Leticia Cagnina

Research topics of interest

• • Optimization with bio-inspired metaheuristics.

  • Particle Swarm Optimization based-on algorithms.

  • Short-text clustering.

  • Text mining.

  • Automatic authorship attribution.

  • Author profiling techniques.

  • Automatic detection of predators in chats.

  • Opinion spam detection.

  • Early risk identification on the web.

Current Research Projects

• • Aprendizaje automático y toma de decisiones en sistemas inteligentes para la Web. PROICO 03-0620. Resol. CS-UNSL 138-2020. Technical Direction: Dr. Marcelo Errecalde. Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina. From January 2020 to December 2023. I am the technical co-director and research line director of “Minería de Textos y de la Web”.

Awards and Mentions

• • Best exposition in Workshop de Bases de Datos y Minería de Datos in XXVII Congreso Argentino en Ciencias de la Computación (CACIC 2021). Paper: “A comparison of text representation approaches for early detection of anorexia” 2021, October 4th.

  • Reviewer Awards 2018. Information Processing & Management (Elsevier) -

  • Local newspaper news (El Diario de la República from San Luis-Argentina) from 2018, October 1º.

  • ERDE 5 first place in Task 1 (Early Detection of Signs of Depression) and Task 2 (Early Detection of Signs of Anorexia) results for eRisk 2018 lab.

  • 2018 Women´s Day - CONICET and "Chicas en Tecnología" microsite - recognition to women making science.

  • Local newspaper news (El Diario de la República) about eRisk 2017 competition from 2017, May 1º.

  • ERDE 50 first place in Pilot task: Early Detection of Depression results for eRisk 2017 lab.