Zubair Afzal

According to our database, Zubair Afzal authored at least 33 papers between 2010 and 2024.

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2024

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

Artemis Çapari, Hosein Azarbonyad, Georgios Tsatsaronis, Zubair Afzal, Judson Dunham

Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024

Scalable Patent Classification with Aggregated Multi-View Ranking.

Dan Li, Vikrant Yadav, Zi Long Zhu, Maziar Moradi Fard, Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis

Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

Knowledge Acquisition Passage Retrieval: Corpus, Ranking Models, and Evaluation Resources.

Artemis Çapari, Hosein Azarbonyad, Georgios Tsatsaronis, Zubair Afzal, Judson Dunham, Jaap Kamps

Proceedings of the Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, 2024

Enhancing Scientific Document Simplification through Adaptive Retrieval and Generative Models.

Artemis Çapari, Hosein Azarbonyad, Zubair Afzal, Georgios Tsatsaronis

Proceedings of the Working Notes of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2024), 2024

2023

Enhancing Extreme Multi-Label Text Classification: Addressing Challenges in Model, Data, and Evaluation.

Dan Li, Zi Long Zhu, Janneke van de Loo, Agnes Masip Gomez, Vikrant Yadav, Georgios Tsatsaronis, Zubair Afzal

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2023, 2023

Generating Topic Pages for Scientific Concepts Using Scientific Publications.

Hosein Azarbonyad, Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2023

Elsevier at SimpleText: Passage Retrieval by Fine-tuning GPL on Scientific Documents.

Artemis Çapari, Hosein Azarbonyad, Georgios Tsatsaronis, Zubair Afzal

Proceedings of the Working Notes of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2023), 2023

2022

Few-shot initializing of Active Learner via Meta-Learning.

Zi Long Zhu, Vikrant Yadav, Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 2022

Unsupervised Dense Retrieval for Scientific Articles.

Dan Li, Vikrant Yadav, Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2022 - Industry Track, Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 7, 2022

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

Yuan Li, Biaoyan Fang, Jiayuan He, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Zenan Zhai, Zubair Afzal, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2022

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

Yuan Li, Biaoyan Fang, Jiayuan He, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor

Proceedings of the Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, 2022

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

Yuan Li, Biaoyan Fang, Jiayuan He, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Kojiro Machi, Masaharu Yoshioka, Youngrok Jang, Hosung Song, Junho Lee, Gyeonghun Kim, Yireun Kim, Stanley Jungkyu Choi, Honglak Lee, Kyunghoon Bae, Darshini Mahendran, Christina Tang, Bridget T. McInnes, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor

Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2022 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Bologna, Italy, September 5th - to, 2022

2021

ChEMU 2020: Natural Language Processing Methods Are Effective for Information Extraction From Chemical Patents.

Jiayuan He, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Ralph Hoessel, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Biaoyan Fang, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Ameer Albahem, Lawrence Cavedon, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor

Frontiers Res. Metrics Anal., 2021

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

Jiayuan He, Biaoyan Fang, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Yuan Li, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Lawrence Cavedon, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2021

Overview of ChEMU 2021: Reaction Reference Resolution and Anaphora Resolution in Chemical Patents.

Yuan Li, Biaoyan Fang, Jiayuan He, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor

Proceedings of the Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, 2021

Extended Overview of ChEMU 2021: Reaction Reference Resolution and Anaphora Resolution in Chemical Patents.

Yuan Li, Biaoyan Fang, Jiayuan He, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor

Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2021 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Bucharest, Romania, September 21st - to, 2021

2020

CORA: A Deep Active Learning Covid-19 Relevancy Algorithm to Identify Core Scientific Articles.

Zubair Afzal, Vikrant Yadav, Olga Fedorova, Vaishnavi Kandala, Janneke van de Loo, Saber A. Akhondi, Pascal Coupet, George Tsatsaronis

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19@ EMNLP 2020, Online, December 2020, 2020

An Extended Overview of the CLEF 2020 ChEMU Lab: Information Extraction of Chemical Reactions from Patents.

