Rubén Solera Ureña
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Bio: Dr. Rubén Solera Ureña is an Auxiliary Researcher at the Human Language Technology (HLT) Laboratory at INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications Engineering and Multimedia and Communications, respectively, from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, in 2004 and 2011. From 2003 to 2014, he held several teaching and research positions at the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. In May 2015, he moved to the Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (L2F) at INESC-ID (currently HLT Laboratory), where he has been involved as a post-doctoral researcher in several research projects and programmes in the field of speech and language technologies. Since October 2023, Rubén Solera Ureña has been working as an Auxiliary Researcher in the Accelarat.AI project, which aims to create disruptive solutions based on conversational artificial intelligence agents and CCaaS (contact centre as a service) that will accelerate more efficient interaction between public/private entities and customers/citizens. He is mainly involved in the research and development activities of the modules of the speech-to-speech conversational stack, especially those related to automatic speech recognition for Portuguese. His current research interests include signal processing, machine learning, speech processing, automatic speech recognition, and computational paralinguistics. Rubén Solera Ureña has participated in 17 national and international projects and has co-authored 17 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.
Total Publications: 12
Article (Author)
- Uma abordagem de aprendizagem semissupervisionada para a classificação automática de personalidade baseada em pistas acústico-prosódicas
Rubén Solera Ureña, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Vera Cabarrão, Anna Maria Pompili, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Isabel Trancoso,
Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, vol. 5, pages 348-364, DOI https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln5ano2019a23, September 2019 - Project INSIDE: towards autonomous semi-unstructured human–robot social interaction in autism therapy
Francisco S. Melo, Alberto Sardinha, David Belo, Marta Couto, Miguel Afonso Tomás Faria, Anabela Farias, Hugo Gambôa, Cátia Jesus, Mithun Kinarullathil, Pedro Lima, Luís Luz, André Mateus, Isabel Melo, Plinio Moreno, Daniel Osório, Ana Paiva, Jhielson Pimentel, João Rodrigues, Pedro Sequeira, Rubén Solera Ureña, Miguel Serras Vasco, Manuela Veloso, Rodrigo Ventura,
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 96, pages 198-216, May 2019
In Proceedings (Author)
- Transfer Learning-Based Cough Representations for Automatic Detection of COVID-19
Rubén Solera Ureña, Catarina Botelho, Francisco Teixeira, Thomas Rolland, Alberto Abad, Isabel Trancoso,
Interspeech 2021, pages 436--440, International Speech Communication Association, August 2021 - Assessment of Parkinson's Disease Medication State through Automatic Speech Analysis
Anna Maria Pompili, Rubén Solera Ureña, Alberto Abad, Rita Cardoso, Isabel Guimarães, Margherita Fabbri, Isabel P. Martins, Joaquim Ferreira,
Interspeech 2020, pages 4591--4595, International Speech Communication Association, October 2020 - Affective analysis of customer service calls
Vera Cabarrão, Mariana Julião, Rubén Solera Ureña, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva,
10th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (ExLing 2019), pages 37-40, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2019 - Affective computing based on acoustic-prosodic cues
Helena Moniz, Rubén Solera Ureña, Vera Cabarrão, Mariana Julião, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso,
14th Annual INGRoup Conference (Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research), Lisbon, Portugal, July 2019 - Uma abordagem de aprendizagem semi-supervisionada para a percepção automática de personalidade, baseada em pistas acústico-prosódicas em domínios com poucos recursos
Rubén Solera Ureña, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Vera Cabarrão, Anna Maria Pompili, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Isabel Trancoso,
XXXIV Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2018 - A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach for Acoustic-Prosodic Personality Perception in Under-Resourced Domains
Rubén Solera Ureña, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Vera Cabarrão, Anna Maria Pompili, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Joana Campos, Ana Paiva, Isabel Trancoso,
Interspeech 2017, pages 929--933, International Speech Communication Association, Stockholm, Sweeden, August 2017 - Acoustic-prosodic automatic personality trait assessment for adults and children
Rubén Solera Ureña, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Joana Campos, Ana Paiva, Isabel Trancoso,
IberSPEECH 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, vol. 10077, pages 192--201, Springer International Publishing, Lisbon, November 2016
Technical Report (Author)
- The Ideal Study Protocol
Marta Couto, Cátia Jesus, Rubén Solera Ureña,
TechnicalReport, INESC-ID Lisboa, n. 12, December 2017 - Architecture Technical Report
André Mateus, Carla Guerra, Rubén Solera Ureña,
TechnicalReport, INESC-ID Lisboa, n. 13, February 2017 - Human-Robotic Agent Speech Interaction
Rubén Solera Ureña, Helena Moniz,
TechnicalReport, INESC-ID Lisboa, n. 18, February 2016
Total Supervisions: 2
Master's Theses
- Multi-lingual Cross-corpus Analysis of COVID-19 Patients Recordings of Speech and Respiratory Sounds
Francisco Marques
Alberto Abad (advisor), Rubén Solera Ureña (coadvisor)
Master's Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 2022-10-01 - Ongoing
Internships
- Automatic Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction (Erasmus Internship)
Benjamim Chamand
Rubén Solera Ureña (advisor), Luísa Coheur (coadvisor)
Internship, INESC-ID Lisboa, 2016-04-14 - 2016-07-27
Total Projects: 2
National Projects
- ACCELERAT.AI - ACCELERAT.AI
DEFINED AI, IAPMEI, Societal Digital Transformation, FFCUL, NOS Comunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Devscope - Soluções De Sistemas E Tecnologias De Formação, S.A., INESC-ID Lisboa, FCiências.ID - Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências2023-01-01 - 2025-12-21 - INSIDE - Sistemas Inteligentes de Robôs em Rede para Interacção Simbiótica com Crianças com Atrasos de Desenvolvimento
INESC-ID Lisboa, FCT, , 2014-08-01 - 2018-12-31