Activities
Recent talks, projects, courses
- Invited crash course on NLP in the LLM era at University of Surrey, Oct. 2023
- Panelist in EMNLP Workshop Panel (Singapore): “Pattern-based Approaches to NLP in the Age of Deep Learning”
- Invited talks for non-technical public (in Basque) about Large Language Models and Low-resource Languages in the 2023 course opening of Udako Euskal Unibertsitea (Video) and in the Zientzia eta Teknologia Fakultatean: “Mundua suntsitzean adimen artifizialak euskaraz egingo ote du?”
- Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing course at DeepLearn July 2023 and DeepLearn April 2022
- Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing course (twice a year, Winter and Summer)
- Keynote talks on “Few-shot Information Extraction is Here: Pre-train, Prompt and Entail” at several venues in 2022:
- Co-organizer of Deep Learning Inside Out (DeeLIO) workshop at ACL 2022, a workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Integration for Deep Learning Architectures (also in 2020, 2021)
Recent awards
Recent professional services
- Associate Editor for the JAIR journal (2021-)
- Member of government evaluation body (ANEP area TIC), 2020
- SemEval 2021 steering committee
- SemEval 2020 steering committee
- Action Editor for TACL (2018-2021)
- President of ACL SIGLEX (2010-2013)
- Editorial board member of Computational Linguistics (official, extra) (2011-2013)
Older activities
- Senior Area Chair for ACL 2019
- SemEval 2019 steering committee
- Co-organizer of Semantic Textual Similarity task on SemEval 2017 task 1.
- Standing reviewer for TACL (2014-2018)
- Keynote talk on “Deploying Conversational Question Answering systems in new domains” (video) at the EXPO DAQA workshop (IBM), NeurIPS conference, Dec. 2020
- Keynote talk on “Cross-linguality and machine translation without bilingual data” (video) at the Applied Machine Learning Days (AMLD), EPFL, Laussane, Switzerland, Jan. 2020
- Nomination for the best paper award at the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July, 2019.
- Keynote talk at the Conference in Computational Collective Intelligence, Hendaye, Basque Country, September, 2019
- Keynote talk at the conference of the Spanish NLP society (SEPLN), Bilbao, Basque Country, September, 2019
- Invited talk at BCBL, Donostia, Basque Country, November, 2019
- Invited talk at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, May, 2019
- Prestigious BBVA project, 2019-2021
- Three day crash course on Deep Learning and NLP in English, UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, July 2019
- Recipient of a 2018 Best PhD thesis award to his PhD student Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre by the Spanish NLP society (SEPLN), September, 2019
- Recipient of a 2018 Google Faculty Research Award
- Invited tutorial on Deep Learning for NLP, organized by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics, Pavia, May 2019 (slides)
- Invited talk on “Cross-linguality and machine translation without bilingual data” at FBK, Trento, May 2019 (slides)
- Best paper award at CoNLL 2018
- Course on Deep Learning and NLP in Spanish, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
- Invited talk at 14th China Workshop on Machine Translation (CWMT), Wuyishan, China, October 2018
- Keynote talk on “Cross-linguality and machine translation without bilingual data” at 3rd Swiss Text Analytics Conference, Winterthur June 2018 (video)
- Invited talk on Cross-linguality and machine translation with monolingual data at BBVA Data and Analytics, Madrid 2018
- ICLR 2018 paper on Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation featured at Science magazine (Nov. 2017)
- PI of European project on learning to interact with humans (LIHLITH 2018-2020)
- Invited talk at the Institute for Natural Language Processing, Stuttgart 2018
- Visiting academic, CILVR lab at NYU (Fall 2016)
- Co-organizer of the 2nd Workshop on Semantics-Driven Machine Translation at NAACL 2016
- Co-organizer of Semantic Textual Similarity tasks on SemEval 2016 (task 1 and task 2 on Interpretability).
- Senior Program Committee Member of IJCAI 2016
- Tutorial co-chair ACL-IJCNLP 2015
- Co-organizer of SSST workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation at NAACL 2015
- Senior Program Committee Member of AAAI 2015
- Co-organizer of Semantic Textual Similarity task on SemEval 2015 (task 2).
