Damir Cavar
Associate Professor (ORCID)
Indiana University (IU)
phone: +1 812 856-5094 (or via Skype, Google Hangouts, Zoom)
email: dcavar at the domain where we all are, here at IU (iu.edu)
departmental address: Indiana University, Department of Linguistics, Ballantine Hall, Room 814, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
Most recent:
- Invited Speaker at the 3rd Asian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Technology (ACAIT 2019), July 5-7, 2019, Chongqing, China.
- Python module now available: Py-JSON-NLP
- talk 03/22/19 - 10AM, Luddy 1106: Deep and Broad NLP for Big Data and Knowledge Graph Generation
- paper on "Measuring Lexical Semantic Variation using Word Embeddings" as a short book chapter on measuring the distributional semantics of context similarities between aparent cognates in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian using the Facebook FastText word embeddings and vector models, see publications section.
- paper with Elain Monaghan (IU Media School, Journalism) on "Mapping News Article Content to Knowledge and Event Graph Representations for Validation and Reasoning" at "Media Ethics: Human Ecology in a Connected World" 20th annual convention of the Media Ecology Association, Toronto.
- NLP-lab "HooSIER Semantic Information ExtractoR" (HooSIER) System, Knowledge Graph generation using deep NLP and AI
- NLP-lab JSON-NLP Schema, specification and example code, building an NLP Middleware
Research Projects:
- NLP Lab meets during Spring 2019: Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:30-5, Fridays 3:00-5, Saturdays 11-1 (usually in Luddy Hall)
- Computational Semantics and Pragmatics using NLP and Graph Models and Neural Graph Processing (Concept Mapping, Entity and Relation Extraction, Event Detection)
- Speech Processing of Prosody for Pragmatics and Dialogs, Chatbots, and AI (Intonation Countour Detection, Focus and Stress Patterns, Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis of Spoken Language)
- High Performance Natural Language Processing (HPNLP)
Adjunct/Member:
- Data Science Faculty in the School of Informatics and Computation
- Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) Fellow at Indiana University
- Russian and East-European Institute (REEI), School of Global & International Studies, Indiana University
- Member of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University
- Adjunct in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
Code, Data, and Projects:
Course in Fall 2018
Course in Spring 2018
- LING-L 665 Applying Machine Learning Techniques in Computational Linguistics
CSCI-B 659 Topics in Artificial Intelligence: Neural Networks, Deep Learning in CL/NLP
Colloquium meetings in 2018: (contact me, if you would like to participate)
- Quantum Computing and Algorithms (Project Q), meets once weekly during the summer, see Slack group.
- Knowledge Graphs and AI, OpenIE, Information Retrieval, Reasoning, Entity Recognition, Entity Linking, meets multiple times weekly during the summer, see Slack group.
- Deep Linguistics and Deep Learning: Probabilistic Unification, Probabilistic LFG, Computational Pragmatics and Semantics
- Speech processing, prosody, and information theory; based on Deep Learning and NN, meets once weekly during the summer, see Slack group.
Courses in Fall 2017: