Proceedings of the First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2023)

Abstract

Although Spanish is one of the most spoken languages in the world, it was only until very recently that the development of linguistic technologies for it had a strong boost. However, this is not entirely true for some of its Latin American variants, such as the Mexican Spanish, which show phonetic, and also some lexical and semantic differences with respect to peninsular Spanish. This talk will focus on presenting the development of NLP for Mexican Spanish, emphasizing the path taken through the organization of different evaluation campaigns. It will present some data about Mexican Spanish as well as about the impact of the organization of shared tasks in the context of IberLEF for the development of the NLP area in our country, first as a mechanism to motivate more students to get involved, and then as a vehicle to build resources and design and implement specific methods. The talk will conclude by exposing some of the obstacles faced, our main achievements, and some plans for the coming years.Bio: Manuel Montes is Full Professor at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE) of Mexico. His research is on automatic text processing. He is author of more than 250 journal and conference papers in the fields of information retrieval, text mining and authorship analysis. He has been visiting professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), and the University of Alabama (USA). He is also member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (AMC), and founding member of the Mexican Academy of Computer Science (AMEXCOMP), and the Mexican Association of Natural Language Processing (AMNLP). In the context of the latter, he has been the organizer of