Anoop Sarkar · SFU Computer Science

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Research

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Multilingual Natural Language Processing
Machine learning for Natural Language Processing
Machine Reading and Information Visualization

Teaching

Recent teaching

Fall 2024: Natural Language Processing
Summer 2023: Advanced Natural Language Processing
Fall 2021: Compilers

Recent Publications and Talks

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ACL Anthology Google Scholar Semantic Scholar DBLP

Software

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TroFi: Metaphor dataset: literal versus non-literal uses of words [More]
Yarowsky algorithm: Bootstrapping algorithms for semi-supervised learning in NLP [More]

Research Grants

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NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements Program: 2012-2015 and 2017-2023.
NSERC Discovery Grants Program, 2003-2007, 2007-2012, 2012-2017, 2017-2023.
Google Faculty Research Award, 2014-2015 and 2009-2010
IBM Faculty Award: 2008-2009

Service

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Area chair, EMNLP 2023.
Tutorial co-chair, NAACL 2019, Minneapolis, MN
Local co-organizer, ACL 2017, Vancouver, BC
Area co-chair, Machine Learning track, EMNLP 2017
Program co-chair, NAACL HLT 2015.

Recently Graduated Students

Phd (Total: 9)

Alinejad, Ashkan. Transforming neural machine translation into simultaneous text and speech translation. (from: Fall 2016 to: Summer 2021)
Sheikhshabbafghi, Golnar. Investigations into the Value of Labeled and Unlabeled Data in Biomedical Entity Recognition and Word Sense Disambiguation. (from: Fall 2014 to: Spring 2021)

MSc (Total: 26)

Moradi, Pooya. Training with adversaries to improve faithfulness of attention in neural machine translation. (from: Fall 2018 to: Summer 2020)
Zhu, Zhenqi. Deconstructing supertagging into multi-task sequence prediction. (from: Fall 2018 to: Spring 2020)