Research


My research interests are in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. I am primarily interested in topics related to text generation, including: question generation, generation of creative texts, automatic summarisation and machine translation. I am also generally interested in applications of AI in education. 

I frequently supervise university projects on the Masters or Bachelor level, such as MSc theses. If you have a cool idea for a project, and you would like to work together, please get in touch with me. I am also open to collaborations. 

My Publications

2022

Born, J., Nikolov, N. I., Rosenkranz, A., Schabmann, A., & Schmidt, B. M. (2022). A computational investigation of inventive spelling and the “Lesen durch Schreiben” method. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 3, 100063. [Link]

2020

Nikola I. Nikolov, Eric Malmi, Curtis G. Northcutt, Loreto Parisi. Rapformer: Conditional Rap Lyrics Generation with Denoising Autoencoders. Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2020), Dublin, Ireland. [arXiv | Demo song]
Yingqiang Gao, Nikola I. Nikolov, Yuhuang Hu, Richard H.R. Hahnloser. Character-level Translation with Self-attention. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020), Seattle, USA. [arXiv | Code]

Onur Gokce, Jonathan Prada, Nikola I. Nikolov, Nianlong Gu, Richard H.R. Hahnloser. Embedding-based Scientific Literature Discovery in a Text Editor Application. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020), Seattle, USA. Demo papers. [Link]

Nikola I. Nikolov, Richard H.R. Hahnloser. Abstractive Document Summarization without Parallel Data. LREC 2020, Marseille, France. [arXiv | Code]

2019

Nikola I. Nikolov, Alessandro Calmanovici, Richard H.R. Hahnloser. Summary Refinement through Denoising. Proceedings of RANLP 2019, Varna, Bulgaria. [arXiv | Code]

Nikola I. Nikolov, Richard H.R. Hahnloser. Large-scale Hierarchical Alignment for Data-driven Text Rewriting. Proceedings of RANLP 2019, Varna, Bulgaria. [arXiv | Code]

2018

Nikola I. Nikolov*, Yuhuang Hu*, Mi Xue Tan, Richard H.R. Hahnloser. Character-level Chinese-English Translation through ASCII Encoding. Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18), Brussels, Belgium. [arXiv | Code+Data]

Nikola I. Nikolov, Michael Pfeiffer, Richard H.R. Hahnloser. Data-driven Summarization of Scientific Articles. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications, LREC 2018, Miyazaki, Japan. [arXiv | Citation | Data | Slides]