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Europass Curriculum Vitae Personal information Surname(s) / First name(s) Address(es) Telephone(s) Email(s) Nationality(-ies) John Atkinson-Abutridy Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Santiago, Chile +56 2 2331 1877 [email protected] Chilean WORK EXPERIENCE 2016- Full Professor Faculty of Engineering and Sciences, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Santiago, Chile 2015-2016 Head of Department Department of Computer Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile 1997-2016 Full Professor Department of Computer Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile 2001-2002 Junior Researcher Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK 2003-2005 Head of Department Department of Computer Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile 1991-1997 Assistant Professor Department of Informatics, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM), Valparaiso, Chile 1995-1997 IT Consultant TUXPAN Engineering, Valparaiso, Chile 1991-1991 IT Consultant PASSOL Chemical, Vina del Mar, Chile 1993-1994 Lecturer School of Informatics, Catholic University of Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile 1989-1989 Systems Engineer Process Automation Area, Exxon Minerals Mining Company (Anglo American), Valparaiso, Chile 1987-1988 Software Developer CHILQUINTA (Electricity Supply Company), Valparaiso, Chile Page 1 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of John Atkinson-Abutridy EDUCATION AND TRAINING 2003 PhD In Artificial Intelligence School of Informatics University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 1995 Dip. in Space Studies Space Robotics, Resources and Manufacturing Department Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden 1994 MSc in Computer Sciences Department of Informatics Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM), Valparaiso, Chile 1991 B.Eng in Computer Sciences Department of Informatics Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM), Valparaiso, Chile RESEARCH AND INNOVATION PROJECTS 2012-2014 Project’s Name Funding Agency 2013-2016 Project’s Name Funding Agency 2012-2014 Project’s Name Principal Investigator MIT-Chile Collaboration for Medical Text Summarization for Patient Literacy MIT-Chile Research Seed Fund, Cambridge, MA, USA Principal Investigator An Evolutionary Computation Approach to Natural Language Chunking for Biological Text Mining Research Grant FONDECYT1 No. 1130035 Funding Agency Principal Investigator iText Routing: User Intention Intelligent Recognition for Routing Calls in Contact Centers using Natural Language Analysis and Novel Machine Learning Methods Technology and Research Project FONDEF2 no. CA12i10081 2012-2013 Project’s Name Principal Investigator Automatic Answer Generation for Call Centers using Artificial Intelligence Techniques Funding Agency 2009-2011 Project’s Name Funding Agency 2007-2010 Project’s Name Funding Agency 2008-2010 1 FONDECYT Applied R+D Project, CORFO3 , grant no. 12IDL1-12964 Principal Investigator Semantic Identification and Automaticing Synthesis of Educational Material for Specialized Domains Technology Project FONDEF, TIC-EDU no. D08I1155 Principal Investigator An Interactive Natural-Language Dialogue Model for Intelligent Filtering Based on Patterns Discovered from Text Documents Research grant FONDECYT No. 1070714 Co-Investigator is the Chilean Foundation for Scientific and Technological Research is the National Foundation for the Promotion of Scientific and Technological Development 3 CORFO is the Economic Development Agency of Chile, with focus on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness. 2 FONDEF Page 2 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of John Atkinson-Abutridy Project’s Name Funding Agency 2007-2009 Project’s Name Funding Agency Principal Investigator Microbio: Merging, Inducing and Reasoning with Ontologies in Bioinformatics Internacional Cooperation Grant TIC-AMSUD and CONICYT4 (France, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil) 2007-2009 Project’s Name Principal Investigator Intelligent System for technology Surveillance on Patents and Scientific Documentation using Text Mining Techniques with impact on latinamerican public and private institutions International technology project FRIDA5 no. 10 Funding Agency 2004-2007 Project’s Name Funding Agency 2006-2007 Project’s Name Funding Agency Principal Investigator An Evolutionary Computation Model to Explanatory and