Luis Alberto Barron Cedeno

Luis Alberto Barron Cedeno is an Associate Professor at the Department of Interpretation and Translation, University of Bologna since 2022, where he previously served as Senior Assistant Professor from 2019-2022. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Universitat Politècnica de València (2012) and has worked at Qatar Computing Research Institute (2014-2019) and TALP Research Center (ERCIM fellowship, 2012-2014).

• PhD: Universitat Politècnica de València (2012)
• MSc: AI (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2009)
• MSc: Computing Science (UNAM, 2007)
• BEng: Computing (UNAM, 2004)

His research focuses on NLP applications for analyzing text qualities like originality (plagiarism detection) and intent (hate speech, propaganda). Recent work includes persuasion techniques in spam emails, misogyny detection using argumentation theory, and Spanish language varieties analysis. He has published over 100 papers with 20+ in top-tier conferences.

Key awards include SemEval 2020 Best Task for propaganda detection and ACL 2020 Best Demo. He serves as Specialty Chief Editor for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (NLP) since 2023. His students include PhD candidates Arianna Muti (misogyny detection), Katerina Korre (hate speech), and Paolo Gajo (inceldom analysis).

• 2020: SemEval Best Task
• 2020: ACL Best Demo
• 2012: PhD International Mention
• 2009: Best MSc Thesis
• 2007: MSc Cum Laude
• 2004: BEng Cum Laude

He organizes the annual CheckThat! lab at CLEF since 2018 and chaired CLEF 2022. His teaching includes NLP courses, computational linguistics, and game localization for translation students.