PLENARY SPEAKERS
[in alphabetical order]
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Francisco José Cortés Rodríguez (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain) He is Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Department of English and German Philology, University of La Laguna, Spain. His areas of research interests are computational linguistics, word-formation, lexical structure and diachronic lexicology. He has been the head of various research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and the Regional Government of the Canary Islands that dealt with the structure of the lexicon and the interaction between lexis and grammar both in Present-Day and Old English. He has additionally participated in other projects that dealt with other areas of linguistic research as are natural language processing and computational lexicography. He has published over sixty scholarly publications which have appeared in specialised national and international books and journals . He has served as a scientific committee member for several specialised journals (including Atlantis, RESLA, Onomázein and Journal of English Studies) and and conferences (MKR, Societas Linguistica Europaea, Role and Reference Grammar Conferences, among others). He has also lectured as keynote speaker at several national and international conferences on Linguistics. He has been the Director of the ‘Andrés Bello’ Linguistics Institute at the University of La Laguna and is currently the President of the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics (AESLA). Lecture: ARTEMIS from a constructionist perspective: Reassessing constructional structures for a NLU environment |
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Enrique Herrera-Viedma (Universidad de Granada, Spain) He is Professor in Computer Science and AI in University of Granada and Vice-President for Research and Knowlegde Transfer. He is Vice-President for Publications in the IEEE System Man and Cybernetic Society. His current research interests include group decision making, consensus models, linguistic modeling, aggregation of information, information retrieval, bibliometrics, digital libraries, web quality evaluation, recommender systems, block chain and social media. In these topics he has published more than 250 papers in JCR journals and coordinated more than 22 research projects. He is EiC of the journal Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and an Associate Editor of more than 10 JCR journals such as the IEEE Trans. On Syst. Man, and Cyb.: Systems, IEEE Trans. On Fuzzy Systems, Knowledge Based Systems, Soft Computing, Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making, Applied Soft Computing, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, and Information Sciences. According to Web of Science his h-index is 64 with more than 17000 citations received and according to Google Scholar his h-index is 84 with more than 28000 citations. He has been identified by Clarivate Analytics as a Highly Cited Author in both scientific categories “Computer Sciences” and “Engineering” during the years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. Lecture: Bibliometric tools for discovering information in science |
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Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (Universidad de La Rioja, Spain) He has been the head of six national research projects and has supervised 13 doctoral dissertations. He has written over 140 papers, has edited or co-edited several books (e.g. Cognitive Linguistics: Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction, 2005, Mouton, Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives, 2006, Mouton, Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a Consensus View, 2011, John Benjamins, Theory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space, 2014, John Benjamins, The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and Implications, 2014, John Benjamins). He has authored or coauthored several books on linguistic theory, the most recent one being Cognitive Modeling. A Linguistic Perspective (2014, John Benjamins), which received the 2015 AESLA Research Award for experienced researchers. He has been invited on more than sixty occasions to present his research in universities in across the world (e.g. Beijing, Bogotá, Castellón, Copenhagen, Córdoba, Düsseldorf, Ferrara, Galati, Hamburg, La Laguna, Las Palmas, Lima, Lodz, Madrid, Modena, Murcia, Pisa, Provo, Thessaloniki, Timisoara). He has been an invited speaker in 30 international conferences. The most recent ones are: 2nd International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language (Pavia, 2015), International Conference: Cognitive technologies of theoretical and applied linguistics (Tyumen, Russia, 2016), 3rd International Symposium on Figurative Language and Thought (Osijek, Croatia, 2017), 10th China Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Nanjing Normal University, 2017), 11th International AELCO Conference (Córdoba, 2018). He serves on the editorial and scientific boards of journals such as Jezikoslovlje, Revue Romane, Cognitive Semantics, and Cognitive Linguistics. He has been the editor of the Review of Cognitive Linguistics, and co-editor of Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (Mouton de Gruyter) since their inception. Since January 2012 he has been co-editor of the Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy (John Benjamins). He was president of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics from 2005 to 2011, and he has been the head organizer of two major international conferences: 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (University of La Rioja, 2003); 44th International Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (University of La Rioja, 2011). Lecture: Figurative thinking and grammar: A view from the perspective of the Lexical Constructional Model |