Semantically-guided Knowledge Discovery from Texts with Implications for Intelligence Analysis Research Grant FONDECYT No. 1040469 Principal Investigator An Evolutionary Computation Model to Explanatory and Semantically-guided Knowledge Discovery from Texts with Implications for Intelligence Analysis International cooperation project FONDECYT no. 7060122 2006-2006 Project’s Name Funding Agency Project Leader CASI-BIOBIO: Centre for Intelligent Systems Applications for the Productive Sector CORFO no. X-43 (INNOVA). First National Technological Competition for Creating and Strengthening Regional Capacities, CORFO, Santiago, Chile 2004-2006 Project’s Name Funding Agency Principal Investigator Intelligent Robotics for Educational and Research purposes Universidad de Concepcion, Chile 1998-2000 Project’s Name Funding Agency Principal Investigator Scientific and Technical Information Analysis: The ANISTEC Project International cooperation research grant ECOS/CONICYT No. C97E04 (France, Chile) 1998-1999 Project’s Name Funding Agency Principal Investigator Studying ALife Techniques and Models for Designing Autonomous Systems Research grant DIUC No. 98093002-1, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile 1998-1999 Project’s Name Funding Agency Co-Investigator Processing Interactive Dialogue for Information Access on the Web Research grant DIUC No. 98062032-1, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile. 1996-1996 Project’s Name Funding Agency Investigator Software Technology in Distributed and Concurrent Systems Research grant no. 952401, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile 1994-1995 4 CONICYT 5 FRIDA A task-based B-learning Model for Cooperative Learning of Spanish as a Second Language Research grant FONDECYT No. 1080165 Investigator is the The Chilean Council for Scientific and Technological Research is the Regional Fund for Digital Innovation in Latin America and the Caribe Page 3 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of John Atkinson-Abutridy Project’s Name Funding Agency Hypercube Multicomputers on Transputer Networks Research grant FONDECYT No. 1930055, Chile 1993-1994 Project’s Name Funding Agency Investigator Investigating Paralelization Techniques for a Logic Programming Parallel Model Research grant UTFSM-USACH, Santiago, Chile CONSULTING AND TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS 2010-2010 Project’s Name Customer Contractor 2009-2010 Project’s Name Customer Contractor 2009-2009 Project’s Name Customer Contractor 2008-2010 Project’s Name Customer Contractor 2008-2008 Project’s Name Customer Contractor 2008-2008 Project’s Name Project Leader Designing an Intelligent Prototype Model for Projecting indices of Quality of Service using Machine Learning Techniques SAESA (Electrical Supply Company), Osorno, Chile Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile Project Leader Improving Health Resources planning using intelligent optimization techniques and automatic diagnostic classification to reduce waiting times Treasury Department, Government of Chile Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile Project Leader Evaluating Automatic Prediction of Electrical Frauds using Machine Learning Techniques EMELECTRIC (Electrical Supply Company), Santiago, Chile Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile Project Leader Implementing and evaluating Automatic Classifiers to detect non-registered consumption CGE Distribucion (Electrical Supply Company), Santiago, Chile Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile Project Leader Automatic Validation of Customers’ addresses using machine learning and edit distance metrics CONAFE (Electrical Supply Company), Vina del Mar, Chile Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile Customer Contractor Project Leader Automatic Validation of Customers’ addresses using stochastic machines and similarity metrics CGE Distribucion (Electrical Supply Company), Santiago, Chile Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile 2008-2008 Project’s Name Project Leader Associating and Normalizing Municipality Allocations for CGE using machine learning Customer Contractor CGE Distribucion (Electrical Supply Company), Santiago, Chile Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile 2007-2007 Project Leader Page 4 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of John Atkinson-Abutridy Project’s Name Customer Contractor 1995-1998 Project’s Name Customer Contractor 1995-1998 Project’s Name Customer Contractor