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Horacio Saggion

Horacio Saggion

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Computer Science
Spain
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
45
Citations
7027
World Ranking
7288
National Ranking
95

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Horacio Saggion is affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, particularly focusing on artificial intelligence and natural language processing.

The scientist's research primarily spans the following fields and subfields:

  • Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Language and Linguistics
  • General Health Professions
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

Key topics of their work include:

  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Text Readability and Simplification
  • Topic Modeling
  • Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
  • Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
  • Hearing Impairment and Communication
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts

The scientist has published in various venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Scientometrics

Recent papers by Horacio Saggion include:

  • "Lexical simplification benchmarks for English, Portuguese, and Spanish" (2022), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • "Sentence Simplification Capabilities of Transfer-Based Models" (2022), Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "Automatic related work section generation: experiments in scientific document abstracting" (2020), Scientometrics
  • "MeaningBERT: assessing meaning preservation between sentences" (2023), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • "Verifying the robustness of automatic credibility assessment" (2024), Natural language processing.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Horacio Saggion are:

  • Daniel Ferrés
  • Sanja Štajner
  • Kim Cheng Sheang
  • Euan McGill
  • Matthew Shardlow

Best Publications

  • MEAD - A Platform for Multidocument Multilingual Text Summarization

    Dragomir R. Radev;Timothy Allison;Sasha Blair-Goldensohn;John Blitzer

  • Automatic Text Summarization: Past, Present and Future

    Horacio Saggion;Thierry Poibeau

  • Ontology-based information extraction for business intelligence

    Horacio Saggion;Adam Funk;Diana Maynard;Kalina Bontcheva

  • Generating indicative-informative summaries with sumUM

    Horacio Saggion;Guy Lapalme

  • How Cosmopolitan Are Emojis?: Exploring Emojis Usage and Meaning over Different Languages with Distributional Semantics

    Francesco Barbieri;German Kruszewski;Francesco Ronzano;Horacio Saggion

  • What does this emoji mean? A vector space skip-gram model for twitter emojis

    Francesco Barbieri;Francesco Ronzano;Horacio Saggion

  • Evaluation Challenges in Large-Scale Document Summarization

    Dragomir R. Radev;Simone Teufel;Horacio Saggion;Wai Lam

  • Modelling Sarcasm in Twitter, a Novel Approach

    Francesco Barbieri;Horacio Saggion;Francesco Ronzano

  • Frequent Words Improve Readability and Short Words Improve Understandability for People with Dyslexia

    Luz Rello;Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates;Laura Dempere-Marco;Horacio Saggion

  • Architectural elements of language engineering robustness

    Diana Maynard;Valentin Tablan;Hamish Cunningham;Cristian Ursu

  • Modelling Irony in Twitter

    Francesco Barbieri;Horacio Saggion

  • Simplify or help?: text simplification strategies for people with dyslexia

    Luz Rello;Ricardo Baeza-Yates;Stefan Bott;Horacio Saggion

  • Can Spanish Be Simpler? LexSiS: Lexical Simplification for Spanish

    Stefan Bott;Luz Rello;Biljana Drndarevic;Horacio Saggion

  • SemEval 2018 Task 2: multilingual emoji prediction

    Francesco Barbieri;Jose Camacho-Collados;Francesco Ronzano;Luis Espinosa Anke

  • Making It Simplext: Implementation and Evaluation of a Text Simplification System for Spanish

    Horacio Saggion;Sanja Štajner;Stefan Bott;Simon Mille

  • Automatic Text Simplification

    Horacio Saggion

  • Are Emojis Predictable

    Francesco Barbieri;Miguel Ballesteros;Horacio Saggion

  • Multilingual Summarization Evaluation without Human Models

    Horacio Saggion;Juan-Manuel Torres Moreno;Iria da Cunha;Eric SanJuan

  • SemEval-2018 Task 9: Hypernym Discovery

    Jose Camacho-Collados;Claudio Delli Bovi;Luis Espinosa Anke;Sergio Oramas

  • Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization

    Thierry Poibeau;Horacio Saggion;Jakub Piskorski;Roman Yangarber

  • Context-based generic cross-lingual retrieval of documents and automated summaries: Research Articles

    Wai Lam;Ki Chan;Dragomir Radev;Horacio Saggion

Frequent Co-Authors

Hamish Cunningham
Hamish Cunningham University of Sheffield
Kalina Bontcheva
Kalina Bontcheva University of Sheffield
Yorick Wilks
Yorick Wilks Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Ricardo Baeza-Yates Royal Institute of Technology
Robert Gaizauskas
Robert Gaizauskas University of Sheffield
Diana Maynard
Diana Maynard University of Sheffield
Simone Teufel
Simone Teufel University of Cambridge
Dragomir R. Radev
Dragomir R. Radev Yale University
Guy Lapalme
Guy Lapalme University of Montreal
Wai Lam
Wai Lam Chinese University of Hong Kong

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