Eneko Agirre

Short bio

Eneko Agirre is a Professor of Informatics and Head of HiTZ Basque Center of Language Technology at the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, in San Sebastian, Spain. Visiting researcher or professor at New Mexico State, Melbourne, Southern California, Stanford and New York Universities. He has been active in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics since his undergraduate days. He received the Spanish Informatics Research Award in 2021, and is one of the 74 fellows of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL). He was President of ACL's SIGLEX, member of the editorial board of Computational Linguistics, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and Action editor for the Transactions of the ACL. He is co-founder of the Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM). Recipient of three Google Research Awards and five best paper awards and nominations. Dissertations under his supervision received best PhD awards by EurAI, the Spanish NLP society and the Spanish Informatics Scientific Association. He has over 200 publications across a wide range of NLP and AI topics, as well as having given more than 20 invited talks, mostly international. His research has spanned topics such as Word Sense Disambiguation, Semantic Textual Similarity, Unsupervised Machine Translation and resources for Basque. Most recently his research focuses on limitations of deep learning large language models.