Assistant professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor) at the Department of Computer Systems and Languages (Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos) at the National Distance Education University (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED), in Madrid, Spain. Member of the UNED group in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval.
E-Mail:	vfresno [at] lsi.uned.es
Phone number:	+34 91 398 8217
Postal Address:	E.T.S.I. Informática de la UNED c/ Juan del Rosal 16 Ciudad Universitaria 28040 Madrid
Office:	2.05

For more specific information, a short version of my CV.

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Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science (2006)
  Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC).
  PhD thesis (in spanish)
  
• M.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Engineering (2004)
  Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM).
  
• M.Sc. degree in Theoretical Physics (1999)
  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)

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Research

My main research interests are Web Content Mining and Natural Language Processing. Relevant topics include:

• HTML document representation for categorization and clustering
• Fuzzy Logic applications
• Multilingual information management
• Social media information analysis

If you are a graduate student and you are interested in carrying out your PhD/Master thesis within my research lines, please contact me. 

 

Publications

 

Former students

Ph.D. 

• Arkaitz Zubiaga. Harnessing Folksonomies for Resource Classification, UNED, July 2011. European Doctor.
  Best PhD Award (Premio extraordinario de doctorado). PhD Thesis.
• Alberto P. García-Plaza. An Improved Fuzzy System for Representing Web Pages in Clustering Tasks., UNED, October 2012. European Doctor. 
  Candidate for Best PhD Award (Propuesta para premio extraordinario de doctorado).
• Soto Montalvo. Estudio y nuevas estrategias en el uso de las Entidades Nombradas en el Clustering Bilingüe de noticias. URJC, Febrero 2013.