Organizers

Gemma Bel Enguix (II-UNAM, Mexico, gbele@iingen.unam.mx) is a researcher at the Instituto de Ingeniería, UNAM. Ph.D. in linguistics from the Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Catalunya). She is an expert in bio-inspired models for natural language and informal approaches to linguistics. Since 2016 she has worked at UNAM, in the Grupo de Ingeniería Lingüística, developing cutting-edge work in the design of Language Technologies and Artificial Intelligence. In Particular, she works on models and applications that allow computers to understand and analyze human language using statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms. She is a co-author of 7 books, and they have numerous publications in the field of mathematical and computational linguistics.

Helena Gómez Adorno  (IIMAS-UNAM, Mexico, helena.gomez@iimas.unam.mx) is an associate researcher at Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, UNAM. Ph. D. in Computer Science from the Computer Research Center (IPN). She completed a postdoctoral stay at the Grupo de Ingeniería Lingüística at the Instituto de Ingeniería of the UNAM. Her research interests are in the area of natural language processing. She has worked on question-answering systems, semantic similarity, authorship attribution, author profiling, and paraphrase recognition. She is a current member of the National System of Researchers of CONACYT Level 1. She has co-authored several journal and conference papers in the field of natural language processing.

Gerardo Sierra (II-UNAM, Mexico, gsierram@iingen.unam.mx) is a researcher at Instituto de Ingeniería UNAM, where he is the founder and leader of the Grupo de Ingeniería Lingüística. PhD in computational linguistics from UMIST, England. He has been responsible for continuous sponsored projects in language technologies. His areas of interest focus on computational lexicography, terminology, concept extraction, linguistic corpora, text mining, and forensic linguistics. He is the author of the book “Introducción a los corpus lingüísticos”, co-author of the books “Tratamiento de información textual y generación de taxonomías” and “Lingüística computacional en México: Investigación y desarrollo”, and has published over two hundred journal articles, book chapters and refereed conference papers.

Rubén Manrique is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems and Computing Engineering at Universidad de los Andes and a researcher at the CINFONIA Center. He also serves as a University Ambassador for NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute. His research focuses on natural language processing, the semantic web, and artificial intelligence. Previously, he was the IT Director at the Research Center for Development (CID) and a principal AI researcher at reconoSER ID.

Jocelyn Dunstan is a physicist working in public health,  especially interested in using machine learning and natural language processing to solve key problems. Her research focuses on clinical text mining and patient prioritization. I also lead projects with the industry. She is an academic at the Catholic University of Chile with a joint appointment between the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Mathematical Computing. She is also a researcher at the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM), the Millenium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and the Institute for Intelligent Healthcare Engineering (iHealth).

Sergio Luís Ojeda-Trueba (II-UNAM, Mexico, sojedat@iingen.unam.mx) is a Master Student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Currently, he works in the construction of corpora from social media language at the Grupo de Ingeniería Lingüística.

María Esther Reyes Alonso (Facultad de Ciencias UNAM, México, estherra@ciencias.unam.mx) is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in mathematics at Facultad de Ciencias UNAM. Her interests are in the area of natural language processing.

Jessica Barco (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa, Mexico, jessbarco13@gmail.com) is currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Linguistics at the Iztapalapa campus of UAM, Mexico. Her areas of interest include natural language processing, such as sentiment analysis and its applications.

Edgar Lee (Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM, México, edgar.lee@politicas.unam.mx). He is currently pursuing his bachelor's degree in anthropology with a major in social anthropology, driven by an interest in quantitative research with social implications. coming soon