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Zubair Afzal

4 accepted papers

2025

Extracting, Detecting, and Generating Research Questions for Scientific Articles

COLING 2025main

The volume of academic articles is increasing rapidly, reflecting the growing emphasis on research and scholarship across different science disciplines. This rapid growth necessitates the development of tools for more efficient and rapid understanding of these articles. Clear and well-defined Resear…

2024

Scalable Patent Classification with Aggregated Multi-View Ranking

COLING 2024main

Automated patent classification typically involves assigning labels to a patent from a taxonomy, using multi-class multi-label classification models. However, classification-based models face challenges in scaling to large numbers of labels, struggle with generalizing to new labels, and fail to effe…

2022

Few-shot initializing of Active Learner via Meta-Learning

EMNLP 2022finding

Despite the important evolutions in few-shot and zero-shot learning techniques, domain specific applications still require expert knowledge and significant effort in annotating and labeling a large volume of unstructured textual data. To mitigate this problem, active learning, and meta-learning atte…

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2022

Unsupervised Dense Retrieval for Scientific Articles

EMNLP 2022industry

In this work, we build a dense retrieval based semantic search engine on scientific articles from Elsevier. The major challenge is that there is no labeled data for training and testing. We apply a state-of-the-art unsupervised dense retrieval model called Generative Pseudo Labeling that generates h…