Research Research interests My main research interest is Intelligent Search, including Search Engines, Search Assistants, Natural Language Processing Tools for Text Mining and Retrieval, and evaluation methodologies. Relevant topics include Multilingual Information Access, Information Synthesis and Summarization, semantic networks (wordnets, lexical acquisition, web as corpus, word sense disambiguation, semantic web), web search engines (clustering and visualization of search results, portal search engines, vertical search engines), Digital Libraries. Member of program committees - Program co-chair for the 10th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2006)
- Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) scientific committee (up to 2009).
- Co-organizer of the CLEF Interactive Track (up to 2009).
- ACM SIGIR (ACM Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval), 2002-2010.
- HLT (Human Language Technology Conference) 2005
- ECIR (European Conference on Information Retrieval) 2005-2010.
- ECDL (European Conference on Digital Libraries) 2005
- Global Wordnet Association 2006, 2002.
- ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) 2004 (poster/demo sessions) and 2003
- RIAO 2004.
- SEPLN (Sociedad Espanola para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural) 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
- JBIDI (Jornadas sobre Bibliotecas Digitales) 2005.
- ESTAL (Espana for Natural Language Processing) 2004
- Program co-chair for the ACL'2000 workshop on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval., Hong-Kong, October 2000 (together with Judith Klavans).
- Program Co-Chair, IBERAMIA 2002 Workshop on Multilingual Information Access, Sevilla (together with Anselmo Peñas).
Ontolex 2002 Former Ph.D. students - Anselmo Peñas. Web Site Term Browser: un sistema interactivo y multilingüe de búsqueda textual basado en técnicas lingüísticas. UNED, June 2001. Premio extraordinario de doctorado. Premio SEPLN a la mejor monografía, 2004.
- Fernando López-Ostenero. Un sistema interactivo para la búsqueda de información en sistemas desconocidos por el usuario. UNED, Diciembre 2002. Premio extraordinario de doctorado.
- David Fernández Amoros. Anotacion semantica no supervisada. UNED, Noviembre 2004.
- Enrique Amigó, Un asistente para la síntesis de información, UNED, 2006. Premio SEPLN a la mejor monografía, 2008.
- Irina Chugur, Proximidad semántica a través de relaciones entre sentidos: enriquecimiento de redes léxico-semánticas. UNED, 2007. Premio extraordinario de doctorado.
- Juan Cigarrán, Organización de resultados de búsqueda mediante análisis formal de conceptos, UNED, 2008. Premio extraordinario de doctorado.
- Javier Artiles, Web People Search, UNED, 2009.
Current Ph.D. students - Víctor Peinado (Multilingual, Multimedia Information Access)
- Celina Santamaría.(Web 2.0 as corpus)
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