Designing and Implementing a Prototype System for Predicting Electric Frauds using Artificial Intelligence Technology CGE Distribucion (Electrical Supply Company), Santiago, Chile Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile IT Consultant and Project Engineer Designing and Implementing of Advanced Inventory-based Geographical Information Systems CONAFE (Electrical Supply Company), Vina del Mar, Chile Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Mara (UTFSM), Valparaiso, Chile Project Engineer Designing Intelligent Systems for Automatic Checking of Imports and Exports National Custom Office (SNA), Valparaiso Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM), Valparaiso, Chile PATENTS AND/OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 2014 Innovation Title Register Identification Inventor iText Routing: Automatic Answers Generation for Call Centers DIBAM, Department of Intellectual Rights, Santiago, Chile Intellectual Property Record no. 246489 2008 Innovation Title Inventor A Method for Predicting Electrical non-registered Consumption using Artificial Intelligence Techniques DIBAM, Department of Intellectual Rights, Santiago, Chile Intellectual Property Record no. 168743 Register Identification 1991 Innovation Title Register Identification Inventor GILENA: A Natural-Language Interface Generator Natural Language Software Registry, DFKI, Germany N/A AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS 2010 Granting Organization Location ACM Senior Member Award Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) New York, USA (October) 2008 Granting Organization Location Best Technical Paper Award 28th Annual International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Cambridge, UK (November) 2005-2015 Granting Organization Location Outstanding Faculty Award Universidad de Concepcion Concepcion, Chile 2002 Granting Organization Location Best Graduate Research Award ACM Graduate Research International Competition (SIGSCE) Cincinnati, USA (February) Page 5 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of John Atkinson-Abutridy 1999-2003 Granting Organization Location President of Republic of Chile Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies Abroad Ministry of Planning, Government of Chile Santiago, Chile (March) 1995 Granting Organization Location SAAB Military Aircraft Scholarship SAAB Military Aircraft Stockholm, Sweden (April) INVITED CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, TALKS I have been invited to give conferences, courses, seminars and talks in USA, Canada, UK, India, South America (i.e., Colombia, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina). Topics include data mining, text mining, question-answering systems, opinion mining, natural-language processing, evolutionary computation, machine learning, intelligent agents. TEACHING At the university, I have taught courses at undergraduate and graduate levels (B.Eng, MSc, PhD) on topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Natural-Language Processing, Data Mining, Text Mining, Autonomous Agents, Theory of Computation, Languages and Automata, Language Technologies. In addition, I have supervised/guided more than 40 B.Eng in Computer Sciences theses, 15 MSc/PhD theses, and 10 MSc/PhD theses as international examiner. PARTICIPATION AS EXPERT I have been involved (i.e., referee, committee program, reviewer, etc) into several international journals and conferences, scientific and technology programs in Chile (CONICYT, CORFO, FULLBRIGHT, etc) and abroad (USA, South America, Europe). SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES MEMBERSHIP I am an active member of several scientific societies such as the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). In addition, I have been a member and a past vicepresident of the Chilean Computer Sciences Society (SCCC). MANAGEMENT SKILLS Skills for leading and managing multi-disciplinary technology projects. Skills for leading units/areas/departments to achieve strategic goals. Communicating skills for motivating people in work teams. Analytic skills for identifying and dealing with complex problems with a systemic and multi-disciplinary approach. Page 6 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of John Atkinson-Abutridy PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journals [1] J. Atkinson and A. Maurelia. Redundancy-based Trust in Question-Answering Systems. IEEE Computer, January 2017. [2] J. Atkinson and A. Figueroa. Ensembling Classiers