David Vilares

Publications

2023

• Alberto Muñoz-Ortiz, David Vilares. Another Dead End for Morphological Tags? Perturbed Inputs and Parsing,
  Findings of the ACL 2023 - The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , to appear, Online
  



2022

• Alberto Muñoz-Ortiz, Mark Anderson, David Vilares, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Parsing linearizations appreciate PoS tags - but some are fussy about errors,
  AACL-IJCNLP 2022 - The 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing , to appear, Online.
  


• Iago Alonso-Alonso, David Vilares, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. The Fragility of Multi-Treebank Parsing Evaluation,
  COLING 2022 - The 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, to appear, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea.
  
[pdf] [code]


• Iago Alonso-Alonso, David Vilares, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. LyS_ACoruña at SemEval-2022 Task 10: Repurposing Off-the-Shelf Tools for Sentiment Analysis as Semantic Dependency Parsing,
  SemEval 2022 - The 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 1389–1400, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  
[pdf]


• Alberto Muñoz-Ortiz, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, David Vilares. Cross-lingual Inflection as a Data Augmentation Method for Parsing,
  Insights Workshop 2022 (co-located with ACL) - Third Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP , pages 54–61, Dublin, Ireland.
  
[pdf] [code]



2021

• Alberto Muñoz-Ortiz, Michalina Strzyz, David Vilares. Not All Linearizations Are Equally Data-Hungry in Sequence Labeling Parsing,
  RANLP 2021 - Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing , pp. 978-988, Online
  
[pdf]


• Miguel A. Alonso, David Vilares, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Jesús Vilares. Sentiment Analysis for Fake News Detection,
  Electronics - Special Issue Emerging Application of Sentiment Analysis Technologies, 10(11):1348, 2021.
  


• Marvin M. Agüero-Torales, David Vilares, Antonio G. López-Herrera. On the logistical difficulties and findings of Jopara Sentiment Analysis,
  CALCS 2021 (co-located with NAACL 2021) - Fifth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code Switching , pp. 95–102, Online.
  [pdf] [data&code]


• David Vilares, Marcos Garcia, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Bertinho: Galician BERT Representations,
  Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural , 66:13-26, 2021.
  [pdf] [models]


• Marvin M. Agüero-Torales, David Vilares, Antonio G. López-Herrera. Discovering topics in Twitter about the COVID-19 outbreak in Spain,
  Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural , 66:177-190, 2021.
  [pdf] [code]



2020

• Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Michalina Strzyz and David Vilares. A Unifying Theory of Transition-based and Sequence Labeling Parsing,
  COLING 2020 - The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics , Proceedings of the Conference, pp. 3776-3793, Barcelona, Spain (Online), 2020.
  [pdf] [code]


• Michalina Strzyz, David Vilares and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Bracketing Encodings for 2-Planar Dependency Parsing,
  COLING 2020 - The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics , Proceedings of the Conference, pp. 2472-2484, Barcelona, Spain (Online), 2020.
  [pdf] [code]


• David Vilares and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Discontinuous Constituent Parsing as Sequence Labeling,
  EMNLP 2020 - The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , Proceedings of the Conference, pp. 2771-2785. Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (Online), 2020.
  [pdf] [code]


• David Vilares, Michalina Strzyz, Anders Søgaard and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Parsing as Pretraining,
  AAAI 2020 - The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20) , Proceedings of the Conference, pp. 9114-9121, NYC, USA, 2020,
  [pdf] [code]



2019

• Michalina Strzyz, David Vilares and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Towards Making a Dependency Parser See,
  EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 - 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing , Proceedings of the Conference (Short Papers), pp. 1500-1506, Hong Kong, 2019,
  [pdf] [bib] [code]


• Mark Anderson, David Vilares and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Artificially Evolved Chunks for Morphosyntactic Analysis,
  TLT 2019 - The 18th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, pp. 133–143, 2019,
  [pdf] [bib]


• David Vilares and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. HEAD-QA: A Healthcare Dataset for Complex Reasoning,
  ACL 2019 - The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , Proceedings of the Conference (Short Papers), 960–966, Florence, Italy, 2019,
  [pdf] [bib] [code] [website]


• Michalina Strzyz, David Vilares and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Sequence Labeling Parsing by Learning Across Representations,
  ACL 2019 - The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , Proceedings of the Conference, Vol. 2 (Short Papers), to appear, Florence, Italy, 2019,
  [pdf] [bib] [code]


