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Currently working as senior researcher for the group IULATERM of the UPF, group she joined in November 2003 after having been selected by the Ramón y Cajal Program of the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. She is now leading the research line on Natural Language Processing at the Institute, in projects mostly related to Technologies of Language Resources. She started working in NLP in 1986 when she was granted for collaborating with the group that was developing the Spanish modules for the machine translation METAL system in Siemens-Barcelona. In 1987, she moved to work for the EU project EUROTRA also in machine translation, hosted by the Universitat de Barcelona. In 1993, she took the technical direction of a small group of people in UB that continued working in the field of NLP in different research projects with the name Grup d’Investigació en Lingüística Computacional – Universitat de Barcelona. Projects of that 10 years period are here: gilcUB
Complete CV
Current research topics:
Automatic acquisition of lexical information: AAILE web page
Modelling of linguistic information contained in lexica for deep linguistic analysis
Grammars for deep linguistic analysis
Analysis of natural language
Technologies of language resources
Adquisición automática de información léxica (AAILE y AAILE2), funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture (HUM2004-05111-C02-01/FILO and HUM2004-05111-C02-01). The goal of our research is to study the feasibility of the automatic acquisition of the information contained in computational lexicons from corpus. The methodology is by using syntactic restrictions to bias the data, checking the lexical representation against experimental observations. Eventually, what deserves our interest in this area is to understand the role of the syntactic and semantic constraints that operate in texts, and in the feasibility of acquiring related information. Finding how Machine Learning methods can capture them will allow us to improve both the applications aiming at automatic acquisition of lexical information as well as the representation of the lexicon itself. AAILE web page
Clarin: Common Language Resources and Technologies Infrastructure, funded by the 7FP of the EU (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1-212230) and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture (CAC-2007-23). CLARIN is committed to establish an integrated and interoperable research infrastructure of language resources and its technology. It aims at lifting the current fragmentation, offering a stable, persistent, accessible and extendable infrastructure and therefore enabling eHumanities. clarin-es.iula.upf.edu and www.clarin.eu
Past research projects:
Linguistic Infrastructure for Interoperable Resources and Systems (LIRICS), funded by e-content program of European Union (EDC-22236). Duration of the project: 2004-2006. The key objective of LIRICS is to provide the European content and language industries with a common and stable set of formats, in the form of ISO standards, enabling interoperability and reuse of multilingual language resources, digital content and language engineering software.
Traducció automàtica de codi obert per al català (TACOC), funded by the Catalan government, its goal is the development of machine translation modules for Catalan-French, Catalan-Aranès, Catalan-English for the open source shallow-transfer machine translation platform Apertium developed by the Group Transducens, University of Alicante. [finished 02-07] DEMO at http://xixona.dlsi.ua.es/apertium/
Traducció automàtica de codi obert per a l'esperanto. funded by ABC ENCIKLOPEDIOJ S.L. and with the support of Xavier Batlle, Associació Catalana d'Esperanto, Miguel Gutiérrez Adúriz and Prompsit (Group Transducens Universitat d'Alacant). It developed machine translation modules for Catalan > Esperanto and Spanish > Esperanto. DEMO at http://xixona.dlsi.ua.es/apertium-unstable/
Teaching 2007-2008
Degree/Master in Linguistics and Technological Applications: 13305 - Fonaments de Processament del Llenguatge Natural
Publications, Publicaciones, Publicacions
Marimon, Montserrat; Núria Bel and Natalia Seghezzi (2007). Test Suite Construction for a Spanish Grammar. In T. Holloway King and E. M. Bender (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar Engineering across Frameworks. CSLI's series "Studies in Computational Linguistics ONLINE" (in press)
Marimon, Montserrat; Natalia Seghezzi and Núria Bel. An Open-source Lexicon for Spanish. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, n. 39, pp. 131-137. September, 2007. ISSN 1135-5948 (pdf)
Marimon, Montserrat; Bel, Núria; Espeja, Sergio; and Seghezzi, Natalia (2007). "The Spanish Resource Grammar: Pre-processing Strategy and Lexical Acquisition" dins Baldwin, Timothy et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACL2007 Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing. Stroudsburg, PA 18360: Association for Computational Linguistics. Pàg. 105-111. 2007. ISBN 978-1-932432-88-6 (pdf)
Bel, Núria; Espeja, Sergio; Marimon, Montserrat. "Automatic Acquisition of Grammatical Types for Nouns" dins Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers. Rochester, New York: Association for Computational Linguistics. 2007. Pàg. 5-8. ISBN 1-932432-94-9 (pdf).
Bel, Núria; Espeja, Sergio; Marimon, Montserrat. "New tools for the encoding of lexical data extracted from corpus". Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Paris: European Language Resources Association. 1362-1367, Génova, Italia. 2006
Francopoulo, G., George, M.; Calzolari, N.; Monachini, M.; Bel, N.; Pet, M.; Soria, C." Lexical Markup Framework, LMF ". Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Paris: European Language Resources Association.P.233-236. Génova, Italia. 2006
Francopoulo, Gil; Bel, Núria; George, Monte; Calzolari, Nicoletta; Monachini, Monica. "Lexical Markup Framework (LMF) for NLP Multilingual Resources ". Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Language Resources and Interoperability. Sydney, Australia: Association for Computational Linguistics. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W06/W06-1001. P.1-8, Sidney,Australia. 2006
Montserrat Marimon, Núria Bel. Lexical Entry Templates for Robust Deep Parsing, LREC 2004 Fourth International Conference On Language Resources And Evaluation. LREC 2004 Proceedings, ISBN: 2-9517408-1-6, P. 2209-2212. Lisboa (PORTUGAL) 2004
Núria Bel, Cornelius H.A. Koster, Marta Villegas. Cross-effective cross-lingual document classification. LREC 2004 Fourth International Conference On Language Resources And Evaluation. LREC 2004 Proceedings, ISBN – 2-9517408-1-6, p. 1915-1918 Lisboa (PORTUGAL), 2004
Núria Bel, Corpus representativeness for syntactic information acquisition, 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. ACL Companion Volume to the Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ISBN 1-932432-33-7. P.138-141, Barcelona (ESPAÑA), 2004
Nuria Bel, Cornelis H.A. Koster, Marta Villegas. Cross-Lingual Text Categorization. 7th.European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2003). Traugott Koch, Ingeborg Sølvberg (Eds.): Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 7th European Conference, ECDL 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August 17-22, 2003, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2769 Springer 2003, ISBN 3-540-40726-X P.126-139. Trondheim (NOR – NORUEGA). 2003
Montserrat Marimon, Núria Bel. A Hybrid NLP System for Natural Language Interfaces.
