My main area of expertise is Natural Language Processing. I have worked mainly on morphological analysis, parsing, word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling and information extraction.

PhD in Natural Language Processing. PhD Thesis Title: "Towards Robustness in Natural Language Understanding") 2006 Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Donosti, Spain.

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 also 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.