for Detecting Users Intentions behind Web Queries. IEEE Internet Computing, 20(2):816, January 2016. [3] J. Atkinson and D. Reyes. A Masked Keypoint-based Person Re-Identication Model for Video-Surveillance. Communications of the ACM (In Press), 2016. [4] J. Atkinson, G. Montecinos, and D. Curtis. Question-Driven Topic-based Extraction of Protein-Protein Interaction Methods from Biomedical Literature. Information Sciences, 360(10):170180, 2016. [5] J. Atkinson and D. Campos. Improving BCI-based Emotion Recognition by Combining EEG Feature Selection and Kernel Classiers. Expert Systems with Applications, (47):3541, December 2015. [6] J. Atkinson, G. Salas, and A. Figueroa. Improving Opinion Retrieval in Social Media by Combining Features-based Coreferencing and Memory-based Learning. Information Sciences, 299(2):2031, December 2014. [7] J. Atkinson, M. Munoz, A. Gonzalez, and H. Astudillo. Web Metadata Extraction and Semantic Indexing for Learning Objects Extraction. Applied Intelligence, 41(2):649664, September 2014. [8] J. Atkinson, A. Figueroa, and C. Perez. A Semantically-based Lattice Approach for Assessing Patterns in Text Mining Tasks. Computers and Systems, December 2013. [9] J. Atkinson, A. Figueroa, and C. Andrade. Evolutionary Optimization for Ranking How-to Questions based on User-Generated Contents. Expert Systems with Applications, 40(17):70607068, December 2013. [10] J. Atkinson and R. Munoz. Rhetorics-based Multi-Document Summarization. Expert Systems with Applications, 40(11):43464352, September 2013. [11] J. Atkinson and V. Bull. A Multi-Strategy Approach to Biological Named Entity Recognition. Expert Systems with Applications, 39(17), December 2012. [12] A. Figueroa and J. Atkinson. Contextual Language Models for Ranking Answers to Natural Language Denition Questions. Computational Intelligence, Wiley-Blackwell (ISI), 28(4):528548, November 2012. [13] H. Hromic and J. Atkinson. Stochastic Web-based Natural Language Dialogue Planning for Web Information Filtering. Expert Systems with Applications, 39(10):94209426, August 2012. [14] J. Atkinson and J. Matamala. Evolutionary Shallow Natural Language Parsing. Computational Intelligence, Wiley-Blackwell, 28(2):156175, May 2012. [15] F. Gutierrez and J. Atkinson. Evolutionary Constrained Self-Localization for Autonomous Agents. Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, 11(4):36003607, June 2011. [16] F. Gutierrez and J. Atkinson. Adaptive Feedback Selection for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier (ISI), 38(5):61466152, May 2011. [17] J. Godoy, J. Atkinson, and A. Rodriguez. Geo-Referencing with Semi-Automatic Gazetter Expansion using Lexico-Syntactical Patterns. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Taylor and Francis, 25(1):149170, January 2011. [18] A. Figueroa and J. Atkinson. Answering Denition Questions: Dealing with Data Sparseness in Lexicalised Dependency Trees-Based Language Models. In Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, volume 45, pages 297310. Springer, 2010. [19] A. Ferreira and J. Atkinson. Designing a Feedback Component of an Intelligent Tutoring System for Foreign Language. In International Journal of Knowledge-based Systems (ISI), volume 22, pages 496501. Elsevier, October 2009. [20] J. Atkinson, A. Ferreira, and E. Aravena. Discovering Implicit Intention-Level Knowledge from Natural-Language Texts. In International Journal of Knowledge-based Systems (ISI), volume 22, pages 502508. Elsevier, October 2009. [21] A. Figueroa, G. Neumann, and J. Atkinson. Searching for Location Answers to Natural-Language Questions on the Internet based on Molecular Sequence Alignment Strategies. IEEE Computer (ISI), pages 6876, April 2009. [22] A. Figueroa and J. Atkinson. Intelligent Answering Location Questions from the Web using Molecular Alignment. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Springer, 35(1):7590, April 2009. [23] J. Atkinson and D. Rojas. On-the-y Generation of Multi-Agent Team Formation Strategies. In Expert Systems with Applications (ISI), volume 36, pages 60826090. Elsevier, April 2009. [24] A. Figueroa and J. Atkinson. Using Dependency Paths for Answering Denition Questions on the Web. In Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, pages 643650. Springer, 2009. [25] A. Ferreira and J. Atkinson. Disminucion de la sobrecarga de informacionn en la Web a partir de interacciones dialogicas hombre-computador. SIGNOS (ISI), 42(69):927, 2009. [26] M. Pinninghoff, R. Contreras, and J. Atkinson. Using