• David Vilares, Mostafa Abdou and Anders Søgaard. Better, Faster, Stronger Sequence Tagging Constituent Parsers,
  NAACL HLT 2019 - Human Language Technologies: The 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 3372-3383, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2019,
  [pdf] [bib] [code]


• Michalina Strzyz, David Vilares and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Viable Dependency Parsing as Sequence Labeling,
  NAACL HLT 2019 - Human Language Technologies: The 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 717-723, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2019,
  [pdf] [bib] [code]


• David Vilares and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Harry Potter and the Action Prediction Challenge from Natural Language,
  NAACL HLT 2019 - Human Language Technologies: The 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 2124-2130, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2019,
  [pdf] [bib] [code]



2018

• Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez and David Vilares. Constituent Parsing as Sequence Labeling,
  EMNLP 2018 - 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 1314-1324, Brussels, Belgium, 2018,
  [pdf] [bib] [code]


• David Vilares and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Transition-based Parsing with Lighter Feed-Forward Networks,
  UDW 2018 (co-located with EMNLP 2018) - The 2nd Universal Dependencies Workshop, pp. 162-172, Brussels, Belgium, 2018,
  [pdf] [bib]


• David Vilares and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. A Transition-based Algorithm for Unrestricted AMR Parsing,
  NAACL HLT 2018 - The 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Vol. 2 (short papers) pp. 142-149, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2018,
  [pdf] [bib] [code]


• David Vilares and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Grounding the Semantics of Part-of-Day Nouns Worldwide using Twitter,
  PEOPLES2018 (co-located with NAACL HLT 2018) - The 2nd Workshop on Computational Modeling of People's Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media, pp. 123-128, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2018,
  [pdf] [bib] [data]


• Mark Anderson and David Vilares. Increasing NLP Parsing Efficiency with Chunking.
  XoveTIC Congress 2018, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Proceedings 2(18), 1160, A Coruña, Spain, 2018
  [pdf]


• Yerai Doval and David Vilares. On the Processing and Analysis of Microtexts: From Normalization to Semantics.
  XoveTIC Congress 2018, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Proceedings, 2(18), 1170, A Coruña, Spain, 2018
  [pdf]

2017

• David Vilares and Yulan He. Detecting Perspectives in Political Debates,
  EMNLP 2017 - The 14th International Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing, pp. 1574-1583, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017,
  [pdf] [bib] [code&data]


• David Vilares, Marcos Garcia, Miguel A. Alonso and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez Towards Syntactic Iberian Polarity Classification.
  WASSA 2017 (co-located with EMNLP 2017) - The 8th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis , pp. 67-73, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017,
  [pdf] [bib] [code&data]


• David Vilares and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. A non-projective greedy dependency parser with bidirectional LSTMs.
  CoNLL 2017 Shared Task - Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies , pp. 152-162, Vancouver, Canada, 2017,
  [pdf] [bib] [code&data]


• David Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Tratamiento sintáctico de la negación en análisis del sentimiento monolingüe y multilingüe.
  NEGES (co-located with SEPLN 2017) - Taller de NEGación en ESpañol, 2017,
  [pdf]


• David Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Supervised Sentiment Analysis in Multilingual Environments.
  Information Processing & Management, 53(3):595-607, 2017,
  [pdf] [bib]


• David Vilares, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez and Miguel A. Alonso. Universal, Unsupervised (Rule-based), Uncovered Sentiment Analysis.
  Knowledge-Based Systems, 118:45-55, 2017,
  [pdf] [bib] [code&data] [demo]


• Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Iago Alonso-Alonso and David Vilares. How Important is Syntactic Parsing Accuracy? An Empirical Evaluation on Sentiment Analysis.
  Artificial Intelligence Review, accepted. Preprint: arXiv:1706.02141 [cs.CL], 2017,
  [pdf]

2016

• David Vilares, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez and Miguel A. Alonso. One model, two languages: training bilingual parsers with harmonized treebanks.
  ACL 2016 - The 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , Proceedings of the Conference, Vol. 2 (Short Papers), pp. 425-431 Berlin, Germany, 2016
  [pdf] [bib] [code&data]


• David Vilares, Yerai Doval, Miguel A. Alonso and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. LyS at SemEval-2016 Task 4: Exploiting Neural Activation Values for Twitter Sentiment Classification and Quantification.
  SemEval 2016 (co-located with NAACL 2016) The 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2016). Proceedings of the Workshop, pp. 79-84, San Diego, California, 2016
  [pdf] [bib]
  [Task B ranking: 2/19 runs, Task D ranking: 2/14 runs]


