About Me – Talks And Presentations

2018

• Machine Learning at Amazon. Invited Talk at the Andalucía Digital Week, Sevilla (ES).
• The Future of Language Technology. Panel Discussion at the University of Cambridge (UK).

2017

• Machine Learning at Amazon. Keynote at the Big Data Congress, Barcelona (ES).
• Extracting Value from Text. Barcelona Analytics. (video)
• Social Media Marketing in the AI new era. Kisiwa Webinar.
• Conviviendo con el Algoritmo (Living with Algorithms), National TV Documentary.
• Course in Machine Learning and Business Applications, Master in Business Analytics and Big Data, at IE School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Instituto de Empresa)

2015

• Course in Machine Learning and Business Applications, Master in Business Analytics and Big Data, at IE School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Instituto de Empresa)

• TEDx IE Madrid: Our opinions: a new raw material.

2013

• Some of the Problems and Applications of Opinion Analysis. ECML-PKDD 2013, Prague.

• Exploiting opinion dynamics to reach near-perfect sentiment classification. SIGIR 2013, Dublin.

2012

• Online reputation monitoring & conversation analysis at Websays: the business and the science. Xerox XRCE (Grenoble).
• Exploiting Extraction Technology for Search Applications, keynote speech at SKY’2012, Barcelona.
• How Reputation Monitoring became a Big Data challenge. Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue], Zurich. * Online reputation monitoring & conversation analysis at Websays: the business and the science. Google (Zurich). * Websays: qué dice la Web de ti? [[http://tecnoconferences.com/redessociales/|Soluciones TIC y software para medir la reputación en Redes Sociales
• Developing the Websays Text Analytics system for Discourse and Opinion Mining. ECIR 2012 Industry Day, Barcelona.
• Opinion Analytics: a virtuous cycle for business and society. Invited Expert at PlanetData Call 2 strategic workshop. Luxembourg.

2011

• Quand les ordinateurs comprendrons nos questions. Invited Speaker at Entretiens du nouveau monde industriel, Paris.
• Descriptive Statistics for Informational Search Results. Invited Speaker at the Annual Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN’2011)], Huelva.</div> * Quand les ordinateurs comprendrons nos questions. Invited Speaker at the Annual Conference of the [[http://afia2011.org/dotclear2/index.php?post/2011/01/18/Conf%C3%A9rences-Grand-Public-%3A-qu-est-ce-que-l-IA|Association Française pour l’Intelligence Artificielle (AFIA’2011), Chambery.</div>
• Visual Intelligence for Data Comprehension. BCN Design Week. Diseñando para la ciudad en red., Barcelona.

2010

• Helping Computers Understand What They Search
  • Faculty presentation, IIT Mumbai,
  • Yahoo! Big Thinkers India Series, Bangalore.

2009

• Recuperación de Información con Anotaciones Lingüísticas en Yahoo! Answers, UNED, Madrid.
• Social Networking Session Panel, Día W3C en España.
• Beyond the Link-Graph: Analyzing the Content of Pages to Better Understand their Meaning. ALA’09: SIAM Conference on Linear Algebra (invited keynote).
• Semi-Parametric and Non-Parametric Term Weighting for Information Retrieval. ICITIR’09 (article with Donald Metzler).
• Interaction 2009 Panel.
• Semantic Search, Web Content Understanding, and their impact on the WWW User Experience. EUNICE’09: The Internet Of The Future (invited keynote).
• Machine Learning and Information Retrieval, European Summer School in Information Retrieval (course slides).
• ESAIR’09 Workshop (organised with Omar Alonso).
• When text can be translated into data objects… COST Workshop, Bruges 2009.
• Correlator: things we did, things we should do, and things we don’t know how to, Semantic Search 2009 Workshop (Invited Talk).
• Entity Search in online collections, Second Web People Search Evaluation Workshop (invited talk).
• Search and Content Analysis in the Web 2.0, WS9 Content Analysis in the WEB 2.0 (CAW2.0) (invited talk)
• Exploiting Lingusitic Annotations in Search, LOAIT Workshop (invited talk)

