RESEARCH AREAS

Big Data and Deep Learning

Big Data and Deep Learning

“Machine Learning is the new electricity” Deep Learning is a technique that belongs to the Machine Learning Field. Machine Learning techniques learns from data. Nowadays the amount of data grows exponentially year after year. Therefore machine learning techniques...

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Speech Processing and Dialogue Systems

Speech Processing and Dialogue Systems

Speech processing includes different applications, such like speech recognition and understanding, speech-to-speech translation, speech interaction with mobile devices, speaker and domain adaptation, and multimodal speech recognition. Dialogue systems related tasks...

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Handwritten Text Recognition

Handwritten Text Recognition

Both off-line (document images) and on-line HTR (tablet or e-pen signals) are considered. No prior character or word segmentation is needed. Technology relies on character-level optical models based on Convolutional-Recurrent Neural Networks and Hidden Markov Models,...

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Computer Vision

Computer Vision

General Statistical and Syntactic Pattern Recognition techniques for image analysis and recognition. Some applications: OCR and document analysis, medical diagnosis, biometric identification, image and video retrieval.   Relevance-based Image Retrieval Biometrics...

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Language Translation

Language Translation

The activities of the Machine Translation group began some years ago with the use of finite-state models for speech-to-speech translation and for text-to-text translation in limited domains. This group has developed a number of translation models with the...

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Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing

Social media data analysis: Author profiling, Stance detection, Deceptive opinion detection, Irony detection and sentiment analysis, Mixed-script text analysis, Plagiarism and social copying detection.   Author profiling Given a text, what are the author’s...

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