Scientific Activities

Scientific Associations

I am a member of the following scientific associations:

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), since 2014.
European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), since 2015.
Spanish Research Society in Ireland (SRSI), since 2017.
Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN), since 2017.

Scientific Roles

Since August 2018, nominated officer of the Standing Committee of the SIGLEX-MWE.
Since 2016 I have the honor to be in the Editorial Board of the Phraseology and Multiword Expressions Series (LangSci Press).
[2013-2017] Management Committee member (representative for Spain) of the PARSEME COST Action
[2013-2017] WG1 vice-leader (together with Gyri Smørdal Losnegaard, University of Bergen, Norway) of the PARSEME COST Action
[2013-2017] Steering Committee member of the PARSEME COST Action

Scientific and Program Committees

WMT2018
EMNLP 2018
EAMT 2018
COLING 2018 - Reviewer and mentor (outstanding mentor recognition)
ACL 2018 - Top reviewer acknowledgement
LREC: 2016, 2018
Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018)
Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT) Workshop, collocated at RANLP 2017
MUMTTT 2017, collocated at Europhras 2017
13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2017), collocated at EACL 2017
PARSEME 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th General Meetings
NLP4TM 2016 Workshop
CICLing 2016

Workshops and Shared-Tasks

Co-organiser of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019), collocated at ACL 2019 (Florence, Italy). The workshop is co-organised with Verginica Barbu Mititelu (Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romania), Francis Bond (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Jelena Mitrovic (University of Passau, Germany), and Agata Savary (Université Françoise Rabelais Tours, France).
Language leader and annotator (Spanish team) of the PARSEME shared task on automatic identification of verbal MWEs - edition 1.1 collocated at the Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018).
Co-organizer of the Machine Translation for Academic Writing (MT4AW), collocated at the MT Summit XVI in Nagoya, Japan (co-organized with Sharon O'Brien, Michel Simard and Marie-Josée Goulet)
Language leader and annotator (Spanish team) of the PARSEME Shared-Task on automatic detection of Verbal MWEs collocated at the 13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2017).
Co-organizer of the NLP4TM 2016 Workshop (co-organized with Constantin Orasan, Marcello Federico and Eduard Barbu)
Co-organizer of the 1st Shared-Task on Automatic Translation Memory Cleaning (co-organized with Eduard Barbu, Constantin Orasan, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi, Luisa Bentivogli and Luca Mastrostefano)
Co-organizer of the PARSEME-ENeL joint workshop on MWE e-lexicons (co-organized with Agata Savary, Simon Krek and Carole Tiberius)
Co-organizer of the PARSEME Workshop on lexical encoding of MWEs (co-organized with Gyri Smørdal Losnegaard and Manfred Sailer)