Johann Petrak

Department of Computer Science

Research Fellow

Member of the Natural Language Processing research group

johann.petrak@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 1867

Full contact details

Johann Petrak
Department of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
Research interests
  • Cost-sensitive learning for NLP
  • Learning to Rank, Metric Learning
  • Entity Linking
  • Semantic Similarity
     
Publications

Books

  • Cunningham H, Maynard D, Bontcheva K, Tablan V, Aswani N, Roberts I, Gorrell G, Funk A, Roberts A & Damljanovic D (2011) Text Processing with Gate (Version 6). GATE. RIS download Bibtex download

Edited books

Journal articles

Chapters

  • Jorge A, Bojadžiev D, Alves MA, Štěpánková O, Mladenić D, Palouš J, Flach P & Petrak J (2003) Internet Support to Collaboration, Data Mining and Decision Support (pp. 247-259). Springer US RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jorge A, Bojadziev D, Alves MA, Stepankova O, Mladenic D, Palous J, Flach P & Petrak J (2003) Internet Support to Collaboration: A Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory View In Mladenic D, Lavrac N & Bohanec M (Ed.), Data Mining and Decision Support RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jorge A, Alves MA, Grobelnik M, Mladenic D & Petrak J (2003) Web Site Access Analysis for a National Statistical Agency, Data Mining and Decision Support (pp. 167-176). Kluwer Academic Publishers RIS download Bibtex download
  • Trappl R, Fuernkranz J, Petrak J & Bercovitch J (1997) Machine Learning and Case-Based Reasoning: Their Potential Role in Preventing the Outbreak of Wars or in Ending Them In Della Riccia G, Kruse R & Lenz H-J (Ed.), Learning, Networks and Statistics Wien/New York: Springer. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pinz A, Kropatsch W, Hinterleitner A & Petrak J (1992) Evaluation of image processing systems for application in research and education In Mandl P (Ed.), Modelling and New Methods in Image Processing and Geographic Information Systems (pp. 193-202). Vienna: Oldenbourg. RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Jiang Y, Petrak J, Song X, Bontcheva K & Maynard D (2019) Team Bertha von Suttner at SemEval-2019 Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection using ELMo Sentence Representation Convolutional Network. Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, June 2019 - June 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jiang Y, Petrak J, Song X, Bontcheva K & Maynard D (2019) Team Bertha von Suttner at SemEval-2019 Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection using ELMo Sentence Representation Convolutional Network. Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 6 June 2019 - 7 June 2019. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Song X, Petrak J & Roberts A (2018) A deep neural network sentence level classification method with context information. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp 900-904). Brussels, Belgium, 31 October 2018 - 4 November 2018. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang Z, Petrak J & Maynard D (2018) Adapted TextRank for Term Extraction: A generic method of improving automatic term extraction algorithms. Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 137 (pp 102-108), 10 September 2018 - 13 September 2018. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aker A, Petrak J & Sabbah F (2017) An Extensible Multilingual Open Source Lemmatizer. Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2017 (pp 40-45) View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gorrell G, Petrak J & Bontcheva K (2015) Using @Twitter Conventions to Improve #LOD-Based Named Entity Disambiguation (pp 171-186) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Damljanovic D, Kruschwitz U, Albakour M-D, Petrak J & Lupu M (2012) Applying Random Indexing to Structured Data to Find Contextually Similar Words. LREC 2012 - EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION (pp 2023-2030) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Damljanovic D, Petrak J, Lupu M, Cunningham H, Carlsson M, Engstrom G & Andersson B (2011) Random Indexing for Finding Similar Nodes within Large RDF Graphs.. ESWC Workshops, Vol. 7117 (pp 156-171) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lejtovicz K & Petrak J (2010) Mining Hierarchical Frequent Sequences in Medical Reports for Domain Model Creation. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM'10) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Damljanovic D, Petrak J & Cunningham H (2010) Random Indexing for Searching Large RDF Graphs. Proceedings of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Seewald AK, Petrak J & Widmer G (2001) Hybrid Decision Tree Learners with Alternative Leaf Classifiers: An Empirical Study. Proceedings of the 14th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2001) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fuernkranz J & Petrak J (2001) An Evaluation of Landmarking Variants. Proceedings of the ECML/PKDD-01 Workshop on Integrating Aspects of Data Mining, Decision Support and Meta-Learning (IDDM-01) (pp 57-68) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Petrak J (2000) Fast Subsampling Performance Estimates for Classification Algorithm Selection. ECML-2000 Workshop Notes on Meta Learning: Building Automatic Advice Strategies for Model Selection and Method Combination. Barcelona, Spain RIS download Bibtex download
  • Trappl R, Fuernkranz J & Petrak J (1996) Digging for Peace: Using Machine Learning Methods for Assessing International Conflict Databases. Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-96) (pp 453-457). Chichester/London/New York RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints