Organizers

Coordination

Niels Martínez-Guevara

(CIMA-UAdeC, Mexico, niels.martinez@uadec.edu.mx) is a professor and researcher at the Center for Research in Applied Mathematics (CIMA) of the Autonomous University of Coahuila (UAdeC). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Universidad Veracruzana, a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research at the same institution (IIIA-UV). His research interests focus on natural language processing, data science and machine learning. He has published research articles in specialized scientific journals and has participated in high-impact international conferences.

Gemma Bel Enguix

(II-UNAM, Mexico, gbele@iingen.unam.mx) is a researcher at the Instituto de Ingeniería, UNAM. Ph.D. in linguistics from the Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Catalunya). She is an expert in bio-inspired models for natural language and informal approaches to linguistics. Since 2016 she has worked at UNAM, in the Grupo de Ingeniería Lingüística, developing cutting-edge work in the design of Language Technologies and Artificial Intelligence. In Particular, she works on models and applications that allow computers to understand and analyze human language using statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms. She is a co-author of 7 books, and they have numerous publications in the field of mathematical and computational linguistics.

Curation of the corpus

Valeria Soto-Mendoza

(CIMA-UAdeC, Mexico, vsoto@uadec.edu.mx) is a professor and researcher at the Center for Research in Applied Mathematics of the Autonomous University of Coahuila, where she is affiliated with the Master’s program in Data Science and Optimization. She received her MSc and PhD in Computer Science from CICESE. She has published her research in national and international conferences and journals. Her main research has focused on understanding human behavior through data analysis using artificial intelligence techniques.

Jessica Beltrán

(CIMA-UAdeC, Mexico, jessicabeltran@uadec.edu.mx) is a professor and researcher at the Center for Research in Applied Mathematics of the Autonomous University of Coahuila, where she is affiliated with the Master’s program in Data Science and Optimization. She received her MSc and PhD in Computer Science from CICESE. She has previously held research positions at the Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora and as a CONAHCYT Chair researcher at CITEDI/IPN. She is a level I member of the National System of Researchers. Her research interests include human context and behavior analysis for well being oriented applications, ubiquitous computing, signal processing, and machine learning. She has led and participated in several AI based research projects, published in national and international venues, and supervised graduate and undergraduate theses.

Codabench and baselines

Arturo Curiel

(me@arturocuriel.com). Ph.D. in Information, Telecommunications, Hypermedia from Paul Sabatier University-Toulouse III (France). He works in areas related to information retrieval, text analysis and image processing oriented towards the study and documentation of Signed Languages. He is also interested in applications of Language Technology in fields like psychology and education. Currently, he works as an external collaborator at the Valencian International University.

Administration of the data labeling web tool and annotation coordinator

Sergio Luís Ojeda-Trueba

(II-UNAM, Mexico, sojedat@iingen.unam.mx). He mainly works in the construction of corpora from social media language at the Grupo de Ingeniería Lingüística.

Technical coordination

Helena Gómez-Adorno

(IIMAS-UNAM, Mexico, helena.gomez@iimas.unam.mx) is an associate researcher at Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, UNAM. Ph. D. in Computer Science from the Computer Research Center (IPN). She completed a postdoctoral stay at the Grupo de Ingeniería Lingüística at the Instituto de Ingeniería of the UNAM. Her research interests are in the area of natural language processing. She has worked on question-answering systems, semantic similarity, authorship attribution, author profiling, and paraphrase recognition. She is a current member of the National System of Researchers of CONACYT Level 1. She has co-authored several journal and conference papers in the field of natural language processing.