Research

Publications (journal articles, book chapters, and peer-reviewed conference proceedings)

Accepted, submitted & in preparation (draft upon request)

Accepted. de-Dios-Flores, Iria. The use of lexical information and the presence of interference effects in the processing of complement control constructions in Spanish.
Submitted. LLMs for Galician.
Submitted. The selectivity and interpretation of NPI illusions.
Submitted. Emotional words and agreement dependencies.
In preparation. The time-course of NPI illusions.
In preparation. Dependency resolution in Spanish: interference effects at the interface of anaphora and agreement.

Published

de-Dios-Flores, Iria, Silvia Paniagua Suárez, Cristina Carbajal Pérez, Daniel Bardanca Outeiriño, Marcos Garcia and Pablo Gamallo. 2024. CorpusNÓS: A massive Galician corpus for training large language models. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese - ACL Anthology (Volume 1), 593-599 (link).
Daniel Bardanca Outeirinho, Pablo Gamallo Otero, Iria de-Dios-Flores and José Ramom Pichel Campos. 2024. Exploring the effects of vocabulary size in neural machine translation: Galician as a target language. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese - ACL Anthology (Volume 1), 600–604 (link).
de-Dios-Flores, Iria, Juan Pablo Garcia Amboage & Marcos Garcia. 2023. Dependency resolution at the syntax-semantics interface: psycholinguistic and computational insights on control dependencies. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 203-222. (link)
de-Dios-Flores, Iria, José Ramom Pichel, Adina I. Vladu & Pablo Gamallo. 2023. Language technologies for a multilingual public administration in Spain. Journal of Language and Law, 79, 78-97. (link)
García, Sofía & Iria de-Dios-Flores. 2023. A BLARK for minoritized languages in the era of deep learning: expertise from academia and industry. Research report for the European Language Equality Project funded by the Strategic research, innovation and implementation agenda for achieving full digital language equality in Europe by 2030. (link)
de-Dios-Flores, Iria & Marcos Garcia. 2022. A computational psycholinguistic evaluation of the syntactic abilities of Galician BERT models at the interface of dependency resolution and training time. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 69, 15-26. (link)
Gamallo, Pablo, Marcos Garcia & Iria de-Dios-Flores. 2022. Evaluating Contextualized Vectors from Large Language Models and Compositional Strategies. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 69, 153-164. (link)
Garcia, Marcos, Pablo Gamallo, Martín Pereira-Fariña & Iria de-Dios-Flores. 2022. An exploration of the semantic knowledge in vector models: polysemy, synonymy and idiomaticity. In Alonso, M. et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Spanish Association for Natural Language Processing. CEUR Workshop Proceedings vol. 3224, 35-38. (link)
Pichel, José Ramom, Iria de-Dios-Flores, Pablo Gamallo & Marco Neves. 2022. The Paz-Andrade law and the use of Portuguese for automatic translation into Galician [Original title in Portuguese: A lei Paz-Andrade e o aproveitamento do Português para a traduçao automática em galego]. Journal of Language and Law 78, 35-55. (link)
Ortega, John E., Iria de-Dios-Flores, Pablo Gamallo & José Ramom Pichel. 2022. A Neural Machine Translation System for Galician from Transliterated Portuguese Text. In Alonso, M. et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Spanish Association for Natural Language Processing. CEUR Workshop Proceedings vol. 3224, 92-95. (link)
Vladu, Adina Ioana, Iria de-Dios-Flores, Carmen Magariños, John E. Ortega, José Ramom Pichel, Marcos Garcia, Pablo Gamallo, Elisa Fernández Rei, Alberto Bugarín, Manuel González González, Senén Barro, Xosé Luis Regueira. 2022. Proxecto Nós: Artificial Intelligence at the Service of the Galician Language. In Alonso, M. et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Spanish Association for Natural Language Processing. CEUR Workshop Proceedings vol. 3224, 26-30. (link)
de-Dios-Flores, Iria, Carmen Magariños, Adina Ioana Vladu, John E. Ortega, José Ramom Pichel, Marcos Garcia, Pablo Gamallo, Elisa Fernández Rei, Alberto Bugarín-Diz, Manuel González González, Senén Barro and Xosé Luis Regueira. 2022. The Nós Project: Opening routes for the Galician language in the field of language technologies. Proceedings of the TDLE Workshop @LREC2022 (52–61). (link)
Ortega, John E., Iria de-Dios-Flores, José Ramom Pichel, & Pablo Gamallo. 2022. Revisiting CCNet for High-Quality Galician Texts. In Pinheiro et al. (eds.) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (407-412). Switzerland: Springer Nature. ISBN: 978-3-030-98305-5. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98305-5. (link)
Ortega, John E., Iria de-Dios-Flores, José Ramom Pichel, & Pablo Gamallo. 2022. A Neural Machine Translation System for Spanish to Galician through Portuguese Transliteration. PROPOR2022 Conference proceedings. (link)
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2021. Grammatical illusions in the processing of long-distance anaphoric dependencies. eAESLA - Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada & Instituto Cervantes (51-65). ISSN: 2444-197X. (link)
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2020. Interference in sentence processing: the case of negation. In Guerrero, P. et al. (Eds.), Advances in English and American Studies: current developments, future trends (93-103). Córdoba: UCO Press ISBN: 978-84-9927-546-8. (link)
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2019. Processing sentences with multiple negations: grammatical structures that are perceived as unacceptable. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2346. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02346. (link)
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2019. Exploring grammatical illusions in the context of anaphora and agreement (published abstract). In Camoiras-Rodríguez et al. (eds.), Libro de Resumos do VI Encontro da Mocidade Investigadora (26). Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. ISBN: 978-84-09-12264-6. (link)
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2017. Grammatical illusions: what are they, and how can they provide a better understanding of the human language capacity? (published abstract). In Busto-Ulloa et al. (eds.), Libro de Resumos do IV Encontro da Mocidade Investigadora (265-266). Santiago de Compostela: Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico (USC). (link)
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2016. "More People Have presented in Conferences than I Have". Comparative Illusions: When Ungrammaticality Goes Unnoticed. In Ibarrola-Armendariz, A. & Ortiz de Urbina Arruabarrena, J. (Eds.), On the move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies (219-227). Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, Servicio de Publicaciones. (link)
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2015. Introdución á psicolingüística: obxecto de estudo, métodos e principais debates (Colección Unidades Didácticas). Santiago de Compostela: Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. (link)

