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Alberto Barrón-Cedeño

Associate Professor

Università di Bologna

Biography

I am Associate Professor at Università di Bologna since 2022 (after three years as Senior assistant professor; RTDb, in the Italian system). I have been working on the (cross-language) assessment of text looking at different aspects such as originality (e.g., plagiarism detection) and intent (e.g., propaganda, hate speech).

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Before landing at UniBO , I spent 5 years as a Scientist at the Languuage Technologies group of QCRI and 2 as research fellow at TALP .

Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Information Retrieval
  • Machine Learning

Education

  • PhD in Computing Science, 2012

    Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

  • MSc in Artificial Intelligence, 2009

    Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

  • MSc in Computing, 2007

    Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

  • BEng in Computing, 2002

    Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Associate professor

Universita di Bologna

May 2022 – Present Italy

Research includes:

  • Natural language processing
  • Information Retrieval
 
 
 
 
 

Senior assistant professor

Universita di Bologna

Apr 2019 – Apr 2022 Italy

Research includes:

  • Natural language processing
  • Information Retrieval
 
 
 
 
 

Scientist

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Nov 2014 – Apr 2019 Doha, Qatar
Research on Question Answering, Propaganda Identification, and others.
 
 
 
 
 

Postdoc (Alain Bensoussan Fellow

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

Sep 2012 – Jun 2014 Barcelona, Spain

Research includes:

  • Natural language processing
  • Information Retrieval

Teaching

Università di Bologna

2022-2023

91258 - Natural Language Processing - 5 cfu
B0385 - Natural Language Processing - 6 cfu
96949 - Advanced Skills CL2 - 3 cfu
33409 - Into Language Technologies
PhD Python Gentle Introduction

2021-2022

92586 - Computational Linguistics - 6 cfu
96829 - Profession-based Research - 8 cfu
84929 - Software Localization - 5 cfu

2020-2021

92586 - Computational Linguistics - 6 cfu
84929 - Software Localization - 5 cfu

2019-2020

92586 - Computational Linguistics - 6 cfu
84929 - Software Localization - 5 cfu

Recent Publications

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The CLEF-2021 CheckThat! Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News

We describe the fourth edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2021 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates …

SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles

We present the results and the main findings of SemEval-2020 Task 11 on Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles. The task …

Projects

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Meet the Team

Researchers

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Alberto Barrón-Cedeño

Associate Professor

Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning

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Federico Garcea

Adjunct Professor / Research fellow

Machine translation, Machine learning, Large-scale online services

PhD Students

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Arianna Muti

PhD student

Automatic misogyny identification

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Francesco Fernicola

PhD student

MT and QE, Natural Language Processing, Audiovisual Translation, Trekking and Climbing

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Katerina Korre

PhD student

Cross-language hate speech detection

Master Students

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Paolo Gajo

Master student

NLP, Subtitling, Sociolinguistics, Drumming

Alumni

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Margherita Martinelli

Master student

Identification of definitions for automatic text explanation

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Shibingfeng Zhang

Graduate student

Emotion identification in Italian opera, Machine translation

Recent Posts

Coling2020

Checkthat2020

A personal summary of the ChechThat! 2020 sessions at CLEF 2020

Covid19 Italy

Plots showing how COVID19 is unfolding in the Italian regions and provinces

Recent Talks

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