Jiayuan He, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Ralph Hoessel, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Biaoyan Fang, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Ameer Albahem, Jingqi Wang, Yuankai Ren, Zhi Zhang, Yaoyun Zhang, Mai Hoang Dao, Pedro Ruas, Andre Lamurias, Francisco M. Couto, Jenny Copara, Nona Naderi, Julien Knafou, Patrick Ruch, Douglas Teodoro, Daniel M. Lowe, John Mayfield, Abdullatif Köksal, Hilal Dönmez, Elif Özkirimli, Arzucan Özgür, Darshini Mahendran, Gabrielle Gurdin, Nastassja Lewinski, Christina Tang, Bridget T. McInnes, C. S. Malarkodi, Pattabhi Rk Rao, Sobha Lalitha Devi, Lawrence Cavedon, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor

Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2020, 2020

Overview of ChEMU 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Event Extraction of Chemical Reactions from Patents.

Jiayuan He, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Ralph Hoessel, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Biaoyan Fang, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Ameer Albahem, Lawrence Cavedon, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor

Proceedings of the Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, 2020

2018

A Framework to Automatically Extract Funding Information from Text.

Subhradeep Kayal, Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis, Marius A. Doornenbal, Sophia Katrenko, Michelle Gregory

Proceedings of the Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, 2018

2017

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

Subhradeep Kayal, Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis, Sophia Katrenko, Pascal Coupet, Marius A. Doornenbal, Michelle Gregory

Proceedings of the BioNLP 2017, Vancouver, Canada, August 4, 2017, 2017

2016

Extraction of chemical-induced diseases using prior knowledge and textual information.

Ewoud Pons, Benedikt F. H. Becker, Saber A. Akhondi, Zubair Afzal, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jan A. Kors

Database J. Biol. Databases Curation, 2016

Chemical entity recognition in patents by combining dictionary-based and statistical approaches.

Saber A. Akhondi, Ewoud Pons, Zubair Afzal, Herman van Haagen, Benedikt F. H. Becker, Kristina M. Hettne, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jan A. Kors

Database J. Biol. Databases Curation, 2016

Learning Domain Labels Using Conceptual Fingerprints: An In-Use Case Study in the Neurology Domain.

Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis, Marius A. Doornenbal, Pascal Coupet, Michelle Gregory

Proceedings of the Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, 2016

Erasmus MC at CLEF eHealth 2016: Concept Recognition and Coding in French Texts.

Erik M. van Mulligen, Zubair Afzal, Saber A. Akhondi, Dang Vo, Jan A. Kors

Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2016, 2016

Concept Recognition in French Biomedical Text Using Automatic Translation.

Zubair Afzal, Saber A. Akhondi, Herman H. H. B. M. van Haagen, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jan A. Kors

Proceedings of the Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, 2016

2015

Biomedical Concept Recognition in French Text Using Automatic Translation of English Terms.

Zubair Afzal, Saber A. Akhondi, Herman van Haagen, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jan A. Kors

Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2015, 2015

2014

Knowledge-based extraction of adverse drug events from biomedical text.

Ning Kang, Bharat Singh, Quoc-Chinh Bui, Zubair Afzal, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jan A. Kors

BMC Bioinform., 2014

ContextD: an algorithm to identify contextual properties of medical terms in a Dutch clinical corpus.

Zubair Afzal, Ewoud Pons, Ning Kang, Miriam C. J. M. Sturkenboom, Martijn J. Schuemie, Jan A. Kors

BMC Bioinform., 2014

2013

Improving sensitivity of machine learning methods for automated case identification from free-text electronic medical records.

Zubair Afzal, Martijn J. Schuemie, Jan C. van Blijderveen, Elif F. Sen, Miriam C. J. M. Sturkenboom, Jan A. Kors

BMC Medical Informatics Decis. Mak., 2013

Using rule-based natural language processing to improve disease normalization in biomedical text.

Ning Kang, Bharat Singh, Zubair Afzal, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jan A. Kors

J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2013

2012

Using an ensemble system to improve concept extraction from clinical records.

Ning Kang, Zubair Afzal, Bharat Singh, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jan A. Kors

J. Biomed. Informatics, 2012

2010

A Concept Annotation System for Clinical Records.

Ning Kang, Rogier Barendse, Zubair Afzal, Bharat Singh, Martijn J. Schuemie, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jan A. Kors

Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences, 2010