Profile
Doctor in Computer Science (PhD), City, University of London, 2007.
Short Bio
- February 2019-present: Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow, Department of Computer Systems and Languages (LSI), University of the Basque Country.
- April 2018-February 2019: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Systems and Languages (LSI), University of the Basque Country.
- January 2012-April 2018: Research Fellow at IXA NLP Group. University of the Basque Country.
- May 2011-January 2012: Researcher in Computational Linguistics at University of Deusto, Bilbao, Basque Country.
- November 2009-May 2011: Project Manager in Computational Linguistics at Vicomtech.
- January-October 2009: Research Fellow, GSI Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain, Consorcio Mavir. Research on Computational Semantics, Sentiment Analysis and application of linguistic techniques for Information Retrieval.
- December 2005-December 2008, Research Fellow, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT Birmingham, UK. Research on Computational Semantics and Figurative Language.
- 2002-2006 Research Student and Lab Tutor, Department of Computing, City University, EC1V 0HB London, UK. Research on normative aspects of language for the specification of normative protocols of communication. (PhD Thesis).
Selected Research Projects
- 01/12/2022-30/11/2024. Disargue: Few-shot Learning and Argumentation to Detect and Fight Misinformation in Social Media. Funding Entity: Programa Transición Digital y Ecológica (TED 2021), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. Ref: TED2021-130810B-C21. Role: Principal Investigator.
- 01/10/2022-30/09/2025. DeepKnowledge: Deep Language Models for Understanding and Reasoning with Multilingual Content. Funding Entity: Programa Generación del Conocimiento, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. Ref: PID2021-127777OB-C21. Role: Principal Investigator.
- 01/04/2021-30/03/2024. ANTIDOTE. ArgumeNtaTIon-Driven explainable artificial intelligence fOr digiTal mEdicine. Funding Entity: CHIST-ERA - INT-Acciones de Programación Conjunta Internacional (MINECO) 2020. Ref: PCI2020-120717-2. Role: Principal Investigator.
- 01/07/2019-30/06/2022. DeepReading: Mining, Understanding, and Reasoning with Multilingual Content. Funding Entity: Programa Retos, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. (co-PI with German Rigau)
- 01/02/2020-28/02/2022. “Tools for the analysis of parliamentary discourses: polarization, subjectivity and affectivity in the post-truth era”. Entidad Financiadora: UPV/EHU Proyectos de Colaboración. Role: co-PI (with Simon Peña).
- 18/02/2019-17/02/2024. “Tecnología lingüística para la extracción de información multilingüe basada en conocimiento semántico” (Proyecto Ramón y Cajal RYC-2017-23647). Funding Entity: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades y la Agencia Estatal de Investigación.
- 28/02/2018-30/05/2018. “Sharing IXA pipes in the OpenMinTeD platform” (H2020-eINFRA14/06). Funding Entity: H2020, European Commission.
- Researcher in the NewsReader project: Building structured event Indexes of large volumes of financial and economic Data for Decision Making, funded by the Grant agreement no.: 316404 – Co-funded by the EU - FP7 Work Programme Call FP7-ICT-2011-8
- Researcher, OpeNER project: Open Polarity Enhanced Named Entity Recognition, funded by the FP7-2011-ICT-SME-DCL call on Sharing Language Resources.
- Researcher in the PATHS Project: Personalised Access to Cultural Heritage Spaces. PATHS was funded by the European Commission FP7 under Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation programme which started on January 1st 2010 and run for three years.
- Consultant at Vicomtech-IK4 for the SUMAT CIP-ICT-PSP 270919 European project (2011-2012).
- Technical Coordinator of SUMAT CIP-ICT-PSP 270919 European project.
- Torres Quevedo Contract: Aplicación del Procesamiento del Lenguage Natural a la Innovación Empresarial. (2010-2011).
- Previous research projects: Etortek Berbatek, MAVIR, ESRC/EPSRC E-drama, EPSRC ATT-Meta
Reviewing Activities
- Senior Action Editor at ACL Rolling Review since December 2022.
- Senior Area Chair at COLING 2022
- Senior Area Chair at LREC 2022
- Usual reviewer and programme committee member at ACL Rolling Review and ACL conferences (ACL, EMNLP, EACL, CoNLL, NAACL…)
- Reviewer and PC member at LREC, Coling, WASSA, TSD and other workshops.
- Associate Editor at Expert Systems with Applications.
- Committee Member at the International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2015).
- Reviewer for Knowledge Based Systems
- Reviewer for IEEE Inteligent Systems
- Reviewer for the journal Artificial Intelligence Review
- Reviewer for the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
- Committee Member of WNCP 2015 workshop
- KESA 2016 Committee Member
- Scientific Committee, The 9th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 26-31 May, Reykjavik, Iceland.
- Program Committee, 5th International Workshop on EMOTION, SOCIAL SIGNALS, SENTIMENT & LINKED OPEN DATA, at the 9th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 26-31 May, Reykjavik, Iceland.
- Scientific Committee, The eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), 21-27 Mayo 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Reviewer, 13th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (Cicling-2012), March 11-17, 2012, New Delhi, India.
- Reviewer, 6th Global WordNet Conference 2012 (GWC 2012), 9-13 January, Matsue, Japan.
- Program Committee Member, Semantics Track, EMNLP 2011
- Reviewer, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2011.
- Reviewer, ACL-HLT 2011.
- Reviewer for the Language Resources and Evaluation Journal, Springer, 2010.
Service and leadership
- Currently signed in to 14423 different slack teams