Natural Language Processing
The Mathematics Research Center, A.C. (CIMAT) is a public research center integrated into the CONACYT Public Research Center System. It is dedicated to the generation, transmission,and application of specialized knowledge in the area of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. Oriented towards scientific research, the training of high-level human resources, the improvement of society's mathematical competence, as well as support in solving problems that fall within its areas of interest , CIMAT seeks to contribute to the scientific and technological development of Mexico.
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Interests
- Natural Language Understanding
- Early detection of risk behaviours in social media Cross-topic and cross-genre authorship attribution
- New representations and methods for author profiling Supervised approaches for plagiarism detection
- Text classification using distributional word representations as well as word embeddings
- Multilingual document clustering and classification
- Image retrieval combining textual and visual information
Researchers
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Dr. Adrián Pastor López Monroy obtained his Master's and Doctorate degrees in Computer Science from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE, Mexico) in 2012 and 2017 respectively. In 2017, he received the award for the best doctoral thesis in Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the Mexican Society of AI. Subsequently, in 2017 and 2018, he was a Full-Time Associate Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Houston, Texas, USA. Currently, Dr. López Monroy is a Full-Time Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Center for Research in Mathematics (CIMAT, Mexico). His research areas include Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing, and since 2013 he has led participations in machine learning competitions in European forums such as the "Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum CLEF-PAN" and the "Iberian Language Evaluation Forum IberLEF", winning first place in various editions in Spain, England, France, and Greece. He is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) and CONAHCyT in groups for artificial intelligence (e.g., Alianza-IA, RedICA), and language technologies (RedTTL). He currently has over 60 peer-reviewed publications in journals, conferences, and book chapters, as well as more than 1300 citations and an H-index of 19 in Google Scholar.
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Fernando Sánchez-Vega obtained his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE, Mexico) in 2010 and 2016, respectively. He received the Young Researchers Award from the Center for Advanced Studies in Information and Communication Technologies (CEATIC) at the University of Jaen (UJaen), Spain in 2017. In 2020, he held a Postdoctoral Fellow position in the Department of Computer Science at the Mathematics Research Center (CIMAT, Mexico) and another in the Data Sciences Program in Humanities at the Colegio de Mexico (COLMEX) in 2021. Since 2022, Dr. Sánchez-Vega has been a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at CIMAT, Mexico. His research topics of interest include deep learning, natural language processing, language and vision, and data sciences. He regularly collaborates with multiple research groups, including the "Lexicon, Dictionary, and Information Technology" Laboratory (LDI) at Université Paris Nord, France, and the Natural Language Engineering Lab at the Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technologies (PRHLT) Research Center in Spain, Language Technologies Laboratory (LabTL) at INAOE, Mexico, among others.
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