Aims and activities of the organisation
The University of A Coruña (UDC) is a young, vibrant university with campuses in the cities of A Coruña and Ferrol, in the Atlantic coast of Galicia (Spain). Its main objective is the generation, management and dissemination of culture and scientific, technological and professional knowledge through the development of research and teaching. The University of A Coruña offers a variety of programmes including 40 Bachelor's Degrees, 63 Master's Degrees and 36 doctorates. Currently, there are over 15,000 students enrolled in the undergraduate programmes, and over 2,500 in postgraduate programmes, taught by over 1,400 faculty members. The UDC, as a Higher Education Institution, has participated in K2 actions, Erasmus Mundus Programmes, Tempus projects and the Grudtvig programme. Read more
UDC participates in this project through the LyS (Language and Information Society, www.grupolys.org) Research Group, an interdisciplinary research group joining professors and researchers from the fields of Linguistics and Computer Science who have long been working in the areas known as Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Group members teach linguistics and computer science at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the UDC's schools of Computer Science and Philology. Recently, one of its members has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant on syntactic parsing (FASTPARSE) by the European Research Council.
The Research Group for Multidimensional Corpus-Based Studies in English (MuStE) will also offer its collaboration to the project. It is at present engaged in the compilation of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. The group has been also developing some tools for corpus linguistics investigation in collaboration with the Information Retrieval Lab team at the Department of Computer Science (UDC). It focuses on the study of variation and change in scientific and academic English.
The role of UDC in the CLASS project
- Developing an action plan
- Task distribution among the local project team
- Enhancing experience and knowledge of CA academic staff in teaching (using) computer linguistics engineering using blended learning
- Developing, monitoring and approving the master program curriculum
- Responsible for developing the curriculum content materials in ENU, SamDU
- Management and monitoring of WP5 activities with Project Quality Assuarance Committee
- Organizing and hosting annual meeting
Operational capacity: Skills and expertise of key staff involved in the project
STAFF MEMBERS
Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
UDC Team Coordinator
PhD in Computer Science (2009), Associate Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science of UDC since 2011, member of the LyS research group since 2005. Read more
Miguel A. Alonso Pardo
Project Member
PhD in Computer Science (2000), Tenured Associate Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science of UDC since 2003, founding member of the LyS research group since 2005. Read more
Margarita Alonso Ramos
Project Member
Tenured Associate Professor in Linguistics at UDC, and Head of the LyS research group. One of the current major foci of her work is the compilation of an online Spanish collocations dictionary, Read more
Begoña Crespo García
Project Member
Tenured Associate Professor in English at UDC (English Linguistics). She has published on lexicon enlargement in the History of English, genre taxonomy and English scientific writing. Read more
Marcos García González
Project Member
Marcos Garcia holds a MA and a PhD in Linguistics by the Universities of Lisbon and Santiago de Compostela, respectively, and he is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of ACoruña from 2016. Read more
Marcos Garcia Salido
Project Member
PhD in Linguistics (2011) by the University of Santiago de Compostela, post-doctoral researcher at the University of ACoruña, member of the LyS research group since 2013. Read more
Isabel Moskowich - Spiegel Fandiño
Project Member
Tenured Associate Professor in Linguistics at UDC (English Linguistics) and Head of the MuStE group. Her research covers different aspects of Corpus Linguistics in English, the History of English, Read more
Ana María Peña Cabanas
Project Member
She is in charge of e-learning and innovation department of the University of ACoruña's Educational Training and Innovation Center. Read more
Ma Paula Ríos-de Deus
Project Member
She is PhD in Psychopedagogy (2003), interim full-time replacement Professor in the Department of Specific Didactics and Methods of Research and Diagnosis in Evaluation of the UDC since 2017, Read more
Nancy Vázquez Veiga
Project Member
Nancy Vázquez Veiga is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the Universidade da Coruña and member of the research group Lengua y Sociedad de la Información (LyS). Read more
Jesús Vilares Ferro
Project Member
PhD in Computer Science (2005), Tenured Associated Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science of UDC since 2012, founding member of the LyS research group since 2005. Read more