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Our research group holds an internal weekly seminar on Tuesdays (12.00pm) at the lab premises (room 1.03, ETSI Informática de la UNED, c/Juan del Rosal, 16, 28039 Madrid, Spain). Talks announced here are open to external attendants.

[Note: seminars are temporarily being held as webinars; please email julio@lsi.uned.es for links and passwords if you are interested in joining in for a specific event]

Past Seminars

2021

June 8 - Ángeles Manjarrés Riesco (UNED) - Inteligencia Artificial y Agenta 2030

May 18 - Andrés Duque (UNED) - Traducción automática. Evolución histórica, aproximaciones actuales y desafíos abiertos.

March 23 - Laura Dietz ( University of New Hampshire) - Retrieve-and-generate: How to Automatically Create Relevant Articles

March 16 - Isabel Segura (UC3M) - NLP for rare diseases

February 2 - Andrés Duque (UNED) - A keyphrase-based approach for interpretable ICD-10 code classification of Spanish medical reports

January 19 - Guillermo Marco (UNED) - Escansión automática de poesía española sin silabificación

January 12 - Enrique Amigó (w Alejandro Ariza (UB), Victor Fresno, Toni Martí (UB)) - Compositional Distributional Semantics

 

2020

December 15 - Pablo Moral (UNED) - La desinformación: el dilema de las democracias liberales

December 1 - Sebastian Hennig (OVGU) - An experimental survey of Named Entity Recognition methods in the biomedical domain

November 10 - Julio Gonzalo (UNED): An effectiveness metric for ordinal classification: formal properties and experimental results [ACL 2020 paper] [ACL 2020 video]

November 3 - Elena Campillo (UNED) NLP-UNED at eRisk 2020: self-harm early risk detection with sentiment analysis and linguistic features [CLEF 2020 paper]

October 27 - Álvaro Rodrigo (UNED): A methodology for creating Question Answering Corpora Using Inverse Data Annotation [ACL 2020 paper] [ACL 2020 video]

October 20 - Guillermo Echegoyen (UNED): Cross-Lingual Training for Multiple-Choice Question Answering [ SEPLN 2020 paper] [SEPLN 2020 video]

October 6 - Juan José Lastra (UNED): Reproducibility practices and initiative encouraged by Information Systems. [recorded talk] [slides] [Information Systems Reproducibility Guidelines]

September 29 - María Espinosa (UNED): Analyzing User Profiles for Detection of Fake News Spreaders on Twitter [CLEF 2020 paper]

June 23 - Covadonga Rodrigo (UNED): Learning ecologies and service learning research to improve the performance of on-line students with disabilities

June 8 - Seren Yenikent and Sanja Štajner (Symanto) Psycholinguistic approaches to personality

May 26 - Víctor Peinado (Reply.ai) Mejorando la atención al cliente con NLP

May 18 - Mario Almagro (UNED): eXtreme Multi-Label Text Classification

May 12 - Internal group discussion on replicability & reproducibility

May 5 - Francisco Rangel (Symanto): Build Emotional Connection with your Customers at Scale

April 21 - Julio Gonzalo (UNED): A comparison of filtering evaluation metrics (link to ECIR 2020 presentation, same topic)

March 2 - Enrique Amigó (UNED): Are we on the Right Track?: An Examination of Information Retrieval Methodologies

February 3 - Guillermo Echegoyen (UNED): Cloud Computing for NLP

January 21 - Hermenegildo Fabregat (UNED): Eating disorders on social networks

 

2019

December 19 - Alba García (University of Essex): Multimodal information extraction

September 30 - Alistair Moffat: C/W/L Spells "Cool": User-Based Evaluation in Information Retrieval (RMIT Melbourne)

July 25 - Felisa Verdejo (UNED): La inteligencia artificial basada en la lengua española

July 2 - Andrew Trotman (University of Otago): SIMD and Search Engines

April 30: Álvaro Rodrigo: Do systems pass university entrance exams?

March 26 Guillermo Echegoyen (UNED). An Overview of Deep Learning for NLP.

