Scholar
Razvan Bunescu
Google Scholar ID: fi4HWW8AAAAJ
UNC Charlotte
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,733
H-index
32
i10-index
61
Publications
20
Co-authors
31
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - A Text-Based Recommender System that Leverages Explicit Affective State Preferences, to appear in Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), November 2025.
- - An Expectation-Realization Model for Metaphor Detection, Best paper award at the 4th Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (FigLang), June 2024.
- - Can language models employ the Socratic method? Experiments with code debugging, Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), March 2024.
- - Topic-Level Bayesian Surprise and Serendipity for Recommender Systems, Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), September 2023.
- - A semantic parsing pipeline for context-dependent question answering over temporally structured data, Natural Language Engineering, October 2021.
- - More publications available in Google Scholar.
Research Experience
- - Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2024-25.
- - Program co-chair of the International Summer School on Data Science organized by the Bucharest University of Economic Studies in Predeal, 2018-24.
- - Standing reviewer for Computational Linguistics, 2021-25.
- - Area chair for the NLP Applications track at ACL 2020.
- - Co-chair, with Cindy Marling, of the Blood Glucose Level Prediction Challenge at the ECAI 2020 workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Healthcare Data.
- - Guest editor of the special issue on Sensor Technologies: Artificial Intelligence for Diabetes Management in the journal Sensors, 2020.
- - Area chair for the Applications track at ACL 2019.
- - Co-chair, with Cindy Marling, of the Blood Glucose Level Prediction Challenge at the IJCAI 2018 workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Healthcare Data.
- - Invited talk at University of Akron on Machine Learning Models for Blood Glucose Level Prediction, October 2017.
- - Co-chairs of the ACL-IJCNLP 2015 track on Information Extraction and Text Mining with Steven Bethard and Mausam.
- - Member of the Senior Program Committee for IJCAI 2013.
- - Member of the Senior Program Committee for AAAI 2012, in the area of Natural Language Processing.
- - Co-chaired the ACL HLT 2011 track on Text Mining and Information Extraction with Alex Yates.
- - Co-chaired the OCCBIO 2010 session on Data Mining and Machine Learning with Michael Raymer.
- - Organized the IJCAI 2009 workshop on User Contributed Knowledge and AI: An evolving synergy with Vivi, Rada, Evgeniy.
- - Organized the AAAI 2008 workshop on Wikipedia and AI: An evolving synergy with Rada, Evgeniy.
Education
- - Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, 2007
- - M.S. in Computer Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 1999
- - B.S. in Computer Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 1998
Background
- Research Interests: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Music Information Retrieval.
