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Publications

2007 Article: "Unidades Semánticas y Prosódicas para Estructurar un Corpus de Habla Espontánea en Español" in Arena Romanistica. Journal of Romance Studies, University of Bergen, Norway (ISSN 1890-4580).
2007 Proceedings (Ed.): Semantic Representation of Spoken Language 2007 (SRSL7), Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca (ISBN 978-84-611-8857-4).
With T. Declerck.
2007 Article: "Semantic Representation of Spoken Language" in Semantic Representation of Spoken Language 2007 (SRSL7).
With T. Declerck.
2007 Book: Introducción al análisis de estructuras lingüísticas en corpus : aproximación semántica, UAM Press, Madrid (ISBN 978-84-8344-069-8).
2007 Chapter: "Uso de corpus de habla espontánea en la enseñanza de la cortesía en español" in Ricerche sul Corpus del parlato romanzo C-ORAL-ROM. Studi linguistici e applicazioni didattiche per l'insegnamento di L2, Firenze University Press (ISBN 978-88-8453-568-9).
With I. Ros.
2007Corpus Linguistics 2007, Birmingham (England)
Talk: "Linguistic Analysis of Video Corpora"
With T. Declerck.
2007 Article: "La anotación del habla en corpus de vídeo" in Revista de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 38.
2007AESLA-07, Murcia (Spain)
Talk: "Los retos en el análisis de los corpus de última generación"
2007IWCS-7, Tilburg (Holland)
Poster: "Shallow Semantic Analysis of ASR Transcripts Associated with Video Shots"
With T. Declerck.
2007IWCS-7, Tilburg (Holland)
Poster: "Merging Semantics and Prosody to Structure Spoken Language"
2006VIE 2006, Bangalore (India)
Talk: "Adding Semantic Metadata to Audio-Video Material by Automatic Analysis of Complementary Sources"
With T. Declerck, P. Buitelaar, G. Ricahrd, F. Yvon y V. Svatek.
2006 Chapter: "Relating lexical items to sociolinguistic features in a spontaneous speech corpus of Spanish", in Corpus Linguistics around the World, ed. Rodopi (ISBN: 978-90-420-1836-5/4).
With J.M. Guirao, A. Gonzalez, G. de la Madrid and A. Moreno.
2006OntoImage 2006, Genoa (Italy)
Talk: "Semantic Analysis of Text Regions Surrounding Images in Web Documents"
With T. Declerck.
2005Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
PhD Thesis: Anotación y recuperación de información semántica eventiva en corpus.
Advisor: Antonio Moreno Sandoval
2005LABLITA, University of Florence (Italy)
Invited talk: "Semantic Tagging of Speech and Written Corpora for the Analysis of Event Structures (SESCO)"
2005 Chapter: "The Spanish corpus", in E. Cresti and M. Moneglia (eds.): C-ORAL-ROM: Integrated Reference Corpora for Spoken Romance Languages, ed. Benjamins (ISBN: 978-90-272-2286-2/5).
With A. Moreno, G. De la Madrid, A. Gonzalez, J. M. Guirao and R. De la Torre.
2005Workshop Cross-modular Approaches to Ellipsis, ESSLLI, Edinburgh
Talk: "Ellipsis in Spontaneous Spoken Language" (in Proceedings)
With N. Bertomeu.
2004HLT-NAACL, Boston
Talk: "Syntax to Semantics Transformation: Application to Treebanking" (in Proceedings)
With A. Moreno.
2004DFKI, Saarbruecken (Germany)
Invited talk: "Semantic Tagging of Corpora"
2004IV International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
Talk: "Orality and Difficulties in the Transcription of Spoken Corpora" (in Proceedings)
With A. Gonzalez, G. de la Madrid, R. de la Torre and A. Moreno.
2004Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística (SEL)
Talk: "Aspectos prácticos, tecnológicos y legales en la construcción de corpus de habla espontánea: la experiencia del proyecto C-ORAL-ROM" (in Proceedings)
With A. Moreno
2003 Article: "C-ORAL-ROM. Corpus integrado de referencia en lenguas romances" (in Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural, 31.)
With J.M. Guirao, A. Gonzalez, G. de la Madrid, Fernando Ares and A. Moreno.
2003Congress of Corpus Linguistics, University of Lancaster
Talk: "Relating lexical items to sociolinguistic features in a spontaneous speech corpus of Spanish" (in Proceedings)
With J.M. Guirao, A. Gonzalez, G. de la Madrid and A. Moreno.
2003V International Workshop on Computational Semantics, Tilburg University (Holland)
Poster: "Semantic Tagging System for Corpora"

Research (Projects)

09/2007 - Coast Network for Advanced Speech Technologies - ÖFAI
01/2006 - 09/2007K-Space (EU Network of Excellence) - DFKI
01/2005 - RILARIM (Spanish National project) - UAM
01/2001 - 12/2003C-ORAL-ROM (EU project) - UAM
01/2002 - 12/2002ACORDEON (Spanish National project) - UAM
09/1999 - 07/2000Spanish Treebank (NYU funded project) - UAM

Workshops/Conferences

03/2009Chair of the Workshop on the Semantic Representation of Spoken Language (SRSL-2009) in Athens, Greece
03/2009 Chair of the Workshop on the Semantic Representation of Spoken Language (SRSL-2007) in Salamanca, Spain
06/2008Organizing Committee of the VIII Congreso de Lingüística General in Madrid
04/2008Reviewer of the COLING 2008

Research Stages

10/2005 - 12/2005HCRC University of Edinburgh
Visiting worker with Mark Steedman (Grant from the Ministerio de Educación, Spanish government)
07/2004 - 01/2005DFKI Saarbrücken
PhD Student with Thierry Declerck (Grant from the Ministerio de Educación, Spanish government)

Teaching

2006 - 2007Course "Tratamiento de textos". MA in Applied Computing in the Humanities (UCLM)
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
2005 - 2006Linguistic Engineering and Creation of Linguistic Resources
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
2004 - 2005Machine Translation
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
2004 - 2005Terminology
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
2004Introduction to XML
INEM / Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Education

06/2002 - 07/2005PhD Thesis on the Semantic Tagging of Spontaneous Speech and Written Corpora
10/2000 - 06/2002Master Thesis: "Semantic Tagging System for Corpora"
09/1998 - 06/2000Degree on Linguistics
09/1996 - 06/2002Degree on Spanish Philology

Grants

01/2006 - 08/2007Postdoctoral grant at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) (Spanish government)
01/2003 - 31/2005Beca de Formación de profesorado universitario FPU (Spanish government)
08/2003Grant from the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD (German government)
01/2001 - 12/2002Grant from the European project C-ORAL-ROM (EU)
09/2000 - 12/2000Ayuda de estudios de tercer ciclo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
09/1999 - 09/2000Beca de colaboración (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)