Yova Kementchedjhieva

Publications

2021

Mareike Hartmann, Miryam de Lhoneux, Daniel Hershcovich, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Lukas Nielsen, Chen Qiu, Anders Søgaard. A Multilingual Benchmark for Probing Negation-Awareness with Minimal Pairs. In Proceedings of CoNLL 2021 , online.

Yova Kementchedjhieva, Anders Søgaard. Dynamic Forecasting of Conversation Derailment. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2021, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

Yova Kementchedjhieva, Mark Anderson, Anders Søgaard. John praised Mary because he? Implicit Causality Bias and Its Interaction with Explicit Cues in LMs. In Proceedings of ACL 2021, online.

2020

Yova Kementchedjhieva, Di Lu, Joel Tetreault. The ApposCorpus: A new multilingual, multi-domain dataset for factual appositive generation. In Proceedings of COLING 2020, online. [Dataset]

Gözde Gül Şahin, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Phillip Rust, Iryna Gurevych. PuzzLing Machines: A Challenge on Learning From Small Data. In Proceedings of ACL 2020, online.

2019

Mareike Hartmann, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Anders Søgaard. Comparing Unsupervised Word Translation Methods Step by Step. In Proceedings of NeurIPS 2019, Vancouver, Canada.

Yova Kementchedjhieva, Mareike Hartmann, Anders Søgaard. Lost in Evaluation: Misleading Benchmarks for Bilingual Dictionary Induction. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2019 , Hong Kong.

Hila Gonen, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Yoav Goldberg. How does Grammatical Gender Affect Noun Representations in Gender-Marking Languages? . In Proceedings of CoNLL 2019, Hong Kong.

Clara Vania, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Anders Søgaard, Adam Lopez. A systematic comparison of methods for low-resource dependency parsing on genuinely low-resource languages. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2019, Hong Kong.

Maria Barrett, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Yanai Elazar, Desmond Elliott, Anders Søgaard. Adversarial Removal of Demographic Attributes Revisited. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2019, Hong Kong.

Johannes Bjerva, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Ryan Cotterell, Isabelle Augenstein. Uncovering Probabilistic Implications in Typological Knowledge Bases. In Proceedings of ACL 2019, Florence, Italy.

Johannes Bjerva, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Ryan Cotterell, Isabelle Augenstein. A Probabilistic Generative Model of Linguistic Typology. In Proceedings of NAACL 2019, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2018

Yova Kementchedjhieva, Sebastian Ruder, Ryan Cotterell, Anders Søgaard . Generalizing Procrustes Analysis for Better Bilingual Dictionary Induction. In Proceedings of CoNLL 2018, Brussels, Belgium.

Sebastian Ruder, Ryan Cotterell, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Anders Søgaard. A Discriminative Latent-Variable Model for Bilingual Lexicon Induction. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2018, Brussels, Belgium.

Mareike Hartmann, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Anders Søgaard. Why is unsupervised alignment of English embeddings from different algorithms so hard? In Proceedings of EMNLP 2018, Brussels, Belgium.

Yova Kementchedjhieva, Johannes Bjerva, Isabelle Augenstein. Copenhagen at CoNLL--SIGMORPHON 2018: Multilingual Inflection in Context with Explicit Morphosyntactic Decoding. In Proceedings of CoNLL--SIGMORPHON 2018, Brussels, Belgium.

Yova Kementchedjhieva and Adam Lopez. Indicatements that character language models learn English morpho-syntactic units and regularities. In Proceedings of the Workshop on analyzing and interpreting neural networks for NLP, Brussels, Belgium.

2016

Yova Kementchedjhieva. Code-Switching as Strategically Employed in Political Discourse. In Hall-Lew, Lauren. (Ed.) Lifespans and Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation. 2(1):1-2.

Lauren Hall-Lew, Amanda Cardoso, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Ruaridh Purse. San Francisco English and the California Vowel Shift. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK: the University of Glasgow.

Talks

2022

Retrieval Augmentation as a Shortcut to the Training Data. Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

2019

The Basics of Cross-Lingual Word-Embedding Alignment. BotsBerlin: Deep Tech Meetup. Berlin, Germany.

2018

Making and Breaking Unsupervised Bilingual Dictionary Induction. EdinburgNLP meetup. Edinburgh, Scotland.

2017

Jump into the Deep (Learning). 15th International Linguistics Olympiad: Winter Pred Camp, Bulgarian Team. Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.

2016

Monoconsonantal Prepositions in Bulgarian. Undergraduate Linguistic Association of Britain: 6th Annual Conference (ULAB2016). Aberdeen, Scotland.

Phonological Alternations. 14th International Linguistics Olympiad: Summer Prep Camp, Bulgarian Team. Sunny Beach, Bulgaria.

Teaching

Guest lecturer

Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing. 2022-2023. University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Teaching assistant

Natural Language Processing. 2019-2020. University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Natural Language Processing. 2018-2019. University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Introduction to Data Science. 2017-2018. University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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