Contact

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

Directing the Natural Language Processing Lab.

• 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, Matrix and Element, Twitter, LinkedIn, Call sign KD9POS
• code: GitHub
• office hours: only via personal arrangement, not teaching Fall 2021 and Spring 2022, NLP-Lab meets regularly at least once per week

departmental address: Indiana University, Department of Linguistics, Ballantine Hall, Room 516, 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:

• Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
• Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing (SIGSLAV)
• Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); and Special Interest Group for Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI), and Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
• The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI)
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
• 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
• Harley-Davidson Owner Group (HOG)

Activities

• NLP-Lab Meetings are Wednesdays 6 PM in Ballantine Hall, see website and calendar for detail!

Upcoming

talks:

• 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 Marsaille, 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.

Most recent

projects:

• Second Phase of the US Navy AINet ANTX AI Prize Challenge with postdoc Anthony Meyer and CL student Billy Dickson
• TIE-ML - Temporal Information and Event Annotation (GitHub repo)
• Knowledge Graphs from unstructured data and common sense reasoning

publications:

• 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 Marsaille, 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. Routlage, 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:

• Event Sequencing Annotation with TIE-ML Poster at the The Eighteenth Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-18 2022), at LREC 2022 in Marsaille, France.

teaching:

• no courses in Fall 2021 till Spring 2023

Links

research lab: see public calendar for meeting times during 2021 (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 (Project Q) (via Slack group).

code, data, and projects:

• GitHub repos, GitLab repos, Bitbucket repos, Kaggle, and GORILLA

teaching:

Spring 2021

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Fall 2020

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Spring 2020

• LING-L 665 Applying Machine Learning Techniques in Computational Linguistics
• CSCI-B 659 Topics in Artificial Intelligence: Deep Learning, Knowledge Graphs, Computational Semantics in AI/NLP

Fall 2018

• LING-L 645 Advanced Natural Language Processing / CSCI-B 659 Topics in Artificial Intelligence

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

2017

• LING-L 645 Advanced Natural Language Processing / CSCI-B 659 Topics in Artificial Intelligence
• LING-L 715 Seminar in Computational Linguistics / CSCI-B 659 Topics: Adv Natural Language Processing: “Semantic Natural Language Processing, NoAI, and Big Knowledge (including dialog and AI)