Research and development projects (only active ones)

2022-2026: Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research (MultiplEYE). PIs: Nora Hollenstein & Lena Jäger. Funded by: European Cooperation in Science and Technology Cost Action. Role: member of the working groups on "Enabling eye-tracking data collection" and "Eye-tracking for psycholinguistic research questions".
2021-2026: An exploration of the semantic knowledge in vector models: polysemy, synonymy and idiomaticity. PI: Marcos Garcia. Funded by: Xunta de Galicia. Role: research team.
2023-2025. Linguistically motivated strategies for unsupervised machine translation PI: Marcos Garcia. Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Role: research team.
2023. A BLARK for minority languages in the era of deep learning. Expertise from academia and industry. Funded by: European Language Equality project within the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (European Union). Role: scientific advisor.
2021-2024: The Nós Project. Galician in the society and economy of artificial intelligence. PIs: Pablo Gamallo, Elisa Fernández, Alberto Bugarín and Manuel González. Funded by: Xunta de Galicia and Spanish Government's PERTE-Nueva economía de la lengua. Role: research team.
2020-2023. Representation and processing of grammatical gender: phonological and lexico-semantic effects in gender congruency and agreement. PIs: J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña & Isabel Fraga. Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Role: research team.

Theses

MA. 2022. Tracking the difficulties in the use of spatial prepositions in English as a foreign language: a large-sample experimental investigation at different levels of proficiency.
PhD. 2021. Processing long-distance dependencies: an experimental investigation of grammatical illusions in English and Spanish. (link)
MA. 2014. Constructional networks and relations among constructions: Relative clauses as a case in point.
BA. 2013. The Role of Conceptual Transfer in the Acquisition of English Prepositions in, on and at by Galician L1 Speakers.

