JESUS VILARES (PhD. Thesis / Tesis Doctoral / Tese doutoral)

PhD. Thesis

APLICACIONES DEL PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE NATURAL
EN LA RECUPERACIÓN DE INFORMACIÓN EN ESPAÑOL

(APPLICATIONS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
IN SPANISH INFORMATION RETRIEVAL)
ISBN: 978-84-693-3266-5

Presented on 20th May 2005 in

Department of Computer Science
University of A Coruña
(SPAIN)

AUTHOR:	PhD. JESUS VILARES FERRO	Dept. of Computer Science; University of A Coruña (Spain)
SUPERVISORS:	PhD. MIGUEL ANGEL ALONSO PARDO	Dept. of Computer Science; University of A Coruña (Spain)
	PhD. JOSE LUIS FREIRE NISTAL	Dept. of Computer Science; University of A Coruña (Spain)
EXAMINERS:	PhD. JOSÉ GABRIEL PEREIRA LOPES	Dept. of Informatics; New University of Lisbon (Portugal)
	PhD. JOHN IRVING TAIT	School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland (UK)
	PhD. ERIC VILLEMONTE DE LA CLERGERIE	Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt (France)
	PhD. CARLOS MARTÍN VIDE	Dept. of Romance Studies, University Rovira i Virgili (Spain)
	PhD. JORGE GRAÑA GIL	Dept. of Computer Science; University of A Coruña (Spain)
QUALIFICATION:	'sobresaliente cum laude' (with European PhD. mention)	(maximum qualification in Spanish University)

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My complete PhD. Thesis is publicly available (in our website / in RUC repository) but only in Spanish (sorry). Nevertheless, I list below the most representative (but not the only) papers in English corresponding to the content of each of its chapters. In case you have any problem, please, contact me in

and I will be pleased to send you the corresponding file.

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Jesús Vilares,
Aplicaciones del procesamiento del lenguaje natural en la recuperación de información en español,
Ph.D. Thesis, Departamento de Computación, Universidade da Coruña, Spain, 2005 (297 pp). ISBN 978-84-693-3266-5.
[Vil2005a.ps.gz] [Vil2005a.pdf] [Thesis website at RUC]

Most Representative Papers Related with this Thesis
(in English)

Part II: Single Word Term Conflation

Chapter 4: Preprocessing and Segmentation

Jorge Graña, Fco. Mario Barcala, and Jesús Vilares,
Formal Methods of Tokenization for Part-of-Speech Tagging,
in Alexander Gelbukh (ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, volume 2276 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 240-249, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 2002. ISSN 0302-9743 / ISBN 3-540-43219-1.
[GraBarVil2002a.ps.gz] [GraBarVil2002a.pdf]
Fco. Mario Barcala, Jesús Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso, Jorge Graña and Manuel Vilares,
Tokenization and Proper Noun Recognition for Information Retrieval,
in A Min Tjoa and Roland R. Wagner (eds.), Thirteen International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications. 2-6 September 2002. Aix-en-Provence, France, pp. 246-250, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California, USA, 2002. ISSN 1529-4188 / ISBN 0-7695-1668-8.
[BarVilAloGraVil2002a.ps.gz] [BarVilAloGraVil2002a.pdf]

Chapters 5-6: Dealing with Morphological Variation (Inflectional/Derivational)

Jesús Vilares, Fco. Mario Barcala, Miguel A. Alonso, Jorge Graña and Manuel Vilares,
Practical NLP-Based Text Indexing,
in Francisco J. Garijo, José C. Riquelme and Miguel Toro (eds.), Advances in Artificial Intelligence - IBERAMIA 2002, volume 2527 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 635-644, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 2002. ISSN 0302-9743 / ISBN 3-540-00131-X.
[VilBarAloGraVil2002a.ps.gz] [VilBarAloGraVil2002a.pdf]
Jesús Vilares, David Cabrero, and Miguel A. Alonso,
Applying Productive Derivational Morphology to Term Indexing of Spanish Texts,
in Alexander Gelbukh (ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, volume 2004 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 336-348, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 2001. ISSN 0302-9743 / ISBN 3-540-41687-0.
[VilCabAlo2001a.ps.gz] [VilCabAlo2001a.pdf] [bibTeX reference]

Part III: Multi-Word Term Conflation

Chapter 7.I: Dealing with Syntactic Variation through Shallow Parsing (Using Pattern Matching)

Jesús Vilares, Fco. Mario Barcala, and Miguel A. Alonso,
Using syntactic dependency-pairs conflation to improve retrieval performance in Spanish,
in Alexander Gelbukh (ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, volume 2276 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 381-390, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 2002. ISSN 0302-9743 / ISBN 3-540-43219-1.
[VilBarAlo2002a.ps.gz] [VilBarAlo2002a.pdf]
Miguel A. Alonso, Jesús Vilares, and Víctor M. Darriba,
On the Usefulness of Extracting Syntactic Dependencies for Text Indexing,
in Michael O'Neill, Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Conor Ryan, Malachy Eaton and Niall J. L. Griffith (eds.), Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, volume 2464 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 3-11, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 2002. ISSN 0302-9743 / ISBN 3-540-44184-0.
[AloVilDar2002a.ps.gz] [AloVilDar2002a.pdf]

Chapter 7.II: Dealing with Syntactic Variation through Shallow Parsing (Using a Cascade of Finite-State Transducers)

Jesús Vilares and Miguel A. Alonso,
A Grammatical Approach to the Extraction of Index Terms,
in Galia Angelova, Kalina Bontcheva, Ruslan Mitkov, Nicolas Nicolov and Nikolai Nikolov (eds.), International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings, pp. 500-504, Borovets, Bulgaria, 2003. ISBN 954-90906-6-3.
[VilAlo2003c.ps.gz] [VilAlo2003c.pdf]
Jesús Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso and Manuel Vilares,
Morphological and syntactic processing for Text Retrieval,
in Fernando Galindo, Makoto Takizawa and Roland Traunmüller (eds.), Database and Expert Systems Applications, volume 3180 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 371-380, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 2004. ISSN 0302-9743 / ISBN 3-540-22936-1.
[VilAloVil2004a.ps.gz] [VilAloVil2004a.pdf]
Jesús Vilares, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez and Miguel A. Alonso,
Managing Syntactic Variation in Text Retrieval,
in Peter R. King (ed.), Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering. November 2-4, 2005. Bristol, United Kingdom, pp. 162-164, ACM Press, New York, USA, 2005. ISBN 1-59593-240-2.
[VilGomAlo2005a.ps.gz] [VilGomAlo2005a.pdf]
Jesús Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso and Manuel Vilares,
Extraction of Complex Index Terms in Non-English IR: A Shallow Parsing Based Approach,
Information Processing & Management, 44(4):1517-1537, 2008. ISSN 0306-4573. DOI 10.1016/j.ipm.2007.12.005
[VilAloVil2008a.pdf]

Chapter 8: Dealing with Syntactic Variation through a Locality-Based Model

Jesús Vilares and Miguel A. Alonso,
Dealing with syntactic variation through a locality-based approach,
in Alberto Apostolico and Massimo Melucci (eds.), String Processing and Information Retrieval, volume 3246 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 255-266, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 2004. ISSN 0302-9743 / ISBN 3-540-23210-9.
[VilAlo2004a.ps.gz] [VilAlo2004a.pdf]

Last update: 02/12/2010.