Anselmo Peñas

International Coordination

• 2011-2013, General chair of the Question Answering for Machine Reading Evaluation (QA4MRE), at Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation, (CLEF).


• 2013, Coordination of Entrance Exams QA4MRE Task at CLEF.


• 2010, Coordination of the Question Answering Lab at Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation, (CLEF 2010).


• 2007-2009, Coordination of the Question Answering Track at the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum.


• 2006-2008, Coordination of the Answer Validation Exercise at the Question Answering Track of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum.


• 2003-2007, Coordination of the Question Answering with Spanish as target, at the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum.

International Projects

• READERS, Readers: Evaluation And DEvelopment of Reading Systems
  (UE FP7/2007-2013, ERA Net, CHIST-ERA (From Data to New Knowledge), 1/1/2013 - 31/12/2015)


• LiMoSINe, Linguistically Motivated Semantic Aggregation Engines
  (UE FP7/2007-2013, STREP 288024, 1/11/2011 - 31/10/2014)


• Treble-CLEF, Evaluation Best Practice and Collaboration for Multilingual Information Access
  (UE 7FP, Coordination Action ICT-1-4-1 215231)


• NEWS, News Engine Web Services
  (UE 6FP, FP6-001906, EFE subcontract)


• CLEF, Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
  (UE 5FP, IST-2000-31002)


• RIBIDI, Recuperación de Información en Bibliotecas Digitales
  (CYTED VII.19)


• ETB, European Schools Treasury Browser
  (UE 5FP, IST-1999-11781)


• L.E. Training Showcase, subproject 6: Information Retrieval (mono and Multilingual) with Natural Language Processing Techniques
  (ELSNET UE Excelence Network and SOCRATES ACO*HUM Network)


• EuroWordNet
  (UE 4FP, LE#4003)

Organization of Workshops

• CLEF 2010 Workshop on Multilingual Question Answering, MLQA'10 (co-chair), Padua, 2010.


• EACL 2006 Workshop on Multilingual Question Answering, MLQA'06 (co-chair), Trento, 2006.


• IBERAMIA 2002 Workshop on Multilingual Information Access and Natural Language Processing (co-chair), Seville, 2002.

Programme Committees

Conferences

• 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013 (area of Question Answering and area of Semantics)


• 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics, IWCS 2013


• Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, *SEM 2013 (area of Theoretical Semantics)


• 35th ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2012


• Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies, NAACL/HLT 2012 (area of Information Retrieval and Question Answering)


• 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Asociation for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2012 (area of Question Answering and Information Retrieval)


• Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, *SEM 2012 (area of Textual Inference and area of Theoretical Semantics)


• 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, ACL/HLT 2011 (area of Question Answering and area of Multilinguality)


• Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2011 (area of Semantics and area of Information Extraction)


• 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL/IJCNLP 2009 (area of Question Answering)


• 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2008 (area of Question Answering and area of Semantics)


• 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2008 (Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing)


• 12th Conference of the European chapter of ACL, EACL 2009 (area of Compositional Semantics and Textual Entailment)


• Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF, Steering Committee, 2007, 2008, 2009


• European Conference of Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2004 (reviewer), 2006 (reviewer)


• European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL), 2005 (reviewer), 2006, 2007


• 13th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IBERAMIA 2012 (area of Natural Language Processing)


• International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2002 (reviewer), 2004 (reviewer), 2010, 2012


• 10th Internacional Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2007


• Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLING), 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013


• Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation, CLEF 2010


• Congreso de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN) 2001 (reviewer), 2003 (reviewer), 2005 (reviewer)

Workshops

• FIRE 2011 Workshop on Cross-Language Indian Text Reuse (CLITR 2011), Bombay, December 2011.


• IJCAI 2010 Joint Workshop on Learning by Reading and its Applications in Intelligent Question-Answering (FAM-LbR/KRAQ'11), Barcelona 2011


• CLIP 2007, Third Internacional Workshop on Cross-Language Information Processing, Italy, 2007.


• IBERAMIA 2004 Workshop on Lexical Resources and the Web for Word Sense Disambiguation, Mexico 2004


• IBERAMIA 2004 Workshop on Linguistic Tools and Resources for Spanish and Portuguese, Mexico 2004


• ACL 2004 Workshop on Question Answering in restricted Domains, Barcelona 2004


• 7th International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language for Information Systems, NLDB 2002.


• 6th International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language for Information Systems NLDB 2001, Madrid, 2001.

PhD Students

• Enrique Amigo Cabrera. Sintesis de Informacion: Desarrollo y Evaluacion de un modelo interactivo
  Directores: Anselmo Peñas y Julio Gonzalo
  Departamento: Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos, UNED
  Defensa: 20 de junio de 2006
  Calificacion: Sobresaliente Cum Laude por Unanimidad
  Premio SEPLN 2008 a la investigacion en Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural
  


• Juan Cigarran Recuero. Organizacion de resultados de busqueda mediante Analisis Formal de Conceptos
  Directores: Julio Gonzalo y Anselmo Peñas
  Departamento: Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos, UNED
  Defensa: 12 de junio de 2008
  Calificacion: Sobresaliente Cum Laude por Unanimidad
  Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado
  


• Alvaro Rodrigo Yuste. Evaluacion de Sistemas de Busqueda y Validacion de Respuestas
  Director: Anselmo Peñas
  Departamento: Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos, UNED
  Defensa: 1 de junio de 2010
  Calificacion: Sobresaliente Cum Laude por Unanimidad
  

Master Students

• Francisco Manuel Rangel Pardo. Clasificacion de Paginas Web en Dominios Especificos
  30 creditos, Master en Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos, ETSI Informatica, UNED
  Defensa: Septiembre 2007
  Calificacion: Sobresaliente
  Premio MAVIR 2007 a la mejor Tesis de Master en Tecnologia de la Lengua y Comunicacion Cientifica a traves de la Web
  


• Alvaro Rodrigo Yuste. Validacion de Respuestas: Metodologia de Evaluacion y Desarrollo de Sistemas
  30 creditos, Master en Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos, ETSI Informatica, UNED
  Defensa: Septiembre 2007
  Calificacion: Sobresaliente
  Premio MAVIR 2008 a la mejor Tesis de Master en Tecnologia de la Lengua y Comunicacion Cientifica a traves de la Web
  


• Guillermo Garrido Yuste. Community Structure in Endorsement Social Networks
  30 creditos, Master en Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos, ETSI Informatica, UNED
  Defensa: Octubre 2010
  Calificacion: Matricula de Honor
  Premio MAVIR 2011 a la mejor Tesis de Master en Tecnologia de la Lengua y Comunicacion Cientifica a traves de la Web