{"id":18,"date":"2019-10-29T19:37:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paramitamirza.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:08:23","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paramitamirza.net\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">Aug 21, 2025<\/span> \u2014 Our paper \u201cStratified Selective Sampling for Instruction Tuning with Dedicated Scoring Strategy\u201d (with Lucas Weber and Fabian K\u00fcch) has been accepted at <a href=\"https:\/\/2025.emnlp.org\/\">EMNLP 2025<\/a> (Findings).<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">Aug 1, 2025<\/span> \u2014 I joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/scads.ai\/transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Transfer and Service Center of ScaDS.AI Dresden<\/a> as a Researcher.<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">July 22, 2025<\/span> \u2014 Our paper \u201cTeuken-7B-Base &#038; Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs\u201d (within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iais.fraunhofer.de\/de\/branchen-themen\/themen\/generative-ki\/opengpt-x.html\">OpenGPT-X<\/a>) has been accepted at <a href=\"https:\/\/ecai2025.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ECAI 2025<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">Feb 20, 2024<\/span> \u2014 Our paper \u201cILLUMINER: Instruction-tuned Large Language Models as Few-shot Intent Classifier and Slot Filler\u201d (with Viju Sudhi, Soumya Sahoo and Sinchana Ramakanth Bhat) has been accepted at <a href=\"https:\/\/lrec-coling-2024.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LREC-COLING 2024<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<!--more More...-->\n<\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">Oct 1, 2022<\/span> \u2014 I joined the Natural Language Processing Group at the <a aria-label=\"Audio and Media Technologies (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iis.fraunhofer.de\/en\/ff\/amm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Audio and Media Technologies<\/a> division of <a aria-label=\"Fraunhofer IIS  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iis.fraunhofer.de\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fraunhofer IIS <\/a>as a Senior Researcher.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">Nov 10, 2021<\/span> \u2014 Our book \u201c<a aria-label=\"Computational Analysis of Storylines: Making Sense of Events (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/computational-analysis-of-storylines\/D1384A4B404350654614A8222EA8DE6D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Computational Analysis of Storylines: Making Sense of Events<\/a>\u201d (edited by Tommaso Caselli, Eduard Hovy, Martha Palmer, and Piek Vossen) has been published by Cambridge University Press, where I authored the chapter on &#8220;<a aria-label=\"Event Causality (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.de\/books?id=WWlHEAAAQBAJ&amp;lpg=PA106&amp;ots=fIqr7qsRtm&amp;dq=event%20causality%20paramita%20mirza&amp;lr&amp;pg=PA106#v=onepage&amp;q=event%20causality%20paramita%20mirza&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Event Causality<\/a>&#8220;.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">Aug 26, 2021<\/span> \u2014 Our paper \u201cPRIDE: Predicting Relationships in Conversations\u201d (with Anna Tigunova, Andrew Yates and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted at <a href=\"https:\/\/2021.emnlp.org\/\">EMNLP 2021<\/a>.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">June 23, 2021<\/span> \u2014 Our workshop proposal \u201cPersonal Knowledge Graphs\u201d (with Krisztian Balog, Zhilin Wang and Martin Georg Skj\u00e6veland) has been accepted at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akbc.ws\/2021\/\">AKBC 2021<\/a>. More details: <a href=\"https:\/\/pkgs.ws\/\">https:\/\/pkgs.ws\/<\/a><\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">May 6, 2021<\/span> \u2014 Our paper \u201cAligNarr: Aligning Narratives on Movies\u201d (with Mostafa Abouhamra and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted at <a href=\"https:\/\/2021.aclweb.org\/\">ACL-IJCNLP 2021<\/a> (acceptance rate: 21.3%).<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">Dec 18, 2020<\/span> \u2014 Recognized as one of outstanding reviewers for <a href=\"https:\/\/2020.emnlp.org\/\">EMNLP 2020<\/a>.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">Nov 29, 2020<\/span> \u2014 Our demo paper \u201cExploring Personal Knowledge Extraction from Conversations with CHARM\u201d (with Anna Tigunova, Andrew Yates and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsdm-conference.org\/2021\/\">WSDM 2021<\/a>.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">Sep 15, 2020<\/span> \u2014 Our paper \u201cCHARM: Inferring Personal Attributes from Conversations\u201d (with Anna Tigunova, Andrew Yates and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted at <a href=\"https:\/\/2020.emnlp.org\/\">EMNLP 2020<\/a> (acceptance rate: 22.4%). <\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">Feb 13, 2020<\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 Our paper \u201cRedDust: a Large Reusable Dataset of Reddit User Traits\u201d (with Anna Tigunova, Andrew Yates and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted at <a href=\"https:\/\/lrec2020.lrec-conf.org\/en\/\">LREC 2020<\/a>.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">Sep 17, 2019<\/span> \u2014 Our paper \u201cDiscovering the Functions of Language in Online Forums\u201d (with Youmna Ismaeil and Oana Balalau) has been accepted at <a href=\"http:\/\/noisy-text.github.io\/2019\/\">W-NUT 2019: Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text<\/a> (at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emnlp-ijcnlp2019.org\/\">EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019<\/a>).<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">Sep 16, 2019<\/span> \u2014 Awarded a $5,000 Google Cloud Platform (GCP) research credit grant for research proposal on &#8220;CArPeT: Conversational Agent for Personalized Travel&#8221; .<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">Aug 13, 2019<\/span> \u2014 Our paper \u201cKnowledgeNet: A Benchmark Dataset for Knowledge Base Population\u201d (with Filipe Mesquita, Matteo Cannaviccio, Jordan Schmidek and Denilson Barbosa) has been accepted at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emnlp-ijcnlp2019.org\/\">EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019<\/a> (acceptance rate: 23.8%).<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">Aug 13, 2019<\/span> \u2014 Our paper \u201cCoverage of Information Extraction from Sentences and Paragraphs\u201d (with Simon Razniewski, Nitisha Jain and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emnlp-ijcnlp2019.org\/\">EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019<\/a> (acceptance rate: 23.8%).