Publications

2012

• Zornitsa Kozareva, Cause-Effect Relation Learning. to appear in Proceedings of the TextGraph-7 Workshop (ACL 2012), Korea
• Andrew Gordon, Zornitsa Kozareva and Melissa Roemmele, SemEval-2012 Task 7: Choice of Plausible Alternatives: An Evaluation of Commonsense Causal Reasoning. to appear in Proceedings of the SemEval-2012 Workshop, Montreal, Canada



2011

• 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
• 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
• Preslav Nakov and Zornitsa Kozareva, Combining Relational and Attributional Similarity for Semantic Relation Classification. in Proceedings of the Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Laguage Processing (RANLP 2011), Bulgaria. Won Young Researcher Award
• Zornitsa Kozareva and Eduard Hovy, Learning Temporal Information for States and Events. To appear in Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Annotation for Computational Linguistic Resources (ICSC 2011), Stanford
• 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



2010

• 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
• Iris Hendrickx, Su Nam Kim, Zornitsa Kozareva, Preslav Nakov, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Sebastian Padó, 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.



2009

• 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
• 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.
• Zornitsa Kozareva, Eduard Hovy and Ellen Riloff. Learning and Evaluating the Content and the Structure of a Term Taxonomy. in Proceedings of AAAI 2009 spring symposium "Learning by Reading and Learning to Read", Stanford, USA, March 2009
• 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
• Zornitsa Kozareva, Resolving Named Entity Problems: from Recognition and Discrimination to Semantic Class Learning. PhD Thesis, February 2009





2008

• 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
• 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
• Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vazquez and Andres Montoyo. Domain Information for Fine-grained 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




2007

• Zornitsa Kozareva, Oscar Ferrández, Andres Montoyo, Rafael Muñoz, Armando Suarez and Jaime Gomez. Combining data-driven systems for improving Named Entity Recognition. in the Journal Data and Knowledge Engineering, Volume 61, number 3, pp. 449-466, 2007
• Oscar Ferrández, Zornitsa Kozareva, Antonio Toral, Rafael Muñoz and Andres Montoyo. Tackling Haremn's Portuguese Named Entity Recognition task with Spanish resources. in Recon- hecimento 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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




2006

• 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 , Apizaco, Mexico, November 2006
• 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 , Apizaco, Mexico, November 2006
• 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
• Sonia Vazquez, Zornitsa Kozareva and Andres Montoyo. Contribución de la información semántica en un sistema de aprendizaje automático para resolver la implicación textual. in Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, (SEPLN 2006) , Zaragoza, Spain, September 2006
• Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vazquez and Andres Montoyo. Adaptation of a Machine-learning Textual Entailment System to a Multilingual Answer Validation Exercise. in Working notes of CLEF - ECDL 2006, AVE Workshop, Alicante, Spain, September 2006
• Manuel García-Vega, Miguel A. García-Cumbreras, L. Alfonso Ureña-López, José M. Perea-Ortega, F. Javier Ariza-López, Oscar Ferrández, Antonio Toral, Zornitsa Kozareva, Elisa Noguera, Andrés Montoyo, Rafael Muñoz, Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso. R2D2 at GeoCLEF 2006: a Mixed Approach. in Working notes of CLEF - ECDL 2006, GeoCLEF Workshop, Alicante, Spain, September 2006
• Antonio Toral, Oscar Ferrández, Elisa Noguera, Zornitsa Kozareva, Andres Montoyo and Rafael Muñoz. Geographic IR Helped by Structured Geospatial Knowledge Resources. in Working notes of CLEF - ECDL 2006, GeoCLEF Workshop, Alicante, Spain, September 2006
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Zornitsa Kozareva. Bootstrapping Named Entity Recognition with Automatically Generated Gazetteer Lists. in Proceedings of EACL student session (EACL 2006), Trento, Italy, April 2006
• 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, Mexico, February 2006




2005

• 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
• Oscar Ferrández, Zornitsa Kozareva, Antonio Toral, Elisa Noguera, Andres Montoyo, Rafael Muñoz and Fernando Llopis. University of Alicante at GeoCLEF 2005. in Working notes of CLEF 2005, GeoCLEF Workshop, Viena, Austria, September 2005
• Zornitsa Kozareva and Andres Montoyo. Learning Spanish Named Entities using Unlabeled Data. in Proceedings of the Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2005), Borovetz, Bulgaria, September 2005
• Zornitsa Kozareva, Oscar Ferrández, Andres Montoyo and Rafael Muñoz. Using Language Resource Independent Detection for Spanish Named Entity Recognition. in Proceedings of the Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2005), Borovetz, Bulgaria, September 2005
• Oscar Ferrández, Zornitsa Kozareva, Andres Montoyo and Rafael Muñoz. Nerua: sistema de detección y clasificación de entidades utilizando aprendizaje automático". in Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, (SEPLN 2005) , Granada, Spain, September 2005
• Zornitsa Kozareva, Oscar Ferrández, Andres Montoyo, Rafael Muñoz and Armando Suarez. Combining data-driven systems for improving Named Entity Recognition. in Andrés Montoyo et. al (Eds), NLDB 2005, Vol LNCS3513 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 80-90, Springer , Alicante, Spain, May 2005




2004

• 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
• 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
• Joaquim Ferreira da Silva, Zornitza Kozareva, Veska Noncheva and Gabriel Pereira Lopes. Extracting named entities. A statistical approach. in Proceedings of the Conférence de Traitement de Language Naturel (TALN 2004), Marrocos, April 2004