Laboratorio de Lenguaje Natural, Centro de Investigación en Computación (CIC),
Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Av. Juan Dios Bátiz, s/n, esq. Av. Mendizábal,
U.P. “Adolfo López Mateos”, Col. Zacatenco, CP 07738, México DF, Mexico.

Current position

1997 to date: Research Professor, tenure position of level “C” (the highest) of the Natural Language and Text Processing Laboratory of the Center for Computing Research (Centro de Investigación en Computación, CIC) of the National Polytechnic Institute (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, IPN), address: U.P. “López Mateos”, Col. Zacatenco, C.P. 07738, Mexico D.F., Mexico.

1997 to date: Head of the same Laboratory.

Languages

English (100%), Spanish (100%), Russian (native).

Degrees

· Ph.D. (computer science – “technical sciences”), 1995, the All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI), thesis in computational linguistics.

· M.Sc. (mathematics; honors degree), 1990, the Moscow State “Lomonosov” University (MGU, MSU), the Department of mechanics and mathematics, sub-department of mathematics.

Professional experience

· 1997 to date: Center for Computing Research, Center for Computing Research (Centro de Investigación en Computación, CIC) of the National Polytechnic Institute (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, IPN), address: U.P. “López Mateos”, Col. Zacatenco, C.P. 07738, Mexico D.F., Mexico. Head of the Natural Language and Text Processing Laboratory, Professor and Researcher, tenure position of level “C” (the highest). Research in computational linguistics.

· 1996-1997: Research Center for Institutions of Social Society (Moscow, Russia). Consultant, software developer. Development of the tools for natural language analysis and full-text information retrieval.

· 1995-1997: PC World Magazine (Moscow, Russia), scientific translator (part-time). Translation from English of the articles on informatics.

· 1995-1996: Award Software International Inc. (USA). Head of a group, software engineer. Development of operating system software.

· 1995-1996: Moscow State “Lomonosov” University (MGU, MSU), Russia, philological department. Teacher (part-time). Course of informatics for linguists.

· 1994-1996: MediaLingva Inc. (Moscow, Russia). Consultant. Development of the tools and dictionaries for morphological analysis of natural language.

· 1992-1995: All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI). Doctoral student. Thesis on automatic morphological analysis of inflective natural languages.

· 1992-1995: MICRA Inc. (USA). Researcher, senior programmer. Development of online dictionaries for natural language analysis.

· 1991-1993: Information Systems and Technologies, Inc. (Moscow, Russia). Consultant, software developer (part-time). Development of the tools for natural language analysis.

· 1991-1993: Art (GUR) Software, Inc. (Moscow, Russia). Researcher, software developer (part-time). Development of the tools for natural language analysis and full-text information retrieval.

· 1988-1992: All-Union Scientific and Technical Information Center (VNTICenter, AUSTIC) of the State Committee for Science and Technology (GKNT) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, Russia. Research fellow. Research and development in the area of automatic natural language understanding.

Professional knowledge and skills

Science:

· Computational Linguistics.

· Artificial Intelligence.

· Pure Mathematics.

· Software Technology.

Applications:

· Natural language analysis systems.

· Full-text information retrieval systems.

· Natural language interfaces for databases.

· Natural language information extraction systems.

· Spelling checkers and correctors.

· Large linguistic resources (databases, thesauri).

· Natural language-based tutoring systems and style checkers.

· Office automation.

· Application programming.

· System programming.

Programming tools:

· C/C++, Pascal, Fortran, PL/I, Basic, Assembler, Perl, Java.

· Operating systems (application and system programming): Windows 3.x, 95-2000 y NT, MS DOS, OS/2, UNIX.

· Microsoft Office 2000.

