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Elisabet Comelles

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Elisabet Comelles Universitat de Barcelona

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Elisabet Comelles, Universitat de Barcelona

Elisabet Comelles Pujadas is a lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and of English Studies at the University of Barcelona, where she teaches English Lexicology and Morphology and Descriptive Grammar of English. She holds a PhD in Cognitive Science and Language (UB). Her research interests include Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Machine Translation Evaluation and Corpus Linguistics.

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