti, Lorenza Romano and Stan Szpakowicz. SemEval-2010 Task
8: Multi-Way Classification of Semantic Relations Between Pairs of Nominals. In Proceedings
of the SemEval-2 Workshop (SemEval-2 2010), Sweden, July 2010.
11. Iris Hendrickx, Su Nam Kim, Zornitsa Kozareva, Preslav Nakov, Diarmuid O Seaghdha, Sebastian Pado, Marco Pennacchiotti, Lorenza Romano and Stan Szpakowicz. Multi-Way Classification of Semantic Relations Between Pairs of Nominals. In Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT09 Workshop on Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions (SEW-09),
Boulder, USA, May 2009
12. Zornitsa Kozareva and Andres Montoyo. UniAli: Building a Resource Independent System
for Italian Named Entity Recognition. In Rivista dell’Associazione Italiana per l’Intelligenza
Artificiale AI*IA, (EVALITA 2007), Rome, Italy, September 2007
13. Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vazquez and Andres Montoyo. A Language Independent Approach for Name Categorization and Discrimination. In Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007
14. Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vazquez and Andres Montoyo. UA-ZSA: Web Page Clustering
on the basis of Name Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on
Semantic Evaluations (SemEval), Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007
15. Zornitsa Kozareva, Borja Navarro, Sonia Vazquez and Andres Montoyo. UA-ZBSA: A Headline Emotion Classification through Web Information. In Proceedings of the 4th International
Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval), Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007
16. Ted Pedersen, Anagha Kulkarni, Roxana Angheluta, Zornitsa Kozareva, Thamar Solorio.
Improving Name Discrimination : A Language Salad Approach. In Proceedings of the EACL
2006 Workshop on Cross-Language Knowledge Induction, Trento, Italy, April 2006
17. Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vazquez and Andres Montoyo. University of Alicante at QACLEF2006: Answer Validation Exercise. In Working notes of CLEF - ECDL 2006, AVE
Workshop, Alicante, Spain, September 2006
18. Manuel Garc´ıa-Vega, Miguel A. Garca-Cumbreras, L. Alfonso Ure˜
na-L´opez, Jos´e M. PereaOrtega, F. Javier Ariza-L´opez, Oscar Ferr´andez, Antonio Toral, Zornitsa Kozareva, Elisa
Noguera, Andr´es Montoyo, Rafael Mu˜
noz, Davide Buscaldi and Paolo Rosso. R2D2 at GeoCLEF 2006: A Combined Approach. In Working notes of CLEF - ECDL 2006, GeoCLEF
Workshop, Alicante, Spain, September 2006
19. Antonio Toral, Oscar Ferr´andez, Elisa Noguera, Zornitsa Kozareva, Andres Montoyo and
Rafael Mu˜
noz. GIR with Geographic Query Expansion. In Working notes of CLEF - ECDL
2006, GeoCLEF Workshop, Alicante, Spain, September 2006
20. Zornitsa Kozareva and Andres Montoyo. MLEnt: The Machine Learning Entailment System of the University of Alicante. In Proceedings of the PASCAL Challenges Workshop on
Recognising Textual Entailment, Venice, Italy, April 2006
21. Oscar Ferr´
andez, Zornitsa Kozareva, Antonio Toral, Elisa Noguera, Andres Montoyo, Rafael
Mu˜
noz and Fernando Llopis. University of Alicante at GeoCLEF 2005. In Working notes of
CLEF 2005, GeoCLEF Workshop, Viena, Austria, September 2005
Computer Skills Languages: Perl, Python, Unix shell script.
Operating Systems: Linux, Mac OS, Windows.
Languages
Native speaker of Bulgarian.
Fluent in English and Spanish.

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