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Scopus Author ID: 27867662600

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Social Media Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Information Retrieval

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Spain

Biography

Ana Freire, Ph.D. in Computer Science, researcher and lecturer, is the Vice-dean of Social Impact and Academic Innovation at the UPF Barcelona School of Management.

Dr. Freire conducts research in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for economic and social impact. She worked at worldwide prestigious institutions such as Yahoo Labs, the University of Glasgow, and the National Research Center of Italy. Dr. Freire has contributed with more than 50 scientific publications, several patents and accumulates numerous national and international recognitions. She was included by Business Insider in the list of 23 young Spaniards called to lead the technological revolution. She also received the Female Young Scientific Talent Award from the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.

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Employment (4)

UPF Barcelona School of Management: Barcelona, ES

2021-09-01 to present | Senior Lecturer / Vice-dean of Social Impact and Academic Innovatioin
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Barcelona, ES

2015-09-26 to 2021-08-31 | Researcher and Lecturer (Engineering School)
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Denodo Technologies: A Coruña, ES

2014-09-01 to 2015-08-31 | Sales Engineering
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Universidade da Coruña: A Coruña, ES

2008-08-01 to 2015-08-31 | Researcher and Lecturer
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Education and qualifications (2)

Universidade da Coruña: A Coruña, ES

2014-04-09 | PhD in Computer Science
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Universidade da Coruña: A Coruña, ES

2008-08-01 | Computer Science Engineering
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Professional activities (3)

Yahoo Labs: Barcelona, ES

2014-05-01 to 2014-07-31 | Visiting Researcher
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche: Pisa, IT

2013-04-01 to 2013-07-31 | Visiting Researcher
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University of Glasgow: Glasgow, GB

2012-01-01 to 2012-03-31 | Visiting Researcher
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Works (22)

Enhanced Word Embedding Variations for the Detection of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues on Social Media Writings

IEEE Access
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3112102
Contributors: Diana Ramirez-Cifuentes; Christine Largeron; Julien Tissier; Ricardo Baeza-Yates; Ana Freire
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Characterization of Anorexia Nervosa on Social Media: Textual, Visual, Relational, Behavioral, and Demographical Analysis

Journal of Medical Internet Research
2021-07-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2196/25925
Contributors: Diana Ramírez-Cifuentes; Ana Freire; Ricardo Baeza-Yates; Nadia Sanz Lamora; Aida Álvarez; Alexandre González-Rodríguez; Meritxell Lozano Rochel; Roger Llobet Vives; Diego Alejandro Velazquez; Josep Maria Gonfaus et al.
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DIGITAL COMPETENCES AND SOCIAL IMPACT: EXTRACURRICULAR LEARNING

2020-11 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.21125/iceri.2020.1731
Contributors: Ana Freire; Verónica Moreno Oliver
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Detection of Suicidal Ideation on Social Media: Multimodal, Relational, and Behavioral Analysis

Journal of Medical Internet Research
2020-07-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2196/17758
Contributors: Diana Ramírez-Cifuentes; Ana Freire; Ricardo Baeza-Yates; Joaquim Puntí; Pilar Medina-Bravo; Diego Alejandro Velazquez; Josep Maria Gonfaus; Jordi Gonzàlez
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Early risk detection of anorexia on social media

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2018 | Book
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-01437-7_1
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2-s2.0-85055836577
Contributors: Ramírez-Cifuentes, D.; Mayans, M.; Freire, A.
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UPF's participation at the CLEF eRisk 2018: Early risk prediction on the internet

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2018 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85051069923
Contributors: Ramírez-Cifuentes, D.; Freire, A.
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Towards suicide prevention: Early detection of depression on social media

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2017 | Book
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70284-1_34
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2-s2.0-85033602297
Contributors: Leiva, V.; Freire, A.
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Understanding and leveraging the impact of response latency on user behaviour inweb search

