SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES Saiz-Noeda, M.M. Izquierdo, R. 3LB-RAT: una herramienta para la anotación referencial. Iberamia 2004. Workshop on Herramientas y Recursos Lingüísticos para el Español y el Portugués. pp. 241-248. Puebla, México, 2004. Muñoz, R.; Mitkov, R.; Palomar, M.; Peral, J.; Evans, R.; Moreno,L.; Orasan, C.; Saiz-Noeda, M.; Ferrández, A.; Barbú, C.; Martínez-Barco, P.; Suárez, A. Bilingual Alignment of Anaphoric Expressions. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC'2002. Las Palmas, Canary Islands (Spain), 2002. Stamou, S.; Ntoulas, A.; Hoppenbrouwers, J.; Saiz-Noeda, M.; Christodoulakis, D. EUROTERM: Extending the EuroWordNet with Domain-Specific Terminology Using an Expand Model Approach. Proceedings of the First International WordNet Conference. Mysore (India), 2002. Saiz-Noeda, M.; Suárez, A.; Palomar M. Semantic pattern learning through Maximum Entropy-based WSD technique. Fifth Computational Natural Language Learning Workshop, CoNLL-2001. Toulouse (France), 2001. Palomar, M.; Saiz-Noeda, M.; Muñoz, R.; Suárez, A.; Martínez-Barco, P. PHORA: A system to solve the Anaphora in Spanish. Third International Conference on Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution, DAARC2000, pp 206-211 Lancaster (UK), 2000. Muñoz, R.; Saiz-Noeda, M.; Suárez, A.; Palomar, M. Semantic Approach to Bridging Reference Resolution. International Conference Machine Translation and Multilingual Applications in the New Millennium. MT2000, pp 17.1-17.8. Exeter (UK),  2000. Saiz-Noeda; M., Palomar, M.; Farwell, D. NLP system oriented to anaphora resolution. International Conference Machine Translation and Multilingual Applications in the New Millennium. MT’2000, pp 19.1-19.7. Exeter (UK), 2000. Saiz-Noeda, M.; Peral, J.; Suárez, A. Semantic Compatibility Techniques for Anaphora Resolution. International Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence for Decision, Control and Automation In Engineering and Industrial Applications, ACIDCA’2000, pp 43-48. Monastir (Túnez), 2000. Peral, J; Saiz-Noeda, M.; Ferrández, A.; Palomar, M. Anaphora resolution and generation in a multilingual system. An interlingua mechanism. Venezia per il Trattamento Automatico delle Lingue, VEXTAL’99. Venecia (Italia). pp 315-324, 1999. Suárez, A.; Saiz-Noeda, M. A method of restricted knowledge acquisition from WordNet. Third International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems, KES’99. Adelaida (Australia). pp 38-41, 1999. Palomar, M; Ferrández, A.; Moreno, L.; Saiz-Noeda, M.; Muñoz, R.; Martínez-Barco, P.; Peral, J.; Navarro, B. A Robust Partial Parsing Strategy based on the Slot Unification Grammars. Sixth Conference on Natural Language Processing, TALN’99, pp 263-272. Córcega (Francia), 1999.

NATIONAL CONFERENCES Saiz-Noeda, M.; Martínez-Barco, P; Palomar, M. Paralelismo sintáctico-semántico para el tratamiento de elementos extrapuestos en textos no restringidos. VII Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial CAEPIA’97-TTIA’97, pp 797-804. Málaga (España), 1997.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS Palomar, M.; Ferrández, A.; Moreno, L.; Martínez-Barco, P.; Peral, J.; Saiz-Noeda, M.; Muñoz, R. An Algorithm for Anaphora Resolution in Spanish Texts. Computational Linguistics 27(4):545-567, Special Issue on Anaphora Resolution. December 2001.

