Natural-Language Processing; Text Analytics; Artificial Intelligence

* 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).

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