1. A. Vempala and E. Blanco, 2020. Extracting Biographical Spatial Timelines: Corpus and Experiments, in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing | link
2. Vempala, A., & Blanco, E., 2020. Temporally anchored spatial knowledge: Corpora and experiments, in Natural Language Engineering | link
3. Alakananda Vempala and Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro 2019. Categorizing and Inferring the Relationship between the Text and Image of Twitter Posts In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Florence, Italy. | pdf
4. Alakananda Vempala, Eduardo Blanco and Alexis Palmer. 2018. Determining Event Durations: Models and Error Analysis. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), New Orleans, LA, USA. | pdf
5. Alakananda Vempala and Eduardo Blanco. 2018. Annotating Temporally-Anchored Spatial Knowledge by Leveraging Syntactic Dependencies. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Miyazaki, Japan. | pdf
6. Vivek Reddy Doudagiri, Alakananda Vempala and Eduardo Blanco. 2018. Annotating If the Authors of a Tweet are Located at the Locations They Tweet About. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Miyazaki, Japan. | pdf
7. Krishna Sanagavarapu, Alakananda Vempala and Eduardo Blanco. 2017. Determining Whether and When People Participate in the Events They Tweet About. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Vancouver, Canada. | pdf
8. Alakananda Vempala and Eduardo Blanco. 2016. Beyond Plain Spatial Knowledge: Determining Where Entities Are and Are Not Located, and For How Long. In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Berlin, Germany. | pdf | corpus
9. Alakananda Vempala and Eduardo Blanco. 2016. Annotating Temporally-Anchored Spatial Knowledge on Top of OntoNotes Semantic Roles. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Portoroz, Slovenia. | pdf | corpus
10. Alakananda Vempala and Eduardo Blanco. 2016. Complementing Semantic Roles with Temporally-Anchored Spatial Knowledge: Crowdsourced Annotations and Experiments. In Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Phoenix, AZ, USA. | pdf | corpus
11. Eduardo Blanco and Alakananda Vempala. 2015. Inferring Temporally-Anchored Spatial Knowledge from Semantic Roles. In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). Denver, CO, USA | pdf
12. Inclination and Pressure Based Authentication for Touch Devices in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC) Springer Volume 248

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Worked on several research projects on Extracting Spatio-Temporal Knowledge from text.

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