--- title: "Pepa Atanasova — author profile and papers" description: "Pepa Atanasova, University of Copenhagen: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2021), h-index 19 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pepa-atanasova/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pepa-atanasova/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Pepa Atanasova # Pepa Atanasova Pepa Atanasova has 3 papers in our library, in 2020–2021, most of them on [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/); often with [Christina Lioma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christina-lioma/), [Isabelle Augenstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/isabelle-augenstein/), [Jakob Grue Simonsen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakob-grue-simonsen/). 3 papers in our library · 2020–2021 current affiliation [University of Copenhagen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-copenhagen/), Copenhagen, Denmark [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5001646936) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0023-2616) · [**h-index 19**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5001646936) · [63 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5001646936) · [1 543 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5001646936&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pepa-atanasova/#papers) · [326 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pepa-atanasova/cited-by/) · 5 more works in our library · [⭐ Paper Star rank #2919](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/30/#star-2919) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Pepa+Atanasova) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Pepa+Atanasova) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Pepa+Atanasova) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Pepa+Atanasova) ## Affiliations - [University of Copenhagen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-copenhagen/) · Copenhagen, Denmark —current · 2019–2026 on 51 papers - [Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sofia-university-st-kliment-ohridski/) · Sofia, Bulgaria —2019–2023 on 4 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 7 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Evaluation & benchmarks 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Interpretability 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elsayed-2021-overview-clef-2019-checkthat-automatic/) · [**2020** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pepa-atanasova/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Diagnostic Study of Explainability Techniques for Text Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/atanasova-2020-diagnostic-study-explainability-techniques-text/)** *(2020 · 273 citations)* Post-hoc explainability methods assign saliency scores to input words, but they often disagree with one another, and practitioners have little guidance on which method suits a given task and model. 2. **[Generating Fact Checking Explanations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/atanasova-2020-generating-fact-checking-explanations/)** *(2020 · 219 citations)* Most automated fact checking research predicts whether a claim is true. The hardest step for human fact checkers, writing a justification for the verdict, has stayed manual. Atanasova et al. present the first study of producing such veracity explanations automatically. They frame it as extractive summarisation. Given… 3. **[Overview of the CLEF-2019 CheckThat!: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elsayed-2021-overview-clef-2019-checkthat-automatic/)** *(2021 · 23 citations)* The CheckThat! lab at CLEF 2019 is the second edition of a shared evaluation campaign on automated fact-checking. ## Also in our library 5 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Christina Lioma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christina-lioma/) ×2 - [Isabelle Augenstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/isabelle-augenstein/) ×2 - [Jakob Grue Simonsen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakob-grue-simonsen/) ×2 - [Alberto Barron-Cedeno](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alberto-barron-cedeno/) - [Giovanni Da San Martino](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-da-san-martino/) - [Maram Hasanain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maram-hasanain/) - [Preslav Nakov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/preslav-nakov/) - [Reem Suwaileh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/reem-suwaileh/) - [Tamer Elsayed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamer-elsayed/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 326 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pepa-atanasova/cited-by/).