Dr. Preslav Nakov, Ph.D.

Research Fellow

National University of Singapore (NUS)
School of Computing
Computing 1
13 Computing Drive
Singapore 117417
email:
phone: +65 65164754

This is my OLD homepage!
I am now a scientist at QCRI, Qatar Foundation.
Research, publications, CV:
  • Ph.D. thesis: Using the Web as an Implicit Training Set: Application to Noun Compound Syntax and Semantics (University of California at Berkeley, advisor: Marti Hearst)
  • Selected publications: [List here]
  • Curriculum Vitae (ask me for more detailed versions): [EuroPass] [plain]
  • Research Interests: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Lexical Semantics, Machine Translation, Web as a Corpus, Bioinformatics, and BioNLP.

    Recent Awards
  • RANLP'2011 Young Researcher Award

    Recent and Upcoming Publications
  • JAIR journal: Improving Statistical Machine Translation for a Resource-Poor Language Using Related Resource-Rich Languages Preslav Nakov, Hwee Tou Ng, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 41 pages, 2012 (accepted)
  • EACL'2012: Feature-rich Part-of-speech Tagging for Morphologically Complex Languages Georgi Georgiev, Kiril Simov, Petya Osenova, and Preslav Nakov (accepted)
  • ACL'2011: Translating from Morphologically Complex Languages: A Paraphrase-Based Approach Preslav Nakov and Hwee Tou Ng
  • EMNLP'2011: Large-Scale Noun Compound Interpretation Using Bootstrapping and the Web as a Corpus Su Nam Kim and Preslav Nakov
  • RANLP'2011: Combining Relational and Attributional Similarity for Semantic Relation Classification Preslav Nakov and Zornitsa Kozareva *** Young Researcher Award ***

    News
  • NUS was ranked 1st in Asia and 12th in the world in Computer Science & Information Systems in the 2011 QS World University Rankings
  • At NUS, we developed a speech translation application for iPhone: supports Chinese, Malay and English [more]

    Current and Recent Program Committees:
  • 2012: ACL'2012, NAACL-HLT'2012, EACL'2012, AAAI'2012, SIGIR'2012, LREC'2012, *SEM'2012, MALINDO'2012, SP-Sem-MRL'2012, CLW/AL'2012, ROBUS-UNSUP'2012, ICEHST'2012, BMSD'2012
  • 2011: ACL-HLT'2011, EMNLP'2011, SIGIR'2011, AAAI'2011, IJCAI'2011, IJCNLP'2011, RANLP'2011, AIRS'2011, AISB'2011, S3T'2011, ICEHST'2011, LLMMC'2011, RELMS'2011, MWE'2011, IEKA'2011, MALINDO'2011, ULNLP'2011, AEPC'2011, WIMS'2011, BMSD'2011, RANLP'2011-student

    Ongoing and Recent Activities:
  • JNLE: Journal of Natural Language Engineering, special issue on the Semantics of Noun Compounds, guest co-editor.
  • RANLP'2011: Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, co-organizer.
  • AISB'2011: Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour Convention, track co-chair.
  • LLMMC'2011: Symposium on Learning Language Models from Multilingual Corpora, co-organizer.
  • RELMS'2011: Workshop on Relational Models of Semantics, at ACL'2011, co-organizer.
  • IEKA'2011: Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition, at RANLP'2011, co-organizer.
  • MWE'2011: Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Parsing and Generation to the Real World, at ACL'2011, consulting body.
  • AIRS'2010: The Sixth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, publication chair.
  • MWE'2010: Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Theory to Applications, at COLING'2010, co-organizer.
  • MWE'2009: Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identification, Interpretation, Disambiguation and Applications, at ACL/IJCNLP'2009, co-organizer.
  • SemEval'2013, task #24 on Free Paraphrases of Noun Compounds, co-organizer.
  • SemEval'2013, task #27 on Sentiment Analysis in Twitter, co-organizer.
  • SemEval'2010, task #8 on Multi-Way Classification of Semantic Relations Between Pairs of Nominals, co-organizer.
  • SemEval'2010, task #9 on Noun Compound Interpretation Using Paraphrasing Verbs, co-organizer.
  • SemEval'2007, task #4 on Classification of Semantic Relations between Nominals, co-organizer.
  • NLP Reading Group at NUS

    Recent Talks at Conferences
  • Keynote speaker at ICEKMT'2011
  • Invited speaker at AEPC'2011
  • Panelist at MWE'2011
  • Tutorial speaker on Web Knowledge Extraction and Applications at RANLP'2011

    Recent Talks at Research Institutions
  • June, 2011: Microsoft Research (USA), Yahoo! Labs (USA), University of Washington (USA), Macquarie University (Australia), University of Otago (New Zealand)
  • May, 2011: Goethe University of Frankfurt (Germany)
  • March, 2011: University of Saarland (Germany)
  • February, 2011: University of Heidelberg and HITS gGmbH (Germany)
  • January, 2011: Max Planck Society (Germany)
  • December, 2010: The University of Melbourne (Australia)
  • November, 2010: University of Rome, La Sapienza (Italy)
  • August, 2010: University of Basel (Switzerland), University of Darmstadt (Germany), and XRCE in Grenoble (France)
  • July, 2010: NICTA and The University of Melbourne (Australia).
  • February, 2010: University of Wolverhampton (UK).
  • January, 2010: University of Cambridge (UK), University of Karlsruhe (Germany), and University of Stuttgart (Germany).
  • November, 2009: NICT, Kyoto (Japan).


    My books (in Bulgarian):
  • "Programming=++Algorithms;" (Official Web Site)
  • "Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms" (source code)


    Twitter: preslav_nakov