Scholar
Yova Kementchedjhieva
Google Scholar ID: Br-FqfIAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, MBZUAI
Citations & Impact
Citations
822
H-index
16
i10-index
22
Publications
20
Co-authors
18
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers at top NLP and AI conferences including ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, CoNLL, NeurIPS, and COLING
- 2021: Research on negation-awareness, dynamic forecasting of conversation derailment, and implicit causality bias in language models
- 2020: Created the ApposCorpus, a multilingual multi-domain dataset for factual appositive generation; contributed to PuzzLing Machines challenge on learning from small data
- 2019: Investigated misleading benchmarks in bilingual dictionary induction, effects of grammatical gender on noun representations, low-resource dependency parsing, adversarial removal of demographic attributes, and probabilistic generative models of linguistic typology
- 2018: Improved Procrustes analysis for bilingual dictionary induction; proposed a discriminative latent-variable model for lexicon induction; participated in multilingual morphological inflection tasks; studied morpho-syntactic learning in character-level language models
- 2016: Analyzed strategic code-switching in political discourse; contributed to research on San Francisco English and the California Vowel Shift
