Activities Recent talks, projects, courses Invited crash course on NLP in the LLM era at University of Surrey, Oct. 2023 Panelist in EMNLP Workshop Panel (Singapore): “Pattern-based Approaches to NLP in the Age of Deep Learning” Invited talks for non-technical public (in Basque) about Large Language Models and Low-resource Languages in the 2023 course opening of Udako Euskal Unibertsitea (Video ) and in the Zientzia eta Teknologia Fakultatean: “Mundua suntsitzean adimen artifizialak euskaraz egingo ote du?” Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing course at DeepLearn July 2023 and DeepLearn April 2022 Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing course (twice a year, Winter and Summer)Keynote talks on “Few-shot Information Extraction is Here: Pre-train, Prompt and Entail” at several venues in 2022: Co-organizer of Deep Learning Inside Out (DeeLIO ) workshop at ACL 2022, a workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Integration for Deep Learning Architectures (also in 2020, 2021) Recent awards Recent professional services Associate Editor for the JAIR journal (2021-) Member of government evaluation body (ANEP area TIC), 2020 SemEval 2021 steering committeeSemEval 2020 steering committeeAction Editor for TACL (2018-2021) President of ACL SIGLEX (2010-2013) Editorial board member of Computational Linguistics (official , extra ) (2011-2013) Older activities Senior Area Chair for ACL 2019 SemEval 2019 steering committeeCo-organizer of Semantic Textual Similarity task on SemEval 2017 task 1 . Standing reviewer for TACL (2014-2018) Keynote talk on “Deploying Conversational Question Answering systems in new domains” (video ) at the EXPO DAQA workshop (IBM), NeurIPS conference, Dec. 2020 Keynote talk on “Cross-linguality and machine translation without bilingual data” (video ) at the Applied Machine Learning Days (AMLD), EPFL, Laussane, Switzerland, Jan. 2020Nomination for the best paper award at the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July, 2019.Keynote talk at the Conference in Computational Collective Intelligence , Hendaye, Basque Country, September, 2019 Keynote talk at the conference of the Spanish NLP society (SEPLN) , Bilbao, Basque Country, September, 2019 Invited talk at BCBL, Donostia, Basque Country, November, 2019 Invited talk at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, May, 2019Prestigious BBVA project , 2019-2021 Three day crash course on Deep Learning and NLP in English, UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, July 2019 Recipient of a 2018 Best PhD thesis award to his PhD student Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre by the Spanish NLP society (SEPLN), September, 2019 Recipient of a 2018 Google Faculty Research Award Invited tutorial on Deep Learning for NLP , organized by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics , Pavia, May 2019 (slides ) Invited talk on “Cross-linguality and machine translation without bilingual data” at FBK, Trento, May 2019 (slides ) Best paper award at CoNLL 2018Course on Deep Learning and NLP in Spanish, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid Invited talk at 14th China Workshop on Machine Translation (CWMT) , Wuyishan, China, October 2018 Keynote talk on “Cross-linguality and machine translation without bilingual data” at 3rd Swiss Text Analytics Conference , Winterthur June 2018 (video ) Invited talk on Cross-linguality and machine translation with monolingual data at BBVA Data and Analytics , Madrid 2018 ICLR 2018 paper on Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation featured at Science magazine (Nov. 2017)PI of European project on learning to interact with humans (LIHLITH 2018-2020) Invited talk at the Institute for Natural Language Processing , Stuttgart 2018Visiting academic, CILVR lab at NYU (Fall 2016) Co-organizer of the 2nd Workshop on Semantics-Driven Machine Translation at NAACL 2016 Co-organizer of Semantic Textual Similarity tasks on SemEval 2016 (task 1 and task 2 on Interpretability ). Senior Program Committee Member of IJCAI 2016 Tutorial co-chair ACL-IJCNLP 2015 Co-organizer of SSST workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation at NAACL 2015 Senior Program Committee Member of AAAI 2015 Co-organizer of Semantic Textual Similarity task on SemEval 2015 (task 2 ). Co-organizer of Semantic Textual Similarity task on SemEval 2014 (task 10 ). Area chair on Lexical Semantics and Ontology for ACL 2014 Co-organizer of the Shared task of *SEM 2013 on Semantic Textual Similarity Invited talk at Annual Meeting of the LCT master program (2016) Invited speaker at the Internationa Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR2016 )Recipient of a 2015 Google Research Award Guest speaker at the Escuela de Otoño, Mexico 2016Invited talk at the UKP group at Darmstadt in 2015Invited talk at the Workshop on Semantic Annotation and Processing 2014 European project on multimodal processing (Muster 2015-2018) European project on machine reading (Readers 2013-2016). European project on semantics to improve Machine Translation (QTLeap 2013-2016). Double master program on language processing awarded Erasmus Mundus status (2014-). European project on narratives for news (Newsreader 2013-2015). European project on deploying semantic enrichment on digital libraries (LoCloud 2012-2014) Invited to the Google Workshop on Natural Language Understanding at Google Zurich 2014. Invited talk at JSSP 2013 (Understanding text with knowledge bases and random walks and STS - with Mona Diab ). Invited talk at Mavir Doctoral Consortium 2013 (slides ) My research group was awarded the Abbadia 2013 prize for advancing the normalization of Basque. Arantza Otegi (PhD student) wins Koldo Mitxelena 2013 prize for best technical PhD in Basque Local PI of CHIST-ERA project READERS on Machine Reading (2013-2015) Helped build Google’s dictionary for entities and ideas Local PI of FP7 Project PATHS on access to Cultural Heritage (2011-2013) Scholarpedia article about Word Sense Disambiguation Co-organizer of a SemEval 2012 task on Semantic Textual Similarity General chair and co-founder (with Mona Diab and Johan Bos) of a new conference on semantics *SEM 2012 Invited course on the winter school on language and specch technologies WSLST 2012 Area chair on Ontology and Lexicon for ACL 2012 Tutorial chair for EACL 2012 Co-organizer of TPDL 2012 workshop on Supporting Users’ Exploration of Digital Libraries Invited talk at the Mavir meeting , Madrid, 2011 (slides ) Seminar at SRI, Menlo Park, 2011Visiting associate professor, Stanford NLP group (Summer 2011) PI of the co-ordinated KNOW2 project (intranet ) (2010-2012) Participant in the Europeana version 1.0 project (euskaraz ) (2010-2012) Participant in EC FP7 Project KYOTO (intranet ) (2008-2011) Area chair for semantics in EMNLP 2010 Area chair for semantics in ACL-IJCNLP 2010 Secretary of SIGLEX (2007-2010) Panelist on the future of Semeval, ACL 2010, Uppsala, Sweden 5-day Seminar on “Semantic processing of text ”, 2010, Bari, Italy (Links ) Organizer of SemEval 2010 task WSD on a Specific Domain Co-editor of LRE journal special issue on Computational Semantic Analysis of Language (2010) Visiting associate professor, Stanford NLP group, 2009 Invited talk at Google, Mountain View, 2009 (slides ) Organizer of the Robust WSD task @ CLEF 2009 Area co-chair for semantics in ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Co-chair of HLT-NAACL workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SEW-2009 ) Area chair for word senses in EMNLP 2008 . Organizer of CLEF 2008 tasks on QAWSD and CLIRWSD . Co-chair of SemEval-2007 (formerly Senseval). Coordination of two tasks in SemEval-2007: WSD/CLIR interaction and WS induction . Australian HCSNet visiting scholar in 2007. Check the seminars and video . PI of the co-ordinated KNOW project (intranet ) funded by the Education Ministry (2007-2009) WSD demo for BasqueML features for all content words with more than 10 occurrences in SemCor 1.6. More details here . The senses can be easily mapped to other WN versions here .Lexico-semantic relations for Basque headwords.GWN tutorial on Automatic WordNet construction Conceptual Density in Perl Project related data: CESS-ECE project, MEANING project 
