+LSI Newsletter Issue 4

Dr. Horacio Rodríguez is one of the researchers that saw the birth of the Research Group in Natural Language Processing (GRPLN). Dr. Rodríguez became interested in Natural Language Processing when, in Spain, this was almost an unknown discipline. Currently the GRPLN group gathers more than twenty researchers and has attained international recognition. Many companies have shown their interest in this field and it has become a research line on its own. Linguistic Engineering is also born. (full version...)

Drs. Dolors Ayala and Daniela Tost, together with their research group, are studying some biomaterials in order to improve bone tissue regeneration. Understanding the morphology of bones is crucial for that goal. Here we how their group is turning computer graphics into an alternative technique to obtain information about bone quality, in particular about osteoporosis. (full version...)

Lluís Màrquez is a loyal researcher from the GRPLN research group. They have been over fifteen years teaching machines to understand and to talk in one and many languages. Nowadays his research is based on the solution of semantic processing problems and on the application of natural language processing for the machine translation. (full version...)

Dr. Carme Alvarez collaboration with us with the"P versus NP" problem.  (full version...)

Update

Visitors

Who is visiting us this month. (full version...)

PhD Thesis

Announcements of the last step towards the PhD. (full version...)

Upcoming Events

Pointers to events organized by LSI members. (full version...)

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