• Left-to-Right Dependency Parsing with Pointer Networks 

      Fernández-González, Daniel; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019)
      [Abstract]: We propose a novel transition-based algorithm that straightforwardly parses sentences from left to right by building n attachments, with n being the length of the input sentence. Similarly to the recent ...
    • Lyapunov filtering of objectivity for Spanish sentiment model 

      Chaturvedi, Iti; Cambria, Erik; Vilares, David (IEEE, 2016-07)
      [Abstract] Objective sentences lack sentiments and, hence, can reduce the accuracy of a sentiment classifier. Traditional methods prior to 2001 used hand-crafted templates to identify subjectivity and did not generalize ...
    • LyS A Coruña at GUA-SPA@IberLEF2023. Multi-Task Learning with Large Language Model Encoders for Guarani-Spanish Code Switching Analysis 

      Muñoz Ortiz, Alberto; Vilares, David (2023)
      [Abstract] This paper introduces the LyS A Coruña proposal for the Guarani-Spanish Code Switching Analysis task at IberLEF2023. The shared task proposes to analyze Guarani-Spanish code-switched texts, focusing on language ...
    • LyS at SemEval-2016 Task 4: Exploiting Neural Activation Values for Twitter Sentiment Classification and Quantification 

      Vilares, David; Doval, Yerai; Alonso, Miguel A.; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016)
      [Abstract]: In this paper we describe our deep learning approach for solving both two-, three- and fiveclass tweet polarity classification, and twoand five-class quantification. We first trained a convolutional neural ...
    • LyS at TASS 2013: Analysing Spanish tweets by means of dependency parsing, semantic-oriented lexicons and psychometric word-properties 

      Vilares, David; Alonso, Miguel A.; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 2013)
      [Abstract]: This article describes the approach developed by our group in order to resolve the sentiment analysis at a global level, topic identification and political tendency classification tasks on Spanish tweets; ...
    • LyS at TASS 2014: A Prototype for Extracting and Analysing Aspects from Spanish tweets 

      Vilares, David; Doval, Yerai; Alonso, Miguel A.; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 2014)
      [Abstract]: This paper describes our participation at the third edition of the work- shop on Sentiment Analysis focused on Spanish tweets, tass 2014. This year’s eval- uation campaign includes four challenges: (1) global ...
    • LyS at TASS 2015: Deep Learning Experiments for Sentiment Analysis on Spanish Tweets 

      Vilares, David; Doval, Yerai; Alonso, Miguel A.; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (CEUR-WS Workshop Proceedings, 2015)
      [Abstract]: This paper describes the participation of the LyS group at tass 2015. In this year’s edition, we used a long short-term memory neural network to address the two proposed challenges: (1) sentiment analysis at ...
    • LyS: Porting a Twitter Sentiment Analysis Approach from Spanish to English 

      Vilares, David; Hermo, Miguel; Alonso, Miguel A.; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos; Doval, Yerai (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014)
      [Abstract]: This paper proposes an approach to solve message- and phrase-level polarity classification in Twitter, derived from an existing system designed for Spanish. As a first step, an ad-hoc preprocessing is performed. ...
    • LyS_ACoruña at SemEval-2022 Task 10: Repurposing Off-the-Shelf Tools for Sentiment Analysis as Semantic Dependency Parsing 

      Alonso-Alonso, Iago; Vilares, David; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022-07)
      [Absctract]: This paper addressed the problem of structured sentiment analysis using a bi-affine semantic dependency parser, large pre-trained language models, and publicly available translation models. For the monolingual ...
    • Not All Linearizations Are Equally Data-Hungry in Sequence Labeling Parsing 

      Muñoz-Ortiz, Alberto; Strzyz, Michalina; Vilares, David (INCOMA Ltd., 2021-09)
      [Absctract]: Different linearizations have been proposed to cast dependency parsing as sequence labeling and solve the task as: (i) a head selection problem, (ii) finding a representation of the token arcs as bracket ...
    • On the Challenges of Fully Incremental Neural Dependency Parsing 

      Ezquerro, Ana; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos; Vilares, David (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023-11)
      [Absctract]: Since the popularization of BiLSTMs and Transformer-based bidirectional encoders, state-of-the-art syntactic parsers have lacked incrementality, requiring access to the whole sentence and deviating from ...
    • On the Logistical Difficulties and Findings of Jopara Sentiment Analysis 

      Agüero-Torales, Marvin M.; Vilares, David; López-Herrera, Antonio G. (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021-06)
      [Abstract] This paper addresses the problem of sentiment analysis for Jopara, a code-switching language between Guarani and Spanish. We first collect a corpus of Guarani-dominant tweets and discuss on the difficulties of ...
    • On the Processing and Analysis of Microtexts: From Normalization to Semantics 

      Doval, Yerai; Vilares, David (M D P I AG, 2018-09-18)
      [Abstract] User-generated content published on microblogging social platforms constitutes an invaluable source of information for diverse purposes: health surveillance, business intelligence, political analysis, etc. We ...
    • Parsing as Pretraining 

      Vilares, David; Strzyz, Michalina; Søgaard, Anders; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (2020)
      [Abstract] Recent analyses suggest that encoders pretrained for language modeling capture certain morpho-syntactic structure. However, probing frameworks for word vectors still do not report results on standard setups ...
    • Parsing linearizations appreciate PoS tags - but some are fussy about errors 

      Muñoz-Ortiz, Alberto; Anderson, Mark; Vilares, David; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022-11)
      [Absctract]: PoS tags, once taken for granted as a useful resource for syntactic parsing, have become more situational with the popularization of deep learning. Recent work on the impact of PoS tags on graph- and ...
    • Prototipado rápido de un sistema de normalización de tuitsuna aproximación léxica 

      Vilares, Jesús; Alonso, Miguel A.; Vilares, David (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 2013)
      [Resumen]: Este trabajo describe el sistema de normalización de tuits en español desarrollado por el Grupo de Lengua Y Sociedad de la Información (LYS) de la Universidade da Coruña para el Tweet-Norm 2013. Se trata de un ...
    • Searching Four-Millennia-Old Documents: A Text Retrieval System for Egyptologists 

      Iglesias-Franjo, Estíbaliz; Vilares, Jesús (2016-08)
      [Abstract] Progress made in recent years has led to a growing interest in Digital Heritage. This article focuses on Egyptology and, more specifically, the study and preservation of ancient Egyptian scripts. We present a ...
    • Seguimiento y análisis automático de contenidos en redes sociales 

      Alonso, Miguel A.; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos; Vilares, David; Doval, Yerai; Vilares, Jesús (Centro Universitario de la Defensa de Marín, 2015)
      [Abstract]: La Minería de Opiniones es la disciplina que aborda el tratamiento automático de las opiniones contenidas en un texto. Permite, por ejemplo, determinar si en un texto se está opinando o no, o si la polaridad ...
    • Semantic Relation Extraction. Resources, Tools and Strategies 

      García, Marcos (Springer, 2016-07)
      [Abstract] Relation extraction is a subtask of information extraction that aims at obtaining instances of semantic relations present in texts. This information can be arranged in machine-readable formats, useful for several ...
    • Sentiment analysis for reviews and microtexts based on lexico-syntactic knowledge 

      Vilares, David (BCS-IRSG, 2013)
      [Abstract]: We describe two methods to perform sentiment analysis both on long and short texts written in Spanish language. We first present an unsupervised method based on dependency parsing which calculates the semantic ...