Rodrigo Agerri
Scholar

Rodrigo Agerri

Google Scholar ID: 1SJh0a8AAAAJ
HiTZ Center - Ixa, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Natural Language Processing
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,573
 
H-index
21
 
i10-index
42
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
97
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published in top-tier AI and NLP venues including journals (e.g., Artificial Intelligence) and conferences (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, EACL, IJCAI)
  • Recent notable publications include:
  • - ACL 2024: 'Argument Mining in Data Scarce Settings: Cross-lingual Transfer and Few-shot Techniques'
  • - EMNLP 2024: 'CasiMedicos-Arg' and 'Evaluation of Counternarratives'
  • - CoNLL 2024: 'Critical Question Generation'
  • - CoNLL 2025: 'Linguistic Variants for Basque and Spanish'
  • - Computational Linguistics: 'Meta4XNLI: A Cross-lingual Parallel Corpus for Metaphor Detection and Interpretation'
  • - ICLR 2024: 'Annotation Guidelines to Improve Zero-Shot Information-Extraction'
  • - EACL 2024 demo: 'TextBI: a multimodal dashboard to interpret multidimensional text annotations on multilingual social media data'
  • - Released MedExpQA: a multilingual medical QA benchmark for LLMs
  • Served as Area Chair or Senior Programme Committee member for major conferences including ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, COLING, EACL, and ECAI
  • Organized shared tasks such as 'Critical Questions Generation' (Argument Mining 2025) and 'Multilingual Counterspeech Generation' (COLING 2025)
  • Organized workshops including 'NLP applied to Misinformation' and 'TESTLINK@IberLEF 2023'
Background
  • Permanent (tenured) Researcher at IXA Group, HiTZ Centre, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
  • Head of the Text Analysis unit
  • Research focuses on Computational Semantics and Information Extraction
  • Strong emphasis on multilingual and cross-lingual approaches
  • PMC member and committer of the Apache OpenNLP project
  • Creator and main developer of IXA pipes, a suite of multilingual NLP tools