Conference presentations

de-Dios-Flores, Iria, Juan Pablo Garcia Amboage & Marcos Garcia. 2023. Dependency resolution at the syntax-semantics interface: psycholinguistic and computational insights on control dependencies. Talk at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto.
Ortega, John E., Iria de-Dios-Flores, Pablo Gamallo & José Ramom Pichel. 2022. A Neural Machine Translation System for Galician from Transliterated Portuguese Text. Talk at the SEPLN2022 conference. A Coruña.
Garcia, Marcos, Pablo Gamallo, Martín Pereira-Fariña & Iria de-Dios-Flores. 2022. An exploration of the semantic knowledge in vector models: polysemy, synonymy and idiomaticity. Talk at the SEPLN2022 conference. A Coruña.
Vladu, Adina Ioana, Iria de-Dios-Flores, Carmen Magariños, John E. Ortega, José Ramom Pichel, Marcos Garcia, Pablo Gamallo, Elisa Fernández Rei, Alberto Bugarín, Manuel González González, Senén Barro, Xosé Luis Regueira. 2022. Proxecto Nós: Artificial Intelligence at the Service of the Galician Language. Talk at the SEPLN2022 conference. A Coruña.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria & Marcos García. 2022. A computational psycholinguistic evaluation of the syntactic abilities of Galician BERT models at the interface of dependency resolution and training time. Talk at the SEPLN2022 conference. A Coruña.
Gamallo, Pablo, Marcos Garcia & Iria de-Dios-Flores. 2022. Evaluating Contextualized Vectors from Large Language Models and Compositional Strategies. Talk at the SEPLN2022 conference. A Coruña.
Magariños, Carmen, Iria de-Dios-Flores, Ioana Adina Vladu, José Ramom Pichel, Marcos Garcia, Pablo Gamallo, Elisa Fernández Rei, Alberto Bugarín, Manuel González González, Senén Barro, Xosé Luis Regueira. 2022. Proxecto Nós: O Galego na sociedade e economía da intelixencia artificial. Poster presented at the III INTELE Workshop. Madrid.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria, Carmen Magariños, Adina Ioana Vladu, John E. Ortega, José Ramom Pichel, Marcos Garcia, Pablo Gamallo, Elisa Fernández Rei, Alberto Bugarín-Diz, Manuel González González, Senén Barro and Xosé Luis Regueira. 2022. The Nós Project: Opening routes for the Galician language in the field of language technologies. Talk at the LREC Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality. Marseille.
Lucía Vieitez, Isabel Padrón, Iria de-Dios-Flores & Isabel Fraga. 2022. Lenguaje y emoción. Diferencias individuales en el procesamiento gramatical y emocional. Talk presented at the L Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística. CCHS-CSIC, Madrid.
Ortega, John E., Iria de-Dios-Flores, José Ramom Pichel, & Pablo Gamallo. 2022. A Neural Machine Translation System for Spanish to Galician through Portuguese Transliteration. Demonstration presented at the 15th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese. University of Fortaleza / hybrid, Brasil.
Ortega, John E., Iria de-Dios-Flores, José Ramom Pichel, & Pablo Gamallo. 2022. Revisiting CCNet for High-Quality Galician Texts. Poster presented at 15th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese. University of Fortaleza / hybrid, Brasil.
Muller, Hanna, Iria de-Dios-Flores & Colin Phillips. 2021. Illicit scope interpretations are not the cause of NPI illusions. They might be a consequence. Talk presented at the conference Linguistic Illusions in Sentence Processing. Universität Konstanz, Alemania.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria & Carlos Acuña-Fariña. 2021. Lexical control in Spanish obligatory complement control constructions: examining the contrast between subject and object control verbs. Talk presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Athens, Greece (online).
de-Dios-Flores, Iria, Hanna Muller & Colin Phillips. 2021. Negative polarity item illusions reflect scalar inferences, not mis-retrieval. Talk presented at the XV International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, Madrid (Spain).
de-Dios-Flores, Iria, Carlos Acuña-Fariña, Simona Mancini & Manuel Carreiras. 2021. Interference in the processing of complement control: an eye-tracking study on lexically determined long-distance dependencies. Short talk at the 34th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Pennsylvania (online).
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2021. Grammatical illusions in the processing of long-distance anaphoric dependencies. Talk at the 38th conferencia internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA). Universidade da Coruña (online).
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2020. The use of lexical information and the presence of interference effects in the processing of complement control constructions in Spanish. Talk presented at the 56th Linguistics Colloquium.
Muller, Hanna, Iria de-Dios-Flores, Celeste Joy, Philip Resnik & Colin Phillips. 2020. An environment-based account of negative polarity illusions. Talk presented at the conference The Processing of Negation and Polarity. Berlin, Germany.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria, Carlos Acuña-Fariña, Simona Mancini & Manuel Carreiras. 2020. Processing lexically-based dependencies: an eye-tracking study on verbal control. Poster presented at AMLaP-Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Potsdam, Germany.
Muller, Hanna, Celeste Joly, Iria de-Dios-Flores, Philip Resnik & Colin Phillips. 2020. Timing and (mis)interpretation of NPI illusions. Poster presented at the 33rd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Amherst, USA.
Muller, Hanna, Iria de-Dios-Flores & Colin Phillips, C. 2019. Not (just) any licensors cause negative polarity illusions. Talk at the conference Psycholinguistics in Iceland – Parsing and Prediction. Reykjavík, Iceland.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria, Simona Mancini, Carlos Acuña-Fariña & Manuel Carreiras. 2019. Eye-tracking the use of control information in null subject-antecedent dependencies. Poster presented at the XIV International Symposium of Psycholinguistics. Tarragona, Spain.
Muller, Hanna, Iria de-Dios-Flores & Colin Phillips. 2019. Not (just) any licensors cause negative polarity illusions. Poster presented at the 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Boulder, USA.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2018. Interference in Sentence Processing: When Multiple Negations Render Grammatical Sentences Unacceptable. Talk presented at the 42nd AEDEAN Conference. Córdoba, España.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2018. Interference in the processing of grammatical sentences: the case of multiple negations. Poster presented at AMLaP-Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Berlin, Germany.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2018. When people fail to notice agreement violations: a project on anaphoric dependencies. Talk at the 2nd International Postgraduate Psycholinguistics Workshop. Braga, Portugal.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2018. Exploring grammatical illusions in the context of anaphora and agreement. Talk at the VI Meeting of Young Researchers at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
Muller, Hanna, Iria de-Dios-Flores & Colin Phillips. 2018. No-licensors yield NPI illusions, but not-licensors don’t. Talk at ECO-5 Workshop. University of Massachusetts Amherst, EEUU.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2017. Processing multiple negations: grammatical structures that are perceived as unacceptable. Talk at the 7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English. Vigo, Spain.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria, Carlos Acuña-Fariña & Manuel Carreiras, M. 2017. Processing long distance dependencies: exploring null subject-antecedent relations. Talk at the Workshop on Syntax Processing (University of Trento - Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science).
de-Dios-Flores, Iria, Hanna Muller & Colin Phillips, C. 2017. Negative polarity illusions: licensors that don't cause illusions, and blockers that do. Poster presented at the 30th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (MIT), Boston, EEUU.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria & Carlos Acuña-Fariña. 2016. Cue-based interference in the processing of polarity. Poster presented at AMLaP-Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Bilbao, Spain.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2016. Illusions of (un)grammaticality: the processing of negative polarity as a case in point. Talk at the Santiago-Minho Psycholinguistics Workshop.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2016. Grammatical illusions: what are they, and how can they provide a better understanding of the human language capacity?. Paper presented at the IV Meeting of Young Researchers at the USC.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2015. "More people have presented in conferences than I have." Comparative illusions: when ungrammaticality goes unnoticed. Paper presented at the 39th International AEDEAN Conference. Bilbao, Spain.

