Negation Processing in Spanish and its Application to Sentiment Analysis

Salud María Jiménez Zafra

Abstract: This is a summary of the Ph.D. thesis written by Salud María Jiménez Zafra at Universidad de Jaén under the supervision of Ph.D. María Teresa Martín Valdivia and Ph.D. L. Alfonso Ureña López. The author was examined on Friday, September 13th, 2019 by a committee formed by Ph.D. Ruslan Mitkov from the Uni-versity of Wolverhampton, Ph.D. Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras from Universidad de Jaén and Ph.D. Eugenio Martínez Cámara from Universidad de Granada. The Ph.D. thesis obtained Summa Cum Laude and the international mention. Moreover, it was awarded as the best thesis in Natural Language Processing at the 36th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2020).