A computer scientist, or a software engineer, or a continuous student … all of them at the same time, I think I should use an And instead …
That’s me. I took my Phd. in Computer Science under the supervision of Dr. Eduardo Mena. My main areas of interest are the Semantic Web (all the technologies that come along with it), NLP, and Mobile Computing. In particular, I’m currently focused on the convergence of the Semantic Web technologies and NLP (semantics behind LMs, PLM, LLMs, … and their possible applications from the point of view of intelligent systems and Semantic Web).
Currently, I am an associated professor at the University of Zaragoza. Until recenly, I was a researcher in everis / NTT Data, working on large scale knowledge management and NLP systems (I’m still collaborating with them developing different semantic search solutions). Before, I was a postdoc researcher in SemLIS group at the Université de Rennes 1 / IRISA (France) working with Dr. Sébastien Ferré, with whom I still activevly collaborate. Besides, I am a member of the Distributed Information Systems Group working with Dr. Eduardo Mena, Dr. Fernando Bobillo, and Dr. Jorge Bernad. In the past, I was also a visiting researcher at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK) working with Dr. Jeff Z. Pan, with whom I also have an open research line.
Lately, my research has been focused on:
- Regarding Semantic Web and Semantic Information Systems:
- Semantic Search, focusing on Keyword-based Search
- Semantic Modelling
- Semantic Location-based Services
- Ontology Integration
- Regarding NLP:
- Reconciliation of distributional and symbolic semantics
- Knowledge elicitation (taxonomy reconstruction, semantic distances learning, …)
- Word Sense Disambiguation and Word Sense Induction
- Inner characteristics of embedding spaces of LMs
Besides, I’m also interested in all IR, and ML techniques which might come in handy in any of my main research fields. My previous works on Mobile Computing were focused on: processing Location-based Queries, modelling locations at different granularities exploiting their semantics, and applications of Mobile Agents in distributed scenarios.
You can take a look at some of my projects at https://github.com/cbobed
Apart from that, I divide my spare time between two passions: practicing any sport (handball, fomerly), and playing guitar. Both of them make it possible to free my mind when a rest is needed 
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