• Building a New Sentiment Analysis Dataset for Uzbek Language and Creating Baseline Models 

      Kuriyozov, Elmurod; Matlatipov, Sanatbek (2019-08-02)
      [Abstract] Making natural language processing technologies available for low-resource languages is an important goal to improve the access to technology in their communities of speakers. In this paper, we provide the first ...
    • Clasificación de polaridad en textos con opiniones en español mediante análisis sintáctico de dependencias 

      Vilares, David; Alonso, Miguel A.; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 2013)
      [Resumen]: En este artículo se describe un sistema de minería de opiniones que clasifica la polaridad de textos en español. Se propone una aproximación basada en PLN que conlleva realizar una segmentación, tokenización y ...
    • Construcción de una lista de colocaciones para medir la competencia colocacional 

      Orol-González, Ana (Centro Virtual Cervantes, 2015)
      [Abstrac] The aim of this work is to create a list of Spanish collocations with assessment purpose. For the creation of this list we have followed a set of previously established criteria which are based on lists of frequent ...
    • Creación de un treebank de dependencias universales mediante recursos existentes para lenguas próximas: el caso del gallego 

      García, Marcos; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos; Alonso, Miguel A. (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 2016-09)
      [Resumen] En este trabajo presentamos una nueva estrategia para crear treebanks de lenguas con pocos recursos para el análisis sintáctico. El método consiste en la adaptación y combinación de diferentes treebanks anotados ...
    • Dependency parsing with bottom-up Hierarchical Pointer Networks 

      Fernández-González, Daniel; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Elsevier, 2023-03)
      [Abstract] Dependency parsing is a crucial step towards deep language understanding and, therefore, widely demanded by numerous Natural Language Processing applications. In particular, left-to-right and top-down transition-based ...
    • Developing Open-Source Roguelike Games for Visually-Impaired Players by Using Low-Complexity NLP Techniques 

      Fernández-Núñez, Luis; Penas, Darío; Viteri Letamendía, Jorge; Vilares, Jesús (MDPI, 2020-08-19)
      [Abstract] The prominent graphic component of video games greatly limits the accessibility of thistype of entertainment by visually impaired users. We make here an overview of the first gamesdeveloped within an initiative ...
    • Discontinuous grammar as a foreign language 

      Fernández-González, Daniel; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Elsevier, 2023-03)
      [Abstract] In order to achieve deep natural language understanding, syntactic constituent parsing is a vital step, highly demanded by many artificial intelligence systems to process both text and speech. One of the most ...
    • Discovering Topics in Twitter About the COVID-19 Outbreak in Spain 

      Agüero-Torales, Marvin M.; Vilares, David; López-Herrera, Antonio G. (Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 2021)
      [Resumen] En este trabajo, analizamos lo que los usuarios han estado discutiendo en Twitter durante el comienzo de la pandemia causada por el COVID-19. Concretamente, analizamos tres fases diferenciadas de la crisis del ...
    • Faster shift-reduce constituent parsing with a non-binary, bottom-up strategy 

      Fernández-González, Daniel; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Elsevier B.V., 2019-10)
      [Absctract]: An increasingly wide range of artificial intelligence applications rely on syntactic information to process and extract meaning from natural language text or speech, with constituent trees being one of the ...
    • How important is syntactic parsing accuracy? An empirical evaluation on rule-based sentiment analysis 

      Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos; Alonso-Alonso, Iago; Vilares, David (Springer, 2019)
      [Abstract]: Syntactic parsing, the process of obtaining the internal structure of sentences in natural languages, is a crucial task for artificial intelligence applications that need to extract meaning from natural language ...
    • Intelligent retrieval for biodiversity 

      Vilares Ferro, Manuel; Fernández, Milagros; Blanco, Adrián; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (2016-02)
      [Abstract] A knowledge discovery and representation frame to mine contents in systems biology is described. It applies natural language processing to integrate linguistic and domain knowledge in a mathematical model for ...
    • Liberating language research from dogmas of the 20th century 

      Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (2016)
      [Abstract] A commentary on the article “Large -scale evidence of dependency length minimization in 37 languages” by Futrell, Mahowald & Gibson (PNAS 2015 112 (33) 10336-10341).
    • Memory limitations are hidden in grammar 

      Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos; Christiansen, Morten H.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon (RAM-Verlag, 2022)
      [Abstract] The ability to produce and understand an unlimited number of different sentences is a hallmark of human language. Linguists have sought to define the essence of this generative capacity using formal grammars ...
    • Multidimensional Affective Analysis for Low-Resource Languages: A Use Case with Guarani-Spanish Code-Switching Language 

      Agüero-Torales, Marvin M.; López-Herrera, Antonio G.; Vilares, David (Springer, 2023)
      [Abstract]: This paper focuses on text-based affective computing for Jopara, a code-switching language that combines Guarani and Spanish. First, we collected a dataset of tweets primarily written in Guarani and annotated ...
    • Multitask Pointer Network for Multi-Representational Parsing 

      Fernández-González, Daniel; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Elsevier, 2022-01-25)
      [Abstract] Dependency and constituent trees are widely used by many artificial intelligence applications for representing the syntactic structure of human languages. Typically, these structures are separately produced by ...
    • Natural Language Parsing : Progress and Challenges 

      Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, 2018-07)
      [Abstract] Natural language parsing is the task of automatically obtaining the syntactic structure of sentences written in a human language. Parsing is a crucial step for language processing systems that need to extract ...
    • New Treebank or Repurposed? On the Feasibility of Cross-Lingual Parsing of Romance Languages with Universal Dependencies 

      García, Marcos; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos; Alonso, Miguel A. (Cambridge University Press, 2018-01)
      [Abstract] This paper addresses the feasibility of cross-lingual parsing with Universal Dependencies (UD) between Romance languages, analyzing its performance when compared to the use of manually annotated resources of the ...
    • On the Feasibility of Character n-Grams Pseudo-Translation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval Tasks 

      Vilares, Jesús; Vilares Ferro, Manuel; Alonso, Miguel A.; Oakes, Michael P. (2016-03)
      [Abstract] The field of Cross-Language Information Retrieval relates techniques close to both the Machine Translation and Information Retrieval fields, although in a context involving characteristics of its own. The present ...
    • On the performance of phonetic algorithms in microtext normalization 

      Doval, Yerai; Vilares Ferro, Manuel; Vilares, Jesús (Elsevier, 2018-12-15)
      [Abstract]: User–generated content published on microblogging social networks constitutes a priceless source of information. However, microtexts usually deviate from the standard lexical and grammatical rules of the language, ...
    • On the Use of Parsing for Named Entity Recognition 

      Alonso, Miguel A.; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos; Vilares, Jesús (MDPI, 2021-01-25)
      [Abstract] Parsing is a core natural language processing technique that can be used to obtain the structure underlying sentences in human languages. Named entity recognition (NER) is the task of identifying the entities ...