Assoc. Prof. Anna Lisa Ahlers
Languages, Social and behavioural sciences, Modern Chinese Studies / Sinology; Political Science; Political Sociology
Prof. Dr. Gemma Boleda
Nominated by
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- AcademiaNet member since 02.03.2021
- AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria
Employed by
- Pompeu Fabra University
Further professional affiliations
ICREA
Academic Discipline/Fields
- Arts and humanities
- Information and Communication Technologies
Field
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Languages
Area of specialisation
Computational linguistics, Linguistics, Semantics
Research interests
Referential and conceptual aspects of meaning, Lexicon
Distinctions and Awards
Leader, winning team at SemEval 2018 Task 4: Character Identification on Multiparty Dialogues, 2018
Best Reviewers Recognition, NAACL-HLT 2016
Outstanding Reviewer Recognition, ACL 2015
Languages
Catalan, English, French, German, Spanish
Doctorate
- 2007: Computational semantics
Short CV/Education and training
Gemma Boleda is an ICREA Research Professor in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain), where she heads the Computational Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (COLT) research group.
She previously held post-doctoral positions at the Department of Linguistics of The University of Texas at Austin (USA) and the CIMEC Center for Brain/Mind Sciences of the University of Trento (Italy).
In her research, currently funded by an ERC Starting Grant, Dr. Boleda uses quantitative and computational methods to better understand the semantics of natural languages.
Selected publications
Selected projects
EU, Horizon 2020 European Research Council Starting Grant 715154 (“AMORE: A distributional MOdel of Reference to Entities”), €1.5 Million. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017 – 2022
EU Horizon 2020 Marie Curie FI project H2020-MSCA-IF-2014_ST-655577 (“LOVe: Linking Objects to Vectors in distributional semantics: A framework to anchor corpus-based meaning representations to the external world”), €180,277. University of Trento, 2015 – 2016
Membership in scientific bodies/juries
Asociación de Mujeres Investigadoras y Tecnólogas (AMIT), since 2017
Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN), since 2009
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), since 2004
Elected Information Officer of the SIGSEM Board, 2013 – 2020
Area co-chair of ACL 2016
Program co-chair of *SEM 2015
Local co-chair of ESSLLI 2015
Member of standing review committee of the TACL journal
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