Research Projects

Principal Investigator:

• Advances in new systems for question answering by means of semantic analysis and deep learning (ANSWER-ASAP), funded by Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (TIN2017-85160-C2-1-R) from 2018 to 2020.
• Language technologies for opinion analysis in social networks: From text to microtext (TELEPARES-UDC), funded by Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2014-51978-C2-2-R) from 2015 to 2018.
• Text analysis and information retrieval for opinion mining: Sentence analysis and relation extraction, funded by Ministry of Science and Innovation and FEDER (TIN2010-18552-C03-02) from 2011 to 2014.
• Robust parsing for question answering (ARBORE), funded by Ministry of Education and Science and FEDER (HUM2007-66607-C04-03) from 2007 to 2010.
• Information retrieval for question-answering in economic texts (RIBETE), funded by Ministry of Education and Science and FEDER (TIN2004-07246-C03-02) from 2004 to 2007.
• Extracting information from stock exchange news to assess market attitude, funded by University of Corunna in 2002.

Researcher:

• Green and pluggable structured representations, funded by the Spanish Research Agency (PID2022-139308OA-I00) from 2023 to 2026.
• GRALENIA: Antimicrobial Resistance Management based on Natural Language and Artificial Intelligence, Agreement with Bahía Software to carry out the research project of the call RED.es 2021 (2021/C005/00150055)", from 2022 to 2024.
• Sequence labeling multitask models for linguistically enriched NER: syntax and multitask integration, funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2020-113230RB-C21) from 2021 to 2025.
• Efficient development of multilingual linguistic resources, funded by Xunta de Galicia (INCITE08PXIB302179PR) from 2008 to 2011.
• Promotion and coordination of sociosanitary practices in geriatrics, funded by Xunta de Galicia (PGIDIT03SIN30501PR) from 2003 to 2006 and developed by the COLE Group (Universities of Corunna and Vigo) and the Department of Didactics, School Organization and Research Methods (University of Vigo).
• Application of Artificial Intelligence for extracting cognitive and qualitative information from financial markets, funded by 3.14 Financial Contents with a grant of Xunta de Galicia (PGIDIT02SIN01E) from 2002 to 2005 and developed by COLE Group and 3.14 Financial Contents.
• Application of Bayesian networks and lexical disambiguators for the development of search engines, funded by Xunta de Galicia (PGIDIT04SIN051E) and developed by COLE Group and 3.14 Financial Contents in 2004.
• Tabular analyzers for natural languages 2, Acción integrada/action intégrée HF2002-0081 between COLE Group (Universities of Corunna and Vigo) and Atoll project (INRIA) supported by Spanish and French Governments in 2003 and 2004
• Extracting information from stock exchange news to assess market attitude (Main Researcher), funded by University of Corunna and developed by the COLE Group in 2002.
• Querying and Retrieval of Information from the Web: a Distributed Architecture, funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, National Plan of Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation (TIC2000-0370-C02-01) and Xunta de Galicia (PGIDT01PXI10506PN) and developed by the University of Corunna (COLE Group) and the University of Santiago de Compostela (Department of Logic), in 2001, 2002 and 2003.
• Robust Parsing of Portuguese, Galician and Spanish.
  Acción integrada HP2001-0044 between University of Corunna (COLE Group) and Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CENTRIA), supported by the governments of Spain and Portugal in 2002 and 2003.
• Natural Language Information Retrieval Systems for Cognitive Evaluations of Information, research agreement between: Universidad de La Coruña (COLE Group) and FEUGA, from October 2001 to February 2002.
• Cluster of 30 nodes with architecture x86. Infraestructure grant given by Xunta de Galicia (PGIDT01PXI0501IF) to COLE and LFCIA groups of the University of Corunna in 2001.
• Querying Structured Textual Databases, funded by Government of Galicia (PGIDT99XI10502B) and developed by the University of Corunna (COLE Group) and the University of Santiago de Compostela (Department of Logic), from 1999 to 2001.
• Information Retrieval and Extraction Applying Linguistic Knowledge, funded by the European Union (1FD97-0047-C04-02) from October 1998 to September 2001 and developed by the universities of Corunna (COLE Group), Santiago de Compostela (Group of Spanish Syntax) and Vigo ( Department of Translation, Linguistics and Theory of Literature), the Ramón Piñeiro Center for Research on Humanities, Digital Equipment Corporation España S.A. and El Correo Gallego / O Correo Galego.
• Tagger-Lemmatizer for Current Galician, research agreement between Universidad de La Coruña and Ramón Piñeiro Center for Research on Humanities at Santiago de Compostela, Spain, since 1998.
• Design of Tabular Analyzers for Natural Languages II, Acción integrada/action intégrée HF97-223 between University of Corunna (COLE Group) and INRIA (Atoll project), supported by the governments of Spain and France in 1998.
• LIG and TAG Parsing in Dynamic Programming, supported by the Government of Galicia (project XUGA10505B96) and developed at the University of Corunna (COLE Group), in 1996, 1997 and 1998.
• Design of Tabular Analyzers for Natural Languages I, Acción integrada/action intégrée HF96-36 between University of Corunna (COLE Group) and INRIA (Atoll project), supported by the governments of Spain and France in 1997.
• Atoll: Atelier of Software Tools for Natural Language, a Programme 3 project at INRIA Rocquencourt, France, during 1996.
• Construction and Tagging of the Reference Corpus for the Current Galician at Ramón Piñeiro Linguistic Research Center, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in 1995.
• Symbolic Calculus System with a Client-Server Architecture and Functional Kernel, supported by the Government of Galicia (project XUGA10502B94) and developed at the universities of Corunna (LFCIA) and Santiago de Compostela, in 1994 and 1995.
• Design and Technological Development of the Province Planning Management System, supported by the Administration of the Province of Corunna and developed at University of Corunna (LFCIA), in 1994.