Projects

Observatorio Lázaro

An observatory of anglicism usage in the Spanish press.

ADoBo

A shared task on automatic detection of borrowings at IberLEF 2025 and 2021. Organized with Luis Espinosa Anke, Julio Gonzalo, Constantine Lignos and Jordi Porta.

pylazaro

A Python library that automatically detects lexical borrowings (or loanwords) in Spanish

COALAS 🐨

COrpus of AngLicisms in the SpAnish PresS. With Constantine Lignos

@LazaroBot

A Twitter bot that tweets new anglicisms found in the Spanish press.

Corpus of political speeches

Analysis and visualizations in Python of a corpus of Spanish political speeches from 1937 to 2019.

Aracne

A corpus linguistics project supported by Fundeu on the evolution of the Spanish language on the media during the 20th century. With Leticia Martín-Fuertes and Molino de Ideas.

AZRAEL

A rule-based automatic language detector based on the syllable structure of words. Current supported languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Latin and Basque.

Writing & dissemination

I occasionally write a column about language for Spanish newspaper elDiario.es, a column that was awarded with the Miguel Delibes National Journalism Award (Premio Nacional de Periodismo Miguel Delibes) in 2017 for an article about conceptual metaphor and cancer (Metáforas peligrosas. El cáncer como lucha).

I am also a member of the editorial board and a contributor for Archiletras, a pop Linguistics magazine where I have written several columns and interviewed leading figures in Linguistics, such as Ignacio Bosque, Juan Carlos Moreno Cabrera, Felisa Verdejo, Olimpia Andrés, Gretchen McCulloch and Noam Chomsky.

I am the author of the pop linguistics book Anatomía de la Lengua (2016).

From 2012 to 2015 I was a radio contributor at Spanish National Radio (RNE) on a weekly section about language and Linguistics.

Some of my personal writing can be read in my old blog (in Spanish).

These are the columns and other journalistic contributions I have written so far:

Talks & media appearances

More Talks

Radio interview on language and linguistics at Cadena SER

Encuentro interdisciplinar organizado por la Sociedad para el Estudio Multidisciplinar y Fundamental

Round table organized by Spanish newspaper elDiario.es on artificial intelligence

Keynote on Lázaro Observatory and automatic detection of anglicisms at eLex 2023. Recipient of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize.

Socia de honor de Asetrad (Asociación Española de Traductores, Correctores e Intérpretes)

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
2026 – Present
Madrid, Spain

Assistant Professor

Department of Linguistics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

 
 
 
 
 
2025 – 2026
Madrid, Spain

Postdoctoral Researcher

UNED University

 
 
 
 
 
2021 – 2025
Madrid, Spain

PhD in Natural Language Processing

UNED University

Completed doctoral research on automatic lexical borrowing identification within the NLP&IR research group under the supervision of Julio Gonzalo and Constantine Lignos. Supported by an FPI-UNED contract.
 
 
 
 
 
2020 – 2021

NLP Research Programmer

Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California

Developed language technology frameworks and applied NLP pipelines at USC ISI Center for Vision, Image, Speech and Text Analytics (VISTA).
 
 
 
 
 
2018 – 2020

MS in Computational Linguistics

Brandeis University

Earned a Master of Science in computational linguistics, covering technical training in algorithms, machine learning, programming, and data annotation for NLP. Supported by LaCaixa scholarship for graduate studies in the US.
 
 
 
 
 
2009 – 2019

Language Technology Specialist

Industry & Research Labs

A decade of industry experience across various language-focused institutions, including Fundéu, Molino de Ideas, Eptica Lingway, McLean Hospital, and the UNED Digital Humanities Lab.
 
 
 
 
 
2005 – 2010
Madrid, Spain

BA in Linguistics

Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

Undergraduate studies in general linguistics, including an Erasmus exchange year abroad at Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot specializing in Computational Linguistics.

Honors & awards

Honorable Mention (Accésit), Best Doctoral Dissertation

Instituto de Investigación de Tecnologías Lingüísticas Multilingües, Universidad de Málaga

Awarded by the University of Málaga’s Research Institute for Linguistic and Multilingual Technologies (IUITLM) for the best doctoral dissertation of the year in language technology.

Socia de honor de Asetrad

Asociación Española de Traductores, Correctores e Intérpretes

Honorary member of the Spanish Association of Translators, Copy-editors and Interpreters.

Adam Kilgarriff Prize

Adam Kilgarriff Endowment Fund

Awarded every two years to a researcher under 40 for projects in the fields of corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and lexicography.

Premio Archiletras de la Lengua de investigación

Revista Archiletras

2022

Generation Google Scholarship for Women in Computer Science

Google

Premio HDH 2021 (Hispanic Digital Humanities Award)

Asociación de Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas

Outstanding Corpus Thesis Award (MS level)

Institute for Corpus Research, Incheon National University

2020

Karen Spärck Jones Award for Outstanding Achievement in Natural Language Processing

Brandeis University

Premio Nacional de Periodismo Miguel Delibes

Asociación de Prensa de Valladolid

2017

LaCaixa Scholarship for graduate studies in the US

LaCaixa Foundation

2009

First award of the Arquímedes National Contest for Young Researchers

Ministry of Science and Education of Spain

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