Luz Rello / Press, Awards, Studies, Talks & Activities
Press
Interview in Telenoticies Nit, TV3 Televisión de Catalunya
(Interview at the Evening News in TV3), 26 August 2012.
Interview in El Periódico, Internet, amigo de los disléxicos by Michele Catanzaro, July 2012 (link in Catalan, link in Spanish, pdf in Catalan, pdf in Spanish)
E-Notícies Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Dyseggxia, una aplicació per a dispositius mòbils per a nens dislèxics, July 2012 (link in Catalan)
E-Notícies Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Beca Google Anita Borg Memorial per a una investigadora del DTIC, June 2011 (link in Catalan)
Interview for El Público, El buscador perfecto en español, by José María Mateos, March 2010 (link in Spanish)
News related to VI Arquímedes National Research Championship in Tribuna Complutense (pdf) and Puerta de Madrid (pdf)
Grants & Awards
Santander JPI Scholar. Becas Iberoamérica Jóvenes Profesores e Investigadores, 2012.
Anita Borg Scholar. Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship: Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 2011.
(UPF Interview catalan, spanish)
Doctoral fellowship (FI-DGR) by the Generalitat de Catalunya, 2011 - 2014.
Second prize at IV MAVIR 2010 for Master Thesis on Language Technologies applied to Intelligent Systems for Multilingual and Multimedia Information Access. Funded by Corex, Daedalus, iSOCO and in collaboration with Fundación de la Universidad Europea de Madrid.
Best Student Award, International Masters in Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology, 2008 - 2010.
”La Caixa” grant for Master Studies, 2008 - 2010.
Third National Prize for Academic Excellence (first records in B.A. Linguistics) awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, 2008.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid’s B.S. Extraordinary Award, 2007.
Special Award “GESFOR GROUP. Information Technologies” and Honorable Mention in the VI Arquimedes National Contest of Introduction to University Research, Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, 2007.
Collaboration Fellowship for Undergraduate Students, Department of Linguistics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2007 - 2008.
Academic Excellence Award, Community of Madrid, 2007 - 2008.
Studies
M.A. International Masters in Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology. University of Wolverhampton and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2008-10. Grade: 9.7 / 10, First Class with Distinction.
B.A. in Linguistics. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2006-08. Grade 9.26 / 10, First Class with Distinction.
Seminars and Talks
“Elliphant: A Machine Learning Method for Identifying Subject Ellipsis and Impersonal Constructions in Spanish”
— Seminar at: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.
— Talk at V MAVIR Conference: Multilingual Information Access and Treatment, Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid, November 2010.
“Los secretos del español. La deconstrucción del verbo” (The Secrets of Spanish’s. The verb Deconstruction)
— Joint talk at Onoma’s presentation at CosmoCaixa, Madrid, February 2010.
Professional Experience
Part-time Linguistic Analyst at Molino de Ideas, Madrid.
R&D Project:
— Onoma (Intelligent Conjugator for Spanish Verbs). (El Público, Press Interview)
Linguist at Daedalus (Data, Decisions and Language), Madrid.
R&D Projects:
— STILUS (Spelling, Grammar and Style Checker for Spanish) and CLEF-QA 2008 (Cross-Language
Evaluation Forum Question Answering).
Academic Experience
Member at the Web Research Group and Natural Language Processing Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
R&D Projects:
— HIPERGRAPH (Procesado de alto rendimiento de grandes conjuntos de datos representados como
grafos), Ministry of Science.
External collaborator at the Natural Language Processing Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
R&D Projects:
— i3Media (Technologies for Creation and Automatic Management of Smart Audiovisual Contents),
CDTI, Ministry of Industry.
Member of the Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.
R&D Projects:
— MARS (Mitkov's Anaphora Resolution System), University of Wolverhampton.
— CAID (Computer-aided Multiple-choice Test Items Development), National Board of Medical
Examiners (NBME).
Undergraduate Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics, Romance and Slavic Philology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
R&D Project:
— GALANET. Site internet pour le développement de l'intercompréhension en langues romanes,
LINGUA program, European Union.
Committees
Program Committee: NLP4ITA 2012 and Text Customization for Readability Symposium.
Organizing Committee of AFIJ UCM 2007 and NLP4ITA 2012.
Reviewer RANLP 2009, Student Workshop RANLP 2009, CICLing 2010, RANLP 2011, CICLing 2011 and CICLing 2012, NLP4ITA 2012.
Secondary Reviewer ACL 2011.
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