Noticias
2021
El grupo HULAT estrena proyecto. ACCESS2MEET
En el grupo HULAT estrenamos proyecto. Proyecto “Accesibilidad cognitiva y sensorial a los sistemas de videoconferencia (ACCESS2MEET)” de la Convocatoria 2020 Proyectos Generación del Conocimiento y Retos Investigación.Grupo HULAT en CEDI 20/21
Del 22 al 24 de septiembre, se celebrará el Congreso Español de Informática, CEDI 20/21 en Málaga. Desde el grupo HULAT participaremos en distintos congresos en el marco del CEDI 20/21. Se participará en el First Workshop on Current Trends in Text Simplification (CTTS-2021) dentro del congreso de la SEPLN 2021, Rodrigo Alarcon presentará el trabajo “Exploration of Spanish Word Embeddings for Lexical Simplification steps”. Además se presentará el trabajo “Designing and Evaluating a User Interface for People with Cognitive Disabilities” en el congreso Interacción 20/21.Publicación del artículo “Lexical Simplification System to Improve Web Accessibility” en la revista IEEE Access.

"Framework for the Classification of Emotions in People With Visual Disabilities Through Brain Signals" paper published in Frontiers in Neuroinformatics journal
Entrevista de radio en "Hoy por Hoy" de la SER, explicando el proyecto EASIER,

"An IoT-based contribution to improve mobility of the visually impaired in Smart Cities" paper published in Computing journal (Springer)
In this work, an integrated framework with an IoT architecture customized for an electronic cane (electronic travel aid designed for the visually impaired) has been designed. The architecture is organized by a five-layer architecture: edge technology, gateway, Internet, middleware and application. This new feature brings the ability to connect to environment devices, receiving the coordinates of their geographic locations, alerting the user when it is close to anyone of these devices and sending those coordinates to a web application for smart monitoring. Preliminary studies and experimental tests with three blind users of the Cane show that this approach would contribute to get more spatial information from the environment improving mobility of visually impaired people.
Plataforma EASIER, una ayuda en la comprensión de los textos

“Disambiguating Clinical Abbreviations Using Pretrained Word Embeddings” accepted in HEALTHINF 2021 conference
"Deep-Sync: A novel deep learning-based tool for semantic-aware subtitling synchronisation" paper published in "Neural Computing and Applications" journal
In this paper, we present Deep-Sync, a tool for the alignment of subtitles with the audio-visual content. The architecture integrates a deep language representation model and a real-time voice recognition software to build a semantic-aware alignment tool that successfully aligns most of the subtitles even when there is no direct correspondence between the re-speaker and the audio content. Deep-Sync was compared with other subtitles alignment tool, showing that our proposal is able to improve the synchronisation in all tested cases.Participation of HULAT in SDU@AAAI-21: A Hybrid Approach to Disambiguate Scientific Acronyms
