Damir Cavar is a Natural Language Processing, AI, and Knowledge Representation scientist
Associate Professor (ORCID), Indiana University at Bloomington (IU)
Directing the Natural Language Processing Lab and organizing the Quantum-NLP Reading group.
Departmental Address: Indiana University, Department of Linguistics, Ballantine Hall, Room 511, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
Adjunct/member:
Member:
NLP-Lab Meetings are on Thursdays at 5:30 PM in Luddy Hall 0002; see website and calendar for details!
Quantum NLP Study Group meetings are on Fridays at 4 PM in Ballantine Hall 104.
Damir Cavar, Ludovic Mompelat, Muhammad S. Abdo (2024) The Hoosier Ellipsis Corpus (HELC): Documenting Linguistic Dark Matter. Poster presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, April 15-16, 2024. (poster)
Muhammad S. Abdo, Damir Cavar (2024) The Hosiers Ellipsis Corpus: Building a Corpus of Ellipsis for Arabic Natural Language Processing. Poster presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, April 15-16, 2024. (poster)
Damir Cavar, Chi Zhang, Koushik Reddy Parukola (2024) Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) (2024) Presentation at the Quantum Day 2024 Seminar Series, organized by Quantum Technologies for Everyone (QuTE) at Indiana University Bloomington, April 14th 2024.
Van Holthenrichs, Damir Cavar, Zoran Tiganj, Billy Dickson (2024) On Ellipsis in Slavic: The Ellipsis Corpus and Natural Language Processing Results. Paper presented at The 33rd Annual Meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics. Halifax, Canada. (abstract)
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.
Talks:
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.
Projects:
TIE-ML - Temporal Information and Event Annotation (GitHub repo)
Knowledge Graphs from unstructured data and common sense reasoning
Publications:
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)
Damir Cavar, 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 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.
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:
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.
Temporal Information and Event Markup Language: TIE-ML Markup Process and Schema Version 1.0 presented at the SEMAPRO 2021 in Barcelona, Spain.
NLP-Lab - research lab: see public calendar for meeting times during 2023 (contact me, if you would like to join the Teams team)
Code, data, and projects: