Research Publications

PhD Thesis



Martínez-Barco, P. 
Resolución computacional de la anáfora en diálogos: estructura del discurso y conocimiento lingüístico.( PDF / PS
Director: Dr. Manuel Palomar Sanz
Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos. Universidad de Alicante, 2001.

International Journals



Palomar, M., and Martínez-Barco, P. 
Computational approach to anaphora resolution in Spanish dialogues
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 15, 2001. pp 263-287. 
ISSN: 1076-9757
Palomar, M., Ferrández, A., Moreno, L., Martínez-Barco, P., Peral, J., Saiz-Noeda, M., and Muñoz, R. 
An Algorithm for Anaphora Resolution in Spanish Texts
Computational Linguistics, 27 (4), 2001. pp 545-567.

International Conference Proceedings



Terol, R.M., Martínez-Barco, P. and Palomar, M.
Architecture of a multi-modal dialogue system oriented to multilingual question-answering
International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'2003).
In Proc. of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'2003)
Borovets (Bulgaria). September, 2003. To appear

Saquete, E., Muñoz, R., and Martínez-Barco, P.
Event Ordering through Temporal Expression Resolution
International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'2003).
In Proc. of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'2003)
Borovets (Bulgaria). September, 2003. To appear


Navarro, B., Martínez-Barco, P. y Muñoz, R.
Solving Definite Descriptions through Dialogue Structure in Spanish
Workshop on Reference Resolution and Natural Language Processing (RRNLP'2002).
In Proc. of the Workshop on Reference Resolution and Natural Language Processing (RRNLP'2002)
Alicante (Spain). June, 2002 pp. 77-86



Navarro, B., Martínez-Barco, P. y Muñoz, R.
Solving Definite Descriptions through Dialogue Structure in Spanish
Workshop on Reference Resolution and Natural Language Processing (RRNLP'2002).
In Proc. of the Workshop on Reference Resolution and Natural Language Processing (RRNLP'2002)
Alicante (Spain). June, 2002 pp. 77-86

Muñoz, R., Mitkov, R., Palomar, M.,  Peral, J., Evans, R., Moreno, L., Orasan, C., Saiz-Noeda, M., Ferrández, A., Barbú, C., Martínez-Barco, P. y Suárez, A.
Bilingual Alignment of Anaphoric Expressions
In Proc. of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'2002)
Las Palmas (Spain). May, 2002

Saquete, E., Martínez-Barco, P. y Muñoz, R.
Recognising and Tagging Temporal Expressions in Spanish
In Proc. of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and  Evaluation. Workshop on Annotation Standards for Temporal Information in Natural Language (LREC'2002).
Las Palmas (Spain). May, 2002. pp 44-51
Saquete, E., and Martínez-Barco, P. 
Grammar Specification for the Recognition of Temporal Expressions.
In Proc. of Machine Translation and multilingual applications in the new millennium, MT2000.
Exeter (UK). November, 2000. pp 21.1-21.7
Palomar, M., Saiz-Noeda, M., Muñoz, R., Suárez, A., and Martínez-Barco, P. 
PHORA: A system to solve the Anaphora in Spanish.
In Proc. of Third International Conference on Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution,  DAARC2000
Lancaster (UK). November, 2000. pp 206-211
Martínez-Barco, P., and Palomar, M. 
Empirical study of the anaphoric accessibility space in Spanish dialogues.
In Proc. of Fourth Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Götalog 2000.
Göteborg (Sweden). June, 2000. pp 123-128
Martínez-Barco, P. 
Dialogue structure as a preference in anaphora resolution systems.
In Proc. of the International Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence For Decision, Control and Automation In Engineering and Industrial Applications, ACIDCA'2000.
Monastir (Tunizia). March, 2000. pp 37-42
Palomar, M., Ferrández, A., Moreno, L., Saiz-Noeda, M., Muñoz, R., Martínez-Barco, P., Peral, J., and Navarro, B. 
A Robust Partial Parsing Strategy based on the Slot Unification Grammars.
In Proc. of the Sixth Conference on Natural Language Processing, TALN'99.
Corsica (France). July, 1999. pp 263-272. 

