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Zubair Afzal

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  • 2025

    Extracting, Detecting, and Generating Research Questions for Scientific Articles

    Taslimi, S., Capari, A., Azarbonyad, H., Zhu, Z. L., Afzal, Z., Kanoulas, E. & Tsatsaronis, G., 2025, Main Conference. Rambow, O., Wanner, L., Apidianaki, M., Al-Khalifa, H., Di Eugenio, B. & Schockaert, S. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 8573-8588 16 p. (Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING; vol. Part F206484-1).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  • 2024

    Scalable Patent Classification with Aggregated Multi-View Ranking

    Li, D., Yadav, V., Zhu, Z. L., Fard, M. M., Tsatsaronis, G. & Afzal, Z., 2024, 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings. Calzolari, N., Kan, M.-Y., Hoste, V., Lenci, A., Sakti, S. & Xue, N. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 14336-14346 11 p. (2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  • ScienceDirect Topic Pages: A Knowledge Base of Scientific Concepts Across Various Science Domains

    Capari, A., Azarbonyad, H., Tsatsaronis, G., Afzal, Z. & Dunham, J., Jul 11 2024, SIGIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 2976-2980 5 p. (SIGIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    3 Scopus citations
  • 2023

    Generating Topic Pages for Scientific Concepts Using Scientific Publications

    Azarbonyad, H., Afzal, Z. & Tsatsaronis, G., 2023, Advances in Information Retrieval - 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023, Proceedings. Kamps, J., Goeuriot, L., Crestani, F., Maistro, M., Joho, H., Davis, B., Gurrin, C., Caputo, A. & Kruschwitz, U. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 341-349 9 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 13981 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    2 Scopus citations
  • 2022

    Few-shot initializing of Active Learner via Meta-Learning

    Zhu, Z. L., Yadav, V., Afzal, Z. & Tsatsaronis, G., 2022, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022. Goldberg, Y., Kozareva, Z. & Zhang, Y. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 1117-1133 17 p. (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    2 Scopus citations

  • Overview of ChEMU 2022 Evaluation Campaign: Information Extraction in Chemical Patents

    Li, Y., Fang, B., He, J., Yoshikawa, H., Akhondi, S. A., Druckenbrodt, C., Thorne, C., Afzal, Z., Zhai, Z., Baldwin, T. & Verspoor, K., 2022, Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction - 13th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2022, Proceedings. Barrón-Cedeño, A., Da San Martino, G., Faggioli, G., Ferro, N., Degli Esposti, M., Sebastiani, F., Macdonald, C., Pasi, G., Hanbury, A. & Potthast, M. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 521-540 20 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 13390 LNCS).

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    4 Scopus citations

  • The ChEMU 2022 Evaluation Campaign: Information Extraction in Chemical Patents

    Li, Y., Fang, B., He, J., Yoshikawa, H., Akhondi, S. A., Druckenbrodt, C., Thorne, C., Zhai, Z., Afzal, Z., Cohn, T., Baldwin, T. & Verspoor, K., 2022, Advances in Information Retrieval - 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Proceedings. Hagen, M., Verberne, S., Macdonald, C., Seifert, C., Balog, K., Nørvåg, K. & Setty, V. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 400-407 8 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 13186 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    3 Scopus citations

  • Unsupervised Dense Retrieval for Scientific Articles

    Li, D., Yadav, V., Afzal, Z. & Tsatsaronis, G., 2022, EMNLP 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 323-331 9 p. (EMNLP 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  • 2021

    ChEMU 2021: Reaction Reference Resolution and Anaphora Resolution in Chemical Patents

    He, J., Fang, B., Yoshikawa, H., Li, Y., Akhondi, S. A., Druckenbrodt, C., Thorne, C., Afzal, Z., Zhai, Z., Cavedon, L., Cohn, T., Baldwin, T. & Verspoor, K., 2021, Advances in Information Retrieval - 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, Proceedings. Hiemstra, D., Moens, M.-F., Mothe, J., Perego, R., Potthast, M. & Sebastiani, F. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 608-615 8 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 12657 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    11 Scopus citations
  • 2017

    Tagging Funding Agencies and Grants in Scientific Articles using Sequential Learning Models

    Kayal, S., Afzal, Z., Tsatsaronis, G., Katrenko, S., Coupet, P., Doornenbal, M. & Gregory, M., 2017, BioNLP 2017 - SIGBioMed Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the 16th BioNLP Workshop. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 216-221 6 p. (BioNLP 2017 - SIGBioMed Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the 16th BioNLP Workshop).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    5 Scopus citations
  • 2016

    Concept recognition in French biomedical text using automatic translation

    Afzal, Z., Akhondi, S. A., van Haagen, H. H. H. B. M., van Mulligen, E. M. & Kors, J. A., 2016, Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction - 7th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2016, Proceedings. Larsen, B., Cappellato, L., Ferro, N., Fuhr, N., Balog, K., Macdonald, C., Quaresma, P. & Gonçalves, T. (eds.). Springer Verlag, p. 162-173 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 9822 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    4 Scopus citations
  • 2006

    Managing workflows in data environments using semantic technologies

    Hashmi, N., Al-Malaise, A., Shahid, S. & Afzal, M. Z., 2006, Computational Intelligence International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2006, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, p. 399-409 11 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 4114 LNAI - II).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review