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20142025
most citedCreating emoji lexica from unsupervised sentiment analysis of their descriptions

96 citations · 561 across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

cs.CL2025

Optimal word order for non-causal text generation with Large Language Models: the Spanish case

Andrea Busto-Castiñeira, Silvia García-Méndez, Francisco de Arriba-Pérez +1

Natural Language Generation (NLG) popularity has increased owing to the progress in Large Language Models (LLMs), with zero-shot inference capabilities. However, most neural system…

cs.NI2025★ 2 cited

5G Network Slicing as a Service Enabler for theAutomotive Sector

David Candal-Ventureira, José Manuel Rúa-Estévez, Pablo Fondo-Ferreiro +5

Network slicing, a key technology introduced in 5G standards, enables mobile networks to simultaneously support a wide range ofheterogeneous use cases with diverse quality of servi…

cs.NI2025★ 4 cited

Learning-based visibility prediction for terahertz communications in 6G networks

Pablo Fondo-Ferreiro, Cristina López-Bravo, Francisco Javier González-Castaño +2

Terahertz communications are envisioned as a key enabler for 6G networks. The abundant spectrum available in such ultra high frequencies has the potential to increase network capac…

cs.CL2024★ 11 cited

Explainable cognitive decline detection in free dialogues with a Machine Learning approach based on pre-trained Large Language Models

Francisco de Arriba-Pérez, Silvia García-Méndez, Javier Otero-Mosquera +1

Cognitive and neurological impairments are very common, but only a small proportion of affected individuals are diagnosed and treated, partly because of the high costs associated w…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Unsupervised explainable activity prediction in competitive Nordic Walking from experimental data

Silvia García-Méndez, Francisco de Arriba-Pérez, Francisco J. González-Castaño +1

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has found application in Human Activity Recognition (HAR) in competitive sports. To date, most Machine Learning (ML) approaches for HAR have relied on…

cs.AI2024★ 3 cited

Automatic generation of insights from workers' actions in industrial workflows with explainable Machine Learning

Francisco de Arriba-Pérez, Silvia García-Méndez, Javier Otero-Mosquera +2

New technologies such as Machine Learning (ML) gave great potential for evaluating industry workflows and automatically generating key performance indicators (KPIs). However, despi…

cs.SI2024★ 10 cited

Explainable assessment of financial experts' credibility by classifying social media forecasts and checking the predictions with actual market data

Silvia García-Méndez, Francisco de Arriba-Pérez, Jaime González-Gonzáleza +1

Social media include diverse interaction metrics related to user popularity, the most evident example being the number of user followers. The latter has raised concerns about the c…

cs.AI2024★ 57 cited

Automatic detection of cognitive impairment in elderly people using an entertainment chatbot with Natural Language Processing capabilities

Francisco de Arriba-Pérez, Silvia García-Méndez, Francisco J. González-Castaño +1

Previous researchers have proposed intelligent systems for therapeutic monitoring of cognitive impairments. However, most existing practical approaches for this purpose are based o…

cs.CL2024★ 7 cited

A System for Automatic English Text Expansion

Silvia García Méndez, Milagros Fernández Gavilanes, Enrique Costa Montenegro +3

We present an automatic text expansion system to generate English sentences, which performs automatic Natural Language Generation (NLG) by combining linguistic rules with statistic…

cs.CL2024★ 15 cited

Explainable machine learning multi-label classification of Spanish legal judgements

Francisco de Arriba-Pérez, Silvia García-Méndez, Francisco J. González-Castaño +1

Artificial Intelligence techniques such as Machine Learning (ML) have not been exploited to their maximum potential in the legal domain. This has been partially due to the insuffic…

cs.CL2024★ 16 cited

A Library for Automatic Natural Language Generation of Spanish Texts

Silvia García-Méndez, Milagros Fernández-Gavilanes, Enrique Costa-Montenegro +2

In this article we present a novel system for natural language generation (NLG) of Spanish sentences from a minimum set of meaningful words (such as nouns, verbs and adjectives) wh…

cs.CL2024★ 20 cited

Explainable automatic industrial carbon footprint estimation from bank transaction classification using natural language processing

