Horacio Saggion PhD., MSc., Lic. in Computer Science

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I am a Ramon y Cajal Research Professor in the TALN Group at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

My main research interest is Computational Linguistics. I work in the areas of Text Summarization, Information Extraction and Semantic Analysis.

I have 10 years research and development experience with the GATE platform.

 

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News

The Simplext Project awarded Vodafone Innovation Award.

Teaching at UPF September-December 2011 Aplicaciones Inteligentes de la Web (Web Intelligent Applications).

Recent Publications (Saggion's Publication List)

• Saggion, H., Szasz, S. A Bilingual Summary Corpus for Information Extraction and other Natural Language Processing Applications. To appear in Proceedings of ICL: Workshop on Iberian Cross-Language NLP tasks.
• Saggion, H., Szasz, S. Extracting Information from a Parallel Spanish-English Summary Corpus. To appear in Proceedings of the SEPLN Conference.
• Saggion, H.,Gómez-Martínez, E.,Etayo, E, Anula, A., Bourg, L. Text Simplification in Simplext. Making Text More Accessible. To appear in Revista de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural.
• Bott, S., Saggion, H. Spanish Text Simplification: An Exploratory Study. Revista de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural.
• Bott, S., Saggion, H. An Unsupervised Alignment Algorithm for Text Simplification Corpus Construction. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Monolingual Text-to-Text Generation. 2011.