Zubair Afzal

40 papers A* 2B 2Journal 12Unranked 24
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Annotating and indexing scientific articles with rare diseases.
J. Biomed. Semant.
Hosein Azarbonyad, Zubair Afzal, Rik Iping, Max Dumoulin, Ilse Nederveen, Jiangtao Yu, Georgios Tsatsaronis
2025 B conf
Extracting, Detecting, and Generating Research Questions for Scientific Articles.
COLING
Sina Taslimi, Artemis Çapari, Hosein Azarbonyad, Zi Long Zhu, Zubair Afzal, Evangelos Kanoulas, George Tsatsaronis
2025 A* conf
Question-Answer Extraction from Scientific Articles Using Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models.
SIGIR
Hosein Azarbonyad, Zi Long Zhu, Georgios Cheirmpos, Zubair Afzal, Vikrant Yadav, Georgios Tsatsaronis
2025 J jnl
Question-Answer Extraction from Scientific Articles Using Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models.
CoRR
Hosein Azarbonyad, Zi Long Zhu, Georgios Cheirmpos, Zubair Afzal, Vikrant Yadav, Georgios Tsatsaronis
2025 — conf
Taxonomy Generation for Scientific Concepts Using Large Language Models.
CLEF
Yue Zhang, Zi Long Zhu, Artemis Çapari, Hosein Azarbonyad, Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis
2024 — conf
Enhancing Scientific Document Simplification through Adaptive Retrieval and Generative Models.
CLEF (Working Notes)
Artemis Çapari, Hosein Azarbonyad, Zubair Afzal, Georgios Tsatsaronis
2024 — conf
Knowledge Acquisition Passage Retrieval: Corpus, Ranking Models, and Evaluation Resources.
CLEF (1)
Artemis Çapari, Hosein Azarbonyad, Georgios Tsatsaronis, Zubair Afzal, Judson Dunham, Jaap Kamps
2024 — conf
Scalable Patent Classification with Aggregated Multi-View Ranking.
LREC/COLING
Dan Li, Vikrant Yadav, Zi Long Zhu, Maziar Moradi Fard, Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis
2024 A* conf
ScienceDirect Topic Pages: A Knowledge Base of Scientific Concepts Across Various Science Domains.
SIGIR
Artemis Çapari, Hosein Azarbonyad, Georgios Tsatsaronis, Zubair Afzal, Judson Dunham
2023 — conf
Elsevier at SimpleText: Passage Retrieval by Fine-tuning GPL on Scientific Documents.
CLEF (Working Notes)
Artemis Çapari, Hosein Azarbonyad, Georgios Tsatsaronis, Zubair Afzal
2023 — conf
Enhancing Extreme Multi-Label Text Classification: Addressing Challenges in Model, Data, and Evaluation.
EMNLP (Industry Track)
Dan Li, Zi Long Zhu, Janneke van de Loo, Agnes Masip Gomez, Vikrant Yadav, Georgios Tsatsaronis, Zubair Afzal
2023 — conf
Generating Topic Pages for Scientific Concepts Using Scientific Publications.
ECIR (2)
Hosein Azarbonyad, Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis
2023 J jnl
Generating Topic Pages for Scientific Concepts Using Scientific Publications.
CoRR
Hosein Azarbonyad, Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis
2022 — conf
Extended Overview of ChEMU 2022 Evaluation Campaign: Information Extraction in Chemical Patents.
CLEF (Working Notes)
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
2022 — conf
Few-shot initializing of Active Learner via Meta-Learning.
EMNLP (Findings)
Zi Long Zhu, Vikrant Yadav, Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis
2022 — conf
Overview of ChEMU 2022 Evaluation Campaign: Information Extraction in Chemical Patents.
CLEF
Yuan Li, Biaoyan Fang, Jiayuan He, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor
2022 — conf
The ChEMU 2022 Evaluation Campaign: Information Extraction in Chemical Patents.
ECIR (2)
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
2022 — conf
Unsupervised Dense Retrieval for Scientific Articles.
EMNLP (Industry Track)
Dan Li, Vikrant Yadav, Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis
2021 J jnl
ChEMU 2020: Natural Language Processing Methods Are Effective for Information Extraction From Chemical Patents.
Frontiers Res. Metrics Anal.
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
2021 — conf
ChEMU 2021: Reaction Reference Resolution and Anaphora Resolution in Chemical Patents.
ECIR (2)
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
2021 — conf
Extended Overview of ChEMU 2021: Reaction Reference Resolution and Anaphora Resolution in Chemical Patents.