Invited talks and workshops

de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2023. Exploring linguistic knowledge in large language models. Invited talk for the Spanish NLP Association (Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural). C-SEPLN series, online.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2023. Dependency resolution beyond morphosyntax: psycholinguistic and computational insights on verbal control in Spanish (and Galician). Invited talk at the Leiden Institute For Brain And Cognition. Universiteit Leiden.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2023. Linguistic, psycholinguistic, and computational insights on verbal control in Spanish. Invited keynote talk at the Conference of the Spanish Linguistics Society. Universidad de Murcia.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2023. Experimenting with control verbs. From human sentence processing to artificial language models. Invited talk at the International Workshop Modelling the linguistic architecture of English: cognitive and empirical developments. Universidade de Vigo.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2022. Language technologies: a view from Galician. Invited talk at the Spain AI event. Galicia Supercomputing Center.
Gamallo, Pablo & Iria de-Dios-Flores. 2022. Twitter Scraping for Sentiment Analysis. Invited workshop at the 9th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria & Adina Vladu. 2022. Language resources and annotation. Invited workshop at the Summer School "Language technologies: languages in the digital society and economy". Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2021. The footprint of grammatical illusions: some examples and reflections. Invited talk at the Research Lectures organized by Psycholinguistic Research Group - University of Minho. Braga, Portugal.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2021. Negative Polarity Item illusions: Experimental and theoretical insights. Invited talk at the 26th Research Seminar from the English Linguistics Circle. Online.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2019. Que son as ilusións gramaticais?. Invited talk at the First Multidisciplinary Research Meeting organized by the research group Cognitive Processes and Behaviour. Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2019. Grammatical illusions: what can they tell us about the relationship between grammar and parsing?. Invited talk at the Psycholinguistic Research Group - University of Minho. Braga, Portugal.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2018. Introductory course on linguistic theory: Construction-based approaches to language. Invited talk at the Basque Center for Cognition, Brain and Language, Donostia, Spain.
de-Dios-Flores, Iria. 2017. Grammatical illusions: a gateway into the role of grammar in sentence processing. Invited talk at the Advanced seminar on language processing of the University Master on Theoretical and Experimental linguistics (UPV/EHU).

Afterword

I am grateful and deeply humbled that you've taken the time to read through this list of works. Please, reach out if you've found something of common interest and would like to talk about it!