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)
Horacio Saggion publishes book on Text Simplification
Horacio Saggion, head of the Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab, published his book Automatic Text Simplification with Morgan & Claypool.