Dr. Jesús 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?

	address:	Facultad de Informatica Campus de Elvina s/n 15071 - A Coruna (Spain)
	phone:	+34 981.167.000 ext. 1364
	fax:	+34 981.167.160
	e-mail:

What am I doing here?

I'm associate professor in the Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of A Coruna, and I'm a 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 application 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.

Do you want to know more?

Sure? Ok, then take a look to our web.

Teaching (year 2011/12)

Time Schedule
Information Extraction and Retrieval (Máster MUC): [virtual campus] [public web]
Information Retrieval on the Internet (Máster LUP): [virtual campus] [public web]
Programming Paradigms (GII): [virtual campus] [public web]
Programming 2 (GII): [virtual campus]
Natural Language Processing (II & MUISI): [virtual campus] [public web]
Formal Languages and Automata Theory (ITIS): [virtual campus]
Proposals for Final Year Projects

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

	Research Networks
	ESF Research Networking Programme: Evaluating Information Access Systems (ELIAS) Galician network on Linguistic Resources for the Knowledge Society (RELISCO) Galician Network for Language Processing and Information Retrieval (RedPLIR) Galician Network for Corpus Linguistics (Rede_CORPUS)

	Resources
	TALFJava: Java code libraries for teaching Formal Languages and Automata Theory Download area NLP & IR bookmarks

Publications as editor

JIR

Conferences as organizer

LATA 2012	6th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications. March 5-9, 2012. A Coruña, Spain.
iNEWS 2008	2nd ACM (CIKM 2008) workshop on Improving Non-English Web Searching. October 30, 2008. Napa Valley, California, USA.
iNEWS 2007	ACM (SIGIR 2007) workshop on Improving Non-English Web Searching. July 27, 2007. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Conferences as Program/Scientific Committee member

LREC 2012	8th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. May 21-27, 2012. Istanbul, Turkey.
AIRS 2011	7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference. December 18-20, 2011. Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
CIKM 2011	ACM 20th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. October 24-28, 2011. Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
ICL 2011	SEPLN Workshop on Iberian Cross-Language NLP tasks. September 7, 2011. Huelva, Spain.
WISA 2011	3rd Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Applications. June 15-18, 2011. Chaves, Portugal.
CIKM 2010	ACM 19th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. October 26-30, 2010. Toronto, Canada.
LREC 2010	7th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. May 19-21, 2010. Valletta, Malta.
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, USA.
LREC 2008	6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. May 28-30, 2008. Marrakech, Morocco.
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.

Last update: 16/10/2012.