Research

My current research includes applying NLP technologies for licensing testing (for example, American-British transliteration, information extraction, item difficulty prediction, item response time prediction, and item distractor prediction).

I have experiences on utilising eye tracking data for various tasks.

I have extensive experiences in machine learning (ML) techniques algorithms, and platforms, both traditional (svm, linear regression, random forest, weka etc.) and recently developed (deep learning, tensorflow, keras, etc.). I have applied ML techniques to a wide range of problems (detecting autism, classifying referential and non referential it, predicting response times, automated scoring) utilising various types of data (texts, images, gazes).

My favourite Publications

• Rohanian O, Taslimipoor S, Kouchaki S, Ha L, Mitkov R. Bridging the Gap: Attending to Discontinuity in Identification of Multiword Expressions 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT), Minneapolis, 03 Jun 2019 - 05 Jun 2019. Association for Computational Linguistics. 05 Jun 2019 (Conference Contribution) Publisher URL
• Yaneva V, Ha LA, Evans R, Mitkov R. Classifying referential and non-referential it using gaze Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Brussels, Belgium, 31 Oct 2018 - 04 Nov 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts. 31 Oct 2018 (Conference Contribution) Publisher URL
• Yaneva V, Ha L, Eraslan S, Yesilada Y, Mitkov R. Detecting autism based on eye-tracking data from web searching tasks Web4All 2018 15th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility, Lyon, France, 23 Apr 2018 - 25 Jun 2019. ACM. 23 Apr 2018 (Conference Contribution)
• Skalban Y, Ha LA, Specia L, Mitkov R. Automatic Question Generation in Multimedia-Based Learning. Editors: Kay, Martin, Boitet, Christian. COLING (Posters). Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. 1151-1160. 2012 (Conference Contribution) Publisher URL
• Mitkov R, Ha LA, Karamanis N. A computer-aided environment for generating multiple-choice test items Natural Language Engineering 12(2):177-194 01 Jun 2006 (Journal article)