• David Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. EN-ES-CS: An English-Spanish Code-Switching Twitter Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis.
  LREC 2016 - The 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pp. 4149-4153, Portoroz, Slovenia, 2016
  [pdf][bib] [code&data]


• Iti Chaturvedi, Erik Cambria and David Vilares. Lyapunov filtering of objectivity for Spanish sentiment model.
  IJCNN 2016 - The Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks , pp 4474-4481, Vancouver, Canada, 2016
  


• David Vilares and Miguel A. Alonso. A review on political analysis and social media.
  Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural , 56:13-23, 2016
  [pdf][bib]

2015

• David Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Sentiment Analysis on Monolingual, Multilingual and Code-Switching Twitter Corpora.
  WASSA 2015 (co-located with EMNLP 2015) - The 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015.
  [pdf] [bib]


• David Vilares, Yerai Doval, Miguel A. Alonso and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. LyS at TASS 2015: Deep Learning Experiments for Sentiment Analysis on Spanish Tweets.
  TASS 2015 (co-located with SEPLN 2015) - XXXI Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Procesamiento de lenguaje natural SEPLN 2015. TASS 2015 - Workshop on Sentiment Analysis at SEPLN 2015. Workshop Proceedings, Alicante, Spain, 2015., CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 1397, pp. 47-52, 2015. ISSN 1613-0073.
  [pdf] [bib]


• David Vilares, Mike Thelwall and Miguel A. Alonso. The megaphone of the people? Spanish SentiStrength for real-time analysis of political tweets.
  Journal of Information Science, 41(6):799-813, 2015.
  [pdf] [bib]


• David Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. On the usefulness of lexical and syntactic processing in polarity classification of Twitter messages.
  Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(9):1799-1816, 2015. ISSN 1532-2882.
  [pdf] [bib]


• David Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. A linguistic approach for determining the topics of Spanish Twitter messages.
  Journal of Information Science, 41(2): 127-145 ,2015. ISSN 0165-5515. DOI 10.1177/0165551514561652
  [pdf] [bib]


• David Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. A syntactic approach for opinion mining on Spanish reviews.
  Natural Language Engineering, 21(1):139-163, 2015.
  [pdf] [bib]


• Miguel A. Alons, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, David Vilares, Yerai Doval and Jesús Vilares. Seguimiento y análisis automático de contenidos en redes sociales.
  III Congreso Nacional de i+d en Defensa y Seguridad (DESEi+d 2015)
  [pdf] [bib]

2014

• David Vilares, Yerai Doval, Miguel A. Alonso and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. LyS at TASS 2014: A Prototype for Extracting and Analysing Aspects from Spanish tweets.
  TASS 2014 (co-located with SEPLN 2014) - XXX Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Procesamiento de lenguaje natural SEPLN 2014. TASS 2014 - Workshop on Sentiment Analysis at SEPLN 2014. Workshop Proceedings, Girona, Spain, 2014.
  [pdf] [bib]


• David Vilares, Miguel Hermo, Miguel A. Alonso, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez and Yerai Doval. LyS: Porting a Twitter Sentiment Analysis Approach from Spanish to English.
  SemEval 2014 (co-located with COLING 2014) The 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014). Proceedings of the Workshop, pp. 411-415, Dublin, Ireland, 2014. ISBN 978-1-941643-24-2.
  [pdf] [bib]


• David Vilares, Miguel Hermo, Miguel A. Alonso, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez and Jesús Vilares. LyS at CLEF RepLab 2014: Creating the State of the Art in Author Influence Ranking and Reputation Classification on Twitter.
  RepLab 2014 - CLEF 2014 . in Linda Cappellato, Nicola Ferro, Martin Halvey, Wessel Kraaij (eds.), CLEF2014 Working Notes. Working Notes for CLEF 2014 Conference. Sheffield, UK, September 15-18, 2014, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1180, pp. 1468-1478. ISSN 1613-0073.
  [pdf] [bib]


• David Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Evaluación de aproximaciones lingüísticas para la asignación de temas a tuits.
  CERI 2014 - in Fidel Cacheda and Javier Parapar (Eds.), Proceedings of 3rd Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval. Actas del III Congreso Español de Recuperación de la Información, pp. 109-120, A Coruña, Spain, 2014. ISBN 978-84-9749-591-2.
  [pdf] [bib]


• Yerai Doval, David Vilares and Jesús Vilares. Buscando flexibilidad, escalabilidad y mantenibilidad en la normalización de tuits.
  CERI 2014 - in Fidel Cacheda and Javier Parapar (Eds.), Proceedings of 3rd Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval. Actas del III Congreso Español de Recuperación de la Información, pp. 189-192, A Coruña, Spain, 2014. ISBN 978-84-9749-591-2.
  [pdf] [bib]