 

	NATIONAL JOURNALS Bisbal, E.; Molina, A.; Moreno, L.; Plá, F.; Saiz-Noeda, M.; Sanchís, E.; 3LB-SAT: una herramienta de anotación semántica. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 31:193-200. ISSN: 1135-5948. Alcalá de Henares, Madrid (España), 2003. 3LB: Construcción de una base de datos de árboles sintáctico semánticos. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 31: 297-298. ISSN: 1135-5948. Alcalá de Henares, Madrid (España), 2003. Saiz-Noeda, M.; Suárez, A; Peral, J. Propuesta de incorporación de información semántica desde WordNet al análisis sintáctico parcial orientado a la resolución de la anáfora. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 25: 167-173. ISSN: 1135-5948. Lleida (España), 1999. Ferrández, A.; Palomar, M.; Martínez-Barco, P.; Peral, J.; Muñoz, R.; Saiz-Noeda, M. Sistema de procesamiento del lenguaje natural orientado a la resolución de la correferencia lingüística. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 25:217-218. ISSN: 1135-5948. Lleida (España), 1999. Ferrández, A.; Peral, J.; Martínez-Barco, P.; Saiz-Noeda, M.; Romero, R. Resolución de la extraposición a izquierdas con las gramáticas de unificación de huecos. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 21: 167-182. ISSN: 1135-5948. Madrid (España), 1997.
	JCR SERIES Saiz-Noeda, M.; Navarro, B.; Izquierdo, R. Semantic-aided anaphora resolution in Large Corpora development . Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3230:314-372. Springer-Verlag, 2004. Muñoz, R.; Saiz-Noeda, M.; Montoyo, A.; Semantic Information in Anaphora Resolution. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2389:63-70.  Springer-Verlag, 2002. Saiz-Noeda, M.; Palomar, M.; Moreno, L. Pronoun Resolution in Spanish from Full Parsing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2166:84-91.  Springer-Verlag, 2001. Palomar, M.; Saiz-Noeda, M.; Muñoz, R.; Suárez, A.; Martínez-Barco, P.; Montoyo, A. PHORA: A NLP system for Spanish. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2004: 126-139. Springer-Verlag, 2001. Saiz-Noeda, M.; Palomar, M. Semantic Knowledge-driven Method to Solve Pronominal Anaphora in Spanish. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1835:204-211. Springer-Verlag, 2000
	BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOKS AND EDITIONS Navarro, B.; Izquierdo, R.; Saiz-Noeda, M. Exploiting semantic information for manual anaphoric annotation in Cast3LB corpus. 2004 ACL Workshop on Discourse Annotation, pp. 65-71. ISBN: 1-932432-38-8. D. Byron and B. Webber eds. Barcelona , 2004.  Saiz-Noeda, M. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Presente y Perspectivas Futuras. Ingeniería del Software en la Década del 2000, pp 191-226. ISBN: 84-9602307-9. 2003. Romero, R.; Llopis, F.; Vicedo, J.L.; Saiz Noeda, M.; Peral, J.; Ferrández, A.; Pérez, E.; Ortuño, F.; Alcalá, G.; Luján, S.; Verdú, J.L.. APRO: Diseño, planificación y aplicación de estrategias docentes para mejorar el aprendizaje de la programación. Investigación en docencia universitaria: redes de colaboración para el análisis de la práctica docente, pp. 205-234. ISBN: 84-268-1218-X. Mª Ángeles Martinez ed. 2003. Romero, R.; Saiz Noeda, M.; Verdú, J.L.; Vicedo, J.L.. TELETUVI: foros virtuales para procesos de tutorización. Espacios de investigación en la profesionalización docente universitaria, pp. 173-193. ISBM: 84-268-1227-9. G. Bernabeu y N. Sauleda eds. 2004.  Martínez Barco P.; Saiz-Noeda, M.; Clavel, J. Sistemas Informáticos Distribuidos. 170 pp. ISBN: 84-95015-53-6. Editorial Club Universitario. Alicante, 1999. Advances in Natural Language Processing. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 3230. 488 pp. ISBN: 3-540-23498-5. Vicedo, J.L., Martínez-Barco, P., Muñoz, R., Saiz Noeda, M. eds. Springer-Verlag. Berlin Heidelberg, 2004. Peñas, A. Técnicas Lingüísticas aplicadas a la búsqueda textual multilingüe. Ambigüedad, variación terminológica y multilingüismo. Colección de monografías de la SEPLN, 4. ISBN: 84-608-0218-3. Gómez X. and Saiz-Noeda, M. eds. 2004. Revista del XIX Congreso de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. ISSN: 1135-5948. Bermejo, I. and Saiz-Noeda, M.  eds. Alcalá de Henares. 2003.

