Short biography
Dr. Farwell received his PhD in Linguistics (1985) from the University of Illinois and joined the staff of the Computing Research Laboratory at New Mexico State University, a state-initiated Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence R&D with special focus on Natural Language Processing. While at the CRL, he participated in or led 12 federally-funded or corporate-funded research projects in the areas of Machine Translation and multilingual text processing. In 2002, he joined ICREA and was attached to the NLP group of the Centre TALP-UPC. There he has participated in or led 7 EU-funded or Spanish government-funded research projects in Machine Translation, multilingual NLP and knowledge extraction. He initiated two workshop series; one on Interlinguas and one on Spanish NLP, and has served as Conference Chairperson, Organizing Committee member or Scientific Committee member for over 40 conferences. He is the author or co-author of over 100 research papers, articles and reports. Research interests
Dr. David Farwell is a senior research scientist in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the Centre de Tecnologies i Aplicacions del Llenguatge i la Parla (TALP - Speech and Language Technology and Applications) at the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya. His central research interests include Machine Translation, knowledge extraction, computational semantics and computational pragmatics. Key words
Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, computational semantics, computational pragmatics