Horacio Saggion
PhD., MSc., Lic. in Computer Science
I am Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and Head of the Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab 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 was involved in research and development with the GATE platform from the year 2000.
I am the creator of the SUMMA Summarization system.
I was the principal investigator of the projects Simplext and Able to Include which resulted in our multilingual text simplification technology.
Our Dr Inventor Text Mining Library for Scientific Documents is available for research purposes.
For commercial exploitation of our technology (summarization, extraction, simplification, etc.) please get in touch with us.
Departament of Information and Communication Technologies
Tànger building (Poblenou campus)
Tànger, 122-140
08018 Barcelona
+34 93.542.1119 (tel/office)
+34 93.542.2500 (tel/general)
+34 93.542.2517 (fax)
Best Communication Award at W4ALL 2017
Our paper Able to Read My Mail: An Accessible e-Mail Client with Assistive Technology received the Best Communication Award at the recent Web 4 All 2017 Conference in Perth, Australia.
The paper describes the integration of our text simplification technology for Spanish and English in an e-mail client for people with intellectual disabilities.