Jaime González-González, Silvia García-Méndez, Francisco de Arriba-Pérez +2

Concerns about the effect of greenhouse gases have motivated the development of certification protocols to quantify the industrial carbon footprint (CF). These protocols are manual…

cs.CL2024★ 96 cited

Creating emoji lexica from unsupervised sentiment analysis of their descriptions

Milagros Fernández-Gavilanes, Jonathan Juncal-Martínez, Silvia García-Méndez +2

Online media, such as blogs and social networking sites, generate massive volumes of unstructured data of great interest to analyze the opinions and sentiments of individuals and o…

cs.IR2024★ 17 cited

Targeted aspect-based emotion analysis to detect opportunities and precaution in financial Twitter messages

Silvia García-Méndez, Francisco de Arriba-Pérez, Ana Barros-Vila +1

Microblogging platforms, of which Twitter is a representative example, are valuable information sources for market screening and financial models. In them, users voluntarily provid…

cs.CL2024★ 25 cited

Automatic detection of relevant information, predictions and forecasts in financial news through topic modelling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation

Silvia García-Méndez, Francisco de Arriba-Pérez, Ana Barros-Vila +2

Financial news items are unstructured sources of information that can be mined to extract knowledge for market screening applications. Manual extraction of relevant information fro…

cs.CL2024★ 27 cited

Detection of Temporality at Discourse Level on Financial News by Combining Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning

Silvia García-Méndez, Francisco de Arriba-Pérez, Ana Barros-Vila +1

Finance-related news such as Bloomberg News, CNN Business and Forbes are valuable sources of real data for market screening systems. In news, an expert shares opinions beyond plain…

cs.CL2024★ 9 cited

Automatic explanation of the classification of Spanish legal judgments in jurisdiction-dependent law categories with tree estimators

Jaime González-González, Francisco de Arriba-Pérez, Silvia García-Méndez +2

Automatic legal text classification systems have been proposed in the literature to address knowledge extraction from judgments and detect their aspects. However, most of these sys…

cs.RO2024★ 16 cited

Self-Corrective Sensor Fusion for Drone Positioning in Indoor Facilities

Francisco Javier González-Castaño, Felipe Gil-Castiñeira, David Rodríguez-Pereira +3

Drones may be more advantageous than fixed cameras for quality control applications in industrial facilities, since they can be redeployed dynamically and adjusted to production pl…

cs.IR2024★ 36 cited

Identifying Banking Transaction Descriptions via Support Vector Machine Short-Text Classification Based on a Specialized Labelled Corpus

Silvia García-Méndez, Milagros Fernández-Gavilanes, Jonathan Juncal-Martínez +2

Short texts are omnipresent in real-time news, social network commentaries, etc. Traditional text representation methods have been successfully applied to self-contained documents…

q-fin.ST2024★ 11 cited

Detection of financial opportunities in micro-blogging data with a stacked classification system

Francisco de Arriba-Pérez, Silvia García-Méndez, José A. Regueiro-Janeiro +1

Micro-blogging sources such as the Twitter social network provide valuable real-time data for market prediction models. Investors' opinions in this network follow the fluctuations…

cs.CL2024★ 92 cited

Entertainment chatbot for the digital inclusion of elderly people without abstraction capabilities

Silvia García-Méndez, Francisco de Arriba-Pérez, Francisco J. González-Castaño +2

Current language processing technologies allow the creation of conversational chatbot platforms. Even though artificial intelligence is still too immature to support satisfactory u…

cs.NI2024★ 12 cited

Quarantining Malicious IoT Devices in Intelligent Sliced Mobile Networks

David Candal-Ventureira, Pablo Fondo-Ferreiro, Felipe Gil-Castiñeira +1

The unstoppable adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) is driven by the deployment of new services that require continuous capture of information from huge populations of sensors…

cs.NI2024★ 6 cited

Latency Reduction in Vehicular Sensing Applications by Dynamic 5G User Plane Function Allocation with Session Continuity

Pablo Fondo-Ferreiro, David Candal-Ventureira, Francisco Javier González-Castaño +1

Vehicle automation is driving the integration of advanced sensors and new applications that demand high-quality information, such as collaborative sensing for enhanced situational…

cs.NI2024★ 7 cited

Is the edge really necessary for drone computing offloading? An experimental assessment in carrier-grade 5G operator networks

David Candal-Ventureira, Francisco Javier González-Castaño, Felipe Gil-Castiñeira +1

In this article, we evaluate the first experience of computation offloading from drones to real fifth-generation (5G) operator systems, including commercial and private carrier-gra…