Manex Aguirrezabal Zabaleta

Manex Aguirrezabal Zabaleta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. He previously held positions as a Postdoc (2017-2019) and Assistant Professor at the same institution.

His educational background includes:

• PhD in Natural Language Processing from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), conducted at the IXA NLP group.
• Master's degree in Natural Language Processing from UPV/EHU.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (5 years) from UPV/EHU.

Dr. Aguirrezabal's research focuses on the computational analysis of poetry, particularly stress patterns in English. He explores whether computers can effectively analyze poetic structures, a field with roots in the 1980s but revitalized by modern techniques. Additionally, he investigates language generation, computational morphology and phonology, and finite-state methods. His work bridges traditional linguistic inquiry with cutting-edge natural language processing.

Recent publications (2023-2024) demonstrate a diverse engagement with computational linguistics, including poetry generation, multimodal corpus development, clickbait analysis, and fact-checking. His research often employs zero-shot learning and language models, reflecting current trends in AI-driven linguistic analysis.

He has contributed to international collaborations such as ParlaMint (multilingual parliamentary corpora) and the GEHM Zoom corpus. While specific grant details are not provided, his active publication record indicates ongoing research support. Dr. Aguirrezabal maintains a strong connection to his Basque heritage, having pursued his early education in the Basque language.