Research

My current research topics are:

• sentiment analysis
• opinion mining
• opinion question answering
• opinion summarization
• emotion detection

For a list of publications on these topics, please see the Publications section.


Together with Prof. Andrés Montoyo, Prof. Patricio Martínez-Barco and Ester Boldrini, I was an organizer (co-chair) of the WASSA 2010 (1st Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis), celebrated with the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010). 
This year, we are organizing the second edition of the workshop - WASSA 2.011 at ACL-HLT 2011, in Portland, Oregon, on the 24th of June.
Additionally, I am one of the organizers of NLDB 2011.
I was a PC member in the following events:

• eETTs 2009;
• WOMSA 2009;
• SMUC 2010;
• WASSA 2010; 
• SNMART 2011;
• SAAIP 2011;
• ICL: Workshop on Iberian Cross-Language NLP tasks at SEPLN 2011.

I was also a reviewer for the Language Resources and Evaluation journal - Special Issue on Short Texts, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing - Special Issue on Naturalistic Affect Resources for System Building and Evaluation, ACM Transactions on Itelligent Systems and Technology, RANLP 2009, NLDB 2009, SEPLN 2009, IceTAL 2010, NLDB 2011.

I've also worked in:

• textual entailment recognition
• question answering
• answer validation techniques

I am currently involved in the following research projects:

1. I am an MC substitute member from Spain in the COST ACTION ISO807 "Living in Surveillance Societies"
2. TEXT-MESS 2.0 (UA): The New Digital Media Challenges Facing Human Language Technologies (TIN2009-13391-C04-01)   
3. Procesamiento del lenguaje y sistemas de información (GPLSI) (VIGROB-100)
4. EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME SEVEN (FP7) FP7 "Meta – Analysis of Gender and Science Research”, Tender nº RTD-PP-L4-2007-1 (2008-2010)

Previously, I was involved in the following interdisciplinary project:

1. EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME SIX (FP6), National partner of the EU Six Framework Programme „FP6 –Science and Society -16, Science, Education and Careers”: „Understanding and Providing a Developmental Approach to Technology Education”. WP5 „Development of new ways of encouraging  and recruiting female students to careers in technology”  Nr.042941 (2007-2009)

I was awarded the following scholarships:

1. Scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Science, for a 3-month traineeship at the Saarland University, with the aim of obtaining the European mention on my PhD title (May-August 2010).
2. PhD scholarship from the University of Alicante (2007-2011)
3. Scholarship from the CLEF for the participation in the summer school on multilingual information access with the title "TrebleCLEF Summer School on Multilingual Information Access", celebrated between the 15^th  and 19^th of June 2009 in Santa Croce de Fossabanda, Pisa, Italy. ( summer school director Prof. Carol Peters)
4. Scholarship from the Foundation Duques de Soria for the participation in the summer courses in language technologies with the title "Técnicas de extracción y visualización de información: aplicación en la construcción de portales especializados", celebrated between the 7^th  and 11^th of  July 2008 in Soria, Spain. (summer school director Prof. Felisa Verdejo)
5. Microsoft scholarship for the participation in the summer school "EuroLAN 2007", entitled "Semantics, Opinion and Sentiment in Text", organized by the Faculty of Computer Science "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania. (summer school director Prof. Dan Cristea)