Book Chapters - International Conference Proceedings



Navarro, B., Palomar, M. and Martínez-Barco, P.,
Multilingual Information Access based on syntactic-semantic patterns
In: Antje Düsterhöft, Bernhard Thalheim (Eds.)
Natural Language Processing and Information Systems - NLDB 2003
8th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
GI-Edition - Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), P-29
Spreewald (Germany). Juny, 2003.
Saquete, E., Muñoz, R. and Martínez-Barco, P.,
TERSEO: Temporal Expression Resolution System applied to Event Ordering
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence,
České Budějovice (Czech Republic). September, 2003. Springer-Verlag. To appear

Martínez-Barco, P., Saquete, E.  y Muñoz, R.
A grammar-based system to solve temporal expressions in Spanish Texts
In: E. Ranchhod, N.J. Mamede (Eds.):
Advances in Natural Language Processing
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2389.
Faro (Portugal). June, 2002. Springer-Verlag. 53-63

Moreda, P., Munoz, R., Martínez-Barco, P., Cachero, C. y Palomar, M.
A Web Information Extraction System to DB Prototyping.
In: P. Johannesson
7th International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems NLDB'2002
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2553.
Stockholm (Sweden). June, 2002. Springer-Verlag. 50-59

Martínez-Barco, P., Saquete, E.  y Muñoz, R.
A grammar-based system to solve temporal expressions in Spanish Texts
In: E. Ranchhod, N.J. Mamede (Eds.):
Advances in Natural Language Processing
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2389.
Faro (Portugal). June, 2002. Springer-Verlag. 53-63
Palomar, M., Saiz-Noeda, M., Muñoz, R., Suárez, A., Martínez-Barco, P., 
and Montoyo, A. 
PHORA: A NLP system for Spanish. 
In: Gelbukh, A. Ed. 
Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2004. 
Mexico City (Mexico). Febrero, 2001. Springer-Verlag. 126-139
Martínez-Barco, P., and Palomar, M. 
An annotation scheme for dialogues applied to anaphora resolution algorithms.
In P. Sojka, I. Kopecek, K. Pala Eds. 
Text, Speech and Dialogue
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 1902. 
Brno (Czech Republic). September, 2000. Springer-Verlag. pp 410-414 
ISBN: 3-540-41042-2
Palomar  M., and Martínez-Barco, P. 
Anaphora Resolution through Dialogue Adjacency Pairs and Topics.
In D.N. Christodoulakis Ed. 
Natural Language Processing - NLP 2000.
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 1835. 
Patras (Greece). June, 2000. Springer-Verlag. pp 196-203 
ISBN: 3-540-67605-8.
Martínez-Barco, P., and Palomar  M. 
Dialogue structure influence over anaphora resolution.
In O. Cairo, L.E. Sucar and F.J. Cantú Eds. 
MICAI 2000: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol.1793. 
Acapulco (Mexico). Abril, 2000. Springer-Verlag. pp 515-525. 
ISBN: 3-540-67354-7
Martínez-Barco, P., Muñoz, R., Azzam, S., Palomar, M., and Ferrández, A. 
Evaluation of pronoun resolution algorithm for Spanish dialogues.
In Proc. of Venezia per il Trattamento Automatico delle Lingue, VEXTAL.
Venice (Italy). November, 1999. Unipress. pp 325-332. 
ISBN: 88-8098-112-9
Peral, J., Martínez-Barco, P., Muñoz, R., Ferrández, A., Moreno, L., and Palomar, M. 
Una técnica de análisis parcial sobre textos no restringidos (SUPP) aplicada a un Sistema de Extracción de Información (EXIT).
In Proc. of VI Simposio Internacional de Comunicación Social
Santiago de Cuba (Cuba). January, 1999. Oriente. pp 662-669. 
ISBN: 959-11-0250-X 
Martínez-Barco, P., Peral, J., Ferrández, A., Moreno, L., and Palomar, M. 
Analizador Parcial SUPP.
In H. Coelho Ed. 
Progresso en Inteligencia Artificial. Actas do 6º Congresso Iberoamericano de Inteligencia Artificial, IBERAMIA'98. 
Lisboa (Portugal). October, 1998. Colibri. pp 329-342 
ISBN: 972-772-033-1

