Flora Ramirez Bustamante, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

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Microsoft Campus

Microsoft XBOX -- Localization of software, online documentation and User Assistance.Bug fixing. TRADOS and Microsoft LocStudio.

Greater Seattle Area

I graduated from the 2012-2013 Certificate Program Localization: Customizing Software for the World, Localization Certificate

Greater Seattle Area

Wrote guidelines to identify Noun Phrases in Spanish and label them according to Entity Types, Gender and Co-reference. Co-reference annotation.

• Natural language components for work management applications. Sentence-level semantic classification. Developed linguistic algorithms for both rule-based (regular expressions) and statistical features. Time, Place, Name of Person recognition. Wrote RE grammars for Name of Persons and Organizations.• Wrote documentation of Spanish, Italian, and Catalan morphological modules and lexicons.

Linguist developer of contextual and standard speller, grammar checking, POS tagging, Named Entities, wordbreaker, parsing grammar, lexicon, factoids.Languages: Spanish, English, Greek, Italian, French.Microsoft Ship-It Awards: Windows Vista 2006 and SP1 2008, Office 2006, Windows Server 2008, Msn 8 2002.Publications:Ramírez Bustamante, F., E. López Díaz. Spelling Error Patterns in Spanish for Word Processing Applications. Proceedings of LREC 2006 (http://pages.cs.brandeis.edu/~marc/misc/proceedings/lrec-2006/pdf/119_pdf.pdf).Ramírez Bustamante, F., A. Arnaiz, M. Ginés. A Spell Checker for a World Language: The New Microsoft’s Spanish Spell Checker. Proceedings of LREC 2006 (http://pages.cs.brandeis.edu/~marc/misc/proceedings/lrec-2006/pdf/12_pdf.pdf).

Oficina del Español en la Sociedad de la Información (OESI), R&D and NLP in Spain.

Taught General Linguistics and History of Linguistics.

• Linguist researcher in CON-TEXT (a grammar checker project funded by the Community of Madrid). • Lead in GLOSMETAL (European funding project on the Metal terminology Spanish, German and Greek).• Lexicographer of LeXe, the Lab's Computational Lexicon. Selected Publications:Ramírez Bustamante, F., T. Declerck, Sánchez León, F. Towards a Theory of Textual Errors. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications CLAW’ 2000. (http://www.dfki.de/lt/publication_show.php?id=1043)Fernando Sánchez-León, Flora Ramírez Bustamante, Thierry Declerck Integrated set of tools for robust text processing. VEXTAL 1999. http://project.cgm.unive.it/events/papers/decl.pdfFlora Ramírez Bustamante, Fernando Sanchéz León and Thierry Declerck. CON-TEXT. Un corrector grammatical de bajo nivel. Processamiento del Lenguaje Natural, Nr. 23, 165-170. 1998. http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/2042

Linguist developer. Applied results from the R&D project CON-TEXT to the commercial tool STILUS, (http://www.daedalus.es/stilus/).

Computational Linguist in GramCheck, a.European Community funding project focused on the development of a Bilingual Grammar Checker for Spanish and Greek carried out in the framework of the Advanced Language Engineering Platform (ALEP) using the ET6/1-based unification formalism supplied. Correction was provided by means of an analysis-transfer-synthesis cycle.Publications:Ramírez Bustamante, F., Sánchez León, F. GramCheck. A Grammar and Style Checker. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 1996. (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=992661).

Il3 - Universidad De Barcelona And Universidad Aurónoma De Madrid

Researcher and developer for the European Machine Translation project EUROTRA, funded by the Commission of the European Union DGXIII. EUROTRA was a machine translation system (Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish). Worked in the transfer module and lexicon Greek-Spanish, Interface Structure module, Lexical Semantic classification of Verbs, Argument Structure and Lexicon encoding.Publications:Badía, T., Ramírez Bustamante, F. Contrastes en el uso del artículo en inglés y castellano. Un algoritmo para la traducción automática. RSEL 1993, 23: pages 253-293. (http://www.uned.es/sel/castellano/julio-diciembre93.html ).

Instructor of Spanish L2 for beginners.

2012-2013 Certificate Program Localization: Customizing Software For The World, Localization, Certificate

Ph.D., General Linguistics And Spanish Grammar

Dissertation: "Non-agentive processual verbs in Spanish". Director: Prof. Valerio Báez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Master'S Degree, Greek And Spanish Modern Literature, Master

M.A. degree obtained through my M.A. dissertation "Nicos Casantsakis and Spain" I studied the Greek language and Literature for three.

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Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Spanish Language And Literature