PhD. Jesus Vilares Ferro

" Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former "
(Albert Einstein)

How can you contact me?

	mail:	Facultad de Informatica Campus de Elvina s/n 15071 - A Coruna (Spain)
	phone:	+34 981.167.000 ext. 1377
	fax:	+34 981.167.160
	e-mail:

What am I doing here?

I'm associate professor of the Computer Science Department of the University of A Coruna and member of the multidisciplinary Language in the Information Society (LYS) research group of this university, in association with the the Compilers and Languages (COLE) research group.

	Which are my research interests? I'm working on the applications of Natural Language Processing techniques to improve Text Mining systems, including Information Retrieval/Extraction and Question Answering tasks.
	What my PhD. Thesis was about? My PhD. Thesis dealed with the application of Natural Language Processing Techniques in Spanish Information Retrieval. You can find more information here.
	What about the rest of my publications? You will find them listed here.

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	Affiliation
	Language in the Information Society (LYS) Group Compilers and Languages (COLE) Group Galician Network for Language Processing and Information Retrieval (PLIR) Computer Science Department Faculty of Computer Science University of A Coruna

	Teaching (year 2009/10)
	Timetable Information Retrieval in Internet (LUP Master, Philology) LN (EI & MI) TALF (ETIS) TP (ETIX) EDI (EI) Information Extraction & Retrieval (MUC Master, Computer Science)

	Collaborators
	Information Retrieval Group (University of Sunderland, UK) Human Language Technologies Group (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

Publications as editor

JIR

Conferences as organizer

iNEWS 2008	2nd ACM (CIKM 2008) workshop on Improving Non-English Web Searching. October 30, 2008. Napa Valley, California.
iNEWS 2007	ACM (SIGIR 2007) workshop on Improving Non-English Web Searching. July 27, 2007. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Conferences as PC member

CIKM 2009	ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. November 2-6, 2009. Hong Kong.
CIKM 2008	ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. October 26-30, 2008. Napa Valley, California.
DEXA 2007	18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications. September 3-7, 2007. Regensburg, Germany.
DEXA 2006	17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications. September 4-8, 2006. Krakow, Poland.

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Last update: 18/02/10.