Horacio Saggion

Horacio Saggion is the Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He leads the TALN Group and the Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab. His research focuses on Computational Linguistics, with specialties in Text Summarization, Information Extraction, and Semantic Analysis. He coordinates the Horizon Europe iDEM project on inclusive democratic spaces and previously led the SignON project for Sign Language Translation. Key technologies include the SUMMA Summarization system and the Dr Inventor Text Mining Library.

Education: PhD, MSc, and Licenciatura in Computer Science.

Research Interests: Text simplification for accessibility, sign language translation, misinformation detection, and ethical AI applications. His work bridges natural language processing with societal needs such as clear communication in public administration.

Grants & Projects: Coordinator of iDEM (Horizon Europe), PI of SignON, Simplext, and Able to Include. Involved in BEA shared tasks and CLEF labs. Active in organizing workshops like TSAR at EMNLP.

Labs & Teams: Head of TALN Group and Text Understanding Lab. Collaborations include Universitat Pompeu Fabra's interdisciplinary initiatives and industry partnerships for technology commercialization.