versión en españolLYS is a pioneering interdisciplinary research group at the University of A Coruña, bringing together professors and researchers from the Departments of Arts (General Linguistics) and Computer Science and Information Technology (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence). With over three decades of expertise, LYS specializes in Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, and Language Technologies—fields where linguistics and computer science seamlessly intersect to address complex challenges.
In essence, their mission is to develop linguistic resources and computational language models designed to automate the processing of textual information, enabling tasks such as recognition, understanding, and generation. These innovative models and resources not only advance our understanding of linguistic communication but also provide practical solutions that enhance both interpersonal interactions and human-computer communication.
LYS Group has been accredited as a Competitive Reference Group by the Regional Government of Galicia.
External evaluations of the LYS Group were conducted in 2012, 2015, 2018 and 2023 by the National Agency of Evaluation and Prospective (ANEP) and as a result it has been rated as Excellent, internationally comparable quality in its scientific field.
Members of LYS group form part of the project UzUDT: Universal Dependencies Treebank and parser for natural language processing on the Uzbek Language (REP-25112021/113) funded by the Word Bank under Component 1 "Improving research excellence and commercialization" of the call "Modernizing Uzbekistan National Innovation System".
LYS Group have also been a partner of the project CLASS: Development of an interdisciplinary master program on Computational Linguistics at Central Asian universities (Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education 585845-EPP-1-2017-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP).
In the international sphere, members of the LYS Group are part of the European network Foundations of Trustworthy AI - Integrating Learning, Optimization and Reasoning (TAILOR). Formerly, LYS Group have been a partner of ESF Research Networking Programme: Evaluating Information Access Systems (ELIAS)
In the national sphere, LYS Group has been the co-ordinator of the Galician Network on Linguistic Resources for a Knowledge Society (RELISCO) and a partner of Spanish Network on Resources for Language Technologies (ReTeLe), Spanish Network on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Processing (TIMM), Galician Network on Lexicography (RELEX). Galician Network on Language Processing and Information Retrieval (RedPLIR) and Galician Network on Corpus Linguistics (Rede_Corpus).
Members of the LYS group are part of the UDC-Inditex Chair of Green Algorithms for AI funded by the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Administration through the call for the creation of university-industry chairs (ENIA Chairs, National Artificial Intelligence Strategy), aimed at research and development of artificial intelligence, for its dissemination and training within the framework of the European Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, funded by the European Union-Next Generation EU.
Members of LYS group participate in the project coordinated by the IES Fernando Wirtz in A Coruña Creation of a pretrained language model using self-attention techniques to explore architectures that allow its use in natural language processing appllications in Galician language both in education and business, founded by the Xunta de Galicia call for technological or scientific innovation projects in the field of vocational education.
Members of the group work at the Faculty of Informatics and at the Faculty of Philology of the University of A Coruña