Dr Venelin Kovatchev

School of Computer Science
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Email: v.o.kovatchev@bham.ac.uk

Address: School of Computer Science
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr. Venelin Kovatchev is an assistant professor in Computer Science at the University 麻豆精选 and a member of the ELLIS Society. His research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

He is interested in data-centric NLP and topics such as dynamic evaluation frameworks for NLP, active learning, unit testing for NLP and AI, adversarial attacks, data augmentation and data generation.

His current projects span across problems such as dynamic training and testing for LLMs, training LLM teaching assistants, information extraction from legal and medical documents, natural language understanding, and automatic fact checking.

Before joining UoB in February 2023, Dr. Kovatchev was a postdoc at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD from the University of Barcelona where he worked on natural language understanding.

email: v.o.kovatchev@bham.ac.uk

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Abbas, A, Lee, M, Shanavas, N & Kovatchev, V 2024, '', Digital Health , vol. 10, pp. 1-31.

Devine, RT, Kovatchev, V, Grumley Traynor, I, Smith, P & Lee, M 2023, '', Psychological Assessment, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 165-177.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Kovatchev, V, Smith, P, Lee, M, Grumley Traynor, I, Luque Aguilera, I & Devine, RT 2020, . in D Scott, N Bel & C Zong (eds), Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, International Committee on Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 6217, International Conference on Computational Linguistics , Barcelona, Spain, 8/12/20.

Conference contribution

Abbas, A, Lee, M, Kovatchev, V & Shanavas, N 2025, . in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication. IEEE Press / Wiley, International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, Bangkok, Thailand, 3/01/25.

Kovatchev, V & Dsouza, R 2025, . in CoMeDi: Context and Meaning - Navigating Disagreements in NLP Annotations. CoMeDi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 19/01/25.

Kovatchev, V & Lease, M 2024, . in K Duh, H Gomez & S Bethard (eds), Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 1536鈥�1551, 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, NAACL 2024, Mexico City, Mexico, 16/06/24.

Abbas, A, Lee, M, Shanavas, N, Kovatchev, V & Ali, M 2024, . in COLING 2025 Proceedings of the Workshop on Regulatory Natural Language Processing (REGNLP 2025) . Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, Regulatory Natural Language Processing Workshop (RegNLP) 2025, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 20/01/25.

Kovatchev, V, Smith, P, Lee, M & Devine, R 2021, . in C Zong, F Xia, W Li & R Navigli (eds), Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers). vol. 1, International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 1196-1206, Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, Virtual, Online, 1/08/21.

Preprint

Kovatchev, V, Smith, P, Lee, M & Devine, R 2021 '' arXiv, pp. 1-11. <>