• Yerai Doval, David Vilares and Jesús Vilares,
  Identificación Automática del Idioma en Twitter: Adaptación de Identificadores del Estado del Arte al Contexto Ibérico,
  TweetLID 2014. Tweet Language Identification Workshop 2014 (co-located with SEPLN 2014) - in Arkaitz Zubiaga, Iñaki San Vicente, Pablo Gamallo, José Ramom Pichel, Iñaki Alegria, Nora Aranberri, Aitzol Ezeiza and Víctor Fresno (eds.), Proceedings of the Tweet Language Identification Workshop co-located with 30th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2014). Girona, Spain, September 16th, 2014, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1228, pp. 39-43. ISSN 1613-0073.
  [pdf] [bib]

2013

• David Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Supervised polarity classification of Spanish tweets based on linguistic knowledge.
  DocEng 2013 - The Proceedings of the 13th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering. September 10-13, 2013. Florence, Italy, pp. 169-172, ACM Press, New York, USA, 2013.
  [pdf] [bib]


• David Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. LyS at TASS 2013: Analysing Spanish tweets by means of dependency parsing, semantic-oriented lexicons and psychometric word-properties.
  TASS 2013 (co-located with SEPLN 2013) - in Alberto Díaz Esteban, Iñaki Alegría Loinaz and Julio Villena Román (eds.), XXIX Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Procesamiento de lenguaje natural (SEPLN 2013). TASS 2013 - Workshop on Sentiment Anslysis at SEPLN 2013
  [pdf] [bib]


• David Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez Clasificación de polaridad en textos con opiniones en español mediante análisis sintáctico de dependencias.
  Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 50:13-20, 2013.
  [pdf] [bib]


• David Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. Una aproximación supervisada para la minería de opiniones sobre tuits en español en base a conocimiento lingüístico.
  Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 51:127-134, 2013.
  [pdf] [bib]


• David Vilares, Adrián Blanco and Jesús Vilares. Consultas con Errores Ortográficos en RI Multilingüe: Análisis y Tratamiento.
  Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 51:25-32, 2013.
  [pdf] [bib]


• Jesús Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso and David Vilares.
  Prototipado Rápido de un Sistema de Normalización de Tuits: Una Aproximación Léxica.
  Tweet Normalization Workshop at SEPLN 2013 - in Alberto Díaz Esteban, Iñaki Alegría Loinaz and Julio Villena Román (eds.), XXIX Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Procesamiento de lenguaje natural (SEPLN 2013)., pp. 76-80, Madrid, Spain, 2013.
  [pdf] [bib]

Activities

Reviewing

I'm currently an Action Editor for ACL Rolling Review

Conferences: ACL ('21 '20 '19,'18), EMNLP ('22,'21,'20,'19,'18), NAACL ('21,'19,'18), NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks ('21), COLING('22,'20), AACL ('20), AAAI ('20,'19,'18,'17), ICJAI ('19), IJCNLP ('17), CoNLL ('17)

Recognized as an outstanding reviewer at: ACL'21, NAACL'21, ACL'18.

Journals: the list of my verified reviews can be found at my publons profile

Talks

• Talk at the University of Copenhagen (AI Seminar Series, 29-11-2019): Structured (Syntactic) Prediction without Structural Representations
  
• Talk at Uppsala University (23-11-2018): Fast Natural Language Parsing
  
• Talk at Google Aarhus (13-11-2018): Multitask learning for Constituent Parsing as Sequence Labeling
• Talk at the University of Copenhagen (25-09-2018): Constituent Parsing as Sequence Labeling
  

Visits

• University of Copenhagen (from 14-09-2018 to 11-12-2018)
• Aston University (from 12-09-2016 to 12-12-2016)
• Nanyang Technological University (from 21-09-2015 to 18-12-2015)
• University of Wolverhampton (from 02-09-2014 to 14-12-2014)

Awards & Recognitions

• 2020 JSPS (Japan Society For the Promotion of Science) Posdoctoral Fellowship (declined)
• 2020 MSCA (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) Individual Fellowship (declined)
• 2020 Leonardo Fellowship by FBBVA
• 2018 Spanish National Award to Young Researchers in Computer Science
• 2018 Extraordinary Ph.D. thesis Award in Computer Science by the University of A Coruña
• IP&M 2018 Honorable Mention Paper Award
• FPU Ph.D. Fellowship by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (from 2014 to 2017)
• Plan I2C Ph.D. Fellowship by the Regional Government of Galicia (from 2013 to 2014)