2026 German Rigau: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	43	8030	7803	109	107	178	7149

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Computer Science

8030

7803

109

107

178

7149

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award

Overview

German Rigau is affiliated with the University of the Basque Country in Spain and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a primary research focus on artificial intelligence.

The scientist's research spans multiple subfields, including artificial intelligence, molecular biology, information systems, cultural studies, and language and linguistics. Their work covers various topics centered around:

Topic Modeling
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Text Readability and Simplification
Semantic Web and Ontologies
Speech and dialogue systems
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

German Rigau has published frequently in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Expert Systems with Applications
Knowledge-Based Systems
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
EPiC series in computing

Selected recent papers include:

"Semi-automatic generation of multilingual datasets for stance detection in Twitter" (2020), Expert Systems with Applications
"GoLLIE: Annotation Guidelines improve Zero-Shot Information-Extraction" (2023), arXiv (Cornell University)
"Ask2Transformers: Zero-Shot Domain labelling with Pre-trained Language Models" (2021), arXiv (Cornell University)
"NUBES: A Corpus of Negation and Uncertainty in Spanish Clinical Texts" (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)
"Medical mT5: An Open-Source Multilingual Text-to-Text LLM for The Medical Domain" (2024), arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors of German Rigau include:

Rodrigo Agerri
Iker García-Ferrero
Oscar Sainz
Eneko Agirre
Itziar Aldabe

Best Publications

SemEval-2016 Task 1: Semantic Textual Similarity, Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Evaluation

Eneko Agirre;Carmen Banea;Daniel M. Cer;Mona T. Diab

602
Citations
SemEval-2015 Task 2: Semantic Textual Similarity, English, Spanish and Pilot on Interpretability

Eneko Agirre;Carmen Banea;Claire Cardie;Daniel Cer

587
Citations
Word sense disambiguation using Conceptual Density

Eneko Agirre;German Rigau

572
Citations
SemEval-2014 Task 10: Multilingual Semantic Textual Similarity

Eneko Agirre;Carmen Banea;Claire Cardie;Daniel Cer

549
Citations
Building event-centric knowledge graphs from news

Marco Rospocher;Marieke van Erp;Piek Vossen;Antske Fokkens

247
Citations
W2VLDA: Almost unsupervised system for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis

Aitor García-Pablos;Montse Cuadros;German Rigau

233
Citations
Boosting applied to Word Sense Disambiguation

Gerard Escudero;Lluís Màrquez;German Rigau

220
Citations
IXA pipeline: Efficient and Ready to Use Multilingual NLP tools

Rodrigo Agerri;Josu Bermudez;German Rigau

189
Citations
A Proposal for Word Sense Disambiguation using Conceptual Distance

Eneko Agirre;German Rigau

184
Citations
The MEANING Multilingual Central Repository

J. Atserias;L. Villarejo;G. Rigau;E. Agirre

169
Citations
Multilingual Central Repository version 3.0

Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre;Egoitz Laparra;German Rigau

129
Citations
Combining multiple methods for the automatic construction of multilingual WordNets

Jordi Atserias;Salvador Climent;Xavier Farreres;German Rigau

111
Citations
Robust multilingual Named Entity Recognition with shallow semi-supervised features

Rodrigo Agerri;German Rigau

106
Citations
Big data for Natural Language Processing

Rodrigo Agerri;Xabier Artola;Zuhaitz Beloki;German Rigau

105
Citations
SemEval-2015 Task 4: TimeLine: Cross-Document Event Ordering

Anne-Lyse Minard;Manuela Speranza;Eneko Agirre;Itziar Aldabe

102
Citations
Supervised Corpus-Based Methods for WSD

Lluís Màrquez;Gerard Escudero;David Martínez;German Rigau

101
Citations
Combining knowledge- and corpus-based word-sense-disambiguation methods

Andres Montoyo;Armando Suárez;German Rigau;Manuel Palomar

100
Citations
Combining Unsupervised Lexical Knowledge Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation

German Rigau;Jordi Atserias;Eneko Agirre

99
Citations
“NewsReader: using knowledge resources in a cross-lingual reading machine to generate more knowledge from massive streams of news

Piek Vossen;Rodrigo Agerri;Itziar Aldabe;Agata Cybulska

98
Citations
Mapping WordNets using structural information

J. Daudé;L. Padró;G. Rigau

92
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eneko Agirre University of the Basque Country

Piek Vossen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Lluís Màrquez Amazon (United States)

Bernardo Magnini Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Christiane Fellbaum Princeton University

John M. Carroll University of Sussex

Mona Diab Carnegie Mellon University

Janyce Wiebe University of Pittsburgh

Rada Mihalcea University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Daniel Cer Google (United States)

External Links

Personal website of German Rigau Google Scholar page

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