Pattern Recognition and

Human Language Technology

Research Center

https://www.prhlt.upv.es
December 2018
 Main research areas
• Language translation
Fundamental research

• Natural language processing

Applied research
• Machine learning • Speech processing
• Pattern recognition • Handwritten text recognition
• Multimodal interaction • Stochastic parsing
• Big data analytics • Biometrics
• Image & video description
• Computer vision

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 People
• 30 members https://www.prhlt.upv.es/wp/about-us

• Academic degrees
– 14 PhD
– 1 Project manager
– 15 PhD students

• Academic positions
– 10 professors and assistants (DSIC-UPV)
– 12 research contracts
– 7 fellowships

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 Language Translation

• Main topics:
– Neural machine translation
– Statistical machine translation
– Interactive machine translation
– Multimodal machine translation
• Related projects:
– TT2. EC, FP5
– CasMaCat. EC, FP7
http://www.casmacat.eu/

https://www.prhlt.upv.es/wp/research-areas/mt-showcase

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 Handwriting Transcription
• Main topics:
– Transcription of ancient
documents
– Indexing & Search in large
collections of handwriting
images
• Recent and active projects:
– tranScriptorium. EC, FP7
http://transcriptorium.eu/
– READ. H2020 e-infraestructure
https://read.transkribus.eu/

https://www.prhlt.upv.es/wp/research-areas/htr-showcase

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 Applications of Deep Learning

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com.es/2014/11/a-picture-is-worth-thousand-coherent.html

• Fraud detection – DeepFraud

• Energy consumption estimation – DeepEnergy
• Biometric Image recognition – DeepFace
• Unsupervised social community detection – DeepSocial
• Recent project: DeepHealth. EC, H2020 HPC and Big Data
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 Natural Language Processing

• Main topics:
– Deep Learning for unsupervised
social community detection
– Author profiling in social media
– Irony detection and opinion
mining
– Opinion spam detection
– Plagiarism detection
• Active projects:
– SOCOCODE – USA, ARO
– SomEMBED – Spanish funds
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 Parsing & Speech recognition

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• Recognition of mathematical • Speech interaction with mobile

expressions devices
• Interactive parsing • Speaker and domain adaptation

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 Results
• Scientific Publications:
– 65 PhD theses
– More then 160 papers in international scientific journals
– Almost 400 papers in top tier conferences
– About 300 papers in books, workshops, and Spanish journals
– See https://www.prhlt.upv.es/wp/publications
• Current technology transfer:
– 8 agreements with companies
– 2 patents
– 1 startup (Sciling http://www.sciling.com)
– 1 spin-off (Solver Machine Learning http://www.solverml.com)

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 Thank you!

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