Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Contact Details
Telephone: 0121 204 3488
Email: v.pekar@aston.ac.uk
Research Interests
- Predictive Modelling
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Computational Social Sciences
- Social media analysis
Employment
2015-2018: Research & Teaching Fellow, Finance Department, Business School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham
2013-2015: Research Fellow, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham
2012-2013: Chief NLP Engineer, Knowsis Ltd, London
2010-2012: Chief NLP Engineer, Market Sentinel Ltd. London
2008-2010: Language Data Engineer, Academic Division, Oxford University Press, Oxford
2003-2008: Post-Doctoral Researcher. Computational Linguistics Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of Wolverhampton
2001-2002: Visiting researcher. Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB), University of Karlsruhe
PhD Supervision
2008-2012: Co-supervisor of N.Afzal’s PhD thesis “Relations Extraction for an E-Learning system in a Biomedical Domain” (with Prof. R.Mitkov), University of Wolverhampton
Membership of Professional Bodies
2020-present: Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, fellowship reference number: PR178668
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Purchase Intentions on Social Media as Predictors of Consumer Spending
Pekar, V., 1 May 2020, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the Fourteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. AAAI, Vol. 14. 12 p. (Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media; vol. 14).Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Conference publication
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Early detection of heterogeneous disaster events using social media
Pekar, V., Binner, J., Najafi, H., Hale, C. & Schmidt, V., 1 Jan 2020, In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 71, 1, p. 43-54 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Voting intentions on social media and political opinion polls
Pekar, V., Najafi, H., Binner, J. M., Swanson, R., Rickard, C. & Fry, J., 26 Nov 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Government Information Quarterly. 101658.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mining for Signals of Future Consumer Expenditure on Twitter and Google Trends
Pekar, V., 7 Sep 2018, Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Advanced Reserach Methods and Analytics (Internet and Big Data in Economics and Social Sciences). Valencia, Spain, p. 157-165 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Conference publication
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Forecasting Consumer Spending from Purchase Intentions Expressed on Social Media
Pekar, V. & Binner, J., 8 Sep 2017, Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis. Copenhagen, Denmark: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 92-101Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Conference publication
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Activities
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Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science (Event)
Viktor Pekar (Editorial board member)
15 Sep 2020 → 30 Sep 2020Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
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Natural Language Engineering (Journal)
Viktor Pekar (Editorial board member)
1 Jan 2018 → 1 May 2020Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review
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5th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (Event)
Viktor Pekar (Editorial board member)
6 Mar 2023 → 11 Mar 2023Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
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The 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (Event)
Viktor Pekar (Editorial board member)
28 Jan 2023 → 28 Feb 2023Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
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4th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (Event)
Viktor Pekar (Editorial board member)
5 Apr 2022 → 30 Apr 2022Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity