ELENA
LLORET PASTOR

Elena Lloret is a Full Professor (Catedrática de Universidad) in the area of Software and Computing Systems (Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos) at the University of Alicante, Spain. Her background is in Computer Science Engineering and she has gained experience over the course of thirteen years in Natural Language Processing (NLP), mainly in the field of Automatic Text Summarisation, and Natural Language Generation (NLG). Her research activity began in September 2007 when she joined the GPLSI research group , lead by Dr. Manuel Palomar, of the University of Alicante as a pre-doctoral fellowship, and to which she still belongs today. Since then, she has published more than 90 papers in international peer-reviewed conferences and refereed journals, more than 40 of them in high-impact journals, 11 of them indexed in the first two quartiles of the JCR and the rest with equivalent quality criteria. She has delivered 14 presentations at prestigious international conferences in the field of NLP. She has recently obtained 2 “sexenios”, by CNEAI (Spanish quality control research agency) for having made a 12-year contribution to high-quality internationally recognised research (2008-2013;2014-2019). A significant scientific achievement of her PhD was developing techniques for the creation of versatile automatic summarisation approaches. This resulted in the development of the GPLSI COMPENDIUM software, which has been registered (A-322-11) and transferred to society through an exploitation license granted to DOCUMELIA S.L (DOCUMELIA2-12D). The software is also publicly available for use as an online demo. Since 2014, she has developed a new line in NLG research, resulting in the direction of thesis, and several high-impact papers. Also related to NLG research field, she is currently the Vice-chair of the “Multi3Generation” COST Action, coordinating networking and research activities across more than 30 countries. This has enabled her research network to expand beyond the researchers she already collaborates with. As part of her commitment to improving the quality of her research, during her pre- and post-doctoral stages, she has conducted several research stays at different prestigious research groups in the field of NLP and NLG, including University of Wolverhampton (UK), the University of Sheffield (UK), the University of Edinburgh (UK), and the Lorraine Research Laboratory in Computer Science and its Applications (France), or the LMU University in Munich (Germany). She has also participated as a researcher in more than 20 research projects at a regional, national, and European level, funded through public competitive calls, including her role as Vice-chair of the European COST action in Multi3Generation. She is also involved in the research activities of the following associations: Spanish Society of Natural Language Processing (SEPLN); MultiLingual Summarisation (MultiLing) Community; and, the National Excellence Networks of PLN.NET (RED2018-102418-T), PLN.NET 2018, as well as the "Red de Excelencia en Tratamiento Inteligente de Datos y Generación de Lenguaje Natural" (TIN2017-90773-REDT). Finally, she has participated in different scientific and program committees for the review of publications both for conferences (e.g. ACL, EACL) and for high impact journals indexed in JCRs, and She has been involved in the organization of different R&D&I activities, in particular the promotion and organization of the Doctoral Symposium within SEPLN conference from 2015 to 2019.