A Concept Annotation System for Clinical Records. - Ning Kang 002; Rogier Barendse; Zubair Afzal; Bharat Singh; Martijn J. Schuemie; Erik M. van Mulligen; Jan A. Kors (SWAT4LS, 2010)

Using an ensemble system to improve concept extraction from clinical records. - Ning Kang 002; Zubair Afzal; Bharat Singh; Erik M. van Mulligen; Jan A. Kors (J. Biomed. Informatics, 2012)

Using rule-based natural language processing to improve disease normalization in biomedical text. - Ning Kang 002; Bharat Singh; Zubair Afzal; Erik M. van Mulligen; Jan A. Kors (J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2013)

Improving sensitivity of machine learning methods for automated case identification from free-text electronic medical records. - Zubair Afzal; Martijn J. Schuemie; Jan C. van Blijderveen; Elif F. Sen; Miriam C. J. M. Sturkenboom; Jan A. Kors (BMC Medical Informatics Decis. Mak., 2013)

ContextD: an algorithm to identify contextual properties of medical terms in a Dutch clinical corpus. - Zubair Afzal; Ewoud Pons; Ning Kang 002; Miriam C. J. M. Sturkenboom; Martijn J. Schuemie; Jan A. Kors (BMC Bioinform., 2014)

Knowledge-based extraction of adverse drug events from biomedical text. - Ning Kang 002; Bharat Singh; Quoc-Chinh Bui; Zubair Afzal; Erik M. van Mulligen; Jan A. Kors (BMC Bioinform., 2014)

Biomedical Concept Recognition in French Text Using Automatic Translation of English Terms. - Zubair Afzal; Saber A. Akhondi; Herman van Haagen; Erik M. van Mulligen; Jan A. Kors (CLEF (Working Notes), 2015)

Concept Recognition in French Biomedical Text Using Automatic Translation. - Zubair Afzal; Saber A. Akhondi; Herman H. H. B. M. van Haagen; Erik M. van Mulligen; Jan A. Kors (CLEF, 2016)

Erasmus MC at CLEF eHealth 2016: Concept Recognition and Coding in French Texts. - Erik M. van Mulligen; Zubair Afzal; Saber A. Akhondi; Dang Vo; Jan A. Kors (CLEF (Working Notes), 2016)

Learning Domain Labels Using Conceptual Fingerprints: An In-Use Case Study in the Neurology Domain. - Zubair Afzal; George Tsatsaronis 001; Marius A. Doornenbal; Pascal Coupet; Michelle Gregory (EKAW, 2016)

Chemical entity recognition in patents by combining dictionary-based and statistical approaches. - Saber A. Akhondi; Ewoud Pons; Zubair Afzal; Herman van Haagen; Benedikt F. H. Becker; Kristina M. Hettne; Erik M. van Mulligen; Jan A. Kors (Database J. Biol. Databases Curation, 2016)

Extraction of chemical-induced diseases using prior knowledge and textual information. - Ewoud Pons; Benedikt F. H. Becker; Saber A. Akhondi; Zubair Afzal; Erik M. van Mulligen; Jan A. Kors (Database J. Biol. Databases Curation, 2016)

Tagging Funding Agencies and Grants in Scientific Articles using Sequential Learning Models. - Subhradeep Kayal; Zubair Afzal; George Tsatsaronis 001; Sophia Katrenko; Pascal Coupet; Marius A. Doornenbal; Michelle Gregory (BioNLP, 2017)

A Framework to Automatically Extract Funding Information from Text. - Subhradeep Kayal; Zubair Afzal; George Tsatsaronis 001; Marius A. Doornenbal; Sophia Katrenko; Michelle Gregory (LOD, 2018)

Overview of ChEMU 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Event Extraction of Chemical Reactions from Patents. - Jiayuan He 002; Dat Quoc Nguyen; Saber A. Akhondi; Christian Druckenbrodt; Camilo Thorne; Ralph Hoessel; Zubair Afzal; Zenan Zhai; Biaoyan Fang; Hiyori Yoshikawa; Ameer Albahem; Lawrence Cavedon; et al. (CLEF, 2020)

An Extended Overview of the CLEF 2020 ChEMU Lab: Information Extraction of Chemical Reactions from Patents. - Jiayuan He 002; Dat Quoc Nguyen; Saber A. Akhondi; Christian Druckenbrodt; Camilo Thorne; Ralph Hoessel; Zubair Afzal; Zenan Zhai; Biaoyan Fang; Hiyori Yoshikawa; Ameer Albahem; Jingqi Wang; et al. (CLEF (Working Notes), 2020)

CORA: A Deep Active Learning Covid-19 Relevancy Algorithm to Identify Core Scientific Articles. - Zubair Afzal; Vikrant Yadav; Olga Fedorova; Vaishnavi Kandala; Janneke van de Loo; Saber A. Akhondi; Pascal Coupet; George Tsatsaronis 001 (NLP4COVID@EMNLP, 2020)

Extended Overview of ChEMU 2021: Reaction Reference Resolution and Anaphora Resolution in Chemical Patents. - Yuan Li 012; Biaoyan Fang; Jiayuan He 002; Hiyori Yoshikawa; Saber A. Akhondi; Christian Druckenbrodt; Camilo Thorne; Zubair Afzal; Zenan Zhai; Timothy Baldwin; Karin Verspoor (CLEF (Working Notes), 2021)

