Joan Llop Palao
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- Position: RESEARCH ENGINEER
- Life Sciences - Language Technologies
- email: joan [dot] lloppalao [at] bsc [dot] es
- Tel: +34 934054379
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Biography
Joan Llop is a research engineer at the Language Technologies Unit of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación. He holds a Master's in Artificial Intelligence and has expertise in the development of language models, including Biomedical, Spanish and Catalan models. Joan's primary areas of interest lie in the training of large language models and exploring their zero-shot capabilities.
Education
- Degree in Computer Science from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech) - Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona
- Erasmus program in Computer Science from Uppsala Universitet (08/03/2018 - 01/20/2019)
- Master's in Artificial Intelligence from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech) - Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona
Research
- 2022 Paper: "Pretrained Biomedical Language Models for Clinical NLP in Spanish," Association for Computational Linguistics, Dublin, Ireland. Presented at the 21st Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing.
- 2022 Paper: "MarIA: Spanish Language Models," 38th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing, A Coruña, Spain.