News

PESCaDO Final Event, to take in Barcelona on 14 February 2013

For the past three years, PESCaDO has conducted research on delivery
of personalized multilingual environmental information from the web.

Papers at COLING 2012

TALN has two papers accepted at COLING 2012 in Mumbai, India

http://www.coling2012-iitb.org/

Automatic Text Simplification at Summer School

Horacio Saggion will present an introduction to text simplification at the Rafael Altamira Summer School on 31 July 2012. http://taln.upf.edu/content/resources/453

Defensa de tesis de doctorado de Gabriela Ferraro

El día 20 de julio a las 11:00am en la sala 55.309 del edificio Tànger de la UPF Gabriela Ferraro defenderá su tesis de doctorado: "Towards Deep Content Extraction from Sp

La investigación de una de nuestras estudiantes de doctorado aparece en el Periódico

El trabajo de Luz Rello es objeto de una nota periodística en el Periódico de Catalunya.

Simplext Project is finalist in the BDigital 2012 prize

La entrega de Premios BDigital a la Innovación Digital (10ª edición), que se celebran en el marco del BDigital Global Congress 2012, tendrá lugar el día 5 de junio en el CaixaForum de Barcelona.

Concisus Corpus Released

We are please to announce the release of the Concisus Corpus.

Workshop on Automatic Text Summarization of the Future at SEPLN 2012

The workshop Automatic Text Summarization of the Future aims to bringing together researchers and practitioners of natural language processing to address new exciting summarization challenges.

Book Published by Springer in Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing Series

Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization

Paper accepted

Lloret, E, Saggion H, and Palomar M. Predicting Opinions with Text Summaries: A Comparative Analysis within Authors. Interaction, Intelligence, Information.

TALN - oferta de beca doctoral

El grupo de Tratamiento del Lenguaje Natural (TALN) de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra http://www.taln.upf.edu oferta una beca dentro del programa de Formación de Personal Investigador (FPI) para realizar

Workshop on Natural Language Processing in LREC 2012

TALN is organizing the first Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Improving Textual Accessibility (NLP4ITA) with LREC 2012 in Istambul.

Generación automática de resúmenes: retos y aplicaciones, Seminario de Elena Lloret, Univ.de Alicante

16/11/11 de 3 pm., Ed.Tanger, Sala 55.410

TOPAS Project Succesfull Kick off!

Una tecnologia específica per a la protecció i gestió de la propietat intel·lectual. Les patents impulsen l'economia moderna a tot el món.

Simplext - Workshop del Proyecto Simplext - 21 Noviembre 2011

El primer Workshop del proyecto Simplext tendrá lugar en el Salón de Actos de la sede de Fundación ONCE el próximo 21 de noviembre de 2011.

TALN to present research at SEPLN 2011 in Huelva

TALN will present various papers, posters, and demos at the SEPLN main conference and associated workshops.

Simplext Project awarded Vodafone Innovation Award

Text simplification is the process of transforming a text into an equivalent which is more understandable by a target audience. The Simplext project aims at developing the first text

Presentation at NLDB 2011

In this talk I will give an overview of research in the area of Natural Language Processing aiming at facilitating access to textual information online.

TALN at ACL Workshop

We will be presenting our work on text alignment and simplification at the ACL Workshop on
Monolingual Text-to-Text Generation.

TALN at Défi Fouille de Textes

We have participated in the DEFT 2011 French evaluation campaign with the SUMMA system producing a highly accurate system.

Simplext in the News

TALN project Simplext is developing technology to help people with cognitive disabilities.

Journée d'étude sur le résumé automatique multimédia

TALN will be presenting research at the workshop on extrinsic evaluation of summaries.

Open position in Natural Language Processing (open until filled).

Research Assistant in Natural Language Processing (12 months)

5th International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory (Barcelona, Spain)

The Meaning-Text Theory is a holistic linguistic theory characterized in particular by the central position of the lexicon, the primacy of semantics, the importance of the communicative structure, and

International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Barcelona, Spain)

The Depling conference responds to the growing need for a linguistic conference dedicated to approaches in syntax, semantics and the lexicon that are centered around dependency structures as a central

Open Positions in Natural Language Processing

The TALN group has two open positions to work in the area of text simplification
in the context of the Simplext project. Deadlines for application 6/12/2010.

Elliphant finalist for the MAVIR 2010 prize

The MsC thesis by our PhD student Luz Rello "Elliphant: A Machine Learning Method for Identifying Subject Ellipsis and Impersonal Constructions in Spanish" has been selected as finalist for the MAVIR