Publications

Guzzi, Eleonora, M. Antònia Martí, Montserrat Nofre, Mariona Taulé (2019). Guidelines for the annotation of negation in Spanish. CLiC-Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona Institute for Complex Systems (UBICS), Working Paper 1, MISMIS-Language project (PGC2018-096212-B-C33).

H.V. Georgious, INGENIOUS Consortium. INGENIOUS: The First Responder of the Future – A Next Generation Integrated Toolkit for Collaborative Response, Increasing Protection and Augmenting Operational Capacity. Proceedings of the International Conference on Civil Protection and New Technologies. Corfu Island, Greece, November 2019.

J.M. Basart, M. Farrús, M. Serra. Mindful engineers in a sustainable engineering. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 38(3), pp. 68-73, 2019. [JCR:Q4][SJR:Q1]

Kovatchev, Venelin, M. Antònia Martí, Maria Salamó, Javier Beltran (2019) 'Qualitative Evaluation Framework for Paraphrase Identification', Proceedings of the 12th Recent Advances in Naural Language Processing conference.

L. Pérez-Mayos, M. Farrús, J. Adell. Part-of-speech and prosody-based approaches for robot speech and gesture synchronization. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, pp. 1-11, 2019. [JCR:Q2][SJR:Q1]

M. Farrús, J. Hernando. Using jitter and shimmer in speaker verification. IET Signal Processing -- Special Issue on Biometric Recognition, 3(4), pp. 247-257, June 2009. ISSN 1751-9675. [JCR:Q3][SJR:Q3]

Martí, M. Antònia, Mariona Taulé, Venelin Kovatchev, Maria Salamó (2019). 'DISCOver: DIStributional approach based on syntactic dependencies for discovering COnstructions', Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. De Gruyter Mouton, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2018-0028. (ISSN: 1613-7027; E-ISSN: 1613-7035).

Sun Yuliang, Lourdes Díaz, Mariona Taulé (2019). 'The development of dynamicity in the acquisition of Spanish by Chinese learners', International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol.: 170 (1): 80-111. John Benjamins Publishing (ISSN 0019-0829, E-ISSN 1783-1490). 

Sun Yuliang, Lourdes Díaz, Mariona Taulé (2019). 'Patrones adquisicionales de los pasados aspectuales, pretérito indefinido y pretérito imperfecto, en distintos tipos de tarea. ¿Cómo se acercan al uso nativo del aspecto los aprendices  sinohablantes de ELE?' Marcoele, 28: 1-18 (ISSN: 1885-2211).

Sun Yuliang, Lourdes Díaz, Mariona Taulé (2019). 'A comparative study of the acquisition of Spanish aspectual past tenses by Mandarin Chinese learners using guided and semi-guided written productions', Actas del XXXVI Congreso Internacional AESLA. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Sun, Yuliang, Paz González González, M.Carmen Parafita Couto, Elisabeth Mauder, Michael W. Child, Lourdes Díaz, Mariona Taulé (2019). Adquisición del aspecto en español por aprendices chinos, Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación (CLAC), Ediciones Complutense, 78: 287-315, (ISSN-1576-4737). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/CLAC.64382.

A. Öktem, M. Farrús, A. Bonafonte. Bilingual prosodic dataset compilation for spoken language translation. Proceedings of Iberspeech. Barcelona, November 2018.

A. Öktem, M. Farrús, A. Bonafonte. Visualizing punctuation restoration in speech transcripts with Prosograph. Proceedings of Interspeech. Hyderabad, India, September 2018.

A. Peiró-Lilja, M. Farrús. Paragraph prosodic patterns to enhance text-to-speech naturalness. Proceedings of the Speech Prosody Conference. Poznań, Poland, June 2018.

Díaz, Lourdes, Mariona Taulé, Núria Enríquez  (2018) 'Being polite at the railway or bus station: how a role-play can illustrate the differences between Study Abroad groups vs. Heritage Students and At Home groups of Spanish L2 university learners’, The Routledge Handbook of Study Abroad Research and Practice (Cristina Sanz & Alfonso Morales-Front (Eds). Routledge (Taylor and Francis), New York/London: Cap. 7 (102-118). ISBN: 978-1-138-19239-3; 978-1-315-63997-0.