Current research interests

1. Computational Linguistics.

2. Artificial Intelligence.

3. Natural Language Processing.

4. Text Processing.

5. Computational morphology of inflective natural languages.

6. Computational syntax of natural languages.

7. Computational semantics of natural languages.

8. Ambiguity resolution.

9. Anaphora resolution; indirect anaphora.

10. Information retrieval.

11. Information and knowledge extraction systems.

12. Text mining.

13. Very large dictionaries, thesauri.

14. Linguistic databases; dictionaries and thesauri.

15. Human-computer interaction.

16. Information technology.

Awards

1. Member of Mexican Academy of Science since 2000.

2. Member of the National System of Researchers (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, SNI) since 1998, Excellence Level 1 (2001–2004).

3. Diploma from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) for an outstanding research activity, 1998.

4. Diploma from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) for an outstanding research activity, 1999.

5. Diploma from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) for an outstanding research activity, 2000.

6. Diploma from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) for belonging to the National System of Researchers (SNI) of Mexico, 2001.

7. Diploma from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) for belonging to the National System of Researchers (SNI) of Mexico, 2002.

8. Award from the All-Union Scientific and Technical Information Center (AUSTIC, VNTICenter), Moscow, Russia, for the achievements in the scientific activity and participation in the social life of the Center, 1990.

9. Diploma from the Lawyer-General of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) for the development of a search system for the Internal Statute of the Institute, 1998.

10. Diploma from the Mexican Artificial Intelligence Society for one of the best articles presented at MICAI-2000, Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (article Coherence Maintenance in Man-Machine Dialogue with Ellipsis).

11. Diploma from the Mexican Artificial Intelligence Society for one of the best articles presented at MICAI-2000, Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (article A Data Structure for Prefix Search under Access Locality Requirements and Its Application to Spelling Correction).

12. III prize at the competition of the works of young researchers of the All-Union Scientific and Technical Information Center (AUSTIC, VNTICenter), Moscow, Russia, 1989.

13. III prize at the Moscow City Olympiad in astronomy for high schools (at this Olympiad, there was no I prize assigned), Russia, 1977.

14. Various diplomas for the successes in the school, 1974-1976.

Research grants

1. Generation of databases and exploitation of knowledge-based systems, part 1, Program DEPI-IPN (coordinator), MX$ 60,000 1997.

2. Development of a syntactic analyzer for Spanish texts based on extended context free grammars, DEPI-IPN 970312 (director), 1997.

3. Compiling a syntactic management patterns dictionary for Spanish, DEPI-IPN 970313 (participant; director Dr. Bolshakov), 1997.

4. Development of morphology-level tools for processing and investigation of Spanish texts, DEPI-IPN 970311 (director), 1997.

5. Compilation of the basic part of a multi-relational multi-hierarchical thesaurus of the general lexicon, DEPI-IPN 970314 (participant; director Dr. Bolshakov), 1997.

6. Syntactic analyzer for Spanish language driven by a syntactic government patterns dictionary, Mexican Government: CONACyT 26424-A (participant; director Dr. Bolshakov), MX$ 277,000, 1998-2000.

7. Generation of databases and exploitation of knowledge-based systems, part 2: document classification and compilation of ontologies, Program DEPI-IPN (coordinator), MX$ 60,000, 1998.

8. Automatic semantic classification technology and compilation of domain-oriented dictionaries, DEPI-IPN 980771 (participant; director Dr. Kostytchev), 1998.

9. Compilation of normalization tables and dictionaries of the words with incomplete semantics for semantic classification of Spanish documents and automatic learning of ontologies, DEPI-IPN 980772 (director), 1998.

10. A toolkit for building domain-oriented dictionaries for selection and classification of text and its test exploitation in the domain of politics and macroeconomics, DEPI-IPN 980773 (participant; director Dr. Alexandrov), 1998.

11. Learning from a corpus of a large syntactic management patterns for syntactic analysis and generation of Spanish texts, Mexican Government: REDII-CONACyT, Mexico City (director), MX$ 226,000, 1999.

12. Development of a thematic text segmentator based on statistics and semantic links between concepts, CGEPI-IPN 990079 (participant; director Dr. Bolshakov), MX$ 18,000, 1999.

