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John Atkinson Abutridy

Full Professor

UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBAÑEZ

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Natural-Language Processing; Text Analytics; Artificial Intelligence

Educación

  •  Computer Sciences, UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 1994
  •  Computer Sciences, UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 1991
  •  Artificial Intelligence, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. Reino Unido, 2003

Experiencia Académica

  •   Lecturer Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Engineering

    valparaiso, Chile

    1991 - 1997

  •   Full Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

    Engineering

    Concepcion, Chile

    1997 - 2016

  •   Head of Department Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

    Engineering

    Concepcion, Chile

    2003 - 2005

  •   Profesor Titular Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBANEZ

    Ingeniería y Ciencias

    Santiago, Chile

    2016 - At present

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Process Engineer Full Time

    Exxon Minerals

    La Calera, Chile

    1991 - 1994

  •   Project Leader Part Time

    CONAFE (Electricity Power Supply)

    Valparaiso, Chile

    1995 - 1998

  •   Consultor Inteligencia Artificial Part Time

    División de Investigación y Desarrollo, Escuela Militar

    Santiago, Chile

    2020 - 2021

  •   Fundador/CEO Part Time

    AI-Empowered

    Santiago, Chile

    2021 - At present

Formación de Capital Humano


* Undergraduate Teaching: Taught courses on Automata Theory and Compiler Design, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining and Text Mining.
* Postgraduate Teaching: Taught courses on Natural-Language Processing, Foundations of Data Mining, Text Mining, Multi-Agent Systems, postgraduate directed seminars, Trends in Applied Computational Linguistics, Research Seminar on Language Technologies.
* Theses Supervision:

- Rodrigo Parada, MSc in Computer Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion: Predicting Stock Market Prices from textual information extracted from social networks and financial news, 2012.
- Nati Jana, PhD(c) in Computer Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion: Identifying and Extracting Mutation Impacts on Biological Entities from Natural Language Documents , 2012 (In Progress).
- Claudio Peerez, MSc in Computer Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion: Automatic evaluation of Association Rules for Text Mining using Semantic and Structural Metrics, 2009.
- Hugo Hromic, MSc in Computer Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion: Natural-Language Dialogue Planning Using Stochastic Machine Learning Techniques, 2009. (Recipient of a grant to attend the Summer School on Multimedia Semantics, Koblenz, Germany, 23-28 August 2009)
- Fernando Gutierrez, MSc in Computer Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion: An Adaptive Method for Selecting Feedback Strategies in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 2009. (Currenty pursuing a PhD in CS at University of Oregon, USA, 2009)
- Sergio Hernandez, Magister en Linguistica, UdeC: Automatic Textual Coherence Evaluation on Electronic Newspapers, 2009.
- Gabriela Kotz, Doctorado en Linguistica, UdeC: Analisis automatico de Errores Gramaticales para un Sistema Tutorial Inteligente para la ense~nanza de espa~nol como lengua extranjera, 2009.
- Miguel Romero, PhD in Informatics, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Espa~na: Un Modelo de Evaluacion y Retroalimentacion para el Desarrollo de las Habilidades Comunicacionales para Captura de Requisitos en Entornos de Desarrollo Global del Software, 2009.
- Julio Godoy, MSc in Computer Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion: Geo-Referenciacion con Adquisicion Semi Automatica de Conocimiento, 2008. (Currently pursuing a PhD in CS at University of Minnesota, USA, 2010)
- Juan Matamala, MSc in Computer Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion, Modelamiento de un Shallow Parser de textos el lenguaje natural utilizando tecnicas de computacion evolutiva, 2007.
- Elvis Aravena, MSc in Computer Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion, Clasificacion adaptiva para la Identificacion de Informacion Retorica desde Textos en Lenguaje Natural, 2007.
- Alejandro Rivas, MSc in Computer Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion: Descubrimiento de Relaciones Causa-Efecto desde Documentos en Lenguaje Natural del Area Biomedica, 2007.

* B.Eng theses Supervision: for B.Eng degree in Computer Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion, more than 7 last-year projects have been supervised for year 2010, 10 projects for 2009, 6 projects for 2008, 4 projects for 2007, 5 projects for 1998 (between
1999 an 2003, PhD studies were conducted so no projects were supervised), 5 projects for years 1994 thru 1997.