Jiménez-Zafra, Salud María, Mariona Taulé, M. Teresa Martín-Valdivia, M. Antònia Martí, L. Alfonso Ureña López (2018). 'SFU ReviewSP-NEG: a Spanish corpus annotated with negation for sentiment analysis a typology of negation patterns', Language, Resources and Evaluation, 52(2): 533-569, Springer Netherlands. DOI: 10.1007/s10579-017-9391-x. (ISSN: 1574-020X).

Kovatchev, Venelin, M. Antònia Martí, Maria Salamó (2018). 'ETPC - A Paraphrase Identification Corpus Annotated with Extended Paraphrase Typology and Negation', Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Miyazaki (Japan).

Kovatchev, Venelin, M. Antònia Martí, Maria Salamó (2018).  'WARP-Text: A Web-Based Tool for Annotating Relationships Between Pairs of Texts', Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Santa Fe, USA, 2018.

M. Domínguez, A. Burga, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. Compilation of Corpora for the study of the Information Structure-Prosody interface. Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. Miyazaki, Japan. May 2018.

M. Domínguez, A. Burga, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. Towards expressive prosody generation in TTS for reading aloud applications. Proceedings of Iberspeech. Barcelona, November 2018.

M. Domínguez, A. Burga, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. On the role of communicative structure in read aloud applications for elderly. Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Conversation Agents and Geriatric Care Applications, in AAMAS (International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems). Stockholm, Sweden, August 2018.

M. Domínguez, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. Thematicity-based prosody enrichment for text-to-speech applications. Proceedings of the Speech Prosody Conference. Poznań, Poland, June 2018.

M. Farrús. Voice disguise in automatic speaker recognition. ACM Computing Surveys, 51(4), pp. 68:1-68:22, 2018. [JCR:Q1][SJR:Q1]

Martí, Maria Antònia, Mariona Taulé (2018). Análisi comparativo de los sistemas de anotación de la negación en español. Salud Jiménez-Zafra, Noa Cruz-Díaz, M. Teresa Martín-Valdivia and Roser Morante (eds.). Proceedings of NEGES-2018: Workshop on Negation in Spanish, colocated with 34th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2018), Sevilla, Spain, September 18th. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vo. 2174: 23-28. CEUR-WS.org. (ISSN: 1613-0073)

Sun, Yuliang, Lourdes Díaz , Mariona Taulé (2018).  'A writing based study of the acquisition of aspect in Spanish by Mandarin Chinese learners', Díaz, F. J. and Moreno, M. A. (Eds.), Languages at the Crossroads: Training, Accreditation and Context of Use, pp. 51-62. Jaén: University of Jaén (ISBN 978-84-9159-108-5).

Sun, Yuliang, Lourdes Díaz, Mariona Taulé (2018). 'El aspecto léxico y gramatical en un corpus de narración escrita de aprendices sinohablantes y en nativos: uso, colocaciones y didáctica'. M. Bargalló, E. Forgas & A. Nomdedu (Eds.) Léxico y Cultura en LE/L2: corpus y diccionarios, pp. 807-818. Asociación para la Enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera. (ISBN: 978-84-09-04375-0).

Taulé Mariona, Francisco Rangel, M. Antònia Martí, Paolo Rosso. (2018). 'Overview of the Task on Multimodal Stance Detection in Tweets on Catalan #1Oct Referendum'.  Paolo Rosso, Julio Gonzalo, Raquel Martínez, Soto Montalvo, Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz (eds). Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Evaluation of Human Language Technologies for Iberian Languages (IberEval 2018), colocated with 34th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2018), Sevilla, Spain, September 19th, 2018. CEUR Workshop Proceedings: 149-166. CEUR-WS.org.  

A. Öktem, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. Automatic extraction of parallel speech corpora from dubbed movies. Proceedings of the 10th ACL Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC), Vancouver, Canada, August 2017.

A. Öktem, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. Prosograph: A tool for prosody visualisation of large speech corpora. Proceedings of Interspeech, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2017.

A. Öktem, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. Attentional parallel RMMs for generating punctuation in transcribed speech. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP), Le Mans, France, October 2017.

Baldeon, Johan, Ann Puig, Inmaculada Rodriguez (2017). 'A Conceptual Model for Educational Game Authoring: a Showcase in Math Games'. Proceedings of Design, User Experience, and Usability: Designing Pleasurable Experiences. 6th International Conference, DUXU 2017, Held as Part of HCI International 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 10.1007/978-3-319-58637-3.

