Rafael Valencia-García

Full Professor - Department of Informatics and Systems at Universidad de Murcia @umu. Researcher in Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technologies

[Rafael Valencia-García @rafaelo77]

@NLP_umuteam @RonghaoPan ¡Felicidades Ronghao! ¡Un honor tenerte en nuesto grupo de investigación! 👏

[NLP_UMUTeam @NLP_umuteam]

Ayer, Ronghao Pan @RonghaoPan defendió su tesis doctoral "Multimodal Analysis of Emotion and Hate Speech in Online Communication / Análisis Multimodal de las Emociones y el Discurso de Odio en la Comunicación en Línea"

¡Felicidades al nuevo doctor! @NLP_umuteam #NLProc

[NLP_UMUTeam @NLP_umuteam]

🚨 New Paper Alert!
speech-emotion: a multilingual & multimodal toolkit for emotion recognition 🎙️💬

✅ Combines audio + text → better performance than unimodal models
✅ Supports Spanish 🇪🇸 & English 🇬🇧

SoftwareX (Elsevier)
https://t.co/SH2q6R11Jx

#NLPoc #SpeechProcessing

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@JosAntonioGarca has presented our work on “NLP and Large Language Models applied to real-world problems” at Engineering Week 2026 at Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero 🇲🇽

Showcasing real-world applications and technology transfer across healthcare, industry, and society

[NLP_UMUTeam @NLP_umuteam]

Maite Martín-Valdivia @maite_martin del grupo @NLP_SINAI nos dará una charla muy interesante el lunes 4 de mayo a las 17:30 en la Facultad de Informática de la Universidad de Murcia.

#NLProc

[NLP_UMUTeam @NLP_umuteam]

🚨 Results are out — PoliticHeadlinES @ IberLEF 2026

Thanks to everyone who participated! 🙌

📊 19 teams
⚙️ 168 submitted runs

🏆 Leaderboards:
📄 Task 1: https://t.co/heD1N5ykSZ

🖼️ Task 2: https://t.co/ll0brCIbLq

#IberLEF2026 @iberlef @sepln

[NLP_UMUTeam @NLP_umuteam]

🚨 Final Week — PoliticHeadlinES @ IberLEF 2026

Only 7 days left until the deadline!

🏁 Submit your runs
📊 Publish your best result on the leaderboard
🧪 Text-only & multimodal tasks

💻 Evaluation closes April 27
👉 https://t.co/crahSjnArE

#IberLEF2026 @sepln @UM @iberlef

[NLP_UMUTeam @NLP_umuteam]

🚀 Evaluation Phase — PoliticHeadlinES @ IberLEF 2026

The official test corpus is available!
📦 Train + Test data released
🖼️ Images for both splits

💻 Submissions are now open!
👉 https://t.co/ygTV10Dh5f
#IberLEF2026 @sepln @UM

[NLP_UMUTeam @NLP_umuteam]

🚨 Dataset Release — PoliticHeadlinES @ IberLEF 2026

The official training corpus is out!
📰 16,030 news articles
🖼️ Images included
🎯 Real-world headline distractors

💻 Development phase is still open
👉 https://t.co/ygTV10Dh5f

#IberLEF2026 @iberlef @sepln @UMU

[SEPLN @sepln]

#SEPLN2026 🦁

La SEPLN les invita a participar del Congreso #SEPLN2026.

Un espacio clave para compartir avances, discutir retos y conectar la investigación en PLN con la práctica real.

📍 León, España 📝 https://t.co/DX2Gk0HUCp

[SEPLN @sepln]

Information Extraction & Ranking

GenSIE:General-purpose schema-guided information extraction

PoliticHeadlinES: Ranking multimodal headlines in the complex world of Spanish political news.

#InformationExtraction #Politics

[IberLEF - Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum @iberlef]

2 tasks in the 🔍 INFORMATION EXTRACTION & RANKING category
1⃣7⃣ PoliticHeadlinES
Multimodal Headline Ranking in Spanish Political News
https://t.co/ue2zr1zCKC

[NLP_UMUTeam @NLP_umuteam]

📰🇪🇸 PoliticHeadlinES @ IberLEF 2026 is now open!
A new shared task on ranking headlines for Spanish political news.
🔹 Ranking (not classification)
🔹 Text-only & multimodal settings
🔹 Real hard negatives from news

👉 https://t.co/ygTV10DOUN

#IberLEF2026 @sepln @iberlef

[NLP_UMUTeam @NLP_umuteam]

📢New paper alert📢 DMCGES: A Dynamic Multimodal Causal Graph framework for standardized Emotion Recognition in Conversations #NLProc https://t.co/FmjHY376wo

[SEPLN @sepln]

🦁¡Anuncio Importante! 🦁

El congreso SEPLN 2026 se celebrará en la ✨ Universidad de León ✨

🗓️ del 22 al 25 de Septiembre.

¡Estad atentos a las próximas noticias! 🔔

[NLP_UMUTeam @NLP_umuteam]

Tomás @tomasbernal_ presents or work at TA1C task #iberlef2025 #sepln2025 @sepln #NLProc @iberlef

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Ángela Almela presents their work at SatiSPeech task #iberlef2025 #sepln2025 @sepln #NLProc

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Vicent Ahuir presents their work at SatiSPeech task #iberlef2025 #sepln2025 @sepln #NLProc

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Paco @fgs22002 presents the overview of the task SatiSPeech organised by @NLP_umuteam at #iberlef2025 @iberlef @sepln #sepln2025 #NLProc

[NLP_UMUTeam @NLP_umuteam]

Arturo Montejo-Ráez presents their work at SatiSPeech task #iberlef2025 #sepln2025 @sepln @NLP_SINAI #NLProc