Genetic Algorithms to Model Road Networks. IEEE Computer (ISI), 41(12):6067, December 2008. [27] J. Atkinson and A. Rivas. Discovering Novel Causal Patterns from Biomedical Natural-Language Texts Using Bayesian Nets. IEEE Transactions on Information technology in Biomedicine (ISI), 12(6):714722, November 2008. [28] M. Pinninghoff, R. Contreras, and J. Atkinson. Designing Road Networks For Transport Planning using Evolutionary Computation. In Applied Articial Intelligence (ISI), volume 22, pages 921936. Taylor and Francis Group, October 2008. [29] J. Atkinson and A. Ferreira. Interactive Explanatory and Descriptive Natural-Language based Dialogue for Intelligent Information Filtering. In Advances in Computers (ISI), pages 61101. Elsevier, December 2007. [30] J. Atkinson and D. Rojas. Generating Dynamic Robotic Formation Strategies based on Human Experience and Game Conditions. In RoboCup 2007, Atlanta, USA. Lecture Notes in Articial Intelligence (ISI), number 5001, pages 159170. Springer, July 2007. [31] J. Atkinson and C. Castro. Crossed-Line Segmentation for Low-level Vision. In RoboCup 2007, Atlanta, USA. Lecture Notes in Articial Intelligence (ISI), number 5001, pages 472479. Springer, July 2007. [32] A. Figueroa and J. Atkinson. Using syntactic distributional patterns for data-driven answer extraction from the web. In Lecture Notes in Articial Intelligence (ISI), number 4293, pages 985995. Springer, November 2006. [33] A. Figueroa and J. Atkinson. Molecular sequence alignment for extracting answers for where-typed questions from google snippets. In Lecture Notes in Articial Intelligence (ISI), number 4251, pages 11901197. Springer, October 2006. [34] A. Ferreira and J. Atkinson. Intelligent search agents using web-driven natural language explanatory dialogs. IEEE Computer (ISI), pages 4452, October 2005. [35] A. Ferreira and J. Atkinson. Towards effective adaptive information ltering using natural language dialogs and search-driven agents. In Lecture Notes in Articial Intelligence (ISI), number 3533, pages 290299. Springer, 2005. Page 2 / 7- Curriculum vitæ of [36] J. Atkinson. A domain-independent approach to discourse-level knowledge discovery from texts. In Lecture Notes in Articial Intelligence (ISI), number 3533, pages 470479. Springer, 2005. [37] J. Atkinson and C. Mellish. Combining information extraction with genetic algorithms for text mining. IEEE Intelligent Systems and Their Applications (ISI), 19(3):230, May 2004. [38] J. Atkinson. Semantically-driven explanatory text mining: Beyond keywords. In Lecture Notes in Articial Intelligence (ISI), number 3315, pages 275285. Springer, 2004. [39] J. Atkinson and C. Mellish. A semantically-guided and domain-independent evolutionary model for knowledge discovery from texts. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (ISI), 7(6):546560, December 2003. [40] A. Ferreira and John Atkinson. A model for generating explanatory web-based natural-language dialog interactions for documents ltering. Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (ISI), 34(1):219, 2002. [41] J. Atkinson and A. Ferreira. The design and implementation of the gilena natural language interfaces specication language. ACM SIGPLAN (ISI), 33(9):108117, September 1998. Page 3 / 7- Curriculum vitæ of Conferences [1] C. Zaror, J. Atkinson, P. Catalan, P. Cendoya, and L. Parada. Learning outcomes to meet international standard in engineering education at the Universidad de Concepcion. In 3er Seminario Internacional en Gestion del Capital Humano en Mineria (HRMining 2014), Santiago, November 2014. [2] K. Englmeier, J. Atkinson, J. Mothe, F. Murtagh, and J. Pereira. A Context Description Language for Medical Information Systems. In MUSIC 2013 - The 4th International Conference on Mobile, Ubiquitous, and Intelligent Computing (MUSIC-13), South Korea, September 2013. [3] G. Gatica, C. Contreras, P. Reyes, J. Willmer, and J. Atkinson. Discovering an algorithm for the strip packing problem using a computational game. In 25th European Conference on Operational Research, Rome, Italy, July 2013. [4] J. Atkinson, M. Munoz, A. Gonzalez, and H. Astudillo. Web Metadata Extraction and Semantic Indexing for Learning Objects Extraction. In IEA/AIE: the 26th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, Amsterdam, Nederlands, June 2013. [5] H. Hromic and J. Atkinson. Intelligent Web-based Natural Language Dialogue Planning for Web Information Filterings. In IEA/AIE: the 25th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, Dalian, China, June 