Horowitz, Daniel, David Contreras, Maria Salamó (2017). ‘EventAware: A Mobile Recommender System for Events’. Pattern Recognition Letters, Science Direct, Elsevier.

J. Kleinhans, M. Farrús, A. Gravano, J.M. Pérez, C. Lai, L. Wanner. Using prosody to classify discourse relations. Proceedings of Interspeech, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2017.

L. Wanner, E. André, J. Blat, S. Dasiopoulou, M. Farrús, T. Fraga, E. Kamateri, F. Lingenfelser, G. Llorach, O. Martínez, G. Meditskos, S. Mille, W. Minker, L. Pragst, D. Schiller, A. Stam, L. Stellingwerff, F. Sukno, B. Vieru, S. Vrochidis. Design of knowledge-based agent as a social companion. Proceedings of the International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies (HCist), Barcelona, Catalonia, November 2017.

L. Wanner, E. André, J. Blat, S. Dasiopoulou, M. Farrús, T. Fraga, E. Kamateri, F. Lingenfelser, G. Llorach, O. Martínez, G. Meditskos, S. Mille, W. Minker, L. Pragst, D. Schiller, A. Stam, L. Stellingwerff, F. Sukno, B. Vieru, S. Vrochidis. KRISTINA: A knowledge-based virtual conversation agent. Proceedings of the International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS), Porto, Portugal, June 2017.

Lucha, Rosa Maria, Lourdes Díaz (2017). 'Estudio de la calidad del texto en producciones escritas de relato en pasado a partir del análisis de la fluidez y la diversidad léxicas. A propósito de la eficacia de los cursos generales en las destrezas específicas'. [Pendiente de publicación en: Actas del XXVII Congreso Internacional de Asele].

M. Domínguez-Bajo, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. A thematicity-based prosody enrichment tool for CTS. Proceedings of Interspeech, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2017.

Taulé Mariona, M. Antònia Martí, Francisco Rangel, Paolo Rosso, Cristina Bosco, Viviana Patti (2017). ‘Overview of the task of Stance and Gender Detection in Tweets on Catalan Independence at IBEREVAL 2017’. Notebook Papers of 2nd SEPLN Workshop on Evaluation of Human Language Technologies for Iberian Languages (IBEREVAL), Murcia, Spain, September 19, CEUR Workshop Proceedings: 157-177. CEUR-WS.org. 

Alcoba Santiago, Maria Antònia Martí (2016). 'Influencia del catalán en el uso de HE CANTADO en hablantes cultos de español'. Lingüístca Iberoamericana. El español en contacto con las otras lenguas peninsulares. Dolors Poch Olivé (Ed.), Iberoamericana Vervuert, Madrid. ISBN: 978-84-8489-986-0; 978-3-95487-533-7

Almajano Pablo, Maite López-Sánchez, Inmaculada Rodríguez, Anna Puig, Maria Salamó, M. Ribera (en premsa). 'Training Infrastructure to Participate in Real Life Institutions: Learning Through Virtual Worlds'. Handbook of Research on 3-D Virtual Environments and Hypermedia for Ubiquitous Learning.  IGI Global.

Baldeón, Johan, Maite López-Sánchez, Inmaculada Rodríguez, Anna Puig (2016). Gamification of Multi-agent Systems Theory Classes. Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Springer, Vol. 10003: 172 -183, Netherlands. ISBN: 978-3-319-46839-6.

C. Lai, M. Farrús, J.D. Moore. Automatic paragraph segmentation with lexical and prosodic features. Proceedings of the Interspeech, San Francisco, CA, September 2016.

Enríquez, Núria, Lourdes Díaz (2016). 'Interculturalidad, interlingüística y cognición en el español nativo, de herencia y no nativo'. Marco ELE, nº 23. ISSN-i 1885-2211

Horowitz, Daniel, David Contreras, Maria Salamó (2016). ' EventAware: A Context-Aware Tag-Based Mobile Recommender System for Events'. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Artificial Intelligence Research and Development. Vol. 288: 273-282. DOI10.3233/978-1-61499-696-5-273

Jiménez-Zafra, Salud María,  M. Teresa Martín-Valdivia, L. Alfonso Ureña López, M. Antònia Martí, Mariona Taulé (2016). 'Problematic Cases in the Annotation of Negation in Spanish'. Proceedings of the Workshop Extra-Propositional Aspects of Meaning in Computational Linguistics (ExProM-2016): 45-48. ACL Anthology. ISBN.978-4879747181.