13. Determination of the local and distributed sources of pollution with the mathematical modeling techniques, CGEPI-IPN 990080 and Mexican Institute of Petroleum (Instituto Mexicano de Petróleo, IMP) (participant; director Dr. Alexandrov), MX$ 15,000 + MX$ 25,000, 1999.

14. Intelligent search and classification in the bases of juridical documents in Mexican Spanish, CGEPI-IPN 990081 (director), MX$ 45,000, 1999.

15. Development of two educational books of the series “Applied Linguistics” with the emphasis on Spanish, CGEPI-IPN 990197 (participant; director Dr. Bolshakov), MX$ 23,000, 1999.

16. An intelligent system for the classification of documents based on a Spanish dictionary with a weighted topic hierarchy, CGEPI-IPN 990078 (participant; director Dr. Sidorov), MX$ 20,000, 1999.

17. Methods of automatic learning of syntactic dictionaries and of resolution of syntactic ambiguities with lexical attraction, CGEPI-IPN 990461 (director), MX$ 17,000, 1999.

18. Mechanisms of biological computation in mathematical linguistics (coordinator of the IPN group; director Dr. Carlos Martín Vide, Spain), joint project between the Rovira i Virgili University, Spain, IPN, and UNAM, funded by the Program of Scientific Cooperation with Ibero-America of Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport, Spain. First phase 2000–2001 (1 year), 2001–2002 (1 year).

19. Compilation of a representative corpus of the contexts of Spanish words and the technology of compilation, with this corpus, of a Spanish statistical dictionary of subcategorization, Mexican Government: CONACyT 32003-A (director), MX$ 266,968, 2000-2002.

20. Automatic extraction of semantic information from bilingual and monolingual dictionaries of Spanish, Mexican Government: CONACyT I-31989A (participant; director Dr. Sidorov), MX$ 70,000, 1999–2000.

21. An agent-based concept search engine for computer knowledge networks, Mexican Government: REDII-CONACyT, Mexico City (joint with ITESM campus Monterrey, director), MX$ 150,000, 2000.

22. Extraction of ecological information from full-text databases and the observation data with the methods of text processing and partial differential equations (practical applications in Mexico City and in Moscow), Mexican Government: CONACyT 0402-00 and the City Government of Moscow, Russia (participant, director Dr. Alexandrov), US$10,000 + US$10,000.

23. A system for semi-automatic translation of semantic dictionaries and its use for resolution of ambiguities in the text, CGEPI-IPN 200123 (director), MX$ 50,000, 2000-2001.

24. Automatic compilation of semantic primitives dictionary by extraction from the bilingual and monolingual Spanish dictionaries and its application for ambiguity resolution, CGEPI-IPN (participant; director Dr. Sidorov), MX$ 25,000, 2000-2001.

25. Generation of databases and exploitation of knowledge-based systems, part 3: methods based en collocations. Program CGEPI-IPN 18.04 (coordinator), N$ 90,000, 2001-2002.

26. Syntactic disambiguation system for Spanish based on a dictionary of collocations. CGEPI-IPN 20010769 (part of Program 18.04) (participant, director el Dr. Sidorov), 2001-2002.

27. A large dictionary of usage contexts of words of low and median frequency in Spanish for automatic extraction of statistical linguistic information of certain types. CGEPI-IPN 20010768 (part of Program 18.04) (director), 2001-2002.

28. A collocations dictionary for Spanish with enrichment through logical inference. CGEPI-IPN 20010767 (part of Program 18.04) (participant, director el Dr. Bolshakov), 2001-2002.

29. Intelligent information retrieval and classification in Spanish document collections, based on computational linguistics methods, Mexican Government: CONACyT 38698-A (director), N$ 555,615, 2002-2005 (3 years).

30. Automatic Construction of the database for the Spanish lexical system through the explicative dictionary and its application to information retrieval tasks, Mexican Government: CONACyT 38435-A (participant, director el Dr. Sidorov), N$ 641,080, 2002-2005 (3 years).

