Products: Yahoo Search and Gemini Product Ads Interests: Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Expertise: Query Understanding, Knowledge Extraction, Product Ads Research: 60+ research papers, funded grants from IARPA and NIH https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bsi48IQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Teaching: Graduate classes at University of Southern California on "Natural Language Processing" 2010 - 2013

Senior Manager, Query Processing and User Intent @ At Yahoo, I am the tech and sciences lead for Query Processing and User Intent Understanding. I manage a team of natural language processing and machine learning experts who work on the pipeline for query classification, tagging and intent prediction. Products we power: - Mobile Search - Product Ads Expertise: - Natural Language Processing - Machine Learning From May 2015 to Present (8 months) Senior Research Scientist @ At Yahoo, I am the sciences and tech lead for Query Processing. Products I work on: - Mobile and Desktop Search - Gemini Product Ads - eCommerce Expertise: - Natural Language Processing - Machine Learning From January 2014 to April 2015 (1 year 4 months) Research Assistant Professor @ Teaching (2010 -- 2014) ---------------------------------- USC graduate class "Applied Natural Language Processing" http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/teaching/cs544/ Tutorials ----------- - "Knowledge Acquisition from the Web and Social Media" at the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2013) - "Web Knowledge Extraction and Applications" at the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Conference (RANLP 2011) Workshop Organizer -------------------------- - Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing, TextGraphs-8 (EMNLP 2013) - Metaphor in Natural Language Processing (NAACL 2013) - Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition (RANLP 2011) - Relational Models of Semantics (ACL 2011) Scientific Challenge Organizer -------------------------------------- - SemEval 2013 challenge on "Sentiment Analysis on Twitter" - SemEval 2013 challenge on "Free Paraphrases of Noun Compounds" - SemEval 2012 challenge on "Choice Of Plausible Alternatives (COPA)" - SemEval 2010 challenge on "Multi-Way Classification of Semantic Relation Between Pairs of Nominals" Olympiad Organizer ------------------------- North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO 2013) for high school students SoCal Proposal and Conference Reviewer -------------------------------------------- NSF, European Commission, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, EACL, WWW, AAAI, CIKM among others From July 2011 to January 2014 (2 years 7 months) Research Scientist @ Projects 2012 - 2014: Co-Pi "MICS: Metaphor Interpretation for Cultural Schemas", IARPA 2012 - 2013: Social Media, DARPA 2009 - 2011: Machine Reading, DARPA 2009 - 2010: eRule-Burd Framework for Multidimensional Analysis of Text, NSF From August 2009 to January 2014 (4 years 6 months) PhD @ Projects: 2004 - 2007: TextMess 2004 - 2006: R2D2 Question Answering in Digital Document From October 2004 to February 2009 (4 years 5 months) Research Assistant @ Projects: - multilingual information extraction - information retrieval - answer validation and classification - paraphrase identification and textual entailment. From September 2004 to February 2009 (4 years 6 months) Research Scholar @ - open information extraction From August 2007 to August 2008 (1 year 1 month) Research Assistant @ - language identification From April 2004 to July 2004 (4 months) Teaching Assistant @ Taught statistics and probability theory to undergraduate students. From January 2004 to April 2004 (4 months) Research Assistant @ - multilingual named entity extraction - news clustering From March 2003 to August 2003 (6 months)

Ph.D., Computer Science @ University of Alicante, Spain From 2004 to 2009 B.Sc., Computer Science @ Plovdiv University, Bulgaria From 2000 to 2004 Zornitsa Kozareva is skilled in: Computer Science, Algorithms, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Computational Linguistics, Graph Algorithms, Natural Language Understanding, Natural Language Processing, Clustering, Machine Learning, Text Mining, Ontology Development, Ontologies, Ontology Engineering, Sentiment Analysis