Kovatchev, Venelin , Maria Salamó, M. Antònia Martí (2016). 'Comparing Distributional semantics Models for identifying groups of semantically related words'. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural,Vol. 57: 109-116.

Lucha, Rosa Maria, Lourdes Díaz (2016). 'El efecto positivo del trabajo de la expresión escrita en un curso general de ELE'. MarcoELE, nº 23.ISSN-i 1885-2211.

M. Barceló, J.M. Basart, M. Farrús, A. Florensa, J.B. Mariño, C. Nadeu, M. Serra. Learning engineering without avoiding the what for question. 1st HEIRRI Conference. Barcelona, March 2016.

M. Domínguez, I. Latorre, M. Farrús, J. Codina-Filbà, L. Wanner. Praat on the Web: An upgrade of Praat for semi-automatic speech annotation. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pp. 218-222, Osaka, Japan, December 2016.

M. Domínguez, M. Farrús, A. Burga, L. Wanner. Using hierarchical information structure for prosody prediction in content-to-speech applications. Proceedings of the 8th Speech Prosody Conference. Boston, MA, May 2016.

M. Domínguez, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. Combining acoustic and linguistic features in phrase-oriented prosody prediction. Proceedings of the 8th Speech Prosody Conference. Boston, MA, May 2016.

M. Domínguez, M. Farrús, L. Wanner. An automatic prosody tagger for spontaneous speech. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pp. 377-386, Osaka, Japan, December 2016.

M. Farrús, C. Lai, J.D. Moore. Paragraph-based prosodic cues for speech synthesis applications. Proceedings of the 8th Speech Prosody Conference. Boston, MA, May 2016.

M. Farrús, M. Serra, J.M. Basart, C. Nadeu. Baixant de la tarima. Una experiència a l’aula on l’alumne pren la paraula. Actes del Congrés Internacional de Docència Universitària i Innovació (CIDUI), July 2016.

Martí, M. Antònia, M. Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Mariona Taulé, Salud María Jiménez-Zafra, Montserrat Nofre, Laia Marsó (2016). 'La negación en español: análisis y tipología de patrones de negación'. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural,Vol. 57: 41-48.

Martí, M. Antònia, Mariona Taulé, Irene Canudas (2016). 'L'oralitat a la llengua escrita informal' Fernández Planas, A. Ma. (Eds.) 53 reflexiones sobre aspectos de la fonética y otros temas de lingüística. Barcelona, págs. 483-491. ISBN: 978-84-608-9830-6.

Rodriguez-Aguilar, Juan A., Marc Serramia, Maite López-Sánchez (2016). Aggregation operators to support collective reasoning. Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Springer-Verlag) LNAI, vol. 9880:1-12.

Rosso, Paolo, Roberto Paredes, Mariona Taulé, M. Antónia Martí  (2016). 'SomEMBED: Comprensión del lenguaje en los medios de comunicación social-Representando contextos de forma continua'. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, Vol. 57: 143-146.

S. Alsius, M. Barceló, S. Cóppulo, M. Farrús, P. Farré, A. Florensa, Ll. Boix, R. Jorba, J.B., Mariño, C. Nadeu, A. Olivé, C. Ruiz, A. Sáez, M. Serra, M. Sintes. Ètica i espai públic de comunicació. In J. Amat (dir), J.M. Esquirol (coord.). Per una ètica pública a Catalunya. Implicacions ètiques i socials de la ciència i la tecnologia. Institut d'Estudis Catalans. Secció de Ciències i Tecnologia, 2016. ISBN: 978-84-9965-305-1.

Salamó, Maria, Inmaculada Rodríguez, Maite López-Sánchez, Anna Puig, Simone Balocco, Mariona Taulé (2016). 'Recurso docente para la atención de la diversidad en el aula mediante la predicción de notas'. ReVisión, 9 (1): 37-53 (AENUI). ISSN: 1989-1199.