NLP/IR seminar

Our research group holds an internal weekly seminar on Tuesdays (12.00pm) at the lab premises (room 1.03, ETSI Informática de la UNED, c/Juan del Rosal, 16, 28039 Madrid, Spain). Talks announced here are open to external attendants.

[Note: seminars are temporarily being held as webinars; please email julio@lsi.uned.es for links and passwords if you are interested in joining in for a specific event]

Seminar Schedule for 2021

2020

December 15 - Pablo Moral (UNED) - La desinformación: el dilema de las democracias liberales

December 1 - Sebastian Hennig (OVGU) - An experimental survey of Named Entity Recognition methods in the biomedical domain

November 10 - Julio Gonzalo (UNED): An effectiveness metric for ordinal classification: formal properties and experimental results [ACL 2020 paper] [ACL 2020 video]

November 3 - Elena Campillo (UNED) NLP-UNED at eRisk 2020: self-harm early risk detection with sentiment analysis and linguistic features [CLEF 2020 paper]

October 27 - Álvaro Rodrigo (UNED): A methodology for creating Question Answering Corpora Using Inverse Data Annotation [ACL 2020 paper] [ACL 2020 video]

October 20 - Guillermo Echegoyen (UNED): Cross-Lingual Training for Multiple-Choice Question Answering [ SEPLN 2020 paper] [SEPLN 2020 video]

October 6 - Juan José Lastra (UNED): Reproducibility practices and initiative encouraged by Information Systems. [recorded talk] [slides] [Information Systems Reproducibility Guidelines]

September 29 - María Espinosa (UNED): Analyzing User Profiles for Detection of Fake News Spreaders on Twitter [CLEF 2020 paper]

June 23 - Covadonga Rodrigo (UNED): Learning ecologies and service learning research to improve the performance of on-line students with disabilities

June 8 - Seren Yenikent and Sanja Štajner (Symanto) Psycholinguistic approaches to personality

May 26 - Víctor Peinado (Reply.ai) Mejorando la atención al cliente con NLP

May 18 - Mario Almagro (UNED): eXtreme Multi-Label Text Classification

May 12 - Internal group discussion on replicability & reproducibility

May 5 - Francisco Rangel (Symanto): Build Emotional Connection with your Customers at Scale

April 21 - Julio Gonzalo (UNED): A comparison of filtering evaluation metrics (link to ECIR 2020 presentation, same topic)

March 2 - Enrique Amigó (UNED): Are we on the Right Track?: An Examination of Information Retrieval Methodologies

February 3 - Guillermo Echegoyen (UNED): Cloud Computing for NLP

January 21 - Hermenegildo Fabregat (UNED): Eating disorders on social networks

2019

December 19 - Alba García (University of Essex): Multimodal information extraction

September 30 - Alistair Moffat: C/W/L Spells "Cool": User-Based Evaluation in Information Retrieval (RMIT Melbourne)

July 25 - Felisa Verdejo (UNED): La inteligencia artificial basada en la lengua española

July 2 - Andrew Trotman (University of Otago): SIMD and Search Engines

April 30: Álvaro Rodrigo: Do systems pass university entrance exams?

March 26 Guillermo Echegoyen (UNED). An Overview of Deep Learning for NLP.

March 19 Julio Gonzalo (UNED) Contextual Word Embeddings: the new NLP Holy Grial.

March 12 Hermenegido Fabregat (UNED): Negation in Natural Language Processing.

February 26 - Ana García Serrano (UNED): Documentación multimedia inconexa: un piloto a tener en cuenta

February 19 - Karin Verspoor (U. of Melbourne). Concepts, Relations, and Queries in Biomedicine: The case for Semantic Search

February 12 - Anselmo Peñas (UNED). Project Lilith: Lifelong Learning, Knowledge Induction y Question Answering.

2018

December 18 - Andrés Duque: Into the wild. NLP research in the industry

December 12 - Irina Chugur: Lingüistas computacionales en empresas de traducción

November 27 - Ivar Zapata: Full Bayes approach to Topics over Time (ToT). Variational approximation

November 6 - Enrique Amigó: Towards a Basic Principle for Ranking Effectiveness Prediction without Human Assessments: A Preliminary Study.

July 17 - Laura Plaza (UNED): Feature Engineering for sentiment analysis in online health forums

July 10 - Elena Álvarez Mellado (U. Massachussets, Boston): Nacimiento, vida y muerte de las metáforas

July 5 - Miguel Martinez (Signal Media, London): Analysing the world's news: Learnings from Industry

July 3 - Javier Sanz-Cruzado (UAM, Madrid): Recomendación de contactos en redes sociales: más allá del acierto

June 26 - Julio Gonzalo (UNED): Bias in System Evaluation

June 19 - Pablo Castells (UAM, Madrid)): El papel de la popularidad en los sistemas de recomendación: un análisis formal

June 12 - Stephano Mizzaro: Crowdsourcing Fine-Grained Relevance Judgments

April 24 - Raquel Martínez (UNED): Overview of IberEval 2018

April 17 - Efstathios Stamatatos (U. of the Aegean): Cross-Domain Authorship Attribution

April 10 - Julio Gonzalo (UNED): Sentiment Propagation for Predicting Reputation Polarity

February 27 - Manuel Montes (INAOE, México): Atribución de Autoría: un largo y sinuoso camino

February 20 - Samer Hassan Collado (UCM, Madrid): Organizaciones descentralizadas basadas en Blockchain para impulsar la economía colaborativa

February 13 - Bernardo Cabaleiro (Lang.ai, Madrid): NLP at lang.ai

January 30 - Lourdes Araujo (UNED): Deep Learning & Keras.

2017

December 20 - Felisa Verdejo (UNED): 40 años de Ingeniería en Informática

December 19 - Francisco Rangel Pardo: Autoritas: Creando organizaciones inteligentes

November 28 - Elena González: El Laboratorio de Humanidades Digitales de la UNED

November 7 - Julio Gonzalo (UNED): Towards Performance Modeling and Performance Prediction across IR/RecSys/NLP

October 24 - Tamara Martín: Tecnologías del Lenguaje: aplicaciones y oportunidades a nivel europeo desde la perspectiva de una PyME