If one's view of language is that it is a probability distribution over strings of letters or sounds,
one turns one's back on the scientific achievments of the ages.
Good engineering requires good science.
Martin Kay
2011
Kostadin Cholakov, Gertjan van Noord, Valia Kordoni and Yi Zhang. An Empirical Comparison of Unknown Word Prediction Methods. In Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2011), pages 765--775, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Kostadin Cholakov, Gertjan van Noord, Valia Kordoni and Yi Zhang. Adaptability of Lexical Acquisition for Large-scale Grammars. In Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2011), pages 355--362, Hissar, Bulgaria
2010
Kostadin Cholakov and Gertjan van Noord. Using Unknown Word Techniques to Learn Known Words. In Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2010), pages 902--912, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Kostadin Cholakov and Gertjan van Noord. Acquisition of Unknown Word Paradigms for Large-Scale Grammars. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), pages 153--161, Beijing, China
2009
Kostadin Cholakov and Gertjan van Noord. Combining Finite State and Corpus-based Techniques for Unknown Word Prediction. In Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2009), pages 60--65, Borovets, Bulgaria
Kostadin Cholakov. Towards Morphologically Enhanced Automated Lexical Acquisition. In Proceedings of the 14th ESSLLI Student Session, pages 117--126, Bordeaux, France
2008
Kostadin Cholakov, Valia Kordoni and Yi Zhang. Towards Domain-Independent Deep Linguistic Processing: Ensuring Portability and Re-Usability of Lexicalised Grammars. In Proceedings of COLING 2008 Workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF08), pages 57--64, Manchester, UK
Kostadin Cholakov. A Plethora of Methods for Improving Robustness of Lexicalized Grammars. Master's thesis. Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
2006
Kostadin Cholakov. Negative Concord in Serbian with a Typological Comparison with Other Slavic Languages. B.A. thesis. University of Tübingen, Germany