2002
Atkins, S., Bel, N., Bertagna, F., Bouillon, P., Calzolari, N., Fellbaum, C., Grishman, R., Lenci, A., MacLeod, C., Palmer, M., Thurmair, G., Villegas, M. & Zampolli, A. (2002). 'From Resources to Applications. Designing the Multilingual ISLE Lexical Entry' . In Proceedings Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2002.
Bel, N., Caminero, J., Hernández, L., Marimon, M., Morlesín, J.M., Otero, J.M., Relaño, J., Rodríguez, M.C., Ruz, P.M. & Tapias, D. (2002). 'Design and Evaluation of a SLDS for E-Mail Access through the Telephone'. In Proceedings Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2002.
Villegas, M. & Bel, N. (2002). 'From DTD to relational dB. An automatic generation of a lexicographical station out off guidelines'. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on language Resources and Evaluation. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2002.
2001
Calzolari, N., Lenci, A., Zampolli, A,. Bel, N., Villegas, M., & Thurmair, G. (2001). 'The ISLE in the Ocean Transatlantic Standards for Multilingual Lexicons (with an Eye to Machine Translation)'. In Proceedings of the MT Summit VIII. Santiago de Compostela, 2001.
Marimon, M., Porta, J., Bel, N. (2001). 'On Distributing the Analysis Process of a Broad-Coverage Unification-Based Grammar'. In the 3rd EuroConference Recent Advances in NLP (RANLP 2001). Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria.
2000
Lenci, A., Bel, N., Busa, F., Calzolari, N., Gola, E., Monachini, M., Ogonowski, A., Peters, I., Peters, W., Ruimy, N., Villegas, M., Zampolli, A. (2000). 'SIMPLE: A General Framework for the Development of Multilingual Lexicons'. In International Journal of Lexicography, Vol 13.
Villegas, M., Bel, N. et al. (2000). 'Multilingual Linguistics Resources: From Monolingual Lexicons to Bilingual Interrelated Lexicons'. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Athens, 2000.
(1987- 1999)
Maegard, B., N. Bel, B. Dorr, E. Hovy, K. Knight, H. Iida, Ch. Boitet, B. Maegaard, Y. Wilks (1999) ‘Machine Translation’, In Hovy, E. & N. Ide (eds.): Multilingual Information Management: Current Levels and Future Abilities, Linguistica Computazionale, vol. XIV-XV, 81-103, Pisa, 1999. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/mlim/index.html
Villegas, M., Brosa, I. & Bel, N. (1998). 'El léxico PAROLE del español'. Actas del XIV Congreso de la SEPLN, Septiembre 1998.
Bel, N.; Marimon, M.; Porta, J.: 1996, 'Etiquetado morfosintáctico de corpus en el proyecto MULTEXT'. Actas del XXVI Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, Madrid.
Bel, N. & Villegas, M. (1996). 'Clíticos, un Análisis en HPSG'. In Actas del II Congreso Nacional de Lingüística General. Granada 1996
Bel, N. & Villegas, M. (1996). 'Bounded Dependencies in Spanish'. In II International Conference on Mathematical Linguistics (ICML'96). Tarragona 1996.
Bel N.& Melero, M. (1995), "TRADE (MLAP93/003)". Boletín de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (nº16).Donostia. Abril 1995
Bel, N. & Villegas, M. (1994). 'El Fenómeno del Control y la Complementación Verbal en HPSG para el Español'. In Actas del I Congreso de Lingüística General. Valencia 1994.
BEL, N. (1993): El procesamiento de la información semántica en las oraciones con "se" en castellano, Tesis doctoral, Universidad de Barcelona.
BADIA, T., BEL, N. & VIDAL, J. (1991): Nuevas perspectivas en el proyecto EUROTRA, Boletín de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 10, 7-21.
BEL, N. (1991): El sistema de traducción automática EUROTRA, en Actas del Simposio de la Lengua Española. Lengua y Tecnología, Pabellón de España, Madrid.
BALARI, S. & BEL, N. (1990): Se impersonal: por qué no es un clítico de sujeto, Actas del XX Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, Ed. Gredos, Madrid.
BALARI, S., BEL, N. & GILBOY, E. (1989): Unbounded dependencies in machine translation, en BUSEMANN, S., HAUENSCHILD, C. & UMBACH, C. (comps.) Views of the Syntax/Semantics Interface, KIT Report 74, TU, Berlin.
BEL, N. (1989a): Desambiguación monolingüe y traducción automática, Boletín de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 7, 175-180.
BEL, N. (1989b): Pronominal constructions and argument structure, en The Eurotra Reference Manual 6.0, Commission of the European Communities B. P., Luxembourg, págs. 20-39.