2012. [6] A. Figueroa and J. Atkinson. Maximum Entropy Context Models for Ranking Biographical Answers to Open-Domain Denition Questions. In Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Articial Intelligence (AAAI-11), San Francisco, California, USA, August 2011. [7] Fernando Gutierrez and J. Atkinson. Autonomous Robotics Self-Localization using Genetic Algorithms. In The annual IEEE International Conference on Tools with Articial Intelligence (ICTAI), New York, USA. IEEE CS Press, November 2009. [8] J. Atkinson and J. Matamala. Chunking Natural Language Texts using Evolutionary Methods. In The International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA), Pisa, Italia, November 2009. [9] A. Figueroa and J. Atkinson. Using Dependency Paths for Answering Denition Questions on the Web. In 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, Portugal, October 2009. [10] A. Ferreira and J. Atkinson. Designing a Feedback Component of an Intelligent Tutoring System for Foreign Language. In SGAI International Conference on Articial Intelligence. Springer, December 2008. [11] J. Atkinson, A. Ferreira, and E. Aravena. Discovering Implicit Intention-Level Knowledge from Natural-Language Texts. In SGAI International Conference on Articial Intelligence. Springer, December 2008. [12] A. Ferreira and J. Atkinson. Generating Effective Feedback for Intelligent Tutoring of Foreign Language. In 8th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Barcelona, Spain, September 2008. [13] J. Atkinson, A. Ferreira, and Elvis Aravena. Mining for Rhetorical Knowledge from Natural-Language Texts. In 8th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Barcelona, Spain, September 2008. [14] D. Rojas and J. Atkinson. Generating Dynamic Robotic Formation Strategies based on Human Experience and Game Conditions. In RoboCup Simposium, Atlanta, USA, July 2007. [15] C. Castro and J. Atkinson. Crossed-Line Segmentation for Low-level Vision . In RoboCup Simposium, Atlanta, USA, July 2007. [16] A. Figueroa and J. Atkinson. Using syntactic distributional patterns for data-driven answer extraction from the web. In MICAI 2006, Mexico, November 2006. Page 4 / 7- Curriculum vitæ of [17] J. Atkinson, J. Gonzalez, C. Castro, D. Rojas, A. Arriagada, and F. Gutierrez. UdeCans Team Description. IEEE 3rd Latinamerican Robotics Symposium, LARS, pages 227230, November 2006. [18] A. Figueroa and J. Atkinson. Molecular sequence alignment for extracting answers for where-typed questions from google snippets. KES 2006, International Conference on Knowledge-based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, October 2006. [19] A. Ferreira and J. Atkinson. Towards effective adaptive information ltering using natural language dialogs and search-driven agents. In 18th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Articial Intelligence and Expert Systems (IEA/AIE), number 3533 in 1, pages 290299, 2005. [20] J. Atkinson. A domain-independent approach to discourse-level knowledge discovery from texts. In 18th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Articial Intelligence and Expert Systems (IEA/AIE), number 3533 in 1, pages 470479, 2005. [21] J. Atkinson. Semantically-driven explanatory text mining: Beyond keywords. In Advances in Articial Intelligence-IBERAMIA 2004, Mexico, number 3315 in 1, pages 275285, 2004. [22] J. Atkinson, C. Mellish, and S. Aitken. An evolutionary genre-based and domain-independent approach for high-level knowledge discovery from texts. In AAAI Symposium on Mining Answers from Texts and Knowledge Bases, Stanford, CA, March 2002. [23] J. Atkinson. A domain-independent evolutionary approach for corpus high-level knowledge discovery from texts. In SIGSCE, Cincinnati, USA, March 2002. [24] A. Ferreira and J. Atkinson. Web-based natural language explanatory generation for assisting dialog interactions aimed at information ltering. In EPIA01: 10th Portuguese Conference on Articial Intelligence, December 2001. [25] J. Atkinson, A. Ferreira, and V. Riquelme. Cooperative learning on autonomous agents acquiring common language for action and perception. In International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society/IEEE CS Press, Santiago, Chile, November 2000. [26] J. Atkinson, A. Ferreira, and A. Bassi. Un m¨¿ 21 todo experimental para el preprocesamiento y etiquetado autom¨¿ 21 tico de textos electr¨¿ 12 nicos en lenguaje natural. In Proceedings of the Chilean Computing Meeting, Santiago, Chile, November 2000. [27] J. Atkinson