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Who?
Laura Alonso i Alemany
Professor
Natural
Language Processing Group
Computer Science
Department
FaMAF (Facultad de
Matemática, Astronomía y Física)
Universidad Nacional de
Córdoba
curriculum vitae
Where?
you can reach me atoffice 283 (2nd floor)
FaMAF Haya de la Torre s/n - Ciudad Universitaria Córdoba - Argentina Phone: +54 351 433 4051 - Int. 271 Fax: +54 351 433 4054 |
but the best way to find me is definitely by e-mail,
writing to alemany at famaf.unc.edu.ar
What?
I am a member of the Natural Language
Processing research group at the FaMAF (Facultad de
Matemática, Astronomía y Física) Universidad Nacional de
Córdoba
I am also a member of the Grial research group, back in
Catalunya, where I got my PhD, and I am working about rich
representations of sentential semantics for corpus
annotation and automatic knowledge acquisition, within the
SENSEM
project.
In my PhD research I wanted to provide a model discourse structure that was useful for automated text summarization, which resulted in the thesis Representing discourse for automatic text summarization via shallow NLP. Do you want to know more?
But I have also worked in some other things, if you want
to have a more concrete idea of my work, check my publications.
What else?
Teaching
I have been teaching some courses on text
mining and I am teaching Inteligencia Artificial in the second
semester of 2009.
You may want to peruse the manual on Perl basics resulting from a short course on Perl for Linguists, but beware: it was meant for people with no programming experience and is written in Catalan.
Research beyond science
I enjoy myself talking about NLP to people who are unaware of what it can be... and can not be! I gave some introductory talks, the most recent at ELiC 2010 Workshop on NLP methods and techniques (in Spanish). I use some slides which list free tools for Natural Language Processing, and introduce the usage of some very nice tools, like FreeLing and Weka.
Together with Henk Zeevat I organized Workshop on Formal and Computational Approaches to Discourse and Other Particles, in Barcelona, on the 7th and 8th of April 2005, in succession to the workshop on the meaning and implementation of discourse particles at the ESSLLI Summer School in Vienna.