04.12.2017
PhD scholarship / Mining Academic Social Networks
In the context of the Marie-Curie PhD InPhiNIT La Caixa program associated to the Maria de Maeztu Strategic Research Program, we are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate in the...
26.05.2017
Horacio Saggion publishes book on Text Simplification
Horacio Saggion, head of the Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab, published his book
09.05.2017
TALN obtains the TECNIO Quality Seal
The Taln Group obtains the quality seal TECNIO given by ACCIO. This quality certification is based on ISO9001 and is valid for two years.
12.04.2017
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.
22.03.2017
Overwhelmed by Information? Horacio Saggion, Integrative Research Seminar
Horacio Saggion, Head of the Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab, gave a seminar on two of his current topics of research: scientific text mining and automatic text simplification. The presented research has been carried out in the context of the projects Dr Inventor, Able to Include, and Mining the Knowledge of Scientific Publications. YouTube Video
06.03.2017
Barbieri, Ronzano & Saggion @ MG
Our lab's work on emojis is features in an article in Magazine, La Vanguardia.
03.03.2017
Horacio Saggion gave invited seminar at the Centre for Computational Linguistics
Horacio Saggion, head of the Large Scale Text Understanding Systems lab, gave an invited seminar at the
Centre for Computational Linguistics at the University of Leven, Belgium.
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28.02.2017
Francesco Ronzano wins the 1rst Spanish Hackathon on Natural Language Proceesing
A team composed by Horacio Saggion and Francesco Ronzano (a postdoc member of the TALN group) won the first Spanish Hackathon on Natural Language Processing with the project TextDigester: An automatic document summarizer.
14.02.2017
Maciej Piasecki's talk on development of large lexico-semantic resources
The talk will take place on February 14th, in room 55.410 at 15:00h. Please find below title, bio and abstract of the presentation.
17.10.2016
Paper on Author Profiling by Juan Soler-Company, in La Vanguardia newspaper
La Vanguardia, one of the biggest Catalan newspapers, features today a news item on Juan Soler-Company's awarded paper (in Spanish).
18.10.2016
José Camacho-Collados talk on semantic representations
The talk will take place in room 55.410 at 12:30h. Please find below title, bio and abstract of the presentation.
01.09.2016
Joan Soler-Company, awarded best poster presentation at STAIRS conference
Juan Soler Company, PhD student supervised by Leo Wanner, received the best poster presentation award at the STAIRS conference, co-located with ECAI 2016.
06.09.2016
Horacio Saggion visiting RMIT
Horacio Saggion is visiting the CS & IT School in RMIT, Melbourne in the context of an Erasmus programme.
22.09.2016
Three papers accepted at COLING 2016!
We are delighted to announce that TALN will present, in addition to the tutorial on Mining Scientific Literature, three papers.