AI & NLP Lab
The AI and Natural Language Processing Lab and Quantum AI Study Group
Online tutorials and videos
Publications
- Muhammad S. Abdo, Damir Cavar, Billy Dickson, Attia Youseif (2025) Ellipsis in Arabic: Using Machine Learning to Detect and Predict Elided Words. Pages 240-263 in: Reem Khamis and Mira Goral (eds.) Selected Papers from the 37th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Published online 27 February 2026, John Benjamins.
- Quantum Computing for AI and NLP, presentation at the Luddy School for Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington, Undergraduate Research Experiential Learning Fall 2025.
- Substance Abuse Knowledge and AI Systems Poster, presentation at the Luddy School for Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington, Undergraduate Research Experiential Learning Fall 2025.
- Davis, A.S., B. Dickson, D. Cavar, D. Valdez, F.M. Tyers (2025) Advancing Adverse Drug Event Detection in Social Media Through Knowledge Graph and GraphRAG LLM Architectures. 2025 AAHB Annual Scientific Meeting, San Diego, CA. (Poster)
- Damir Cavar, Koushik Reddy Parukola, Chi Zhang (2025) Word and Text Similarity Using Classical Word Embeddings in Quantum NLP Systems. Satellite Workshop: Quantum Machine Learning in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Hyderabad, India.
- Muhammad S. Abdo, Yash Hatekar and Damir Cavar (2025) AMWAL: Named Entity Recognition for Arabic Financial News. In proceedings of the FinNLP-FNP-LLMFinLegal 2025 workshop at COLING 2025.
- Chi Zhang, Akriti Kumari, Damir Cavar (2024) Entangled Meanings: Classification and Ambiguity Resolution in Near–Term QNLP. Paper and Poster presented at the IEEE Quantum Week 2024, Montreal, Canada, September 2024. (paper, poster)
- Damir Cavar and Chi Zhang (2024) Semantic Similarities using Classical Embeddings in Quantum NLP. Paper and Poster presented at the IEEE Quantum Week 2024, Montreal, Canada, September 2024. (paper, poster)
- Damir Cavar, Zoran Tiganj, Ludovic Mompelat, Billy Dickson (2024) Computing Ellipsis Constructions: Comparing Classical NLP and LLM Approaches. In Proceedings of the 2024 Meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL). (full paper)
- Damir Cavar, Ludovic V. Mompelat, Muhammad S. Abdo (2024) The Typology of Ellipsis: A Corpus for Linguistic Analysis and Machine Learning Applications. Paper to be presented at the ACL Special Interest Group on Typology (SIGTYP) 2024, colocated with the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, St Julian’s, Malta. (full paper)
- Yang, Yuchen, Calvin Josenhans, LuisAbrego, Damir Cavar (2024) Documenting Linguistic Dark Matter. Paper presented at the Undergraduate Project Presentation, Luddy School, Indiana University.
- Damir Cavar, Ali Aljubailan, Ludovic V. Mompelat, Yuna Won, Billy Dickson, Matthew Fort, Andrew Davis and Soyoung Kim (2022) Event Sequencing Annotation with TIE-ML (2022) in proceedings of The Eighteenth Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-18 2022), at LREC 2022 in Marseille, France.
- Annotating Antisemitic Online Content: Towards an Applicable Definition of Antisemitism (2019) Günther Jikeli, Damir Cavar, Daniel Miehling.
- D. Cavar, B. Dickson, A. Aljubailan, S. Kim (2021) Temporal Information and Event Markup Language: TIE-ML Markup Process and Schema Version 1.0, In Proceedings of SEMAPRO 2021, Barcelona, Spain.
Presentations
- Cavar, D., Peter Sullivan, Shane Sparks, Sam Gray Miller, Ronit Jha, Ayomide Jeje, Yanin Charoenpomsawat (2026) Training Language Models and Embeddings for Hybrid Classical/Quantum Computing. Poster presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
- Cavar, D., Naishal Nehal Shah (2026) LLM OntologyRAG - Extending a Food-Agent with a Description Logic Knowledge Representation. Poster presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
- Cavar, D., Shruthi Nagappan, Kumar Koushik Telaprolu, Amy Stafford, Maria A. Parker, Danny Valdez (2026) Detecting Emerging Drug Slang and Code Language in Social Media Posts. Poster presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
- Abdo, Muhammad S., Damir Cavar (2026) Ontology-Grounded Knowledge Graph Construction for Alzheimer’s Research. Poster presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
- Cavar, D., Shane Sparks, Soren DeHaan, Ronit Jha, Ayomide Jeje, Yanin Charoenpomsawat, Sam Gray Miller (2026) Hybrid Classical-Quantum Language and World Models for AI - CBIRD, Poster presentation at the Center for Quantum Technologies (CQT) Meeting 2026 at Notre Dame, 1st of April, 2026.
- “From Vectors to Qubits: Rethinking AI Models for the Hybrid Classical–Quantum Era,” invited keynote lecture, September 16-18, 2026 at the 37th Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems (CECIIS 2026), Varaždin, Croatia.