* Theses Examination

- PhD theses:
2011 Sr. Rodrigo Alfaro, "Novel Models for Automatic Multilabel Text Classification", PhD in Informatics, Departamento de Informatica, UTFSM, Valparaiso, Diciembre, Chile.
2010 Mr. Carlos Molina, "Adapting and Canceling unsupervised noise in speech recognition for teaching a second language", PhD in Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Santiago (Nov).
- MSc projects:

2010 MSc in Industrial Engineering, \Using Data Mining to Studying IP V.4 Network Availability in a Distributed Terminals Ring", Mr. Carlos Parra, Departamento de Ingenieria Industrial, Universidad de Concepcion (Noviembre).
2009 MSc in Informatics Engineering, "Single-Agent On-line Path Planning in Continuous, Unpredictable and Highly Dynamic Environments", Mr. Nicolas Barriga, Department of Informatics, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso (Nov).
2009 MSc in Informatics, "Designing and Implementing an Intelligent Tutorial System for Supporting Memory Development at Pre-school levels", Mrs. Susana Lizama, Department of Informatics Engineering, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
2008 MSc in Informatics, "Reparing and classifying natural language medical diagnostics", Mr. Rodrigo Pizarro, Department of Informatics Engineering, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

* Invited Talks/Seminars:

- 2012 Invited course on "Natural-Language Processing", Winter School, Departamento de Informatica, UTFSM, Valparaiso, Chile (January).
- 2005 Invited Tutorial: "Agent-based Computing", IX Southamerican Congress on Informatics and Systems Engineering, Cuzco, Peru (Dec).
-  2007 Postgraduate course: "Intelligent Agents", Universidad Francisco Paula de Santander, Cucuta, Colombia (Oct).
- 2004 Invited Tutorial: "Language Technologies and Applications", International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, Universidad de Tarapaca, Arica, Chile (Nov).
- 2005 Invited Tutorial: "Multi-Agent Systems", International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, Valdivia, Chile (Nov).
- 2007 International course: "Multi-Agent Systems and Applications", 2nd ISCV ThematicWorkshop: Biologically-Inspired Computing, Valparaiso Institute for Complex Systems (ISCV), Valparaso, Chile (Dec).
- 2007 Postgraduate course: "Introduction to Multi-Agent Systems", Latinamerican Summer School on Computational Intelligence (EVIC), Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Santiago (Dec).
- 2006 Postgraduate course: "Introduction to Text Mining: principles and applications", School of Information Sciences (ECI), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina (Jul).
- 2004 Doctoral course: "Foundations of Natural Language Processing: symbolic and Empirical Methods", Catholic University of Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile (Aug).

* Invited Conferences:

- 2011 Invited Conference, "Sentiment Analysis on the Web", Southern Congress on Computing, Universidad Catolica de Temuco, Chile (Dec).
- 2010 Invited conference, "Opinion Mining and Natural Language Processing", VII International Conference on Intelligent Technologies, Instituto Tecnologico de Apizaco, Mexico (Oct).
- 2009 Keynote Speaker with Conference "Natural Language Processing and Text Mining", Workshop on Complexity, Computing and the Humanities, University of Western Ontario, Canada (Jun).
- 2007 Invited Professor with conference, \Evolutionary Text Mining: Where Genetic Algorithms and NLP meet", IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA (Dec).
- 2006 Keynote Speaker at the World Computer Congress (IFIP): \Artifi cial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems in Chile: Past and Future", Santiago, Chile (Aug).
 2004 Invited conference: "Data and Text Mining", International Conference on Arti cial Intelligence Applications, Cucuta, Colombia (Sept).
 2004 Invited conference: "The role of NLP in Text Mining", Computer Sciences Institute (INCO), Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay (Nov).
 2007-2008 Invited Seminar: "Text Mining: from words to high-level knowledge", Department of Computer Sciences, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago (Jul).
 2006 Invited conference, "Text Mining: From theory to Practice", 3rd National Congress on Computing and Educational Technology, Universidad de la Serena, Chile (Nov).
 2003 Keynote Speaker: "Text Mining and Knowledge Discovery", International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, Universidad del Bio Bio, Chillan, Chile (Nov).


Difusión y Transferencia


2021 IA en Experiencia Clientes, 6to Congreso Internacional de Experiencia Clientes, Santiago.
2021 Conferencista, Economía Circular e Inteligencia Artificial , Universidad San Sebastian, Santiago
2021 Conferencistta, IA para Ciberseguridad, Diario Financiero
2020 Keynote Speaker, Conciencia en IA, Congreso Futuro, Santiago, Chile


Premios y Distinciones

  •   ACM Senior Member Award

    Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, USA

    Estados Unidos, 2010

    ACM recognizes up to 25% of the top ACM Professional Members who have demonstrated performance that sets them apart from their peers in computer sciences.

