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Publications

Thesis

• Using Collective Discourse to Generate Surveys of Scientific Paradigms.
  [PDF] [BIBTEX] [Abstract]

Patents

• User Query Reformulation Using Random Walks, with Chris Brockett and Jianfeng Gao.
  US Patent Pending. Filed by Microsoft in 2010.

Papers

2013

• Hardware Acceleration for Similarity Measurement in Natural Language Processing.
  Prateek Tandon, Jichuan Chang, Ronald Dreslinski, Vahed Qazvinian, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Thomas Wenisch
  International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2013.


• Clustering Memes in Social Media.
  Emilio Ferrara, Mohsen JafariAsbagh, Onur Varol, Vahed Qazvinian, Filippo Menczer, and Alessandro Flammini
  IEEE/ACM Intl. Conf. on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2013).


• Generating Extractive Summaries of Scientific Paradigms
  Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev, Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr, David Zajic, Michael Whidby, Taesun Moon
  Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 46 (2013) 165-201.


• The ACL Anthology Network Corpus [PDF]
  Dragomir R. Radev, Pradeep Muthukrishnan, Vahed Qazvinian, Amjad Abu-Jbara.
  Language Resources and Evaluation Journal.

2012

• Measuring Word Relatedness Using Heterogenous Vector Space Models
  Wen-tau Yih, Vahed Qazvinian
  North American chapter of ACL. (NAACL-HLT 2012).


• A Computational Analysis of Collective Discourse
  Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev
  Collective Intelligence (CI 2012).

2011

• Rumor has it: Identifying Misinformation in Microblogs
  Vahed Qazvinian, Emily Rosengren, Dragomir R. Radev, and Qiaozhu Mei
  Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2011).


• Exploiting Phase Transition in Latent Networks for Clustering
  Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev.
  Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2011).


• Learning from Collective Human Behavior to Introduce Diversity in Lexical Choice
  Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev.
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2011).

2010

• Identifying Non-explicit Citing Sentences for Citation-based Summarization
  Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev.
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010).


• What's with the Attitude? A study of Participant Attitude in Multi-Party Online Discussions
  Ahmed Hassan, Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev.
  Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2010).


• Citation Summarization Through Keyphrase Extraction
  Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev, Arzucan Ozgur.
  International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010).

2009

• The ACL Anthology Network Corpus
  Dragomir R. Radev, Pradeep Muthukrishnan, Vahed Qazvinian.
  ACL workshop on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval for Digital Libraries, Singapore, 2009.


• Visual Overviews for Discovering Key Papers and Influences Across Research Fronts
  Aleks Aris, Ben Shneiderman, Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir Radev.
  Journal of the American Society for Information Systems and Technology 60, 11 (November 2009), 2219-2228.
  Technical Report HCIL-2008-35, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Maryland.


• The Evolution of Scientific Paper Title Networks
  Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir Radev.
  AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2009.


• Using Citations to Generate Surveys of Scientific Paradigms
  Saif Mohammad, Bonnie Dorr, Melissa Egan, Ahmed Hassan, Pradeep Muthukrishan, Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir Radev, David Zajic.
  North American chapter of ACL. (NAACL-HLT 2009).

2008

• Scientific Paper Summarization Using Citation Summary Networks
  Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir Radev.
  International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008).


• Characterizing Network Motifs to Identify Spam Comments
  Elaheh Kamaliha, Fatemeh Riahi, Vahed Qazvinian, Jafar Adibi.
  ICDE 2008 - Workshop of Analysis of Dynamic Networks (ADN'08).


• Novel Methods in Information Retrieval
  Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir Radev.
  Technical Report CSE-TR-546-08, Department of EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2008.


• Evolutionary Coincidence-based Ontology Alignment Extraction
  Vahed Qazvinian, Hassan Abolhassani, Seyed.H. Haeri.
  In Expert Systems, the Journal of Knowledge Engineering.25 (3), 221-236, July 2008.


• Summarizing Text with a Genetic Algorithm Based Sentence Selection
  Vahed Qazvinian, Leila Sharif, Ramin Halavati.
  International Journal of knowledge management studies. 2(4), 426-444, 2008.

2007

• Coincidence Based Scoring of Mapping in an Ontology Alignment Framework
  Seyed H. Haeri, Hassan Abolhassani, Vahed Qazvinian, Babak Hariri.
  Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics. (JACIII) Vol.11, No.7, pp 803-816.


• Observations on Failure in Blogs
  Vahed Qazvinian, Abtin Rassoulian, and Jafar Adibi.
  International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM'07. Boulder, Colorado, USA, March, 2007.


• A Large Scale Study on Persian Weblogs
  Vahed Qazvinian, Abtin Rassoulian, Mohammad Shafiei, and Jafar Adibi.
  IJCAI'07 Workshop on Text-Mining & Link-Analysis (TextLink 2007), Hyderabad, India, January, 2007.


• Coincidence Based Mapping Extraction with Genetic Algorithms
  Vahed Qazvinian, Hassan Abolhassani, S. Hossein Haeri.
  Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (Webist 2007) Barcelona, Spain, March, 2007.

Old publications

• Ontology Alignment Extraction
  Vahed Qazvinian, Abtin Rassoulian.
  B.Sc. thesis, Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology.