Ph.D., University of Alicante, Spain.
Dissertation: Resolving Named Entity Problems: from Recognition
and Discrimination to Semantic Class Learning.
February 2009.
B.Sc., Plovdiv University, Bulgaria.
Dissertation: Automatic Extraction and Clustering of Multiword Lexical Units.
July 2004.
Position: Research Assistant at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Duration: March, 2003 - August, 2003.
Advisor: Dr. Joaquim da Silva.
Work: Extraction and Clustering of Multiword Lexical Units.
Organizer:
Natural Language Seminar series at ISI (August 2010 - presently).
(If you are interested in giving a talk or want to check out upcoming talks, please visit the NL seminar website.)
Web Knowledge Extraction and Applications at RANLP 2011
Invited Talks
Zornitsa Kozareva. Learning Arguments, Supertypes and Selectional Restrictions of Semantic Relations. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, May 2011
Zornitsa Kozareva. Graph-based Knowledge Acquisition using the Web as Corpus. eBay, San Jose, February 2011
Zornitsa Kozareva. Cause-Effect Relation Learning using the Web as a Corpus. ICT, Marina del Rey, February 2011
Zornitsa Kozareva. Learning the Encyclopedia of the World using the Web. USC, Los Angeles, January 2011
Zornitsa Kozareva. Semantic Class Learning from the Web with Hyponym Pattern Linkage
Graphs. Computer Science seminar at Plovdiv University, Bulgaria, January 2009.
Discussion leader in the summer school "Techniques for information extraction and visualization"
organized by Felisa Verdejo, Soria, Spain, July 2008.
Zornitsa Kozareva. The Role and Resolution of Textual Entailment in Natural Language Processing. University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, May 2007.
Zornitsa Kozareva. Named Entity Recognition using machine learning techniques. Joint Research
Center of European Commission, Italy, September 2005.
Community Service
Served as NSF panelist in 2012
Served as reviewer of the Research Grant Council (RGC), Hong Kong 2011
MICS: Metaphor Interpretation for Cultural Schemas. Co-PI. 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.
R2D2: Question Answering in Digital Documents. Developed at University of Alicante, Spain.
Funding Entity: CICYT (TIC2003-07158-C04) Spanish Ministry of Education.
Development of a multilingual ontology in the medical-pharmatological domain. Developed at
University of Alicante, Spain. Funding Entity: Spanish Ministry of Health and Consumption.
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).
Teaching Experience
Natural Language Processing CSCI 544 at University of Southern California (Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010)
Information Extraction at Reconnect Summer Tutorial program
Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics at Plovdiv University, Bulgaria, Spring 2004
PhD fellowship for one year internship at Information Scinces Institute at University of Southern California, from the Chancellor of Research and Innovation at the University of Alicante
DAAD student grant for participating in the course "Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations with Singularities", University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
RANLP-03 student grant by the European Commission, Borovetz, Bulgaria
2002
CEEPUS student grant for computer science, three month exchange at the ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary
DAAD student grant for participating in the intensive course "Financial Mathematics", FMI, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Pascal Bootcamp summer school, Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain.
Participant in the course "Machine Learning".
July 2007.
Duques de Soria Fondation summer school, Soria, Spain.
Participant in the course "Access and visibility of the multilingual web".
July 2006.
Eurolan summer school, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Participant in the course "Multilingual Web".
July 2005.
University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.
Erasmus exchange student.
April 2004 - July 2004.
New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Leonardo Da Vinci exchange student.
March 2003 - August 2003.
ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary.
CEEPUS exchange student.
October 2002 - December 2002.
Participation in Scientific Competitions
Web People Search (SemEVAL-2007).
Position: Team Leader.
Total Team Members: 3.
Affective Text (SemEVAL-2007).
Position: Team Leader.
Total Team Members: 4.
Named Entity Recognition (EVALITA-2007, HAREM-2005).
Position: Team Member.
Total Team Members: 2-5.
Answer Validation Exercise (AVE-2006).
Position: Team Leader.
Total Team Members: 3.
Ranking: Italian AVE (first out of three); French AVE (first out of three); Spanish AVE (fifth
out of nine); English AVE (fifth out of eleven).
Textual Entailment (RTE-2006).
Position: Team Leader.
Total Team Members: 2.
Geographic Information Retrieval (GeoCLEF-2006).
Position: Team Member.
Total Team Members: 6.
Ranking: Spanish GeoIR (first out of four); English GeoIR (second out of five).
Geographic Information Retrieval (GeoCLEF-2005).
Position: Team Member.
Total Team Members: 6.
Ranking: English GeoIR (third out of eleven); German GeoIR (second out of six)
