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
Research, publications, CV:
  • Ph.D. thesis: Using the Web as an Implicit Training Set: Application to Noun Compound Syntax and Semantics
  • Selected publications: [List here]
  • Curriculum Vitae: [English]
  • Research Interests: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Lexical Semantics, Machine Translation, Web as a Corpus, Bioinformatics, BioNLP.

    Program Committees:
  • 2009: EMNLP'09, HLT-NAACL'09, SIGIR'09, RANLP'09, ACL'09 (mentoring), MWE'09, WAC'09, MALINDO'09, S3T'09, AdaptLRTtoND'09, RANLP'09 student workshop
  • 2010: ACL'2010, SIGIR'2010, LREC'2010, SemEval'2010, MWE'2010, WAC'2010

    Ongoing Activities:
  • At SemEval'2010, I am co-organizing shared task #8 on Multi-Way Classification of Semantic Relations Between Pairs of Nominals. This is a follow-up of the popular SemEval'2007 task #4 on Classification of Semantic Relations between Nominals (which I co-organized) whose dataset has become the de-facto standard for semantic relation extraction. This year, we are preparing a much bigger dataset with ten mutually exclusive semantic relations.
  • At SemEval'2010, I am also co-organizing shared task #9 on Noun Compound Interpretation Using Paraphrasing Verbs.
  • At COLING'2010, I am co-organizing the MWE'2010 workshop "Multiword Expressions: from Theory to Applications".

    Recent Activities
  • November, 2009: I gave a talk at NICT, Kyoto, Japan.
  • December, 2009: I presented the NUS system for the Chinese-English BTEC translation task at the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) in Tokyo, Japan. Our team was ranked second out of twelve both in automatic and in manual evaluation, and we were selected for oral presentation.

    Upcoming Activities:
  • January 21 - February 5: I will give talks at the University of Cambridge, the University of Karlsruhe, the University of Stuttgart, and the University of Wolverhampton.
  • February 1-5, 2010: I will be visiting the University of Wolverhampton.


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