  •   Best Technical Paper Award

    University of Cambridge

    Reino Unido, 2008

    Best Technical Paper Award Competition, the 28th Annual International Conference on Artifi cial Intelligence, Cambridge, UK (Nov) with the paper "Discovering Implicit Intention-level Knowledge Discovery from Texts".

  •   Best Theses Research Competition

    SIGSCE, Cincinnati, USA

    Estados Unidos, 2002

    One of the best four research (thesis) works, ACM Graduate Research International Competition, SIGSCE, Cincinnati, USA (Feb).

  •   Graduate scholarship award

    Government of Chile

    Chile, 1999

    1999-2003 "President of Republic of Chile" scholarship for PhD studies, Ministry of Planning, Government of Chile.


 

Article (35)

Looking deeper–exploring hidden patterns in reactor data of N-removal systems through clustering analysis
Evolutionary Discovery of Natural-Language Coreference Chains for Social Media Analysis
Coherence-Based Automatic Essay Assessment
Effluent composition prediction of a two-stage anaerobic digestion process: machine learning and stoichiometry techniques
Redundancy-Based Trust in Question-Answering Systems
Ensembling Classifiers for Detecting User Intentions behind Web Queries
Improving BCI-based emotion recognition by combining EEG feature selection and kernel classifiers
Question-driven topic-based extraction of Protein-Protein Interaction Methods from biomedical literature
Improving opinion retrieval in social media by combining features-based coreferencing and memory-based learning
Web metadata extraction and semantic indexing for learning objects extraction
Evolutionary optimization for ranking how-to questions based on user-generated contents
Rhetorics-based multi-document summarization
A multi-strategy approach to biological named entity recognition
CONTEXTUAL LANGUAGE MODELS FOR RANKING ANSWERS TO NATURAL LANGUAGE DEFINITION QUESTIONS
EVOLUTIONARY SHALLOW NATURAL LANGUAGE PARSING
Stochastic web-based natural language dialog planning for web information filtering
Adaptive feedback selection for intelligent tutoring systems
Evolutionary constrained self-localization for autonomous agents
Answering De nition Questions: Dealing with Data Sparseness in Lexicalised Dependency Trees-Based Language Models
Intelligent answering location questions from the web using molecular alignment
Designing a feedback component of an intelligent tutoring system for foreign language
On-the-fly generation of multi-robot team formation strategies based on game conditions
Reducing information overloading on the World Wide Web by using human-computer dialogue interactions
Reducing information overloading on the World Wide Web by using human-computer dialogue interactions Disminución de la sobrecarga de información en la World Wide Web a partir de interacciones dialógicas hombre-computador
Searching for Definitional Answers on the Web Using Surface Patterns
Using Dependency Paths for Answering De nition Questions on the Web.
DESIGNING ROAD NETWORKS FOR TRANSPORT PLANNING USING EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
Discovering Novel Causal Patterns From Biomedical Natural-Language Texts Using Bayesian Nets
Using Genetic Algorithms to Model Road Networks
Interactive explanatory and descriptive natural-language based dialogue for intelligent information filtering
Molecular sequence alignment for extracting answers for where-typed questions from Google snippets
Intelligent search agents using Web-driven natural-language explanatory dialogs
Text Mining: Principles and Applications
Dise~no de agentes autonomos utilizando un enfoque de control basado en conductas
Un modelo de agente de busqueda y ltrado de informacion inteligente apoyado por interacciones en lenguaje natural

BookSection (5)

Arti cial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems in Chile
Intelligent Text Mining: Putting Evolutionary Methods and Language Technologies Together
Evolving Explanatory Novel Patterns for Semanticallybased Text Minin
Intelligent Search Engines
Intelligent Text Mining

ConferencePaper (14)

A context description language for medical information systems
Intelligent Web-based natural language dialogue planning for Web information filtering
Maximum entropy context models for ranking biographical answers to open-domain definition questions
Answering definition questions: Dealing with data sparseness in lexicalised dependency trees-based language models
Chunking natural language texts using evolutionary methods
Artificial intelligence and intelligent systems research in Chile
Autonomous Robotics Self-Localization using Genetic Algorithms
Discovering Implicit Intention-Level Knowledge from Natural-Language Texts
Evolutionary Shallow Parsing
Using dependency paths for answering definition questions on the web
Crossed-line segmentation for low-level vision
Generating dynamic formation strategies based on human experience and game conditions
UdeCans team description
Using syntactic distributional patterns for data-driven answer extraction from the Web

