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• Research interests
  
• Publications
• Personal interests
  

• lexical semantics and semantic relations
• summarization
• knowledge acquisition
• sentiment analysis
  
• morphology and etymology
  
• cognitive linguistics
  

• I am a post-doctoral fellow in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) group here at HITS gGmbH. I find all aspects of language fascinating, and hope to get a better understanding of linguistic phenomena and their relation to cognitive processes through the study of words -- both as forms (how they emerged and how they change) and as meaning -- in isolation and in complex contexts. These days I work on structuring and extracting knowledge from the multi-lingual Wikipedia, exploiting this knowledge for high-end applications such as summarization,  and exploring ways of structuring evidence from language use for the representation of word meanings.
  
  
  

• Combining collocations, lexical and encyclopedic knowledge for metonymy resolution | EMNLP 2009, pp. 910-918
  Vivi Nastase, Michael Strube
  
• What's in a name? In some languages, grammatical gender | EMNLP 2009, pp. 1368-1377
  Vivi Nastase, Marius Popescu
  
• Classification of Semantic Relations Between Nominals | LRE 2009, vol. 43 (2)
  Roxana Girju, Preslav Nakov, Vivi Nastase, Stan Szpakowicz, Peter Turney, Deniz Yuret
• The same semantic relations link structurally different realizations of concepts | LiLT, vol 2 (3)
  Vivi Nastase, Stan Szpakowicz
• Summarizing with encyclopedic knowledge | TAC 2009
  Vivi Nastase, David Milne, Katja Filippova
  

• Generaring Update Summaries with Spreading Activation | TAC 2008
  Vivi Nastase, Katja Filippova, Simone Paolo Ponzetto
  
• Topic-driven multi-document summarization with encyclopedic knowledge and spreading activation | EMNLP 2008
  Vivi Nastase
• Decoding Wikipedia Categories for Knowledge Acquisition | AAAI 2008, pp.1219-1224
  Vivi Nastase, Michael Strube
  
• Distinguishing Between Instances and Classes in the Wikipedia Taxonomy | ESWC 2008, pp.376-387
  Cäcilia Zirn, Vivi Nastase, Michael Strube
  
• Acquiring a Taxonomy from the German Wikipedia | LREC 2008
  Laura Kassner, Vivi Nastase, Michael Strube
  
• The Telling Tail: Signals of success in electronic negotiation texts | IJCNLP 2008, pp. 257-264
  Marina Sokolova, Vivi Nastase, Stan Szpakowicz
• Unsupervised All-words Word Sense Disambiguation with Grammatical Dependencies | IJCNLP 2008, pp. 757-762
  Vivi Nastase
  

• Cascaded Filtering for Topic-Driven Multi-Document Summarization | 2007 Document Understanding Conference (DUC 07). Rochester, N.Y., April 22-27, 2007.
  Katja Filippova, Margot Mieskes, Vivi Nastase, Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Michael Strube
• SemEval-2007 Task 04: Classification of Semantic Relations between Nominals | 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations
  Roxana Girju, Preslav Nakov, Vivi Nastase, Stan Szpakowicz, Peter Turney, Deniz Yuret
• Do Happy Words Sound Happy? A study of the relation between form and meaning for English words expressing emotions | RANLP 2007
  Vivi Nastase, Marina Sokolova, Jelber Sayyad Shirabad
• A Study of Sentiment and Gender Influence on Negotiation Outcome in Electronic Negotiations | GDN 2007, Vol. II, 491-500
  Vivi Nastase and Jelber Sayyad Shirabad
• Content analysis through the Machine Learning mill | GDN journal 16 (4) 2007
  Vivi Nastase, Sabine Koeszegi and Stan Szpakowicz

• Learning noun-modifier semantic relations with corpus-based and WordNet-based features | AAAI 2006
  Vivi Nastase, Jelber Sayyad-Shiarabad, Marina Sokolova, Stan Szpakowicz
• Using dependency relations for classification | Canadian AI 2006 (poster)
  Vivi Nastase, Jelber Sayyad-Shirabad, Fernanda Caropreso
  
• Matching semantic-syntactic graphs for semantic relation assignment | TextGraphs 2006
  Vivi Nastase and Stan Szpakowicz
  
• A study of two graphs algorithms in topic-driven summarization | TextGraphs 2006
  Vivi Nastase and Stan Szpakowicz
  