Overview of ChEMU 2021: Reaction Reference Resolution and Anaphora Resolution in Chemical Patents. - Yuan Li 012; Biaoyan Fang; Jiayuan He 002; Hiyori Yoshikawa; Saber A. Akhondi; Christian Druckenbrodt; Camilo Thorne; Zubair Afzal; Zenan Zhai; Timothy Baldwin; Karin Verspoor (CLEF, 2021)

ChEMU 2021: Reaction Reference Resolution and Anaphora Resolution in Chemical Patents. - Jiayuan He 002; Biaoyan Fang; Hiyori Yoshikawa; Yuan Li 012; Saber A. Akhondi; Christian Druckenbrodt; Camilo Thorne; Zubair Afzal; Zenan Zhai; Lawrence Cavedon; Trevor Cohn; Timothy Baldwin; et al. (ECIR (2), 2021)

ChEMU 2020: Natural Language Processing Methods Are Effective for Information Extraction From Chemical Patents. - Jiayuan He 002; Dat Quoc Nguyen; Saber A. Akhondi; Christian Druckenbrodt; Camilo Thorne; Ralph Hoessel; Zubair Afzal; Zenan Zhai; Biaoyan Fang; Hiyori Yoshikawa; Ameer Albahem; Lawrence Cavedon; et al. (Frontiers Res. Metrics Anal., 2021)

Extended Overview of ChEMU 2022 Evaluation Campaign: Information Extraction in Chemical Patents. - Yuan Li 012; Biaoyan Fang; Jiayuan He 002; Hiyori Yoshikawa; Saber A. Akhondi; Christian Druckenbrodt; Camilo Thorne; Zubair Afzal; Zenan Zhai; Kojiro Machi; Masaharu Yoshioka; Youngrok Jang; et al. (CLEF (Working Notes), 2022)

Overview of ChEMU 2022 Evaluation Campaign: Information Extraction in Chemical Patents. - Yuan Li 012; Biaoyan Fang; Jiayuan He 002; Hiyori Yoshikawa; Saber A. Akhondi; Christian Druckenbrodt; Camilo Thorne; Zubair Afzal; Zenan Zhai; Timothy Baldwin; Karin Verspoor (CLEF, 2022)

The ChEMU 2022 Evaluation Campaign: Information Extraction in Chemical Patents. - Yuan Li 012; Biaoyan Fang; Jiayuan He 002; Hiyori Yoshikawa; Saber A. Akhondi; Christian Druckenbrodt; Camilo Thorne; Zenan Zhai; Zubair Afzal; Trevor Cohn; Timothy Baldwin; Karin Verspoor (ECIR (2), 2022)

Unsupervised Dense Retrieval for Scientific Articles. - Dan Li 015; Vikrant Yadav; Zubair Afzal; George Tsatsaronis 001 (EMNLP (Industry Track), 2022)

Few-shot initializing of Active Learner via Meta-Learning. - Zi Long Zhu; Vikrant Yadav; Zubair Afzal; George Tsatsaronis 001 (EMNLP (Findings), 2022)

Elsevier at SimpleText: Passage Retrieval by Fine-tuning GPL on Scientific Documents. - Artemis Çapari; Hosein Azarbonyad; Georgios Tsatsaronis; Zubair Afzal (CLEF (Working Notes), 2023)

Generating Topic Pages for Scientific Concepts Using Scientific Publications. - Hosein Azarbonyad; Zubair Afzal; George Tsatsaronis 001 (ECIR (2), 2023)

Enhancing Extreme Multi-Label Text Classification: Addressing Challenges in Model, Data, and Evaluation. - Dan Li 015; Zi Long Zhu; Janneke van de Loo; Agnes Masip Gomez; Vikrant Yadav; Georgios Tsatsaronis; Zubair Afzal (EMNLP (Industry Track), 2023)

Enhancing Scientific Document Simplification through Adaptive Retrieval and Generative Models. - Artemis Çapari; Hosein Azarbonyad; Zubair Afzal; Georgios Tsatsaronis (CLEF (Working Notes), 2024)

Knowledge Acquisition Passage Retrieval: Corpus, Ranking Models, and Evaluation Resources. - Artemis Çapari; Hosein Azarbonyad; Georgios Tsatsaronis; Zubair Afzal; Judson Dunham; Jaap Kamps (CLEF (1), 2024)

Scalable Patent Classification with Aggregated Multi-View Ranking. - Dan Li 015; Vikrant Yadav; Zi Long Zhu; Maziar Moradi Fard; Zubair Afzal; George Tsatsaronis 001 (LREC/COLING, 2024)

ScienceDirect Topic Pages: A Knowledge Base of Scientific Concepts Across Various Science Domains. - Artemis Çapari; Hosein Azarbonyad; Georgios Tsatsaronis; Zubair Afzal; Judson Dunham (SIGIR, 2024)

Extracting, Detecting, and Generating Research Questions for Scientific Articles. - Sina Taslimi; Artemis Çapari; Hosein Azarbonyad; Zi Long Zhu; Zubair Afzal; Evangelos Kanoulas; George Tsatsaronis 001 (COLING, 2025)

Question-Answer Extraction from Scientific Articles Using Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models. - Hosein Azarbonyad; Zi Long Zhu; Georgios Cheirmpos; Zubair Afzal; Vikrant Yadav; Georgios Tsatsaronis (SIGIR, 2025)