Damir Cavar's Homepage
Damir Cavar is a Natural Language Processing, AI, and Knowledge Representation scientist
Contact
Associate Professor, Indiana University at Bloomington (IU)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1262-5927Directing 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, LinkedIn, Call sign KD9POS
- code: GitHub
- publications: ACL Anthology, NLP-Lab, local: publications and talks
- office hours: During the semester Mondays 3:00-4:00 PM in my Ballantine Hall 511, or by personal arrangement
Departmental Address: Indiana University, Department of Linguistics, Ballantine Hall, Room 511, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
Adjunct/Member:
- Luddy Artificial Intelligence Center Core Faculty, Indiana University at Bloomington
- IU Quantum Science and Engineering Center
- Data Science Faculty in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
- Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) Fellow at Indiana University
- Russian and East-European Institute (REEI), Hamilton Lugar 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) - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) member
• IEEE Computer Society member - 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
- Webinar on NLP, AI, LLMs for social media content processing, antisemitism, and hate-speech coming up in October 2024. See also project website and GitHub repo with notes and code
- We launched the environment for Natural Language Qu Kit (NLQK), a Quantum NLP (QNLP) library - GitHub repo, PyPi project, website
- NLP-Lab: Details about meeting times and location can be found on the website. (This is not an open course, student, study, or reading group, this is just my lab meeting!)
- Quantum NLP Study Group: Details about meeting times and location can be found on the website. (see IU news article about that)
Upcoming
- Quantum Artificial Intelligence & Optimization 2025 workshop at the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART).
- Quantum Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing Conference 2025 at Indiana University in August 2025.
Most Recent
Projects:
- Quantum AI and NLP (see IU news article about that)
- 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
Recent Publications:
- Chi Zhang, Akriti Kumari, Damir Cavar (2024) Entangled Meanings: Classification and Ambiguity Resolution in Near–Term QNLP. Paper and Poster presented at the IEEE Quantum Week 2024, Montreal, Canada, September 2024. (paper, poster)
- Damir Cavar and Chi Zhang (2024) Semantic Similarities using Classical Embeddings in Quantum NLP. Paper and Poster presented at the IEEE Quantum Week 2024, Montreal, Canada, September 2024. (paper, poster)
- 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)
- Günther Jikeli, Damir Cavar, Weejeong Jeong, Daniel Miehling, Pauravi Wagh, Denizhan Pak (2024) Auf dem Weg zu einer KI-Definition von Antisemitism. In: M. Hübscher and S. von Mehring (eds.) Antisemitismus in den Sozialen Medien. Verlag Barbara Budrich: Opladen, Berlin, Toronto, pp. 269-292.
- Damir Cavar, A. Aljubailan, Ludovic V. 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.
Recent Presentations:
- Chi Zhang, Akriti Kumari, Damir Cavar (2024) Entangled Meanings: Classification and Ambiguity Resolution in Near–Term QNLP. Paper and Poster presented at the IEEE Quantum Week 2024, Montreal, Canada, September 2024. (paper, poster)
- Damir Cavar and Chi Zhang (2024) Semantic Similarities using Classical Embeddings in Quantum NLP. Paper and Poster presented at the IEEE Quantum Week 2024, Montreal, Canada, September 2024. (paper, poster)
- 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.
- 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.
Links
NLP-Lab - research lab: see public calendar for location and meeting times (contact me, if you would like to join the lab)
Code, data, and projects:
- GitHub repos, GitLab repos, Bitbucket repos, Kaggle, and former GORILLA was taken down by The LINGUIST List.
- 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
- 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.