<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">Jan 21, 2019<\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 Our paper \u201cListening between the Lines: Learning Personal Attributes from Conversations\u201d (with Anna Tigunova, Andrew Yates and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted as a FULL PAPER at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www2019.thewebconf.org\/\">The Web Conference (WWW) 2019<\/a>&nbsp;(acceptance rate: 18%).<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">May 25, 2018<\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 Our paper \u201cEnriching Knowledge Bases with Counting Quantifiers\u201d (with Simon Razniewski, Fariz Darari and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted to the research track of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/iswc2018.semanticweb.org\/\">ISWC 2018<\/a>.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">April 29, 2018<\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 The abridged version of our ISWC 2017 paper \u201cCompleteness-aware Rule Learning from Knowledge Graphs\u201d (with Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Daria Stepanova, Simon Razniewski and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted to the \u201cSister Conference Best Paper Track\u201d at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ijcai-18.org\/\">IJCAI 2018<\/a>.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">April 17, 2018<\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 Our system paper \u201cKOI at SemEval-2018 Task 5: Building Knowledge Graph of Incidents\u201d (with Fariz Darari and Rahmad Mahendra) has been invited for an oral presentation at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/alt.qcri.org\/semeval2018\/\">SemEval 2018<\/a>.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">February 14, 2018<\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 Our demo paper&nbsp;\u201cEMOFIEL: Mapping Emotions of Relationships in a Story\u201d has been accepted at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www2018.thewebconf.org\/\">WWW 2018<\/a>.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">February 14, 2018<\/span>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/nlp-highlights\">NLP-highlight podcast<\/a>&nbsp;offered by Matt Gardner and Waleed Ammar from AI2 about our&nbsp;paper \u201cCardinal Virtues: Extracting Relation Cardinalities from Text\u201d at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/acl2017.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ACL 2017<\/a>&nbsp;is now&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/nlp-highlights\/50-cardinal-virtues-extracting-relation-cardinalities-from-text-with-paramita-mirza\">live<\/a>!<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">October 25, 2017<\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 Our paper&nbsp;\u201cCompleteness-aware Rule Learning from Knowledge Graphs\u201d was nominated for best student paper award at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iswc2017.semanticweb.org\/\">ISWC 2017<\/a>.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">August 28, 2017<\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 We are offering a block seminar on \u201cKnowledge Bases\u201d for the Winter Semester 2017\/18. Check&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpi-inf.mpg.de\/departments\/databases-and-information-systems\/teaching\/winter-semester-201718\/knowledge-bases\/\">here<\/a>&nbsp;for more details.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">July 30-August 4, 2017<\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 Attending&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/acl2017.org\/\">ACL 2017<\/a>&nbsp;in Vancouver, Canada<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">July 14, 2017<\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 Our paper \u201cCompleteness-aware Rule Learning from Knowledge Graphs\u201d (with Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Daria Stepanova, Simon Razniewski and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iswc2017.semanticweb.org\/\">ISWC 2017<\/a>.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">June 27, 2017<\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 Giving a talk \u201cMining Temporal and Causal Relations From Text\u201d as part of invited lecture series at the Department of Linguistics, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">March 31, 2017<\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 Our short paper \u201cCardinal Virtues: Extracting Relation Cardinalities from Text\u201d (with Simon Razniewski, Fariz Darari and Gerhard Weikum) has been accepted at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/acl2017.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ACL 2017<\/a>.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">December 11-16, 2016<\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 Attending&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/coling2016.anlp.jp\/\">COLING 2016<\/a>&nbsp;in Osaka, Japan<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">October 17-21, 2016<\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 Attending&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/iswc2016.semanticweb.org\/\">ISWC 2016<\/a>&nbsp;in Kobe, Japan<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">September 21,&nbsp;2016<\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 Our papers \u201cCATENA: CAusal and TEmporal relation extraction from&nbsp;NAtural language texts\u201d and \u201cOn the contribution of word embeddings to temporal&nbsp;relation classification\u201d (with Sara Tonelli) have been accepted at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/coling2016.anlp.jp\/\">COLING 2016<\/a>.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"fontSize\":\"small\"} -->\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><span class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#376eba\">August 4,&nbsp;2016<\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 Our poster paper \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/iswc.lodac.nii.ac.jp\/files\/poster_4.pdf\">Expanding Wikidata\u2019s Parenthood Information by 178%, or How To Mine Relation Cardinality Information<\/a>\u201d (with Simon Razniewski&nbsp;and Werner Nutt) has been&nbsp;accepted at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/iswc2016.semanticweb.org\/\">ISWC 2016<\/a>.<\/li>\n<!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list --><!-- \/wp:list -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 21, 2025 \u2014 Our paper \u201cStratified Selective Sampling for Instruction Tuning with Dedicated Scoring Strategy\u201d (with Lucas Weber and Fabian K\u00fcch) has been accepted at EMNLP 2025 (Findings). Aug 1, 2025 \u2014 I joined the Transfer and Service Center of ScaDS.AI Dresden as a Researcher. 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