2008

• “Search, Recommendations and Personalization: text and beyond”, Panel at Telefonica Open Research Day, Barcelona.
• Exploiting Entity Graphs for Searching and Understanding information, talk at the UCL Engineering Mathematics group, Louvain.
• Ranking text in search of knowledge and wealth, The Mathematics of Ranking, Belgian Mathematical Society, Brussels.
• Improving Search with Semantic Technologies: Current Research Directions, European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC 2008), Vienna.
• The Natural Language Retrieval Architecture: Text Analysis Pipeline and First Applications, Yahoo! TechPulse presentation, San Jose.
• UCM-Y!R at CLEF 2008 Robust and WSD tasks. CLEF 2008 Workshop, CLEF 2008, Aarhus.
• Trying to Find Answers to Complex Questions ECIR 2008 Industry Day (invited talk), Glasgow.
• Correlator: an Entity Ranking and Visualisation Demonstrator SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Aggregated Search (invited talk), Singapore
• ECIR Workshop: Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval, ESAIR 2008(organiser), Glasgow.
• Understanding the Web at Yahoo! Research Barcelona* Masters Ingenieria Web (U. Oviedo), Oviedo.
• The Probabilistic Relevance Model: BM25 and Beyond (SIGIR 2008 Tutorial), Singapore.
• Improving Search with Natural Language Processing, Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK).
• Beyond Web 2.0: Understanding User Generated Content. BDigital Global Congress, Web 3.0 Pannel (invited), Barcelona.

2007

* Anotaciones semánticas: unidades de busqueda del futuro? [Semantic annotations: search units of the future?] Jornadas MAVIR (Madrid, Nov.07)

• Predictive User Click Models Based on Clickthrough History, CIKM’07 (Lisbon, Nov.07)
• La Próxima Red (mesa redonda) [The Next Web (pannel)] ART FUTURA (Barcelona, Oct.07)
• Beyond string search: fast and accurate retrieval of entities and dependencies, U. Edinburgh (Oct.07)
• Beyond string search: fast and accurate retrieval of entities and dependencies, invited talk to the ECML/PKDD 2007 industrial track. (Warsaw, Aug.07)
• Beyond string search: fast and accurate retrieval of entities and dependencies, U. Santiago (invited by Losada and Barreiro) abstract. (Santiago de Compostela, Aug.07)
• The Probabilistic Relevance Model: BM25 and Beyond (SIGIR 2007 Tutorial), Amsterdam (NL). (Jul.07)
• Learning to Rank (SIGIR 2007 Workshop. Panelist), (Amsterdam, Jul.07)
• HITS on the Web: How does it compare? SIGIR 2007, Amsterdam (NL). (Jul.07)
• Serving Sophisticated Queries NOOJ Conference 2007 Barcelona (Spain). (Jun.07)
• Entender lo que dice la Web: Busqueda Semantica y Busqueda Social. [Understanding the Web: Semantic Search and Social Search] International Internet Day lecture, Centro Politécnico Superior, Zaragoza (Spain) 2007.
• Redes Sociales [Social Networks] Pannelist in IGC2007 Barcelona (Spain).
• Mas allá de la búsqueda web: tipos semánticos y búsqueda de la información. [Beyond Web search: semantic types and information retrieval] Imaginática 2007, Sevilla (Spain).
• Introduction to Web Search and Term Dependence Issues in Document Retrieval. Web Information Retrieval and Linear Algebra Algorithms. Dagsuthl Seminar (Germany), 2007.
• Búsqueda de Información Tipada: “Encuentra las fechas más importantes respecto a el calentamiento global”. [Searching typed information] Seminarios en Ingeniería Informática y de Telecomunicación, UNAM, Madrid(Spain).

2006

• Towards Semantically Structured Information Retrieval, Workshop on Foundations of Databases and the Web (In honor to Alberto Mendelzon) , Santiago 2006. (slides)
• Learning Ranking Functions for Web Search and Information Extraction, Web as Database Workshop, Santiago 2006. (slides)
• “Tuning”: Error Optimisation in Ad-Hoc Retrieval, UPV, Valencia 2006.
• “Tuning”: Error Optimisation in Ad-Hoc Retrieval, Future of the Web Workshop, Barcelona 2006. (slides)
• Panelist at the Open Source Information Retrieval Workshop at SIGIR 2006, Seattle.
• The Role of Machine Learning in Information Retrieval Research, CORIA 2006, invited speaker, Lyon 2006. (slides)