• Special Issue on Sentiment Analysis, Word from the editors | Computational Intelligence 22 (2) 2006
  Vivi Nastase and Stan Szpakowicz
• Special Issue on Formal and Informal Information Exchange in Negotiations, Word from the editors | GDN journal, 15 (2), 2006.
  Vivi Nastase and Stan Szpakowicz
  
• Concession curve analysis for Inspire negotiations | GDN journal, 15 (2), 2006
  Vivi Nastase
• Machine Learning Experiments for Textual Entailment | The Second RTE Challenge workshop
  Diana Inkpen, Darren Kipp, Vivi Nastase
  

• Customisable Semantic Analysis of Text| CICLing 2005
  Vivi Nastase and Stan Szpakowicz 
• Content Analysis Through the Machine Learning Mill | GDN 2005
  Vivi Nastase, Sabine Koeszegi and Stan Szpakowicz,
  
• Generating Packages for Preference Elicitation in E-negotiations | GDN 2005
  Vivi Nastase and Gregory Kersten
• Concession Curve Analysis for Inspire Negotiations | Workshop on the Analysis of Formal and Informal Information Exchange During Negotiations (FINEXIN) 2005
  Vivi Nastase and Gregory Kersten,
  

 2004

• An Evaluation Exercise for Romanian Word Sense Disambiguation | ACL/SIGLEX Senseval-3, Barcelona, Spain, 2004
  Rada Mihalcea, Vivi Nastase, Timothy Chklovski, Doina Tatar, Dan Tufis, Florentina Hristea,
  
• Finding Semantic Associations on Express Lane | LREC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal
  Vivi Nastase and Rada Mihalcea
• RDSnet: A Web_based Collaborative Framework for Building Multilingual Semantic Networks | Studia Univ. Babes-Bolyai, Informatica, Volume XLIX, Nr. 1, 2004
  Nathaniel Ayewah, Rada Mihalcea, Vivi Nastase, Doina Tatar
  
• Language in Electronic Negotiations: Patterns in completed and uncompleted negotiations | ICON 2004
  Marina Sokolova, Vivi Nastase and Stan Szpakowicz
  
• Using Language to Determine Success in Negotiations: A preliminary study | Canadian AI, London, ON, Canada, 2004
  Marina Sokolova, Stan Szpakowicz and Vivi Nastase
• Language Patterns in Text Messages of Electronic Negotiations: A Preliminary Study | INTERNEG working papers, INR 05/04
  Marina Sokolova, Stan Szpakowicz and Vivi Nastase
• Automatically Building a Lexicon from Raw Noisy Data in a Closed Domain | INTERNEG working papers, INR 01/04
  Marina Sokolova, Stan Szpakowicz and Vivi Nastase

 2003

• Building Multilingual Semantic Networks with Non-Expert Contributions over the Web | Distributed and Collaborative Knowledge Capture (DC-KCAP 2003)
  Nathaniel Ayewah, Rada Mihalcea and Vivi Nastase
• Semantic Relations Across Syntactic Levels, PhD thesis | University of Ottawa, School of Information Technology and Engineering
  Vivi Nastase
• Exploring Noun-Modifier Semantic Relations  | International Workshop on Computational Semantics, Tillburg, Netherlands, January 2003
  Vivi Nastase and Stan Szpakowicz 
• Augmenting WordNet's Structure Using LDOCE  | CICLing, Mexico City, Mexico, February 2003
  Vivi Nastase and Stan Szpakowicz 

 2002

• Letter Level Learning for Language Independent Diacritics Restauration | CoNLL, Taiwan, September 2002
  Rada Mihalcea and Vivi Nastase

  2001

• Preparing Data for Learning Noun-Modifier Semantic Relations in Base Noun-Phrases with C5.0 | University of Ottawa, Technical Report TR-2001-05
  Vivi Nastase
• Unifying Semantic Relations Across Syntactic Levels | RANLP, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 2001
  Vivi Nastase and Stan Szpakowicz
• Unifying Semantic Relations Across Syntactic Levels | University of Ottawa, Technical Report TR-2001-02
  Vivi Nastase
• Word-Sense Disambiguation in Roget's Thesaurus Using WordNet | Workshop on WordNet and other lexical resources, NAACL, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 2001
  Vivi Nastase and Stan Szpakowicz

Personal interests