Eneko Agirre

Eneko Agirre

Full Professor

I am a Full Professor at the Computer Science Faculty of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. I am the director of the recently created HiTZ Centre on Language Technology, where I am part of the Ixa Research Group. I was the founder and first director of the HiTZ Chair on Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology, part of the Spanish “Estrategia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial”. I am Fellow of the ACL, a selective worldwide group of around a 100 research leaders and awardee of the National Research Prize on Informatics. Fellow of the AAIA. I am a full member of Jakiunde, Academy of Sciences, Arts and Humanities of the Basque Country. I have been officially appointed to the Advisory Board on Basque of the Basque Government. Several students of mine won best PhD awards, including EurAI European Artificial Intelligence PhD Dissertation Award, the Spanish PhD award on Artificial Intelligence and the Spanish PhD award on NLP.

My schedule in case you need an appointment.

Recent talks, projects, courses

Recent awards

  • Best Spanish PhD on Artificial Intelligence by Oscar Sainz, 2025
  • Fellow of the AAIA.
  • I am deeply honored to have been elected full member of Jakiunde, Academy of Sciences, Arts and Humanities of the Basque Country
  • Best resource paper award @ ACL 2024
  • Fellow of the ACL, a selective worldwide group of 74 research leaders, 2021
  • Awardee of the National Research Prize on Informatics (video and speech), 2021
  • Best European AI PhD dissertation (awarded by EurAI) to PhD student Mikel Artetxe in 2021, who also won best NLP PhD in Spain (SEPLN), and is a National Youth Research Prize on Informatics awardee.
  • LIHLITH project on Lifelong Learning for Dialogue selected as success story at CHIST-ERA meeting (project website), 2021
  • Honourable mention paper award (top 1%) at EMNLP (details), 2020
  • Outstanding Paper award (top 2%) at COLING (details), 2020
  • Won a prize in White House promoted challenge related to COVID-19 (details) 2020
  • Recipient of a 2019 Google Faculty Research Award for research on conversational QA (also in 2017 and 2018)
  • Part of the team who won the 2020 OpenCLIR Text Track Challenge (organised by NIST and IARPA)

Professional service

  • Senior Area Chair on NLP for the premier AI conference IJCAI (2026)
  • Area Chair for the EACL conference (2025)
  • Member of the Coling conference Best Paper Award commitee (2025)
  • Member of the ACL Conference Test-of-Time Paper Award commitee (2024)
  • Area committee member for CORE Conference Rankings (2023)
  • Member of the ELLIS Society, European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (2020-)
  • Associate Editor for the JAIR journal (2021-2024)
  • SemEval 2021 and 2020 steering committee
  • Action Editor for TACL (2018-2021)
  • Member of government evaluation body (ANEP area TIC), 2020
  • Co-founder of the *SEM conference series, now in it’s 10th edition
  • Usual senior area chair, area chair and reviewer at ACL conferences, EMNLP, COLING, CoNLL, IJCAI, AAAI, Neurips and ICLR

The book on WSD:

  • Word Sense Disambiguation: Algorithms and applications (Springer. Agirre, Eneko; Edmonds, Philip (Eds.) 2006 and 2007.

A cartoon in Basque about the ambiguity of baso (forest or glass). Cartoon Credit: Olariaga, berria.eus

Official research page at university, which misses many papers.