Research

I currently work with LYS, the research group on Natural Language Processing at the University of Corunna, Spain

My research activiy has been evaluated positively by CNEAI (three six-year periods of research) and ACSUG (complement of curricular excellence).

I work mainly in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Currently, my fields of interest are: Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining on social media; Information Retrieval applying NLP techniques; Parsing

You can see a list of my Publications, all of them available in pdf. The list of Research Projects in which I have participated as principal investigator or researcher, and a Short Curriculum Vitae are also available.

I have been the advisor of the following Ph.D. dissertations:

• Applications of Natural Language Processing in Spanish Information Retrieval (in Spanish), by Jesús Vilares, in May 2005 got the highest mark of Sobresaliente Cum Laude, the European Doctor Mention and the 2004/05 Doctoral Prize.
• Parsing Schemata for Practical text Analysis, by Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, in June 2009 got the highest mark of Sobresaliente Cum Laude por unanimidad, the European Doctor Mention and the 2008/09 Doctoral Prize.
• Compositional language processing for multilingual sentiment analysis, by David Vilares Calvo, in June 2017 got the highest mark of Sobresaliente Cum Laude por unanimidad, the International Doctor Mention, the 2016/17 Doctoral Prize and the Price for Young Researchers in Computer Science 2018 awarded by the Spanish Society for Computer Science (SCIE) – BBVA Foundation.

I has been co-chair of SEPLN 2022, AACL-IJCNLP 2022 Tutorials, and LATA 2012; part of the organization committee of TAPD 2000 and AGP'98; and part of the program committee of several editions of ACL, ACL-SRW, NAACL, EACL, IJCNLP, EMNLP, AAAI, IJCAI, ECAI, LREC, CLEI, SEPLN, CERI, CAEPIA, iNEWS, QSI, etc.

I have served as topic editor of Applied Sciences and guest editor of the Special Issue on Rich Linguistic Processing for Multilingual Text Mining of Applied Sciences journal and of the Special Issue on Emerging Application of Sentiment Analysis Technologies of Electronics journal.

I have also served as a reviewer for publishers Imperial College Press and IGI Global; as well as for journals Knowledge-Based Systems, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Artificial Intelligence Review, Information Fusion, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Journal of Information Science, Information Retrieval Journal, The Communications Review, Sensors, Sustainability, Applied Sciences, Entropy, Symmetry, Healthcare, Future Internet, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Algorithms, Information, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, Information and Computation, The Computer Journal, IEEE Latin America Transactions, Progress in Artificial Intelligence, Advances in Systems Science and Applications, Journal of ICT Research and Applications, Inteligencia Artificial, Tecnura, etc.

In addition, I have also reviewed papers for various editions of AAAI, COLING, CICLing, RANLP, SemEval, ACM CIKM, ECAI, ECIR, DEXA, EPIA-TeMA, ASSA, MICAI, EsTAL, Eurocast, TechLING, etc.