31. Dynamic domain-orientated dictionaries as a tool for measuring and presentation of development trends of scientific and technological disciplines and interactions between them, Mexican Government: CONACyT 39011-A (participant, director el Dr. Alexandrov), N$ 203,659, 2002-2005 (3 years).

32. Methods of intelligent thematic and semantic comparison of Spanish documents, CGEPI-IPN 20020236 (director), 2002-2003.

Applied research grants

33. Design and implementation of an intelligent system for retrieval of political texts from the database of the Senate of Mexican Republic (director), Senate of Mexican Republic, 1999-2000.

Prototypes and tools developed

1. Classifier, system prototype (1999).

2. Parser, system prototype (1999).

3. An administrative support toolkit by the order of the Lawyer General of the IPN (1999).

Theses (advisor)

1. Ph.D.: Sofía Galicia-Haro, CIC-IPN. Theme: An advanced syntactic analyzer driven by a syntactic government patterns dictionary. November 29, 2000.

2. Ph.D.: Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, CIC-IPN. Theme: Text mining using the similarity of semantic structures. February 26, 2002, with honors.

3. Ms.S.: Liliana Chanona-Hernández, CIC-IPN. Theme: Compilation of a representative corpus of contexts of Spanish words via Internet. March 2002.

4. Ms.S. (co-director): Roberto Jurado, CIC-IPN. Theme: Application of the methods of mathematical programming for identification of simple air pollution sources. 2002.

5. Ms.S.: Gabriela Rivera Loza, CIC-IPN. Theme: Automatic selection of semantic primitives in a Spanish explicative dictionary. June 4, 2002.

6. In process: Ph.D.: Raúl Morales-Carrasco, CIC-IPN. Indirect anaphora resolution in Spanish driven by a scenario dictionary. Expected in late 2003.

7. In process: Ph.D.: Hiram Calvo Castro. Theme on intelligent dialogue interfaces. Since 2002.

8. In process: Ms.S.: Héctor Argote-Reyes, CIC-IPN. Theme: Computer-based resolution of certain types of ambiguities with a semantic network-type dictionary. Since 1998.

9. In process: Ms.S.: Macario Hernández Cruz, CIC-IPN. Theme: Generator of conceptual graphs from Spanish text. Since 2001, expected in 2003.

10. In process: Ms.S.: Tania Lugo García, CIC-IPN. Theme: Automatic learning of a statistical database of word combinations in Spanish. Since 2001, expected in 2003.

11. In process: B.Sc.: María Concepción Buendía Mosco and Olivia García Gonzáles, ESCOM-IPN. Theme: Use of natural language parsing algorithms for the development of an interface for database access. Since 2001.

Participation in thesis committees

1. Ph.D.: María de los Ángeles Sumano López, CIC-IPN. Theme: Software requirements analysis method with combined psychological, social, and linguistic approach leading to reuse. Director: Dr. Bárbaro Ferro Castro. CIC-IPN, March 2002. www.ute.cic.ipn.mx/indiceute/Tesistas/TesisDR/SUMANOL/SUMANOLDR2.htm.

2. Ph.D.: Jesús Olivares Ceja. Theme: An model of interaction of purposeful agents, mixed ontologies and unexpected events. Director: Dr. Adolfo Guzmán Arenas. CIC-IPN, June 2, 2002.

3. Ms.S.: Gabriel Castillo Hernández. Theme: Revised algorithm for automatic extraction of semantic clustering. Director: Dr. Gerardo Sierra Martínez. UNAM, November 19, 2002.

4. Ph.D.: René Santaolaya Salgado. Theme: Model of representation of code patterns for construction of reusable components. Director: Dr. Bárbaro Ferro Castro. CIC-IPN, March 5, 2003.

Courses taught and developed

Courses taught:

1. Computer self-service for linguists, 80 hours, Moscow State “Lomonossov” University, Russia, semesters B95/A96, B96 (40 hours).