National Journals



Navarro, B., Martínez-Barco, P., and Muñoz, R.. 
Propuesta de un espacio de accesibilidad anafórica estructural para textos HTML.
Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 27. 2001. pp 97-106 
ISSN: 1135-5948

Navarro, B., Martínez-Barco, P., and Muñoz, R.. 
A Proposal of Algorithm for Solving Definite Descriptions through Dialogue Structure.
e-rthabla, 1. 2003
ISSN: 1695-9914
Martínez-Barco, P., and Palomar M. 
Resolución de la anáfora: estructura del diálogo y conocimiento lingüístico. 
Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 26. 2000. pp 47-52 
ISSN: 1135-5948
Ferrández, A., Palomar, M., Moreno, L., Martínez-Barco, P., Peral, J., Muñoz, R., and Saiz-Noeda, M. 
Sistema de procesamiento del lenguaje natural orientado a la resolución de la correferencia lingüística.
Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 25. 1999. pp 217-218. 
ISSN: 1135-5948
Muñoz, R., Martínez-Barco, P., and Ferrández, A. 
Método para la resolución de correferencias de sintagmas nominales definidos incluyendo alias y acrónimos en el sistema de extracción de información EXIT. 
Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 25. 1999. pp 143-149 
ISSN: 1135-5948
Martínez-Barco, P. 
Algoritmo de resolución de la anáfora pronominal en diálogos .
Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 24. 1999. pp 75-82 
ISSN: 1135-5948
Peral, J., Martínez-Barco, P., Ferrández, A., and Navarro, B. 
Sistema de adquisición automática de reglas gramaticales.
Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 23. 1998. pp 110-117. 
ISSN: 1135-5948
Ferrández, A., Peral, J., Martínez-Barco, P., Saiz, M., and Romero, R. 
Resolución de la extraposición a izquierdas con las gramáticas de unificación de huecos
Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural,  21. 1997. pp 167-183. 
ISSN: 1135-5948

National Conference Proceedings



Saiz, M., Martínez-Barco, P., and Palomar, M. 
Paralelismo sintáctico-semántico para el tratamiento de elementos extrapuestos en textos no restringidos.
In Proc. of CAEPIA'97-TTIA'97
Málaga (Spain). November, 1997. pp 797-803

Technical Reports



Llopis, F., Muñoz, R., Suárez, A., Montoyo, A., Palomar, M., Ferrández, A., Peral, J., Martínez-Barco, P., Romero, R., and Saiz, M. 
Sistema EXIT.
Report Interno - DLSI. Universidad de Alicante, 1998
Moreno, L., Segarra, E., Prieto, N., Palomar, M., Sanchís, E., Pla, F., Molina, A.,  Ferrández, A., Gómez, J., Suárez, A., and Martínez-Barco, P. 
Construcción de Analizadores Híbridos de Lenguajes Naturales Definidos sobre un Dominio Semántico Restringido.
Report Interno - 
DSIC. Univesidad Politécnica de Valencia - DLSI. Universidad de Alicante. 1997

Invited Talks



Martínez-Barco, P. 
Anaphora resolution in Spanish spoken dialogues.
University of Sheffield, september 1999
Martínez-Barco, P. 
Anaphora resolution in Spanish spoken dialogues.
University of Wolverhampton, september 1999

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