- Cavar, D. “The Rise of Agentic AI and How It Will Change Our World,” March 20, 2026 at the Artificial Intelligence for Legal Professionals Conference, Center for International and Comparative Law, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
- Cavar, D. “Hybrid Classical/Quantum Data Structures And Experiments For New AI Architectures,” March 25, 2026, Research Technologies Speaker Series, Cyberinfrastructure Building, Indiana University.
- Cavar, D., Koushik Reddy Parukola, Shane Sparks (2025) Old Wine in New Bottles: Using Classical Word Embeddings in Quantum NLP Systems. Paper to be presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days 2025, University of Notre Dame, April 2025.
- A. Karkala Pai, D. Cavar (2025) A Voice-based Detection of Parkinson’s Disease: Feature Selection and Classification Results. Paper to be presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days 2025, University of Notre Dame, April 2025.
- Wang, R., R. Shrivastava, T. Sun, S. Lakshmi Anusha Chebolu, M. Kodandapani Naidu, T. Jayaprakash, J. Decatur, D. Cavar (2025) Improving LLM Reasoning Through Ontology-driven Knowledge Graphs: A Comparative Study of Generating Ontologies for Medical RAGs. Poster to be presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days 2025, University of Notre Dame, April 2025.
- Webinar on NLP, AI, LLMs for social media content processing, antisemitism, and hate-speech coming up in October 2024. See also project website and GitHub repo with notes and code
- Van Holthenrichs, Damir Cavar, Zoran Tiganj, Billy Dickson (2024) On Ellipsis in Slavic: The Ellipsis Corpus and Natural Language Processing Results. Paper presented at The 33rd Annual Meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics. Halifax, Canada. (abstract, slides)
- Damir Cavar, Zoran Tiganj, Ludovic Mompelat, Billy Dickson (2024) Computing Ellipsis Constructions: Comparing Classical NLP and LLM Approaches. Paper presented at the 2024 Meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL).
- The Hoosier Ellipsis Corpus (HELC): Documenting Linguistic Dark Matter (2024) Damir Cavar, Ludovic V. Mompelat, Muhammad S. Abdo. Poster presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, April 15-16, 2024. (poster)
- The Hosiers Ellipsis Corpus: Building a Corpus of Ellipsis for Arabic Natural Language Processing (2024) Muhammad S. Abdo, Damir Cavar. Poster presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, April 15-16, 2024. (poster)
- Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) (2024) Damir Cavar, Presentation at the Quantum Day 2024 Seminar Series, organized by Quantum Technologies for Everyone (QuTE) at Indiana University Bloomington, April 14th 2024.
- Quantum-Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) (2024) Damir Cavar, Presentation at the CQT - Center for Quantum Technologies, NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) Year 2, Phase I, Spring 2024 Industry Advisory Board Meeting, April 3-4, 2024, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.
- NLP-Lab poster (2024) Quantum Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. Luddy-Crane Summit on March 29, 2024 at Indiana University Bloomington.
- NLP-Lab poster (2024) Generative AI and Knowledge Representations. Luddy-Crane Summit on March 29, 2024 at Indiana University Bloomington.
- Damir Cavar, Ludovic V. Mompelat, Muhammad S. Abdo (2024) The Typology of Ellipsis: A Corpus for Linguistic Analysis and Machine Learning Applications. Paper to be presented at the ACL Special Interest Group on Typology (SIGTYP) 2024, colocated with the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, St Julian’s, Malta. (slides, video summary)
- Damir Cavar, Muhammad S. Abdo, and Billy Dickson (2024) Ellipsis in Arabic: Using Machine Learning to Detect and Predict Elided Words. Paper presented at the Arabic Linguistic Society (ASAL) 37 Conference, February 2024, New York City. (slides)
- Building a Multilingual Ellipsis Corpus. IU presentation, Luddy School, authors: Calvin Josenhans, John Phillips, Khai Willard, Luis Abrego, Yuchen Yang, Niko Kiloand, Damir Cavar
- On tense interpretation in Slavic: A corpus study and computational model. Paper presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the Slavic Linguistic Society, Sapporo, Japan. (Abstract, Slides), (2022), Damir Cavar and Zoran Tiganj
- Event Sequencing Annotation with TIE-ML Poster at The Eighteenth Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-18 2022), at LREC 2022 in Marseille, France.
- B. Dickson, S. Kim, D. Cavar, A. Aljubailan (2021) Temporal Information and Event Markup Language (TIE ML), Poster, Indiana University at Bloomington.
- Damir Cavar (2019) Deep and Broad NLP for Big Data and Knowledge Graph Generation, paper presented at the Data Science Colloquium at the School of Informatics, Computation and Engineering at Indiana University, March, 22nd, 2019.
- Damir Cavar, Oren Baldinger, Maanvitha Gongalla, Aarushi Bisht, Jagpreet Singh Chawla, Umang Mehta, Murali Kammili, Anurag Kumar, Chaitanya Patil (2019) Unification and Standardization of NLP-pipelines for Computational Semantics using Scalable Microservices. Poster presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days, Toyota Tech Institute at Chicago, May 2019.
- Damir Cavar, Oren Baldinger, Maanvitha Gongalla, Anurag Kumar, Chaitanya Patil, Boli Fang (2019) Generating Dynamic Knowledge Graphs from Text using Deep and Broad NLP. Paper presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days, Toyota Tech Institute at Chicago, May 2019.