2. Natural Language Processing, 80 hours, CIC-IPN, semesters A97, B97, B98, B99, A00, A01, B01, B02.

3. Applied Linguistics I: Introduction to Applied Linguistics, 80 hours, CIC-IPN, semesters A98, A00, A02.

4. Applied Linguistics II: Applied Linguistics systems, 80 hours, CIC-IPN, semesters B98, B99, B00.

5. Applied Linguistics III: Intelligent Text Processing, 80 hours, CIC-IPN, semesters A99, B00.

6. Seminar I on Applied Linguistics, 60 hours, CIC-IPN, semesters A98, B98, A00, B02.

7. Seminar II on Applied Linguistics, 60 hours, CIC-IPN, semesters A98, B98, A99, B00, B02.

8. Seminar III on Applied Linguistics, 60 hours, CIC-IPN, semesters A98, B98, A99, B99, A02.

9. Seminar IV on Applied Linguistics, 60 hours, CIC-IPN, semesters A99.

10. Thesis elaboration, 60 hours, CIC-IPN, semesters A02, B02.

Courses developed:

1. Computer self-service for linguists, 80 hours, Moscow State “Lomonossov” University, Russia.

2. Applied Linguistics I: Introduction to Applied Linguistics, 80 hours, CIC-IPN.

3. Applied Linguistics II: Applied Linguistics systems, 80 hours, CIC-IPN.

4. Applied Linguistics III: Intelligent Text Processing, 80 hours, CIC-IPN.

Editorial work and professional appointments

· Editorial Board Member of journals:

1. Editorial Board member: Asian Information-Science-Life: an International Journal (www.information-iii.org/aisl) published by Nova Science Publishers Inc., NY, USA (www.novapublishers.com); internationally refereed. Editor-in-Chief Professor Lei Li, Japan (lilei@k.hosei.ac.jp). ISSN 1541-8219.

2. Associated Editor: Revista Iberoamericana Computación y Sistemas (included in the list of Scientific Journals of Excellence, of CONACyT—Mexican Ministry of Science and Technology); internationally refereed; www.cic.ipn.mx/cys.htm, ISSN 1405-5546.

3. Editorial Board member: El Portulano de la Ciencia. Civil Engineering Research journal; internationally refereed. Mexico. ISSN 1405-9207. Printing 500.

· Reviewer for the journals:

1. Computing and Informatics (former Computers and Artificial Intelligence), ISSN 0232-0274, Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences.

2. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ISSN 1041-4347, special issue on Mining and Searching the Web, 2003.

· Chair or Program Committee Chair of the conferences:

1. CICLing-2003, 4^th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, 16-22 de febrero de 2003 (www.cicling.org), memorias LNCS N 2588, Springer-Verlag. Organizer; Program and Organization Committee Chair).

2. CICLing-2002, 3^rd International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, 17-23 de febrero de 2002 (www.cicling.org), memorias LNCS N 2276, Springer-Verlag. Organizer; Program and Organization Committee Chair).

3. CICLing-2001, 2^nd International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, 18-24 de febrero de 2001 (www.cicling.org), memorias LNCS N 2004, Springer-Verlag. Organizer; Program and Organization Committee Chair.

4. CICLing-2000, 1^st International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, 13–19 de febrero de 2000 (www.cicling.org), Memorias ISBN 970-18-4206-5, IPN. Organizer; Program and Organization Committee Chair.

5. NLPKE-2003, IEEE International Symposium on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, Beijing, China, October, 2003; www.cie-china.org/nlpke2003. Co-chair, with Kang K. Yen and Chengqing Zong.

6. NLPKE-2002, IEEE International Symposium on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering in conjunction with IEEE conference SMC-2002: Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 6-9, 2002. Co-chairing together with Fuji Ren (Tokushima City University, Japan).

7. CIC-2002, XII International Conference in Computing, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, November 25–29, 2002 (www.cic.ipn.mx/eventos/cic2002/ english.htm). Co-chair of the Area of Artificial Intelligence, together with Fuji Ren (Tokushima City University, Japan).

8. CORE-2003, 4^o Congreso Nacional de Computación, 6–7 de mayo de 2003, CIC, IPN, México; www.cic.ipn.mx/core, memoria con ISBN.

