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Alejandro Figueroa

Research associate

Universidad Andrés Bello

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Question Answering, data analysis, data science, big data, machine learning, data mining, web mining, data science. Multimodal models: texts, graphs and images.

Educación

  •  Computer Linguistics, UNIVERSITAT DES SAARLANDES. Alemania, 2010
  •  Language Technologies, UNIVERSITAT DES SAARLANDES. Chile, 2006
  •  Computer Science, UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 2003
  •  Informatics Engineer, UNIVERSITAT DES SAARLANDES. Chile, 2003

Experiencia Académica

  •   Profesor Part Time

    universidad bernando O'higgins

    Ingienería

    Santiago, Chile

    2012 - At present

  •   Research Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO

    Ingienería

    Santiago, Chile

    2015 - At present

Experiencia Profesional

  •   junior researcher Full Time

    German Centre for Artificial Intelligence

    Alemania

    2006 - 2010

  •   Research Assistant Part Time

    German Centre for Artificial Intelligence

    Chile

    2004 - 2006

  •   Software Engineer Full Time

    Novared

    Chile

    2004 - 2004

  •   Software Engineer Full Time

    Sixbell

    Chile

    2003 - 2004

  •   PostDoc Researcher Full Time

    Yahoo! Labs

    Chile

    2010 - 2012

  •   Research Associate Part Time

    Yahoo! Labs

    Chile

    2012 - 2014

Formación de Capital Humano


Teaching:

1. Data Mining and Natural Language Processing, 2013 & 2012
2. Artificial Intelligence, 2012 -- Today
3. Foundations of Algorithmic, 2014


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Passed the First Certificate in English (FCE)

    UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

    Reino Unido, 2003

    Passed the First Certificate in English (FCE)

  •   Preliminary English Test passed with merits, University of Cambridg

    UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

    Chile, 1992

    Preliminary English Test passed with merits, University of Cambridg

  •   Postgrade Department, UTFSM. Master of Engineering in Computer Science scholarship

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Chile, 2000

    Postgrade Department, UTFSM. Master of Engineering in Computer Science scholarship


 

Article (19)

Dual-View Learning for Detecting Web Query Intents
Integrating heterogeneous sources for predicting question temporal anchors across Yahoo! Answers
Automatically generating effective search queries directly from community question-answering questions for finding related questions
Automatically Generating Effective Search Queries Directly from Community Question-Answering Questions for Finding Related Questions
Leveraging Linguistic Traits and Semi-Supervised Learning to Single Out Informational Content across How-to Community Question Answering Archives
Leveraging linguistic traits and semi-supervised learning to single out informational content across how-to community question-answering archives
Male or female: What traits characterize questions prompted by each gender in community question answering?
Why was this asked? Automatically recognizing multiple motivations behind community question-answering questions
Why was this Asked? Automatically Recognizing Multiples Motivations behind Community Question-Answering Questions
Context-aware semantic classification of search queries for browsing community question-answering archives
Ensembling Classifiers for Detecting User Intentions behind Web Queries
Search clicks analysis for discovering temporally anchored questions in community Question Answering
Exploring effective features for recognizing the user intent behind web queries
Improving opinion retrieval in social media by combining features-based coreferencing and memory-based learning
Evolutionary optimization for ranking how-to questions based on user-generated contents
CONTEXTUAL LANGUAGE MODELS FOR RANKING ANSWERS TO NATURAL LANGUAGE DEFINITION QUESTIONS
Intelligent answering location questions from the web using molecular alignment
Searching for Definitional Answers on the Web Using Surface Patterns
Molecular sequence alignment for extracting answers for where-typed questions from Google snippets

BookWhole (1)

Finding Answers to Definition Questions on the Web: Discovering Biographical Information across the Web

ConferencePaper (18)

Maximum entropy context models for ranking biographical answers to open-domain definition questions
Answering definition questions: Dealing with data sparseness in lexicalised dependency trees-based language models
Using dependency paths for answering definition questions on the web
Using syntactic distributional patterns for data-driven answer extraction from the Web
A Multilingual Framework for Searching Definitions in Web Snippets
A Two-Step Named Entity Recognizer for Search Queries
Are Wikipedia Resources Useful for Discovering Answers to List Questions within Web Snippets?
Can Click Patterns across User’s Query Logs Predict Answers to Definition Questions?
Exploiting User Search Sessions for Categorizing Questions
Finding Answers to Definition Questions across the Spanish Web
Finding Distinct Answers in Web Snippets
Identifying Protein-Protein interactions in Biomedical publications
ining Wikipedia Resources for Discovering Answers to List Questions in Web Snippets
Language Independent Answer Prediction on the Web
Learning to Rank Effective Paraphrases from Query Logs for Community Question Answering
Mining Web Snippets to Answer List Questions
Mining Wikipedia for Discovering Multilingual Definitions on the Web
Surface Language Models for Discovering Temporally Anchored Definitions on The Web: Producing Chronologies as Answers to Definition Questions

ConferencePoster (1)

Boosting the Recall of descriptive Phrases in Web Snippets

JournalWhole (2)

A Semantically-based Lattice Approach for Assessing Patterns in Text Mining Tasks
Category-specific Models for Ranking Effective Paraphrases in Community Question Answering

Proyecto (3)

Bridging the Gap between Askers and Answers in Community Question Answering Services
The design of patent restrieval system that aims at comparing ideas not just words.
Observatorios Escalables de la Web en Tiempo Real. NOTA=> Mi participación en el proyecto terminó en Mar. 2012
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Alejandro Figueroa

Research associate

Universidad Andrés Bello

Santiago, Chile

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John Atkinson

Full Professor

UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBAÑEZ

Santiago, Chile