BIO
Marcos García González (O Grove, Pontevedra, 1982) is a Juan de la Cierva researcher in the LYS (Language and Society) Group at Universidad de La Coruña.
He is a prolific and internationally recognized author in the area of natural language processing. He collaborates on processes such as Universal Dependencies (led by universities including Uppsala and Stanford and companies such as Google and IBM).
The sponsoring partner is Cilenis Language Technology, a company recognized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The results of its research are used by firms and working groups in the field of computational linguistics around the world.
PROJECT
His project, ‘Automatic extraction of multilingual equivalents of collocations.’ combines the theoretical foundations of phraseology and of the syntaxis of dependency with computational methods based on neuronal networks to improve learning of foreign languages and machine translation systems.