· Program Committee member of the conferences:

1. DEXA-2003, 14^th International Conference Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2003. Proceedings: LNAI, Springer-Verlag.

2. 2003 WSEAS conferences: 3rd WSEAS Int. Conf. on Instrumentation, Measurement, Control, Circuits and Systems (IMCCAS-03), 3rd WSEAS Int. Conf. on Information Science and Applications (ISA-03), 3rd WSEAS Int. Conf. on Soft Computing, Optimization, Simulation & Manufacturing Systems (SOSM-03), 5th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Mathematics and Computers in Physics (MCP-03), and 5th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Mechanical Engineering Multiconference (MEM-03); www.wseas.org/ conferences/2003/cancun.

3. MICAI-2002, Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, México, 2002, Memorias LNAI N 2313, ISBN 3-540-43475-5, Springer-Verlag (www.cs.cinvestav.mx/~micai2002/eng/pc.html).

4. CISCI-2002, Iberoamerican Conference on Systems, Cybernetics, and Informatics, June 19–21, 2002, Orlando, USA (216.72.45.230:1081/cisci/comprogram.htm; www.iiisci.org/sci2002). Honorary Chair: Freddy Malpica, Chair: Jorge Baralt. Organized by: International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS, www.iiis.org) with cooperation of Organización Universitaria Interamericana and Instituto Internacional de Sistemas.

5. SCI-2002, International Conference on Systems, Cybernetics, and Informatics, June 19–21, 2002, Orlando, USA (www.iiis.org/sci2002/ProgramCommittee.htm; www.iiisci.org/sci2002). Chair: William Lesso. Organized by: International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS, www.iiis.org).

6. CIC-2001, XI International Conference in Computing, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, November 12–16, 2001.

7. EuroConference RANLP-2001, 3^rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, 5-7 Sept 2001, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, patrocinado por la European Commission, DGXII a través del Human Potential Programme for High-Level Scientific Conferences (contract HPCF-2000-00329). Program chair Ruslan Mitkov (U. Worlverhampton, U.K.).

8. NLPKE-2001, Mini symposium on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (http://crater.sie.arizona.edu/nlpke.html) at IEEE conference SMC-2001, Systems, Man, And Cybernetics (http: // crater.sie.arizona.edu / index2.html), Tucson, Arizona, USA, October 7-10, 2001. Honorary chair Jun'ichi TSUJII (UMIST, U.K.; University of Tokyo, Japan); program chair Fuji Ren (Hiroshima City University, Japan).

9. MICAI-2000, Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Acapulco, México, 10-14 de abril de 2000, Memorias ISBN 970-18-4465-3.

10. CIC-2000, X International Conference in Computing, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, November 13-17 2000.

11. CISC2001, 3^er Congreso Internacional de Sistemas Computacionales, Inst. Tecnológico de Veracruz, 5-7 de septiembre, 2001.

12. NLDB-2003, 8^th International Conference on Application of Natural Language To Information Systems, June 23–25, 2003, Burg, Germany; publication in Lecture Notes in Informatics.

13. IDEAS-2003, 6º Workshop Ibero-Americano de Ingeniería de requisitos y ambientes de software, Asunción, Paraguay, 30 de abril a 2 de mayo de 2003; alarcos.inf-cr.uclm.es/ideas2003.

14. CST 2003, IASTED International Conference on Computer Science and Technology, Cancun, Mexico, May 19-21 2003; www.iasted.org/conferences/2003/cancun/cst.htm; www.iasted.org/conferences/2003/cancun/c394.htm.

15. MLIA: Multilingual Information Access and Natural Language Processing, workshop at the IBERAMIA-2002, Seville, Spain, November 2003; sensei.lsi.uned.es/iberamia-mlia.

16. XV Congreso Nacional y I Congreso Intenacional de Informática y Computación de la ANIEI, 2002, Mexico.

17. MICAI-2004, Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, México, 2002, Proceedings published as LNAI,

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