About us:

We are a group of researchers in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing interested both in theoretical insight as well as industrial applications. Most of us are affiliated to the Institute of Literature and Language Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso in Chile.

Rogelio Nazar is professor of linguistics at the Institute of Literature and Language Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile. He specializes in computational linguistics and currently leads the research group Tecling.com, dedicated to the development of linguistic technologies.

Irene Renau is a professor of linguistics at the Institute of Literature and Language Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso. Her main research interest is lexical semantics and the syntax - lexicon interface. She is a member of the Chilean Language Academy.

Gabriela Ferraro is a researcher on Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics at the Machine Learning Group, NICTA and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University. She works in the areas of Information Extraction and Computational Lexicology. She is specially interested in applying NLP technologies to make scientific and technical information accessible to laymen.

Rafael Marín is a Spanish linguist working at CNRS and Université de Lille 3 et Lille 1. He is a specialist in semantics and Romance Languages and member of the UMR 8163 STL laboratory ("Savoirs, Textes, Langage"). He collaborates in the experiments with taxonomy induction for French.

Hernán Robledo Nakagawa is a teacher of Spanish and obtained a Master's Degree in Reading Comprehension and Text Production. He is currently a PhD student in Linguistics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile. His research interests are corpus linguistics, text grammar and discourse markers, among others.

Nicolás Acosta was born in Mendoza, Argentina, in 1996. He studies linguistics at the National University of Cuyo and is also a software developer. He is currently involved as a research associate in our projects and collaborate in the development of web interfaces.

Benjamín López Hidalgo Benjamín López Hidalgo was born in Llaillay, Chile, in 1995. He studied a bachelor's degree in Hispanic language and literature and a master's degree in applied linguistics at PUCV.cl. During his studies, he worked on the Fondecyt project 11140704, on normal patterns of verb use in Spanish, and on the Fondecyt project 1191204, on regular polysemy of names in Spanish. He is currently dedicated to teaching language and literature and is part of the Fondecyt 1231594 project, on metaphorical patterns of verbs and nouns based on corpus.

Javier Obreque was born in Puchuncaví, Chile, in 1991. He studied Language and Hispanic Literature and Pedagogy in Spanish at PUCV, where he worked on the Fondecyt project 11140704, about normal patterns of use of Spanish verbs. He is currently a professor of language at Duoc UC professional institute and is part of the Fondecyt project 1191204, about regular polisemy of Spanish names.

Daniel Mora Melanchthon is a researcher on Natural Language Processing and Education. He studied Hispanic Language and Literature as well as Pedagogy at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He also has a master's degree in NLP at The University of Edinburgh. He is currently working as a teacher of language and developing linguistic technologies.