Research
I am a member of the PRHLT (Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technologies) research center (secretary from Feb 2024 to Feb 2025)
Research fields
- Speech processing: speech recognition, sign language processing, lip reading processing, speech applications
- Handwritten document processing: handwriting recognition, multiwriter recognition, historical handwritten text processing, document layout detection
- Multimodality: speech, image and text recognition integration, multimodal computer-assisted transcription, multimodal interfaces, multimodal crowdsourcing
- Dialogue systems: dialogue annotation, Dialogue Act schemes definition, statistical dialogue models, task-oriented dialogue systems
- Text classification: sexist language detection, fake news detection
Associations
- Red Temática en Tecnologías del Habla (Main coordinator from Nov 2016 to Nov 2024)
- SIGDial
- Member of the Expert Consulting Group on ISO/TC37/SC 4 (Language resource management -- Semantic annotation framework -- Part 2: Dialogue acts)
Publications
See my publications page.
Research activities
- See my pages on projects and several resources for dialogue annotation and speech recognition, as well as my demos page, with several videos of demonstrations of speech applications developed under my supervision.
- I was the main organiser of the RTTH Summer School on Speech Technology 2017 .
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Editor of the following journals:
- Applied Sciencies (MDPI)
Special Issue: Recent Advances in Handwritten Text Recognition With Byron Leite and Donato Impedovo (2020)
Member of the Topical Advisory Panel (2021-)
- Applied Sciencies (MDPI)
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Reviewer of the following journals:
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
- Computer Speech and Language
- Pattern Recognition
- Pattern Recognition Letters
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- Information Processing & Management
- Digital Signal Processing
- Expert Systems with Applications
- IEEE Access
- Artificial Intelligence Reviews
- International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
- Computers in Biology and Medicine
- SN Computer Science
- Data in Brief
- Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
- Several MDPI Open Access journals
- Reviewer of the following conferences:
- Project reviewer for Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) (2021)
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Current PhD students:
- David Gimeno Gómez: automatic lip reading for Spanish
- David Villanova Aparisi: Named Entities detection in handwritten test (with M. Pastor and V. Romero)
- Miguel Zaragozá Portolés : Multimodal depression detection
- Former PhD students:
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My collaboration with #UPVdivulga:
speech recognition with Hidden Markov Models .
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I was appointed as a speaker in the roundtable "El estado del arte de la
industria de PLN en nuestro país y fuera" (State of the art of
the NLP industry in our country and other countries) in the framework of the
Encuentro de
empresas de Procesamiento del Lenguage Natural (PLN)
(Meeting of NLP companies), in Alicante, Sep 18th 2022.
Minutes 1:43 and 2:06
- I was appointed as chairperson in the roundable "El reto de la IA en las Facultades de Derecho" (IA challenges in Laws Faculties) in the framework of the VLC Legal Hackaton 2.0, in Valencia, May 12th 2023.