Venelin Kovachev

 
Research Interests: Computational Semantics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Inference, Psycholinguistics
 
Publications
 

- Kovatchev, V., Smith, P., Lee, M, and Devine, R., "Can Vectors Read Minds Better Than Experts? Comparing Data Augmentation Strategies for the Automated Scoring of Children's Mindreading Ability" at Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP), 2021
 
- Kovatchev, V., Smith, P., Lee, M, Grumley Traynor, I., Luque Aguilera, I., and Devine, R., “What is on your mind?” Automated Scoring of Mindreading in Childhood and Early Adolescence at Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2020
 
- Hossain, M. M., Kovatchev, V., Dutta, P., Kao, T., Wei, E., Blanco, E., "An Analysis of Natural Language Inference Benchmarks through the Lens of Negation" at Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
 
- Kovatchev, V., Gold, D., Martí, M. A., Salamó, M., and Zesch, T.,  "Decomposing and Comparing Meaning Relations: Paraphrasing, Textual Entailment, Contradiction, and Specificity" at Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020
 
- Ikauniece, I., Kovatchev, V., Puertas, E., "Spanish and Catalan Polarity Detection in Student Satisfaction Surveys", at Proceedings of the 21st International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence, 2019 Best Poster Award
 
- Kovatchev, V., Martí, M. A., Salamó, M., and Beltran, J. "Qualitative Evaluation Framework for Paraphrase Identification", at Proceedings of the 12th Recent Advances in Naural Language Processing conference, 2019
 
- Gold, D., Kovatchev, V., and Zesch, T. "Annotating and analyzing the interactions between meaning relations", at Proceedings of the 13th Language Annotation Workshop, 2019 
 
- Martí, M. A., Taulé, M, Kovatchev, V., and Salamó, M. "DISCOver: DIStributional approach based on syntactic dependencies for discovering COnstructions", at Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 2019
 
- Kovatchev, V., Martí, M. A., and Salamó, M., "WARP-Text: A Web-Based Tool for Annotating Relationships Between Pairs of Texts", at Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2018, System Demonstrations
 
- Kovatchev, V., Martí, M. A., and Salamó, M., "ETPC - A Paraphrase Identification Corpus Annotated with Extended Paraphrase Typology and Negation", at Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2018
 
- Kovatchev, V., Salamó, M., and Martí, M. A., "Comparing models of distributional semantics for identifying groups of semantically related words", at Procesamiento de Lenguage Natural, 57, 2016.

 
Teaching Duties
 
- "Introduction to NLP", Master on Foundations of Data Science, University of Barcelona, 2016-2017
 
- "Introduction to NLP", Master on Foundations of Data Science, University of Barcelona, 2017-2018
 
- "Introduction to Latex", Faculty of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics, University of Barcelona, 2017-2018
 
- "Introduction of Python programming for linguists", Faculty of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics, University of Barcelona, 2018-2019
 
- "Python for Data Science", School of Computer Science, University of Birmringham, 2020-2021
 
Conference and Event Оrganization
 
- Organizing committee at RELATIONS 2019 - Workshop on meaning relations between phrases and sentences, 2019
 
- Organizing committee at the Student Research Workshops associated with the conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing", 2017, 2019
 
- Monitor at the Lisbon Machine Learning School, 2018, 2019
 
Awards and Grants
APIF pre-doctoral grant, University of Barcelona, 2017-2020
Best Poster Award at the 21st International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence, 2019
 
Research Stays
Research Stay at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Sep-Dec 2018)