--- title: "Razvan Bunescu — author profile and papers" description: "Razvan Bunescu, University of North Carolina at Charlotte: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2005–2006), h-index 35 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/razvan-bunescu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/razvan-bunescu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Razvan Bunescu # Razvan Bunescu Razvan Bunescu works in natural language processing, with a focus on turning unstructured text into structured information. The papers here, from 2005 and 2006, fall within [information extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) and [named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/). They ask which entities a piece of text mentions, what those mentions actually refer to, and how two entities in a sentence are related. Both rely on kernel methods with support vector machines, applied to dependency parses in one case and to Wikipedia in the other. [A Shortest Path Dependency Kernel for Relation Extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bunescu-2005-shortest-path-dependency-kernel-relation/) (2005) argues that the syntactic evidence for a relation between two entities lies almost entirely on the shortest route joining them in the dependency graph. Each word along that route is generalized to its part-of-speech tag, a broader word class or an entity type, and an SVM compares the resulting paths. Negation is also marked directly on the path. [Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Named Entity Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bunescu-2006-encyclopedic-knowledge-named-entity-disambiguation/) (2006) is the newer of the two. It shifts from relations between entities to resolving the entities themselves. The paper assembles a name dictionary from Wikipedia titles, redirects and disambiguation pages, and treats hyperlinks as training examples that come labeled for free. A ranking SVM then ties context words to Wikipedia categories, so that an ambiguous name in a web query, such as "John Williams", can be matched to the intended person. Bunescu is at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Earlier bylines list Ohio University (2008–2021) and The University of Texas at Austin (2002–2007). Co-authors on the papers here include [Raymond Mooney](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raymond-mooney/) and [Marius Paşca](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marius-pasca/). 2 papers on this site · 2005–2006 current affiliation [University of North Carolina at Charlotte](https://ror.org/04dawnj30), Charlotte, United States Razvan Bunescu has 2 papers on this site, in 2005–2006, most of them on [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Information extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/); often with [Marius Paşca](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marius-pasca/), [Raymond Mooney](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raymond-mooney/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5020435927) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2919-3566) · [**h-index 35**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5020435927) · [162 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020435927) · [7 850 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020435927&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/razvan-bunescu/#papers) · [574 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/razvan-bunescu/cited-by/) · 6 more works in our library 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=Razvan+Bunescu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Razvan+Bunescu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Razvan+Bunescu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Razvan+Bunescu) ## Affiliations - [University of North Carolina at Charlotte](https://ror.org/04dawnj30) · Charlotte, United States —current · 2021–2026 on 29 papers · employment (Wikidata) - [Ohio University](https://ror.org/01jr3y717) · Athens, United States —2008–2021 on 50 papers - [Ohio University Lancaster](https://ror.org/03kf4rc21) · Lancaster, United States —2013–2018 on 5 papers - [The University of Texas at Austin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) · Austin, United States —2002–2007 on 19 papers · education until 2007 (Wikidata) - [Southern Methodist University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/southern-methodist-university/) · Dallas, United States —2001 on 2 papers - [Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitatea-na-ionala-de-tiin-a-i-tehnologie-politehnica-bucure-ti/) · Bucharest, Romania —education until 1998 (Wikidata) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Named entity recognition 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Information extraction 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2006** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bunescu-2006-encyclopedic-knowledge-named-entity-disambiguation/) · [**2005** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bunescu-2005-shortest-path-dependency-kernel-relation/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Shortest Path Dependency Kernel for Relation Extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bunescu-2005-shortest-path-dependency-kernel-relation/)** *(2005 · 1 173 citations)* The paper tackles relation extraction: deciding whether, and how, two named entities in one sentence are related. 2. **[Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Named entity Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bunescu-2006-encyclopedic-knowledge-named-entity-disambiguation/)** *(2006 · 978 citations)* The paper addresses named entity detection and disambiguation in open-domain text. Given a proper name in context, the system decides whether it refers to an entity known to a dictionary and, if so, which of the candidates sharing that name is meant. The motivating use case is web search, where queries such as "John… ## Also in our library 6 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Marius Paşca](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marius-pasca/) - [Raymond Mooney](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raymond-mooney/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 574 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [21 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/razvan-bunescu/cited-by/).