March 19 Julio Gonzalo (UNED) Contextual Word Embeddings: the new NLP Holy Grial.

March 12 Hermenegido Fabregat (UNED): Negation in Natural Language Processing.

February 26 - Ana García Serrano (UNED): Documentación multimedia inconexa: un piloto a tener en cuenta

February 19 - Karin Verspoor (U. of Melbourne). Concepts, Relations, and Queries in Biomedicine: The case for Semantic Search

February 12 - Anselmo Peñas (UNED). Project Lilith: Lifelong Learning, Knowledge Induction y Question Answering.

 

2018

December 18 - Andrés Duque: Into the wild. NLP research in the industry

December 12 - Irina Chugur: Lingüistas computacionales en empresas de traducción

November 27 - Ivar Zapata: Full Bayes approach to Topics over Time (ToT). Variational approximation

November 6 - Enrique Amigó: Towards a Basic Principle for Ranking Effectiveness Prediction without Human Assessments: A Preliminary Study.

July 17 - Laura Plaza (UNED): Feature Engineering for sentiment analysis in online health forums

July 10 - Elena Álvarez Mellado (U. Massachussets, Boston): Nacimiento, vida y muerte de las metáforas

July 5 - Miguel Martinez (Signal Media, London): Analysing the world's news: Learnings from Industry

July 3 - Javier Sanz-Cruzado (UAM, Madrid): Recomendación de contactos en redes sociales: más allá del acierto

June 26 - Julio Gonzalo (UNED): Bias in System Evaluation

June 19 - Pablo Castells (UAM, Madrid)): El papel de la popularidad en los sistemas de recomendación: un análisis formal

June 12 - Stephano Mizzaro: Crowdsourcing Fine-Grained Relevance Judgments

April 24 - Raquel Martínez (UNED): Overview of IberEval 2018

April 17 - Efstathios Stamatatos (U. of the Aegean): Cross-Domain Authorship Attribution

April 10 - Julio Gonzalo (UNED): Sentiment Propagation for Predicting Reputation Polarity

February 27 - Manuel Montes (INAOE, México): Atribución de Autoría: un largo y sinuoso camino

February 20 - Samer Hassan Collado (UCM, Madrid): Organizaciones descentralizadas basadas en Blockchain para impulsar la economía colaborativa

February 13 - Bernardo Cabaleiro (Lang.ai, Madrid): NLP at lang.ai

January 30 - Lourdes Araujo (UNED): Deep Learning & Keras.

 

2017

December 20 - Felisa Verdejo (UNED): 40 años de Ingeniería en Informática

December 19 - Francisco Rangel Pardo: Autoritas: Creando organizaciones inteligentes

November 28 - Elena González: El Laboratorio de Humanidades Digitales de la UNED

November 7 - Julio Gonzalo (UNED): Towards Performance Modeling and Performance Prediction across IR/RecSys/NLP

October 24 - Tamara Martín: Tecnologías del Lenguaje: aplicaciones y oportunidades a nivel europeo desde la perspectiva de una PyME

Most researchers in our group nlp.uned.es are also teaching in an official master course in Language Technologies and a broader doctorate program in Intelligent Systems:

Máster oficial en Tecnologías del Lenguaje de la UNED

Programa oficial de doctorado en Sistemas Inteligentes de la UNED

Para la realización de tesis doctorales dentro del grupo nlp.uned.es

De cara a las próximas convocatorias de contratos predoctorales del ministerio y de la propia UNED, se buscan candidatos que hayan finalizado sus estudios de máster o los vayan a finalizar.

Se buscan perfiles con formación en Informática / Inteligencia Artificial / Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural / Lingüística Computacional.

Los interesados pueden mandar su cv y una breve descripción de sus intereses dentro del área del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural y la Recuperación de Información al coordinador del grupo (julio@lsi.uned.es)

English: We are looking for candidates for Ph.D. grants from the Spanish government and from our university. Background in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics, preferably with master degrees in Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence or Data Science. Please send your interests and c.v. to julio@.lsi.uned.es.

If you want to be considered for future job openings, please send your interests and c.v. to julio@lsi.uned.es.