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  • Harnessing the computing continuum across personalized healthcare, maintenance and inspection, and Farming 4.0 

    Baghdadi, Fatemeh; Cirillo, Davide; Lezzi, Daniele; Lordan Gomis, Francesc-Josep; Vázquez Novoa, Fernando; Lomurno, Eugenio; Archetti, Alberto; Ardagna, Danilo; Matteucci, Matteo (SciTePress, 2024)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    The AI-SPRINT project, launched in 2021 and funded by the European Commission, focuses on the development and implementation of AI applications across the computing continuum. This continuum ensures the coherent integration ...
  • Residual Dropout: A Simple Approach to Improve Transformer’s Data Efficiency 

    Escolano, Carlos; De Luca Fornaciari, Francesca; Melero, Maite (ELRA Language Resources Association and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics, 2024)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Transformer models often demand a vast amount of training data to achieve the desired level of performance. However, this data requirement poses a major challenge for low-resource languages seeking access to high-quality ...
  • Becoming a High-Resource Language in Speech: The Catalan Case in the Common Voice Corpus 

    Armentano Oller, Carme; Marimon, Montserrat; Villegas, Marta (ELRA Language Resources Association and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics, 2024)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Collecting voice resources for speech recognition systems is a multifaceted challenge, involving legal, technical, and diversity considerations. However, it is crucial to ensure fair access to voice-driven technology across ...
  • Building a Data Infrastructure for a Mid-Resource Language: The Case of Catalan 

    Gonzalez Agirre, Aitor; Marimon, Montserrat; Rodriguez Penagos, Carlos; Aula Blasco, Javier; Baucells, Irene; Armentano Oller, Carme; Palomar Giner, Jorge; Kulebi, Baybars; Villegas, Marta (ELRA Language Resources Association and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics, 2024-05)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Current LLM-based applications are becoming steadily available for everyone with a reliable access to technology and the internet. These applications offer benefits to their users that leave those without access to them ...
  • Extending Off-the-shelf NER Systems to Personal Information Detection in Dialogues with a Virtual Agent: Findings from a Real-Life Use Case 

    Mina, Mario; Rodríguez, Carlos; Gonzalez Agirre, Aitor; Villegas, Marta (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    We present the findings and results of our pseudonymisation system, which has been developed for a real-life use-case involving users and an informative chatbot in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Message exchanges ...
  • Lessons Learned from a Performance Analysis and Optimization of a Multiscale Cellular Simulation 

    Clasca, Marc; Garcia Gasulla, Marta; Montagud, Arnau; Carbonell Caballero, José; Valencia, Alfonso (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    This work presents a comprehensive performance analysis and optimization of a multiscale agent-based cellular simulation. The optimizations applied are guided by detailed performance analysis and include memory management, ...
  • Optimizing Resource Allocation for Tumor Simulations over HPC Infrastructures 

    Streviniotis, Errikos; Giatrakos, Nikos; Kotidis, Yannis; Ntiniakou, Thaleia; Ponce De Leon, Miguel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    We introduce RATS (Resource Allocator for Tumor Simulations), the first optimizer for the execution of tumor simulations over HPC infrastructures. The optimization framework of RATS incorporates 3 vital performance criteria ...
  • A Sentiment Analysis Approach to Process Civic Contributions 

    Cernuzzi, Luca; Alcaraz, Marcelo; Parra, Cristhian; Saldivar, Jorge (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Crowdsourced civic engagement is a novel form of democratic participation that allows citizens to share their ideas and deliberate in a multitude of diverse participatory processes that are emerging all over the world, ...
  • BioASQ at CLEF2023: The Eleventh Edition of the Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering Challenge 

    Nentidis, Anastasios; Krithara, Anastasia; Paliouras, Georgios; Farre Maduell, Eulalia; Lima Lopez, Salvador; Krallinger, Martin (Springer, 2023)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question-answering challenge (BioASQ) aims at the continuous advancement of methods and tools to meet the need of biomedical researchers and practitioners for efficient and ...
  • Automatic, efficient and scalable provenance registration for FAIR HPC workflows 

    Sirvent Pardell, Raül; Conejero Bañón, Francisco Javier; Lordan Gomis, Francesc; Ejarque Artigas, Jorge; Rodríguez Navas, Laura; Fernández González, José María; Capella Gutiérrez, Salvador; Badia Sala, Rosa Maria (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Provenance registration is becoming more and more important, as we increase the size and number of experiments performed using computers. In particular, when provenance is recorded in HPC environments, it must be efficient ...
  • Pre-trained biomedical language models for clinical NLP in Spanish 

    Pio Carrino, Casimiro; Llop, Joan; Pàmies, Marc; Gutiérrez Fandiño, Asier; Armengol Estapé, Jordi; Silveira Ocampo, Joaquín; Valencia, Alfonso; Gonzalez Agirre, Aitor; Villegas, Marta (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022-05)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    This work presents the first large-scale biomedical Spanish language models trained from scratch, using large biomedical corpora consisting of a total of 1.1B tokens and an EHR corpus of 95M tokens. We compared them against ...
  • BioASQ at CLEF2022: the tenth edition of the large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering challenge 

    Nentidis, Anastasios; Krithara, Anastasia; Paliouras, Georgios; Gasco, Luis; Krallinger, Martin (Springer International Publishing, 2022)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The tenth version of the BioASQ Challenge will be held as an evaluation Lab within CLEF2022. The motivation driving BioASQ is the continuous advancement of approaches and tools to meet the need for efficient and precise ...

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