ACM Transactions on Information Systems
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1145/3106372
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2-s2.0-85028660419
Contributors: Bai, X.; Arapakis, I.; Cambazoglu, B.B.; Freire, A.
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Graph-based breaking news detection on Wikipedia: Extended abstract

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report
2016 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85021941826
Contributors: Freire, A.; Manca, M.; Saez-Tyumper, D.; Laniado, D.; Sordino, I.; Guiio, F.; Kaltenbrunner, A.
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Making sense of massive amounts of scientific publications: The scientific knowledge miner project

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2016 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84977522308
Contributors: Ronzano, F.; Freire, A.; Saez-Trumper, D.; Saggion, H.
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Graph-based processing of macromolecular information

Current Bioinformatics
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84959562437
Contributors: Munteanu, C.R.; Aguiar-Pulido, V.; Freire, A.; Martínez-Romero, M.; Porto-Pazos, A.B.; Pereira, J.; Dorado, J.
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Queuing theory-based latency/Power tradeoff models for replicated search engines

Journal of Universal Computer Science
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84959565212
Contributors: Freire, A.; Macdonald, C.; Tonellotto, N.; Ounis, I.; Cacheda, F.
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A self-adapting latency/power tradeoff model for replicated search engines

WSDM 2014 - Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
2014 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/2556195.2556246
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2-s2.0-84906891345
Contributors: Freire, A.; Macdonald, C.; Tonellotto, N.; Ounis, I.; Cacheda, F.
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Hybrid query scheduling for a replicated search engine

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2013 | Book
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36973-5_37
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2-s2.0-84875434641
Contributors: Freire, A.; Macdonald, C.; Tonellotto, N.; Ounis, I.; Cacheda, F.
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Scheduling queries across replicas

SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
2012 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/2348283.2348508
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2-s2.0-84866634777
Contributors: Freire, A.; Macdonald, C.; Tonellotto, N.; Ounis, I.; Cacheda, F.
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A block-matching based technique for the analysis of 2D gel images

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
2010 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-1282
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2-s2.0-78649530536
Contributors: Freire, A.; Seoane, J.A.; Rodríguez, A.; Ruiz-Romero, C.; López-Campos, G.; Dorado, J.
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GA-based data mining applied to genetic data for the diagnosis of complex diseases

Soft Computing Methods for Practical Environment Solutions: Techniques and Studies
2010 | Book
Part of DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-893-7.ch014
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2-s2.0-84856716589
Contributors: Aguiar, V.; Seoane, J.A.; Freire, A.; Guo, L.
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Genetic algorithm based on differential evolution with variable length: Runoff prediction on an artificial basin

ICEC 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation
2010 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-78751551144
Contributors: Freire, A.; Aguiar-Pulido, V.; Rabuñal, J.R.; Garrido, M.
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Retrieval and management of medical information from heterogeneous sources, for its integration in a medical record visualisation tool

International Journal of Electronic Healthcare
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1504/IJEH.2010.036208
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2-s2.0-78149239413
Contributors: Cabarcos, A.; Sánchez, T.; Seoane, J.A.; Aguiar-Pulido, V.; Freire, A.; Dorado, J.; Pazos, A.
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Data mining in complex diseases using evolutionary computation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2009 | Book
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02478-8_115
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2-s2.0-68749088905
Contributors: Aguiar, V.; Seoane, J.A.; Freire, A.; Munteanu, C.R.
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Revisiting N-gram based models for retrieval in degraded large collections

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2009 | Book
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7_66
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2-s2.0-67650696718
Contributors: Parapar, J.; Freire, A.; Barreiro, A.
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Star graphs of protein sequences and proteome mass spectra in cancer prediction

Current Proteomics
2009 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2174/157016409789973752
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2-s2.0-72449164589
Contributors: Vázquez, J.M.; Aguiar, V.; Seoane, J.A.; Freire, A.; Serantes, J.A.; Dorado, J.; Pazos, A.; Munteanu, C.R.
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