CLEF (Working Notes)
Yuan Li, Biaoyan Fang, Jiayuan He, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor
2021 — conf
Overview of ChEMU 2021: Reaction Reference Resolution and Anaphora Resolution in Chemical Patents.
CLEF
Yuan Li, Biaoyan Fang, Jiayuan He, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor
2020 — conf
An Extended Overview of the CLEF 2020 ChEMU Lab: Information Extraction of Chemical Reactions from Patents.
CLEF (Working Notes)
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 R. K. Rao, Sobha Lalitha Devi, Lawrence Cavedon, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor
2020 — conf
CORA: A Deep Active Learning Covid-19 Relevancy Algorithm to Identify Core Scientific Articles.
NLP4COVID@EMNLP
Zubair Afzal, Vikrant Yadav, Olga Fedorova, Vaishnavi Kandala, Janneke van de Loo, Saber A. Akhondi, Pascal Coupet, George Tsatsaronis
2020 — conf
Overview of ChEMU 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Event Extraction of Chemical Reactions from Patents.
CLEF
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
2018 — conf
A Framework to Automatically Extract Funding Information from Text.
LOD
Subhradeep Kayal, Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis, Marius A. Doornenbal, Sophia Katrenko, Michelle Gregory
2017 — conf
Tagging Funding Agencies and Grants in Scientific Articles using Sequential Learning Models.
BioNLP
Subhradeep Kayal, Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis, Sophia Katrenko, Pascal Coupet, Marius A. Doornenbal, Michelle Gregory
2016 J jnl
Chemical entity recognition in patents by combining dictionary-based and statistical approaches.
Database J. Biol. Databases Curation
Saber A. Akhondi, Ewoud Pons, Zubair Afzal, Herman van Haagen, Benedikt F. H. Becker, Kristina M. Hettne, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jan A. Kors
2016 — conf
Concept Recognition in French Biomedical Text Using Automatic Translation.
CLEF
Zubair Afzal, Saber A. Akhondi, Herman H. H. B. M. van Haagen, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jan A. Kors
2016 — conf
Erasmus MC at CLEF eHealth 2016: Concept Recognition and Coding in French Texts.
CLEF (Working Notes)
Erik M. van Mulligen, Zubair Afzal, Saber A. Akhondi, Dang Vo, Jan A. Kors
2016 J jnl
Extraction of chemical-induced diseases using prior knowledge and textual information.
Database J. Biol. Databases Curation
Ewoud Pons, Benedikt F. H. Becker, Saber A. Akhondi, Zubair Afzal, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jan A. Kors
2016 B conf
Learning Domain Labels Using Conceptual Fingerprints: An In-Use Case Study in the Neurology Domain.
EKAW
Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis, Marius A. Doornenbal, Pascal Coupet, Michelle Gregory
2015 — conf
Biomedical Concept Recognition in French Text Using Automatic Translation of English Terms.
CLEF (Working Notes)
Zubair Afzal, Saber A. Akhondi, Herman van Haagen, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jan A. Kors
2014 J jnl
ContextD: an algorithm to identify contextual properties of medical terms in a Dutch clinical corpus.
BMC Bioinform.
Zubair Afzal, Ewoud Pons, Ning Kang, Miriam C. J. M. Sturkenboom, Martijn J. Schuemie, Jan A. Kors
2014 J jnl
Knowledge-based extraction of adverse drug events from biomedical text.
BMC Bioinform.
Ning Kang, Bharat Singh, Quoc-Chinh Bui, Zubair Afzal, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jan A. Kors
2013 J jnl
Improving sensitivity of machine learning methods for automated case identification from free-text electronic medical records.
BMC Medical Informatics Decis. Mak.
Zubair Afzal, Martijn J. Schuemie, Jan C. van Blijderveen, Elif F. Sen, Miriam C. J. M. Sturkenboom, Jan A. Kors
2013 J jnl
Using rule-based natural language processing to improve disease normalization in biomedical text.
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.
Ning Kang, Bharat Singh, Zubair Afzal, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jan A. Kors
2012 J jnl
Using an ensemble system to improve concept extraction from clinical records.
J. Biomed. Informatics
Ning Kang, Zubair Afzal, Bharat Singh, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jan A. Kors
2010 J jnl
A Concept Annotation System for Clinical Records
CoRR
Ning Kang, Rogier Barendse, Zubair Afzal, Bharat Singh, Martijn J. Schuemie, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jan A. Kors
2010 — conf
A Concept Annotation System for Clinical Records.
SWAT4LS
Ning Kang, Rogier Barendse, Zubair Afzal, Bharat Singh, Martijn J. Schuemie, Erik M. van Mulligen, Jan A. Kors