Contact

Associate Professor (ORCID), Indiana University at Bloomington (IU)

Directing the Natural Language Processing Lab and organizing the Quantum-NLP Study group.

• phone: +1 812 856-5094 (or via Signal, Teams, Zoom)
• email: dcavar at the domain where we all are, here at IU (iu.edu) (GNUPG key)
• communication: Signal, Element, Twitter, LinkedIn, Call sign KD9POS
• code: GitHub
• publications: ACL Anthology, NLP-Lab, local: publications and talks
• office hours: Tuesdays 2:00-3:00 PM in my BH 511 office, by personal arrangement, or at the NLP-Lab meets Wednesdays 5:00-6:30 PM (Luddy Hall 0002)

Departmental Address: Indiana University, Department of Linguistics, Ballantine Hall, Room 511, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.

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 and 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

Member:

• Senior Lifetime Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Special Interest Group for Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI)
  • Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
• Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
  • Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing (SIGSLAV)
• The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI)
• Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Lifetime Member.
• Slavic Linguistic Society (SLS), Lifetime Member.
• ARRL - The National Association for Amateur Radio and BARC - Bloomington Amateur Radio Club

Activities

• NLP-Lab Meetings are on Thursdays at 5:30 PM in Luddy Hall 0002; see website and calendar for details!

• Quantum NLP Study Group meetings are on Thursdays at 5 PM in Luddy 0002.

Upcoming

• Damir Cavar, Zoran Tiganj, Ludovic Mompelat, Billy Dickson (2024) Computing Ellipsis Constructions: Comparing Classical NLP and LLM Approaches. Paper presented at the 2024 Meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL).

• Van Holthenrichs, Damir Cavar, Zoran Tiganj, Billy Dickson (2024) On Ellipsis in Slavic: The Ellipsis Corpus and Natural Language Processing Results. Paper presented at The 33rd Annual Meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics. Halifax, Canada. (abstract, slides)

• Generative AI and Symbolic Knowledge Representations: Large Language Models, Knowledge, and Reasoning (July/August 2024) Course at the 35th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2024 in Leuven, Belgium.

• Damir Cavar, Ludovic Mompelat, Muhammad S. Abdo (2024) The Hoosier Ellipsis Corpus (HELC): Documenting Linguistic Dark Matter. Poster presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, April 15-16, 2024. (poster)

• Muhammad S. Abdo, Damir Cavar (2024) The Hosiers Ellipsis Corpus: Building a Corpus of Ellipsis for Arabic Natural Language Processing. Poster presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, April 15-16, 2024. (poster)

• Damir Cavar, Chi Zhang, Koushik Reddy Parukola (2024) Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) (2024) Presentation at the Quantum Day 2024 Seminar Series, organized by Quantum Technologies for Everyone (QuTE) at Indiana University Bloomington, April 14th 2024.

Talks:

• Quantum-Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) (2024) Presentation at the CQT - Center for Quantum Technologies, NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) Year 2, Phase I, Spring 2024 Industry Advisory Board Meeting, April 3-4, 2024, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.

• Quantum Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning (2024) NLP-Lab poster. Luddy-Crane Summit on March 29, 2024 at Indiana University Bloomington.

Most Recent

Projects:

• Quantum NLP

• Complex Linguistic Constructions and Large Language Models: Ellipsis, Long Distance Dependencies, Discontinuities

• The Hoosier Ellipsis Corpus (THEC) (GitHub repo)

• 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. (full paper)

• Damir Cavar, 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 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.

Links

NLP-Lab - research lab: see public calendar for meeting times during 2023 (contact me, if you would like to join the Teams team)

• Temporal and Event Logic using Graphs and Graph Neural Networks, Reasoning.
• Quantum NLP - Computing and Algorithms (GitHub Project Q).

Code, data, and projects:

• GitHub repos, GitLab repos, Bitbucket repos, Kaggle, and former GORILLA was taken down by The LINGUIST List.

Teaching:

Fall 2024

• LING-L 665 Applying Machine Learning Techniques in Computational Linguistics / CSCI-B 659 Topics in Artificial Intelligence
• LING-L 645 Advanced Natural Language Processing / CSCI-B 659 Topics in Artificial Intelligence

Spring 2024

• LING-L 614 Alternative Syntactic Theories
• LING-L 665 Applying Machine Learning Techniques in Computational Linguistics / CSCI-B 659 Topics in Artificial Intelligence
• HON-H 240 (Hutton Honors College) Language, Intelligence, and the Machine

Fall 2023

• LING-L 645 Advanced Natural Language Processing / CSCI-B 659 Topics in Artificial Intelligence
• LING-L 715 Seminar on Knowledge Graphs, Large Language Models, and Graph-based Reasoning / CSCI-B 659 Topics in Artificial Intelligence