He holds a Ph.D. degree delivered from the Technical University of Valencia (UPV, Spain) in 2010 in Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition. His research interests cover a certain number of topics in Natural Language Processing and Semantic Web, in particular semantic Information Retrieval, ontologies (automatic building and their use to improve existing methods), Word Sense Disambiguation, Sentiment Analysis and Geographic Information Retrieval. He is currently one of the organizers of Task 7 at SemEval 2018 on relation extraction from scientific texts. He is the author of more than 80 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed conference and journals.