PROJECTS

	EUROPEAN EUROTERM: Extending the EuroWorNet with Public Sector Terminology. REFERENCE: EuroTerm EDC-2214 FINANCE: eContent Programme. EU DURATION: from 01/01/2001 to 30/06/2002 PROJECT LEADER in DLSI: Dr. Manuel Palomar Sanz TOTAL BUDGET:  325.000 euros PARTICIPANT RESEARCHERS: 17 (10 from the UA) UA MEMBERS: MEMBERS: Dr. Antonio Ferrández, Fernando Llopis, Dr. Patricio Martínez-Barco, Dr. Rafael Muñoz, Dr. Andrés Montoyo, Dr. Jesús Peral, Dr. Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Armando Súarez, Dr. José Luis Vicedo PARTNERS: Databases Laboratory of Computer Engineering & Informatics Department of Patras University (Greece). http://www.ceid.upatras.gr CentER Applied Research, Tilburg University, Netherlands. http://infolab.kub.nl Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Alicante. http://www.dlsi.ua.es
	NATIONAL Búsqueda de respuestas en escenarios multilingües REFERENCE: TIC2003-07158-C04 FINANCE: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología. DURATION: from 1/11/2003 to 30/11/2003 PROJECT LEADER: Dr. Manuel Palomar Sanz PARTNERS: Universidad de Alicante. www.ua.es Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. www.uned.es Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. www.upv.es Universidad de Jaén. www.ujaen.es   3LB: Construcción de una base de datos de árboles sintáctico semánticos REFERENCE: FIT-150500-2002-244 FINANCE: Ministerio De Ciencia y Tecnología (PROFIT Project) DURATION: from 01/07/2002 to 31/12/2003 PROJECT LEADER: Manuel Palomar TOTAL BUDGET:  85.900 euros (year 2002) PARTICIPANT RESEARCHERS: 43 (8 from the UA) UA MEMBERS: Dr. Patricio Martínez-Barco, Paloma Moreda, Dr. Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Armando Suárez PARTNERS: Universidad de Alicante. www.ua.es Universidad de Barcelona. www.ub.es Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña. www.upc.es Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. www.upv.es Universidad del País Vasco. www.ehu.es   Desarrollo de un etiquetador semántico para textos en castellano, inglés y valenciano REFERENCE: CTIDIB/2002/151 FINANCE: Oficina De Ciencia y Tecnología DURATION: from 01/01/2002 to 31/12/2002 TOTAL BUDGET:  35.000 euros PARTICIPANT RESEARCHERS: 6 PROJECT LEADER: Andrés Montoyo UA MEMBERS: Dr. Patricio Martínez-Barco, Paloma Moreda, Dr. Manuel Palomar, Dr. Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Armando Suárez PARTNERS: Universidad de Alicante. www.ua.es   TUSIR: Desarrollo de un sistema de comprensión de textos aplicado a la recuperación de información REFERENCE: TIC2000-0664-C02-01/02 FINANCE: Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología (CICYT). DURATION: from 28/12/2000 to 27/12/2003 TOTAL BUDGET:  10.500.000 pesetas PARTICIPANT RESEARCHERS: 20 (12 from the UA) PROJECT LEADER: Dr. Manuel Palomar Sanz UA MEMBERS: Dr. Antonio Ferrández, Fernando Llopis, Dr.Patricio Martínez-Barco, Dr. Rafael Muñoz, Dr. Andrés Montoyo, Dr. Jesús Peral, Rafael Romero, Dr. Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Armando Súarez, Dr. José Luis Vicedo PARTNERS: Universidad de Alicante. www.ua.es Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. www.upv.es   Construcción de Analizadores Híbridos de Lenguajes Naturales (Construction of Hybrid Analyzers for Natural Languages Defined in Constrained Semantic Domains) REFERENCE: TIC97-0671-C02-02 FINANCE: Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología (CICYT). DURATION: from 01/08/1997 to 31/07/2000 TOTAL BUDGET:  6.000.000 pesetas PARTICIPANT RESEARCHERS: 12 (7 from the UA) PROJECT LEADER: Dr. Manuel Palomar Sanz UA MEMBERS: Dr. Antonio Ferrández, Dr. Jaime Gómez, Dr. Patricio Martínez-Barco, Dr. Rafael Muñoz, Dr. Jesús Peral, Dr. Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Armando Súarez. SUMMARY The development of systems for Natural Language processing has specific difficulties when we want to achieve a wide coverage of the language. Some well characterised linguistic phenomena (anaphora, ellipsis,...), and the phenomena characteristics of the spontaneous speech, which could produce syntactically incorrect sentences, must be considered. These problems can be raised from a deductive point of view, through the design of a language model from the linguistic knowledge, or can be raised through the application of inductive learning techniques from data. On the other hand, attending to the output that the system must supply, one of the most interesting possibility is that the system give us the meaning of the input sentences, in terms of a semantic language. This kind of semantic output could be used in later processes (translation, execution of actions, etc.). The main objective of this project is the development of language understanding systems in semantically constrained tasks. We will develop different deductive methodologies of analysis, as it is habitual in the Natural Language area, and some inductive learning techniques, which are successfully used in the Automatic Speech Recognition area. The co-operation of these two approaches will allow us to develop Natural Language processing systems more and more complex. The main aspects to be studied are the estimation of statistic regular models and the construction of context-free grammars in order to represent the characteristics of the language of the task, and the development of analyzers which supply the semantic messages of the input sentences.
	INTERNATIONAL Development of a Corpus-based integrated anaphora resolution system for Spanish and English REFERENCE: HB1998-0068 (Collaborative research project between Spain and The United Kingdom) FINANCE: Ministerio de Educación y Cultura. Dir. Gral. de Enseñanza Superior e Investigación Científica. DURATION: from 01/04/1999 to 01/03/2001 TOTAL BUDGET:  2.500.000 pesetas PARTICIPANT RESEARCHERS: 11 (6 from the UA) PROJECT LEADER: Dr. Manuel Palomar Sanz UA MEMBERS: Dr. Antonio Ferrández, Dr. Patricio Martínez-Barco, Dra. Lidia Moreno, Dr. Rafael Muñoz, Dr. Jesús Peral, Dr. Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda. SUMMARY The project will focus on the construction of a bilingual (Spanish, English) coreferentially annotated corpus and its exploitation for the development and improvement of an integrated corpus-based anaphora resolution system for Spanish and English. The new system will be built by combining key components of the anaphora resolution systems which have already been developed by each of the partners (and which have demonstrated high success rates and will benefit from the bilingual corpus with a view to achieving maximum performance. The project will naturally combine the competence in anaphora resolution of the British and Spanish sides which each have good experience in the field. The main contributions of the project can be seen in (i) the development of a new enhanced multilingual (English and Spanish) anaphora resolution system and (ii) the construction of a coreferentially marked up corpus for both Spanish and English which will be a novel resource.