versión en españolLYS is a leading interdisciplinary research group at the University of A Coruña that drives innovation at the intersection of language and technology. Composed of specialists in General Linguistics, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence, the group combines more than three decades of experience with a strong commitment to scientific, technological, and societal impact.
Its work focuses on key areas such as Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, and Language Technologies—strategic fields in the development of artificial intelligence. From this position, LYS contributes to the generation of advanced knowledge and the development of applied solutions addressing real-world challenges in areas such as digital communication, information management, and human–machine interaction.
The group designs and develops high-value linguistic resources and computational models capable of automatically processing, understanding, and generating language. These developments have strong transfer potential, both in collaboration with public institutions and the private sector, contributing to the creation of more accessible, efficient, and intelligent technologies.
LYS is committed to collaboration, talent recruitment, and participation in competitive projects at both national and international levels. It offers a dynamic, interdisciplinary, and results-oriented environment, ideal for researchers and professionals interested in advancing one of the most transformative areas of artificial intelligence.
At LYS, we research language to build the technologies that will define the future of communication.
LYS Group has been accredited as a Competitive Reference Group by the Regional Government of Galicia.
External evaluations of the LYS Group were conducted in 2012, 2015, 2018 and 2023 by the National Agency of Evaluation and Prospective (ANEP) and as a result it has been rated as Excellent, internationally comparable quality in its scientific field.
Our researcher Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez has been included in Stanford University and Elsevier’s World's Top 2% Scientist List.
Members of LYS group were part of the project UzUDT: Universal Dependencies Treebank and parser for natural language processing on the Uzbek Language (REP-25112021/113) funded by the Word Bank under Component 1 "Improving research excellence and commercialization" of the call "Modernizing Uzbekistan National Innovation System".
LYS Group was also a partner of the project CLASS: Development of an interdisciplinary master program on Computational Linguistics at Central Asian universities (Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education 585845-EPP-1-2017-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP).
At the international level, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez and David Vilares are members of the ELLIS Society, a pan-European network of excellence in artificial intelligence founded in 2018 that focuses on fundamental science, technical innovation, and societal impact. Members of the LYS Group were part of the European network Foundations of Trustworthy AI - Integrating Learning, Optimization and Reasoning (TAILOR). Formerly, LYS Group was a partner of ESF Research Networking Programme: Evaluating Information Access Systems (ELIAS)
At the national level, LYS Group was the co-ordinator of the Galician Network on Linguistic Resources for a Knowledge Society (RELISCO) and a partner of Spanish Network on Resources for Language Technologies (ReTeLe), Spanish Network on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Processing (TIMM), Galician Network on Lexicography (RELEX). Galician Network on Language Processing and Information Retrieval (RedPLIR) and Galician Network on Corpus Linguistics (Rede_Corpus).
Members of the LYS group were part of the UDC-Inditex Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Green Algorithms funded by the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Administration through the call for the creation of university-industry chairs (ENIA Chairs, National Artificial Intelligence Strategy), aimed at research and development of artificial intelligence, for its dissemination and training within the framework of the European Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, funded by the European Union-Next Generation EU.
Members of LYS group participate in the project coordinated by the IES Fernando Wirtz in A Coruña Creation of a pretrained language model using self-attention techniques to explore architectures that allow its use in natural language processing appllications in Galician language both in education and business, founded by the Xunta de Galicia call for technological or scientific innovation projects in the field of vocational education.
Members of the LYS group lead excellence-track high school projects in Science and Technology (STEMbach) on computational linguistics in several secondary schools in A Coruña and take part in project defense panels. STEMbach is a pioneering initiative under the Galician Strategy for Digital Education “Edudixital 2020,” aimed at fostering secondary students’ interest in scientific and technological research, encouraging a scientific, rigorous, organized, and critical mindset, as well as developing creativity, initiative, entrepreneurship, and problem-solving skills.
Members of the group work at the Faculty of Informatics and at the Faculty of Philology of the University of A Coruña