Raquel Hervás
Assistant Professor
Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence in the Comp
Complutense University of Madrid
Spain
Biography
"Raquel Hervás (PhD) works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence , Faculty of Informatics , Universidad Complutense de Madrid . She is also a member of the Institute of Knowledge Technology . Her research is oriented towards Natural Language Generation and Processing. Raquel is interested in how people refer to things, exploring how intentions, situational contexts and personal styles can influence the way people talk about things. In order to study these aspects of language Raquel is exploring the creation and use of annotated corpora. She is also interesting in how these aspects of language can be practically used for the simplication of texts in order to improve their readability. Raquel has also worked in the field of Figurative Language, exploring how figures of speech like analogies and comparisons can be used to implicitly convey information in automatically generated texts."
Research Interest
Generating Language Output, Modeling Aspects of Interaction
Publications
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Gervás P. An expert system for the composition of formal spanish poetry. Knowledge-Based Systems. 2001 Jun 30;14(3):181-8.
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Gervás P. Computational approaches to storytelling and creativity. AI Magazine. 2009 Jul 7;30(3):49.
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Gervás P, DÃaz-Agudo B, Peinado F, Hervás R. Story plot generation based on CBR. Knowledge-Based Systems. 2005 Aug 31;18(4):235-42.
