Current Position:

• Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
  
• Research Scientist, Natural Language Group, Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA.
  

Research Interests:

• Large Scale Knowledge Acquisition from the Web, Sentiment Analysis, Lexical Semantics, Ontologies, Information Extraction, Metaphors and Graph Algorithms

Current and Recent Activities:

• Co-PI on "MICS: Metaphor Interpretation for Cultural Schemas", IARPA Award, 2012-2017


• Organizer
  8th Workshop on Women in Machine Learning, a NIPS 2013 workshop
  1st Workshop on Metaphor in Natural Language Processing, a NAACL 2013 workshop
  TextGraphs-8 Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing, an EMNLP 2013 workshop
  North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO 2013) for high school students SoCal
  SemEval 2013 task #2 on Sentiment Analysis on Twitter
  SemEval 2013 task #4 on Free Paraphrases of Noun Compounds
  
  
• Accepted Papers [see Google Scholar, DBLP]
  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)
  Zornitsa Kozareva and Eduard Hovy, Tailoring the Automated Construction of Large-Scale Taxonomies using the Web, to appear in Journal of Language Resources and Evaluation
  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
  


• Talks and Tutorials
  Multilingual Sentiment Analysis of Metaphor-Rich Texts, invited talk at Sentiment Analysis Symposium, New York, May 2013
  Knowledge Acquisition from the Web & Social Media, tutorial at IUI Conference, Santa Monica, March 2013
  Learning and Inducing Lexical Taxonomies from Scratch, invited talk at UCLA, Los Angeles, January 2013
  Web Knowledge Extraction and Applications, tutorial at RANLP Conference, September 2011


• Recent Award
  RANLP'2011 Young Researcher Award


• Teaching
  CSCI 544 Applied Natural Language Processing, course for graduate students at USC (Spring 2013)
  CSCI 544 Natural Language Processing, course for graduate students at USC (Spring 2012; Spring 2011; Spring 2010)


• Other
  NSF Proposal Panelist and Reviewer, Arlington, VA, 2013
  European Comission Proposal Panelist and Reviewer, Brussels, Belgium, 2012
  

Selected Publications

• Zornitsa Kozareva, Konstantin Voevodski and Shanghua Teng, Class Label Enhancement via Related Instances. To appear in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2011), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK


• 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


• 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


• 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


• 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


• 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


• 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-08: HLT), Columbus, USA, June 2008


• 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-HLT-09 Workshop on Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions (SEW-09), Boulder, USA, May 2009.