and S. Munoz. Un modelo semi reactivo para la comunicaci¨¿ 12 n y cooperaci¨¿ 12 n en sistemas multi-agente. In VII Encuentro Chileno de Computaci¨¿ 21 n, Talca (Chile), November 1999. [28] J. Atkinson and J. Carrasco. An adaptive approach for generating behavior nets on intelligent agents. In International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society/IEEE CS Press, Talca Chile, pages 918, November 1999. [29] J. Atkinson and J. Carrasco. An approach for controlling an autonomous agent by dinamically generating run-time behavior nets. In Argentine Symposium on Articial Intelligence, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 1999. [30] J. Atkinson and J. Carrasco. An evolutionary model for dynamically controlling a behavior-based autonomous agent. In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Orlando (USA), pages 1624, July 1999. [31] A. Ferreira and J. Atkinson. Motivating spanish acquisition as a foreign language through a multimedia system. In World Conference on Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Melbourne, Australia, July 1998. [32] J. Atkinson and A. Ferreira. Parsing natural language in GILENA. In Latinamerican Conference on Informatics (CLEI), Valparaiso, Chile, November 1997. [33] A. Ferreira and J. Atkinson. Using a multimedia system for improving the teaching-learning of latin. In International Conference on Theory and Practice of Multimedia CALL, University of Exeter, England, September 1997. Page 5 / 7- Curriculum vitæ of [34] J. Atkinson and A. Ferreira. A practical algorithm for parsing non-deterministic ATN-based natural language. In IASTED International Conference on Articial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Calgary, Canada, July 1997. [35] J. Atkinson. A exible new language for specifying and generating natural-language systems. In The Third Natural Language Processing Pacic Rim Simposium, Seoul, Korea, pages 612615, December 1995. [36] J. Atkinson, J. Ca¨¿ 12 as, and M. Solar. Experimental platform for hypercube networks programming. In Proceedings of the III Chilean Computing Meeting, Concepcion, Chile, pages 95102, November 1994. [37] J. Atkinson and H. von Brand. Teaching formal and natural languages processing using GILENA. In The III Iberoamerican Conference of Higher Education in Computing, Concepcion, Chile, pages 96105, October 1994. [38] C. Moraga, J. Atkinson, and J. Ca¨¿ 12 as. Parallel architectures to compute fuzzy inferences based on the Goedel implication. In XX Latinamerican Conference on Informatics, Monterrey, Mexico, pages 681691, September 1994. [39] J. Atkinson, J. Ca¨¿ 21 as, and M. Solar. Communicating support for multicomputers programming on hypercube networks. In XX Latinamerican Conference on Informatics, Monterrey, Mexico, pages 13951404, September 1994. [40] J. Atkinson. Designing natural-language interfaces using an automatic tool. In The II International Conference on Informatics, Mendoza, Argentina, pages 441449, June 1994. [41] J. Atkinson. Automatic generation of natural-language interfaces. In World Conference on Articial Intelligence in Education (AIED'93), Edinburgh (UK), August 1993. [42] J. Atkinson and J. Ca¨¿ 21 as. GILENA: A natural-language interfaces generator. In XVIII Latinamerican Conference on Informatics (CLEI), Spain, pages 106117, September 1992. Page 6 / 7- Curriculum vitæ of Books and/or Chapters [1] J. Atkinson and M. Solar. Articial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems in Chile. In Max Bramer, editor, Lecture Notes in Articial Intelligence (ISI), number 5640 in 1, pages 110. Springer, 2009. [2] J. Atkinson. Intelligent Text Mining: Putting Evolutionary Methods and Language Technologies Together. In Min Song and Yi-Fang Brook Wu, editors, Handbook of Research on Text and Web Mining Technologies. Information Science Reference, 2008. [3] A. Ferreira and J. Atkinson. Intelligent Search Engines. In Yearbook of science and technology. McGraw-Hill, 2007. [4] J. Atkinson. Evolving Explanatory Novel Patterns for Semantically-based Text Mining. In Anne Kao and Steve R. Poteet, editors, Natural Language Processing and Text Mining (Hardcover). Springer, 2007. [5] J. Atkinson. Intelligent text mining. In Xuan Zha, editor, Articial Intelligence and Integrated Intelligent Information Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications. Idea Group Publishing, 2006. [6] J. Atkinson and et al. VISION 2020: An International View of Future. KTH Tryck Kopiering, Sweden, 1995. Page 7 / 7- Curriculum vitæ of