Invited presentations at conferences
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Keynote speaker, “The grammar of emotion in English and Spanish”
Plenary talk at the 17th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference
& Workshop, Kings College, London, 1-4 August 2005.
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Invited speaker, “Global and local attention in
conversation: the case of appointment-scheduling dialogues” Invited talk at the
3rd International Systemic-Functional Research Community Workshop,
University of Ghent (Belgium), 27-29 November 2003.
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Keynote speaker, “Discurso y gramática: la
construcción de las identidades sociales en el diálogo” Plenary talk at the XXXII Simposio de la Sociedad Española de
Lingüística, Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas. 16-19 December 2002.
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Invited speaker, “The design of contrastive (English-Spanish) grammatical
resources for multilingual generation: the grammar of mood as an example,”
Invited talk at the Computers,
Literature and Philology 2002 (CLIP’2002), Universidad de Castilla-la Mancha (Albacete), 5-7
December 2002
§ Invited speaker, “Textual issues in the Analysis of English and Spanish: A Functional Perspective” Invited talk at the workshop entitled “Applying systemic grammars of different languages in contrastive textual analysis –insights, problems and perspectives” as part of the 14th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference & Workshop Lisbon University, July 2002.
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Invited speaker (with J. Arús), “Contrasting nuclear transitivity in
English and Spanish: a systemic-functional study for natural language
generation”, at the 2nd Workshop
of the Systemic Functional Research Community on Interpersonal and Ideational
Grammar, University of Leuven, 21-24 November 2001.
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Invited speaker, “The Relevance of Corpus-based Research for
Contrastive Linguistic and Computational Studies” invited talk at the V
Jornadas de Corpus Lingüísticos, organized by the Instituto Universitario
de Lingüística Aplicada (IULA) de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, April
1997.
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Invited speaker, “Language Engineering in the European Union”, Multilingual
Study Programme for Translators, Agder College, Christiansand
(Norway), 25th June 1996.
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Invited speaker, “Towards a dynamic account of information progression
in discourse: insights from text planning”, invited talk at the workshop
entitled “Dynamic approaches to discourse: Issues and problems”, organised by
Prof. Eija Ventola as part of the 11TH
World Congress of the International Applied Linguistic Association
(AILA-96), Jyvaskyla, Finland. 5-9-August 1996.
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Invited panelist, “Global discourse structures and local discourse
relations”, invited talk at the panel entitled “Empirical and computational
applications of discourse structure theory” as part of the 43rd Annual Conference of the International
Communication Association , Washington (USA), May 1993.
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Invited speaker, “Information in Discourse: Focus and Theme”
invited talk at the International
Workshop on Burning Issues In Discourse, Maratea (Italy),
April 1993.
Invited talks at Seminars and Postgraduate Programmes
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Invited speaker, “Recursos léxico-semánticos para el
procesamiento del lenguaje natural: tendencias actuales y perspectivas de
futuro” XXVIII Curso de Lingüística Textual, Facultad de Letras,
Universidad de Murcia, March 2005.
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“Los sistemas de diálogo: aspectos
lingüísticos y computacionales”, Seminario de Lingüística Aplicada a la
Comunicación, Doctoral Programme of the Department of English
Philology, Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 26 March
2004.
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Invited speaker, “La Generación en los sistemas de
diálogo”, at the doctoral course on the Language Industries entitled “Conversar con el ordenador: el procesamiento del lenguaje y del habla en
los sistemas de diálogo”, organised
by the Fundación Duques de Soria, Soria (Spain), 24 July 2003.
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“Aprendiendo lenguas con ayuda del
ordenador”, Seminario de Lingüística Aplicada a la Lengua Inglesa,
Doctoral Programme of the Department of English Philology Facultad de
Filología, (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), April 2003.
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Invited speaker, “Advancing New Technologies
into the New Millenium: The Challenge of Language Generation”, invited talk at
the Cursos superiores de Filología, Facultad de Filología (Universidad
Complutense de Madrid), 6 July 1999.
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“Automated Text Summarization: issues,
approaches and models”, Seminario
de Lingüística Aplicada a la Lengua Inglesa, Doctoral Programme of the Department of English Philology,
Facultad de Filología (Madrid), November 1997.
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Invited speaker, “Tecnologías del lenguaje humano: la generación computacional”,
invited talk at the Seminario informativo sobre Tecnologías para el lenguaje humano en la Sociedad de la Información, organised
by the Observatorio Español de Industrias
de la Lengua y la Fundació Catalana per la Recerca, Escuela Técnica de Ingenieros de Telecomunicaciones,
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 18th January 1999.
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“Developing a
multidimensional framework for text type analysis and generation”, Seminario de Lingüística Aplicada a la
Lengua Inglesa, Doctoral
Programme of the Department of English Philology, Facultad de Filología, UCM. November 1996.
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Invited speaker, “Language Engineering in the
European Union”, invited talk at the Multilingual Study Programme for
Translators, Agder College, Christiansand (Noruega), 25th
June 1996.
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Invited speaker, “The Place of Theme in a
Functional Account of Discourse: Insights from Text Planning”, invited talk
at the Istituto per la Ricerca Científica e Tecnológica (Trento, Italy),
12 November 1992.