Damir Cavar is a Natural Language Processing, AI, and Knowledge Representation scientist
Associate Professor (ORCID), Indiana University at Bloomington (IU)
Directing the Natural Language Processing Lab and organizing the Quantum-NLP Reading group.
Departmental Address: Indiana University, Department of Linguistics, Ballantine Hall, Room 511, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
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Talks:
Vance Holthenrichs, Damir Cavar, Zoran Tiganj, Billy Dickson (2024) On Ellipsis in Slavic: The Ellipsis Corpus and Natural Language Processing Results (16-19 May 2024) at the Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 33 (FASL33), Halifax, Canada.
Damir Cavar, Ludovic V. Mompelat, Muhammad S. Abdo (2024) The Typology of Ellipsis: A Corpus for Linguistic Analysis and Machine Learning Applications. Paper to be presented at the ACL Special Interest Group on Typology (SIGTYP) 2024, colocated with the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, St Julian’s, Malta.
Damir Cavar, Muhammad S. Abdo, and Billy Dickson (2024) Ellipsis in Arabic: Using Machine Learning to Detect and Predict Elided Words. Paper presented at the Arabic Linguistic Society (ASAL) 37 Conference, February 2024, New York City.
Projects:
TIE-ML - Temporal Information and Event Annotation (GitHub repo)
Knowledge Graphs from unstructured data and common sense reasoning
Publications:
Damir Cavar, Ludovic V. Mompelat, Muhammad S. Abdo (2024) The Typology of Ellipsis: A Corpus for Linguistic Analysis and Machine Learning Applications. Paper to be presented at the ACL Special Interest Group on Typology (SIGTYP) 2024, colocated with the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, St Julian’s, Malta (March, 2024). (full paper)
Cavar, D., A. Aljubailan, L. Mompelat, Y. Won, B. Dickson, M. Fort, A. Davis and S. Kim (2022) Event Sequencing Annotation with TIE-ML (2022) in proceedings of the The Eighteenth Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-18 2022), at LREC 2022 in Marseille, France.
Jikeli, G., D. Cavar, W. Jeong, D. Miehling, P. Wagh, D. Pak (2022) Toward an AI Definition of Antisemitism? In M. Hübscher and S. von Mering (eds.) Antisemitism on Social Media. Routledge, New York.
Damir Cavar, Billy Dickson, Ali Aljubailan, Soyoung Kim (2021) “Temporal Information and Event Markup Language: TIE-ML Markup Process and Schema Version 1.0,” In Proceedings of SEMAPRO 2021, Barcelona, Spain.
Presentations:
Damir Cavar. (2024) The Great NLP and AI Swindle: Why State-of- the-art AI Technologies Still Fail(?). Language Processing Brown Bag, Indiana University, February 5th, 2024. (slides)
Event Sequencing Annotation with TIE-ML at the The Eighteenth Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-18 2022), at LREC 2022 in Marseille, France.
Computational Semantics and Reasoning using Knowledge Graphs and Multi-modal Information Sources for Knowledge Extraction, presented at the Computational Linguistics Seminar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 6th, 2021.
Temporal Information and Event Markup Language: TIE-ML Markup Process and Schema Version 1.0 presented at the SEMAPRO 2021 in Barcelona, Spain.
NLP-Lab - research lab: see public calendar for meeting times during 2023 (contact me, if you would like to join the Teams team)
Code, data, and projects: