Education

• • PhD in Linguistics, Autonomous University of Madrid (2012)

Research stays abroad

• • University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA (2012).

  • National Center for Language Technology, Dublin City University (School of Computing). Dublin, Ireland (2010).

Grants

• • Postdoctoral researcher. InterTalentum UAM, Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND (2019-2020)

  • Research assistant (PhD grant), funded by Madrid Regional Government and the European Social Fund (2009-2013).

Projects

• • CLARA-MeD (Computational Linguistics Approaches to Readability and Automatic simplification of Medical Discourse) 

Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICIN, PID2020-116001RA-C33) (2021-2024).

Role: Principal investigator (PI). This is a subproject at CSIC in collaboration with Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (PI: Antonio Moreno Sandoval) and Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED; PI: Ana García Serrano) (CLARA-NLP project)

• • NLPMedTerm: Natural Language Processing for Medical Terminology (2019-2020)

Role: Postdoctoral researcher (PI). 

• • PHARES (Pharmacovigilance dans les réseaux sociaux).

Reference contacts: Cyril Grouin (LISN, CNRS), Pierre Zweigenbaum (LISN, CNRS) and Marie-Christine Jaulent (INSERM, LIMICS, Paris).

ANSM (Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament), project nº ANSM-2016-S-076

Role: Postdoctoral researcher. 

• • PVDial (Patient Virtuel Dialogant). 

Reference contacts: Pierre Zweigenbaum and Sophie Rosset (LISN, CNRS)

Funded by SATT (Société d'Accélération de Transfert de Technologies) (2016-2018).

Role: Postdoctoral researcher. 

• • CABeRneT (Compréhension Automatique de Textes Biomédicaux pour la Recherche Translationnelle).

Reference contact: Aurélie Névéol (LISN, CNRS)

ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) project nº ANR-13-JS02-0009.

Role: Postdoctoral researcher. 

• • PatientGenesys.

Reference contacts: Pierre Zweigenbaum and Sophie Rosset  (LISN, CNRS)

FUI (Fond Unique Interministeriel) project nº F1310002 P, funded by Cap Digital and BPI France (2014-2015).

Role: Postdoctoral researcher. 

• • Linguistic Analyses of Spanish Language through Linguistic Resources in Electronic Format.

Funded by Banco Santander (2013-2014).

Role: Research collaborator.

• • MA2VICMR: Improving Access, Analysis and Visibility of Information and Multilingual and Multimedia Contents Online for the Madrid Region.

Funded by Madrid Regional Government and the European Social Fund (S2009/TIC1542).

Role: Part-time researcher.

• • The Application of Spoken Corpora to Teach Spanish and Chinese.

Funded by Banco Santander (2011-2012).

Role: Research collaborator.

• • The Application of Spoken Corpora to Teach Spanish and Japanese.

Funded by Banco Santander (2009-2010).

Role: Research collaborator.

• • MultiMedica. Multilingual Information Extraction in Health Domain and Application to Scientific and Informative Documents.

Funded by the CICYT (TIN2010-20644-C03-03) (2010-2013).

Role: Pre-doctoral researcher.

• • BRAVO: Advanced Multimodal and Multilingual Answers Search: Linguistic Resources.

Funded by CICYT (TIN2007-67407-C03-02) (2007-2010).

Role: Part-time researcher.

Academic services and other professional activities

• • Since 2016, I have participated in the scientific comittee of national and international conferences such as ACL, BioNLP, COLING, LOUHI, LREC, MedInfo, MIE...

  • Scientific reviewer for journals such as ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare,  Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, BMC Bioinformatics, Journal of Biomedical Semantics, Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Language Resources and Evaluation Journal, Diálogo de la lengua, Corpus Pragmatics, Loquens, Scientific Reports...

  • Area Chair for COLING 2025 (NLP and LLM Applications track)

  • Organising committee, IberSPEECH 2012 Conference (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 21st-23rd November 2012)

  • Coordinator of the collection of web pages for the Holopedia corpus.

  • Coordinator of the collection of mobile recordings for Sigma Technologies S.L.

Last update: April 2025