LYS Group / Grupo LYS

Lengua Y Sociedad de la Información

Language in the Information Society

www.grupolys.org

LYS (Language in the Information Society) is an interdisciplinary research group officially recognized by the University of Corunna (code G00079) and the Regional Government of Galicia (code 08IDI0631). It is formed by professors and researchers from the fields of Linguistics and Computer Science who have long been working in the area known as Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing and Language Engineering. For more information on the activities of the LYS group, you can follow the links that are listed below.

Recent news...
Talk by José Coch (Lingway, France) entitled Cálculo automático de la tonalidad de opiniones en Internet. Descripción, evaluación de calidad, programa de trabajo, TuesdayWednesday 28 September 2011, 11:00, room S4.1 of Faculty of Informatics (announcement)

Talk by John I. Tait (Information Retrieval Facility, Austria) entitled Patent Information Access: a problem and opportunity for IR, IE and MT, Tuesday 20 September 2011, 11:30, conference room of Faculty of Informatics (announcement)

Talk by Michael P. Oakes (University of Sunderland, UK) entitled Quantitative Methods in Corpus-Based Translation Studies, Tuesday 20 September 2011, 10:00, conference room of Faculty of Informatics (announcement)

Members of the group
Publications
Research projects
Research agreements
Products:

COMPAS, COMpiler for PArsing Schemata (Spanish software register C-40-2009)
DiCE, Dictionary of Spanish Collocations
- DiCE on facebook
- DiCE's blog
LIBNADFA, A library for efficient management of very large dictionaries
Planar and 2-planar dependency parsers of MaltParser
TALFJava, Java code libraries for teaching Automata Theory and Formal Languages
XIADA, Tagger/lemmatizer of present-day Galician

Conferences organized:
- LATA 2012, The 6th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications
- Collocations Track at MTT 2011, Fifth International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory
- iNEWS 2008, 2nd ACM International Workshop on Improving Non English Web Searching (jointly with ACM CIKM 2008)
- iNEWS 2007, ACM SIGIR 2007 workshop on Improving Web retrieval for non-English queries
Research networks:
- ELIAS, ESF Research Networking Programme: Evaluating Information Access Systems
- RELISCO, Galician network on Linguistic Resources for a Knowledge Society
- RedPLIR, Galician network on Language Processing and Information Retrieval
- Rede_Corpus, Galician network on Corpus Linguistics
- TIMM, Spanish network on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Processing
Teaching:

Software tools for translation and correction of texts (Master in professional uses of langage)
Natural Language Processing (Master in Computer Systems Engineering)
Advanced Natural Language Processing (Master in Computer Science)
Information retrieval on the internet (Master in professional uses of langage)
Information extraction and retrieval (Master in Computer Science)

Management stuff:

Official record of the group in the research catalogue of the University of Corunna
Record of the group in the catalogue of the Regional Government of Galicia

Events
Local information

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