Felisa Verdejo

María Felisa Verdejo Maillo (born 1950, Salamanca), known as Felisa Verdejo, is a university professor in the Department of Computer Languages and Systems at UNED.[1] She is one of the Spanish pioneers in natural language processing and artificial intelligence.[2]

Biography

Verdejo has created and promoted research groups, in several universities, in the fields of natural language processing, artificial intelligence and distance education. She has taught and carried out research at four Spanish universities: Universidad Complutense (1978-1981), Universidad del País Vasco (1981-1985), Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (1985-1991), and UNED (since 1991).[3]

She opened and promoted a strategic line of research, dealing with the automatic processing of the Spanish language to integrate it into intelligent systems and a wide range of applications.[4] Her scientific achievements are reflected in her publications, in the research projects that often included large consortia that she successfully brought together and led, and in the twenty doctoral theses she has supervised.[5]

In 1983, when she was a professor of the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastián, she was one the creators of the Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN, in English: Spanish association for Natural Language Processing), a scientific and professional organization for people working on natural language processing.

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "BOE-A-1991-2386 Resolución de 11 de enero de 1991, de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, por la que se nombra a doña María Felisa Verdejo Maíllo Catedrática de Universidad, área de conocimiento de «Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos»". www.boe.es. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  2. ↑ Madrid+D "Entrevista a Felisa Verdejo"
  3. ↑ "web.nlp.uned.es - Felisa Verdejo". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  4. ↑ (PDF). 2015-09-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20150924095248/https://www.scie.es/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Acta-SCIE-Premios-2014.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2023-04-03. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ ieeexplore.ieee.org https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37299989800. Retrieved 2023-04-03. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ "ECCAI Fellows Program". 2011-01-23. Archived from the original on 2011-01-23. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  7. ↑ UNED "Premios Nacionales de Informática 2014"
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