Jeremy Barnes

Jeremy Barnes is an Assistant Professor in the IXA Group at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), part of the HiTZ Centre. He holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics and has extensive postdoctoral experience at the University of Oslo. His research focuses on cross-lingual methods, sentiment/emotion analysis, weak supervision, and under-resourced language resources. He has contributed to projects like NorDial and NorLM, developing tools like skweak. Barnes teaches courses in computational syntax, text mining, and NLP.

• Education: PhD (Pompeu Fabra University), M.A. and B.A. in Linguistics
• Key Projects: LUMINOUS (multimodal LLMs), SANT (Norwegian sentiment analysis)

His work spans structured sentiment analysis, cross-lingual transfer learning, and dialectal feature identification. He has received awards for his book Sonic Ethnography (2021) and photography (2020). Barnes advises numerous Master's theses and collaborates internationally on NLP challenges.