• June 2024: Panelist at the Mexican NLP Summer School 2024, co-located with NAACL 2024. Panel: From "publish or perish" to "publicize or perish": Navigating challenges and opportunities for career advancement in Latin American Communities in the current era of scientific publication trends.
• April 2024: Co-chair of the Best Paper Award Committee at NAACL 2024.
• December 2023: Keynote speaker at the First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing, co-located with EMNLP 2023. Talk: NLP in Mexican Spanish: A path through shared tasks.
• September 2023: Organizer of IberLEF 2023. The proceedings are now available online.
• September 2023: Organizer of the task on DA-VINCIS 2023: Multimodal Information for the Detection of Aggressive and Violent INCIdents from Social media in Spanish, at IberLEF 2023.
• February 2023: Interview on the podcast Hacia Afuera about Transfer Learning and Language Technologies.
• July 2022: Keynote speaker at NAACL 2022; Talk: NLP in Mexican Spanish: One of many stories.
• November 2020: Invited to be member of the standing reviewer team of the Journal Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

I hold a PhD in Computer Science. My research is on Automatic Text Processing. My recent interests include:

• Early detection of risk behaviours in social media
• Cross-topic and cross-genre authorship attribution
• New representations and methods for author profiling
• Supervised approaches for plagiarism detection
• Text classification using distributional word representations as well as word embeddings.
• Multilingual document clustering and classification
• Image retrieval combining textual and visual information
• Image Classification through Text Mining techniques

Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Language Technologies of the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE) of Mexico. From 2002 to date.

I am also member of Mexico's National System of Researchers (SNI II), The Mexican Academy of Sciences (AMC), the Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence (SMIA), the Mexican Society of Computer Science (SMCC), the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN), and founder member of the Mexican Association for Natural Language Processing (AMPLN) and the Mexican Academy of Computer Science (AMEXCOMP).

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• Visiting Professor at the Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technologies (PRHLT) Research Center, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. From September 2017 to July 2018.
• Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. From August 2010 to July 2011.
• Visiting Professor at the Department of Information Systems and Computation, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. From April to December 2004.
• Invited Professor at the "Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione", Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy. Summer 2004.
• Doctoral Visiting Student at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile, Chile. From June 2000 to april 2001.

Dr. Manuel Montes y Gómez
Titular Researcher C
Department of Computational Sciences
National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics
Calle Luis Enrique Erro 1, 72840.
Santa María Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico.
Phone: +52 (222) 2663100 x 8218
Fax.: +52 (222) 2663152
email: mmontesg [at] inaoep [dot] mx
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