Proyecto (17)

An effective Linguistically-motivated computational model for opinion retrieval in sentiment analysis tasks
PEDESTAl - Prediction models for Energy Consumption based on Big Data Analytics of Population Density and Spatio-Social activities
Tourism Observatory of Big Data for the Metropolitan Area
Turism Observatory of Big Data for the Metropolitan Area
An Evolutionary Computation Approach to Natural Language Chunking for Biological Text Mining
Automatic Answer Generation for Call Centers using NLP
iText Routing: Intelligent intent recognition for routing text-based calls in Contact Centers
MIT-Chile Collaboration for Medical Text Summarization for Patient Literacy
2009-2011 Semantic identifying and synthesizing electronic educational materials for specialized domains
IDENTIFICACIÓN SEMÁNTICA Y COMPOSICIÓN AUTOMÁTICA DE MATERIAL DIDÁCTICO PARA DOMINIOS ESPECIALIZADOS
MODELO B-LEARNING BASADO EN EL ENFOQUE POR TAREAS Y APRENDIZAJE COOPERATIVO PARA LA ENSEÑANZA DEL ESPAÑOL COMO LENGUA EXTRANJERA
An Interactive Natural-Language Dialogue Model for Intelligent Filtering Based on Patterns Discovered from Text Documents
AN INTERACTIVE NATURAL-LANGUAGE DIALOGUE MODEL FOR INTELLIGENT FILTERING BASED ON PATTERNS DISCOVERED FROM TEXT DOCUMENTS.
DIFUSIÓN Y ENSEÑANZA DE LA ROBÓTICA UTILIZANDO UNA NUEVA METODOLOGÍA BASADA EN MÚTLIPLES NIVELES DEABSTRACCIÓN
DIFUSIÓN Y ENSEÑANZA DE LA ROBÓTICA UTILIZANDO UNA NUEVA METODOLOGÍABASADA EN MÚLTIPLES NIVELES DE ABSTRACCIÓN
DESARROLLO DE UNA PLATAFORMA BASADA EN AGENTES PARA LAEDUCACION ROBOTICA DE BAJO COSTO Y CON IMPACTO NACIONAL
UN MODELO EVOLUCIONARIO DE DESCUBRIMIENTO DE CONOCIMIENTO EXPLICATIVO DESDE TEXTOS CON BASE SEMANTICA CON IMPLICACIONES PARA EL ANALISIS DE INTELIGENCIA

Review (1)

Geo-referencing with semi-automatic gazetteer expansion using lexico-syntactical patterns and co-reference analysis
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John Atkinson

Full Professor

UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBAÑEZ

Santiago, Chile

11
Alejandro Figueroa

Research associate

Universidad Andrés Bello

Santiago, Chile

6
Anita Ferreira

Directora del Programa de Español como Lengua Extranjera, ELE-UDEC

Departamento de Español

UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCIÓN, FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES Y ARTE, DEPARTAMENTO DE ESPAÑOL

Concepción, Chile

2
Francisco Gutiérrez

Geólogo

Geo Expedition Spa

Santiago, Chile

2
Fernando Gutierrez

Investigador Post doctoral

Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Santiago, Chile

2
Maria Pinninghoff

Profesor Asociado

Ingenieria Informatica

University of Concepción

Concepcion, Chile

1
Mauricio Solar

Full time professor

Informatic

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Santiago, Chile

1
Marlene Roeckel

Profesor Titular

Ingeniería Química

UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCIÓN-FAC. DE INGENIERÍA-DEPTO. INGENIERÍA QUÍMICA (EDIFICIO GUSTAVO PIZARRO CASTRO)

Concepción, Chile

1
Hernan Astudillo

Profesor Titular

Universidad Andrés Bello

Viña del Mar, Chile

1
MARIA RODRIGUEZ

Profesor titular

Ingeniería Informática y Ciencias de la Computación

UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCIÓN

Concepción, Chile

1
Renato Contreras

professor

Quimica

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Javier Pereira

SUBDIRECTOR NACIONAL DE DESARROLLO TECNOLÓGICO E INNOVACIÓN

Universidad Tecnológica de Chile Inacap

Santiago, Chile

1
Dario Rojas

Director de Escuela

Facultad de Ingeniería

Universidad Finis Terrae

Santiago, Chile

1
Víctor Guzmán

Profesor Asistente

Departamento de Ingeniería Química

Universidad de Concepción

Concepcion, Chile

1
Constanza Arriagada

Investigador

Ingeniería Química

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile