Scholar
Javier Parapar
Google Scholar ID: NsUR93MAAAAJ
Information Retrieval Lab - CITIC - University of A Coruña
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,250
H-index
23
i10-index
46
Publications
20
Co-authors
46
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Best Short Paper Award at ACM RecSys 2012, with Alejandro Bellogín.
Research Experience
- Currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of A Coruña; since 2022, Coordinator of the Computer Science Engineering Degree at the University of A Coruña; Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google Research, London, UK in 2020; Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of A Coruña from 2012 to 2020; President of the Spanish Information Retrieval Society (SERI) from 2014 to 2018; María Barbeito, Predoctoral Grant from Xunta de Galicia, University of A Coruña, Computer Science Faculty from 2009 to 2011; Research Assistant & PhD student at the University of A Coruña, Computer Science Faculty from 2006 to 2009; Software Engineer intern at Igalia Software Engineering in Summer 2005.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of A Coruña in 2013, supervised by Professor Álvaro Barreiro; DEA (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados) in CS&AI from the University of A Coruña in 2008; M.Sc. Eng.+B.Sc. Eng. in Informática from the University of A Coruña/University of West of England in 2006.
Background
- Research interests include information retrieval, text mining, document engineering, text summarization, and recommender systems. Recently, his work has focused on modeling item recommendation as a relevance ranking problem, exploring pseudo-relevance feedback for opinion mining, and applying text mining techniques for early risk prediction on the Internet.
