Research Interests

Those are the research lines I have worked on, with some selected publications. For a more detailed list of publications please see my Google Scholar profile.

• Automatic Lexical Acquisition and Distributional Semantics
  • Muntsa Padró, Marco Idiart, Carlos Ramisch, Aline Villavicencio. Nothing like Good Old Frequency: Studying Context Filters for Distributional Thesauri. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 419–424. Doha, Qatar. October 2014.
  • Muntsa Padró, Marco Idiart, Aline Villavicencio, Carlos Ramisch. Comparing Similarity Measures for Distributional Thesauri. In Proceedings of LREC-2014. Reykjavik, Island. May 2014.
  • Muntsa Padró, Núria Bel, Aina Garí. Verb SCF extraction for Spanish with dependency parsing. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 51, 93-100. September 2013.
  • Silvia Vázquez, Muntsa Padró, Núria Bel and Julio Gonzalo. Automatic Extraction of Polar Adjectives for the Creation of Polarity Lexicons. In Proceedings of COLING 2012. Mumbai, India. December 2012.
  • Núria Bel, Lauren Romeo and Muntsa Padró. Automatic Lexical Semantic Classification of Nouns. Proceedings of LREC 2012. Istanbul, Turkey. May 2012.
• Automatic mapping and merging of Lexical Resources
  • Marta Villegas, Muntsa Padró and Núria Bel. LMF Experiments on Format Conversions for Resource Merging: Converters and Problems.  In book: LMF Lexical Markup Framework. Publisher: Wiley-ISTE, Editor: Gil Francopoulo, pp.187-199. 2013.
  • Muntsa Padró, Núria Bel and Silvia Necsulescu. Towards the Fully Automatic Merging of Lexical Resources: a Step Forward. Proceedings of the LREC 2012 Workshop on Language Resource Merging. Istanbul, Turkey. May 2012.
• Dependency Parsing
  • Muntsa Padró, Miguel Ballesteros, Héctor Martínez, Bernd Bohnet. Finding Dependency Parsing Limits over a Large Spanish Corpus. Proceedings of IJCNLP 2013.
• Graphical Models and Machine Learning
  • Muntsa Padró. Applying Causal-State Splitting Reconstruction Algorithm to Natural Language Processing Tasks. PhD thesis. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. July, 2008.
  • Muntsa Padró and Lluís Padró. ME-CSSR: an Extension of CSSR using Maximum Entropy Models. Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Finite-State Methods for NLP (FSMNLP). Potsdam, Germany. September, 2007.