Melania S. Masià Email and Phone Number

Department of Spanish, Modern and Classical Languages

Department of Language Theory and Communication SciencesTeaching:- Fundamentos Lingüísticos de la Logopedia (2021-22; BA, Speech Therapy)- Documentació per a traductors (2021-22; BA, Translation and Interlinguistic Mediation)- Retòrica (2021-22; BA, Art History)- Expresión oral y escrita para los medios de comunicación I (2020-21; BA, Audiovisual Communication)- Expressió oral i escrita per als mitjans de comunicació II (2020-21; BA, Audiovisual Communication)

Coordination of NLU projects:- mediation between the client and language teams- task design, priorization, triage and monitoring- creation and maintenance of guidelines and training materials- development, maintenance and evaluation of NLU systems- quality improvement (coverage and accuracy) of NLU grammar models- linguistic analysis and support for NLP projects

- Development, maintenance and evaluation of natural language processing (NLP) or dialogue systems- Data creation and preprocessing for training natural language understanding (NLU) grammar models- Response modeling for natural language generation (NLG) systems- Linguistic analysis and support for NLU and NLG projects- Quality assessment of written and acoustic system outputs and performance- Ontology and taxonomy creation, and semantic-pragmatic relation modeling- Morphological, syntactic and semantic annotation of corpora- Script design and acoustic analysis for speech synthesis (TTS)- Text labeling for disambiguation, expansion and text normalization

Department of Spanish Linguistics and Literary TheoryTeaching:- Lengua española (2018-19; BA in Classical Philology)- Lengua española. Teoría y prácticas de la lengua escrita (2018-19; BA in Modern Languages)- Introducción a la gramática española (2017-18; BA in Spanish: Language and Literature)- Español escrito para fines académicos (2017-18; BA in English Studies)- Pragmática de la comunicación intercultural (2017-18; BA in Tourism)

PhD Program on Cognitive Science and Language

research group Linguistics and Cognitive Science (LyCC)

Journal of Film Studies published by the Associació Cinefòrum L’Atalante (http://www.revistaatalante.com)Coordinator of the Vanishing Points Section (2013-2015)Executive Issue Editor (with Álvaro Yebra) of the issue on Netted Cinema. New Contents and Strategies 2.0 (#13)

Member of the selection committee

Project on Modernization of the Legal Language (subsection: oral language) coordinated by the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) and the Spanish Ministry of Justice.Tasks included corpus recording, transcription, and annotation; organization of workshops.Funded by a Collaboration in University Departments Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education