Arturo is a tenured professor and researcher at Universidad de Jaén, Spain (amontejo@ujaen.es). His research is focused on Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Text Categorization, Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Language Complexity, Constrained, and Deep Learning Language Models. He has been an organiser of past three editions of TASS workshop at IberLEF 2018, 2019 and 2020, the ALexS workshop at IberLEF 2020, the MeOffendEs and EmoEvalEs workshops at IberLEF 2021, and the past two editions of MentalRiskES at IberLEF 2023 and 2024. He is the National Expert for Spain in the European Research Infrastructure CLARIN ERIC.
She holds a Degree in Philology and serves as the Head of Digital Innovation and Reuse at the National Library of Spain (BNE). She is also a member of the Permanent Committee of the Information Technology Section at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Elena's work focuses on increasing the visibility, collaboration opportunities, and public engagement with digital cultural heritage. As Head of the Digital Innovation and Reuse Service, she is responsible for exploring the reuse and innovative applications of the BNE’s data and digital content. Her interests relate to artificial intelligence applications to digital collections, citizen science, co-creation and reuse of heritage resources as drivers for knowledge generation, innovation and collaboration.
Director of the Digital Processes and Services Division, National Library of Spain.
L. Alfonso is a professor of Computer Science, director of the SINAI research group of Universidad de Jaén, Spain (laurena@ujaen.es). He is president of SEPLN (Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing). His research is focused on Natural Language Processing, Word Sense Disambiguation, Text Categorization, Sentiment Analysis, Offensive Language, Hope-Speech… He has organized and chaired numerous congresses in the area of NLP. Likewise, he has formed and is part of numerous scientific committees of conferences and workshops in NLP.
M. Teresa is a full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Jaén (maite@ujaen.es). She belongs to the research group SINAI. Currently, her main lines of research are focused on the study and development of NLP systems applied to biomedicine and on systems based on sentiment and emotion analysis for social purposes. She is the author of more than 200 scientific publications and has directed and participated in more than 20 national and international research projects. She also belongs to important national and international research networks and is currently the PI of the thematic network of excellence PLN.NET where she has created the community DiverTLes formed by more than 140 women working and researching in NLP and which organises promotion and dissemination activities to make women in this field more visible.
Jaime (jcollado@ujaen.es) holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Data Science and Computer Engineering. He is currently a PhD student in the SINAI research group (Sistemas INteligentes de Acceso a la Información). His work has included contributions to the biomedical field, with several publications in high-impact journals and participation in related competitions, focusing primarily on Named Entity Recognition and Entity Linking tasks. His current research centers on developing Fundamental Language Models that maintain strong Linguistic Competence while minimizing reliance on memorized factual data.
Isabel (iccastro@ujaen.es ) is a predoctoral researcher in the SINAI research group at the University of Jaén. Graduated in Hispanic philology from the University of Jaén, she focuses her scientific-technological activities on the participation of projects related to digital humanities, mitigation of the gender gap in the media, detection, and mitigation of hate speech, and detection of reliability indexes in the news, performing the tasks of annotation, corpus analysis, and linguistic consultancy. It is also part of the CLARIAH-ES infrastructure, participating in the development of the Andalusian CLARIAH-AND node.
María Victoria Cantero Romero is a lecturer in the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Jaén (vcantero@ujaen.es ). She belongs to the SINAI research group. She is currently a PhD student. Her research focuses on studies and applications of PLN, from linguistics. She has also participated in several projects as PreCom and has publications on the use of language models in counter-narrative detection and in teaching Spanish as a foreign language.
Rocío (rocio.ortuno@flog.uned.es) is Permanent Professor under a Labor Contract at the Department of Literature and director of the digital humanities laboratory at UNED. She is PI of the project GRESEL-UNED (PID2023-151280OB-C22) and representative of UNED at CLARIAH-ES. Her research is focused on the cultural and literary relations between the Philippines and other Spanish-speaking countries and Digital Humanities. She has led the project PhilPeriodicals, a joint project of academic cooperation between the universities of Antwerp (Belgium) and Diliman (Philippines) for creating a digital repository of Historical Press and exploiting it for research in different areas with digital methodologies, as well as the Erasmus+ KA220 project DigiPhiLit, and the VLIRUOS-GlobalMinds project “Minority Narratives” on the representations of Muslims and Chinese in Philippine newspapers in three languages, traced with embeddings.