I came to the world with my eyes wide open, which was probably an early sign of what would be my constant curiosity and fascination for all secrets of life. My interests being always divided between humanities and science, it was not easy to choose one degree in which to specialise. My passion for language encouraged me to study English Philology at the University of Barcelona.

I am currently doing my PhD in Computational Linguistics (Department of Linguistics, University of Barcelona) as a member of the CLiC research group. My advisors are M. Antònia Martí (UB) and Eduard Hovy (ISI). My research is centered around coreference annotation with a view to building a coreference resolution system for Spanish and Catalan. I am primarily interested in interdisciplinary works between linguistics, computer science, psychology, philosophy, statistics...

Contact me
Departament de Lingüística
Universitat de Barcelona
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 585
08007 Barcelona
Telephone: (+34)93 4035694
Fax: (+34)933189822
• email: mrecasens at ub.edu

2006 - 2008 • MA Linguistics and Communication, Departament of Linguistics, University of Barcelona.

Recasens, M. (2008) Towards Coreference Resolution for Catalan and Spanish. Master Thesis. University of Barcelona. 

2002 - 2006 • BA(Hons) English, University of Barcelona.

2000 - 2002 • High School Education in Humanities and Social Sciences with Honors, IES Montserrat, Barcelona.
A-levels Award by the Catalan Government.

2009 • Nine-month research stay at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. Travelling fellowship by the Spanish Ministry of Education.

2009 • Best Paper Award at the 4th ISI Graduate Student Symposium. Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California. 

2007 - 2010 • PhD fellowship by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.

2007 • Special Mention in the End of Degree National Awards 2005-2006 by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. 

2007 • Extraordinary Degree Award. University of Barcelona.

2004 - 2005 • Erasmus Grant at the University of Manchester (UK), awarded by the University of Barcelona and the European Commission.

2009

Marta Recasens and M. Antònia Martí. In press. AnCora-CO: Coreferentially annotated corpora for Spanish and Catalan. Language Resources and Evaluation. 

Marta Recasens and Eduard Hovy. 2009. A Deeper Look into Features for Coreference Resolution. In S. Lalitha Devi, A. Branco, and R. Mitkov (eds.), Anaphora Processing and Applications (DAARC 2009), LNAI 5847:29-42. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. 

Marta Recasens. 2009. A Chain-starting Classifier of Definite NPs in Spanish. In Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Student Research Workshop, 46-53. Athens.

Marta Recasens, M. Antònia Martí and Mariona Taulé. 2009. First-mention Definites: More than Exceptional Cases. In S. Featherston and S. Winkler (eds.), The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics. Volume 2: Product. Berlin: de Gruyter.  

Marta Recasens, M. Antònia Martí, Mariona Taulé, Lluís Màrquez, and Emili Sapena. 2009. SemEval-2010 Task 1: Coreference Resolution in Multiple Languages. Workshop on Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions (SEW 2009). NAACL 2009, Boulder, Colorado, USA.  

2008

Manuel Bertran, Oriol Borrega, Marta Recasens and Bàrbara Soriano. 2008. AnCoraPipe: A tool for multilevel annotation. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 41:291-292. Madrid.

Marta Recasens. 2008. Discourse Deixis and Coreference: Evidence from AnCora. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Anaphora Resolution (WAR II) . NEALT Proceedings Series Vol. 2:73-82.

Mariona Taulé, M. Antònia Martí and Marta Recasens. 2008. AnCora: Multilevel Annotated Corpora for Catalan and Spanish. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco.

2007

Marta Recasens, M. Antònia Martí and Mariona Taulé. 2007a. Where Anaphora and Coreference Meet. Annotation in the Spanish CESS-ECE Corpus. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP2007), Borovets, Bulgaria, 504-509.

Marta Recasens, M. Antònia Martí and Mariona Taulé. 2007b. Text as Scene: Discourse Deixis and Bridging Relations. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 39:205-212. Sevilla, Spain.

2009

• 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC 2009), Goa, India.

• North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (NAACL-HLT 2009), Boulder, CO. 

• 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2009), Athens.

2008

• Workshop on Corpus-Based Approaches to Coreference Resolution (CBA 2008), Barcelona, Spain.

• 2nd Workshop on Anaphora Resolution (WAR II), Bergen, Norway. 

• 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco.

• Workshop on Reference to Abstract Objects in Natural Language, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

• 7th Evolution of Language Conference (EVOLANG 2008), Barcelona.

• 3rd International Conference on Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen, Germany.

2007

• 6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2007), Borovets, Bulgaria.

• 23rd Annual Meeting of the Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN 2007), Sevilla, Spain.

• 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), Prague, Czech Republic.

• 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC 2007), Lagos, Portugal.

• EACL Student Board (2009-2011).

• Reviewer: RANLP 2009.

• Program Committee: DAARC 2009, CBA 2008.

• Organizing Committee: SemEval-2(2010) - Task1: Coreference Resolution in Multiple Languages, CBA 2008.

Catalan Mother tongue
Spanish Second mother tongue
English Fluent
German Fluent
French Good
Hungarian Basic

• Platforms: Windows, Unix
• Markup Languages: LaTeX, XML, Wikitext
• Programming Languages: Java

Title: Lang2World: Discovering the world knowledge codified in the language. Subproject from TEXT-MESS.
Founding Institution: Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.
Duration, from: 2006
Participants: University of Alicante, Polytechnic University of Valencia, University of Barcelona, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, University of Jaén, National Open University of Spain (UNED).
Main researcher of the subproject: M. Antònia Martí.

Title: CESS-ECE: Corpus Syntactically and Semantically Annotated of Spanish, Catalan and Basque
Founding Institution: Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.
Duration, from: 2006 until: 2007
Participants: University of Barcelona, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, University of the Basque Country.
Coordinator: M. Antònia Martí.

The rest of my time is devoted to travelling, playing the piano, reading, and watching films.