- Co-organizer of Semantic Textual Similarity task on SemEval 2014 (task 10).
- Area chair on Lexical Semantics and Ontology for ACL 2014
- Co-organizer of the Shared task of *SEM 2013 on Semantic Textual Similarity
- Invited talk at Annual Meeting of the LCT master program (2016)
- Invited speaker at the Internationa Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR2016)
- Recipient of a 2015 Google Research Award
- Guest speaker at the Escuela de Otoño, Mexico 2016
- Invited talk at the UKP group at Darmstadt in 2015
- Invited talk at the Workshop on Semantic Annotation and Processing 2014
- European project on multimodal processing (Muster 2015-2018)
- European project on machine reading (Readers 2013-2016).
- European project on semantics to improve Machine Translation (QTLeap 2013-2016).
- Double master program on language processing awarded Erasmus Mundus status (2014-).
- European project on narratives for news (Newsreader 2013-2015).
- European project on deploying semantic enrichment on digital libraries (LoCloud 2012-2014)
- Invited to the Google Workshop on Natural Language Understanding at Google Zurich 2014.
- Invited talk at JSSP 2013 (Understanding text with knowledge bases and random walks and STS - with Mona Diab).
- Invited talk at Mavir Doctoral Consortium 2013 (slides)
- My research group was awarded the Abbadia 2013 prize for advancing the normalization of Basque.
- Arantza Otegi (PhD student) wins Koldo Mitxelena 2013 prize for best technical PhD in Basque
- Local PI of CHIST-ERA project READERS on Machine Reading (2013-2015)
- Helped build Google’s dictionary for entities and ideas
- Local PI of FP7 Project PATHS on access to Cultural Heritage (2011-2013)
- Scholarpedia article about Word Sense Disambiguation
- Co-organizer of a SemEval 2012 task on Semantic Textual Similarity
- General chair and co-founder (with Mona Diab and Johan Bos) of a new conference on semantics *SEM 2012
- Invited course on the winter school on language and specch technologies WSLST 2012
- Area chair on Ontology and Lexicon for ACL 2012
- Tutorial chair for EACL 2012
- Co-organizer of TPDL 2012 workshop on Supporting Users’ Exploration of Digital Libraries
- Invited talk at the Mavir meeting, Madrid, 2011 (slides)
- Seminar at SRI, Menlo Park, 2011
- Visiting associate professor, Stanford NLP group (Summer 2011)
- PI of the co-ordinated KNOW2 project (intranet) (2010-2012)
- Participant in the Europeana version 1.0 project (euskaraz) (2010-2012)
- Participant in EC FP7 Project KYOTO (intranet) (2008-2011)
- Area chair for semantics in EMNLP 2010
- Area chair for semantics in ACL-IJCNLP 2010
- Secretary of SIGLEX (2007-2010)
- Panelist on the future of Semeval, ACL 2010, Uppsala, Sweden
- 5-day Seminar on “Semantic processing of text”, 2010, Bari, Italy (Links)
- Organizer of SemEval 2010 task WSD on a Specific Domain
- Co-editor of LRE journal special issue on Computational Semantic Analysis of Language (2010)
- Visiting associate professor, Stanford NLP group, 2009
- Invited talk at Google, Mountain View, 2009 (slides)
- Organizer of the Robust WSD task @ CLEF 2009
- Area co-chair for semantics in ACL-IJCNLP 2009
- Co-chair of HLT-NAACL workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SEW-2009)
- Area chair for word senses in EMNLP 2008.
- Organizer of CLEF 2008 tasks on QAWSD and CLIRWSD.
- Co-chair of SemEval-2007 (formerly Senseval).
- Coordination of two tasks in SemEval-2007: WSD/CLIR interaction and WS induction.
- Australian HCSNet visiting scholar in 2007. Check the seminars and video.
- PI of the co-ordinated KNOW project (intranet) funded by the Education Ministry (2007-2009)
- WSD demo for Basque
- ML features for all content words with more than 10 occurrences in SemCor 1.6. More details here. The senses can be easily mapped to other WN versions here.
- Lexico-semantic relations for Basque headwords.
- GWN tutorial on Automatic WordNet construction
- Conceptual Density in Perl
- Project related data: CESS-ECE project, MEANING project
