My main area of expertise is Natural Language Processing (morphological analysis, parsing, word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling, information extraction, named entity recognition and linking).

PhD in Natural Language Processing. "Towards Robustness in Natural Language Understanding") 2006 Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

From 1995 to 2000, I have participated in several European projects (ACQUILEX II, EuroWordNet) and Spanish projects (ITEM) in the frame of TALP research group of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya.

From July 2000 till July 2002 I worked at SPES (Larousse, VOX) which was part of the Vivendi Universal group. Mainly I was involved in the paper and electronic publication of dictionaries and encyclopedias (see Diccionarios.com).

The 1st of July of 2002 I get back to the TALP research group and joined the MEANING european project.

From March 2005 till January 2006 I worked on OpenTrad, a Spanish national project (PROFIT) to develop an open source machine translation engine based on the syntax-transfer approach.

Then I was teaching at the Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona (Computer Science) and working in the 'Linguístic Services' of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia)

The 6th of June 2006 I joined the Yahoo! Research Lab. in Barcelona. Since then I have been also working in several EU projects (Living Knowledge) and involved in big data processing using Hadoop (e.g. Semanticaly annotated English Wikipedia) and in the development of several demos exploring new semantic search approaches, e.g. Quest, TimeExplorer.