Plan de Transformación

One of the outcomes of the Transformation Plan, through the Digital Economy of Language and Artificial Intelligence Line, has been the establishment of an international teaching and research network called ATLAS.

ATLAS (Advanced Technologies for Language Analysis Systems) is a global consortium of researchers and educators dedicated to advancing the frontiers of language technology through collaborative innovation. Our network brings together experts in natural language processing, computational linguistics, and artificial intelligence to tackle the challenges of human-machine communication. ATLAS fosters knowledge exchange, promotes cutting-edge research, and develops educational frameworks for the next generation of language technology specialists. Through international cooperation, we aim to bridge geographic and linguistic barriers as well as to enhance human-AI interaction across disciplines. ATLAS was established at the University of La Rioja in June 2024 with the objectives of initiating mobility and exchange actions, collaborating in the proposal of attractive educational offerings in the field of computational linguistics related to artificial intelligence, and carrying out actions aimed at obtaining joint funding from international agencies.

One of ATLAS's founding principles is interdisciplinarity. We are convinced that advances in understanding human language, its relationship with other cognitive sciences, and ethical and efficient interaction between humans and machines can only be addressed by interdisciplinary research and teaching teams composed of computing engineers, scientists, and linguists. The other founding principle of ATLAS is the commitment to efficient artificial intelligence, requiring resources that can be managed by medium-sized organisations such as universities and small and medium enterprises, and that maximises the data from data both well-documented languages and from languages with less available treebanks and datasets.

Participants

• Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
• University of Bradford
• Universidad de Buenos Aires
• Charles University of Prague
• Universidad Complutense
• CONICET
• Universidad de las Islas Baleares
• University of Leeds
• Universidad de Málaga
• Manchester Metropolitan University
• Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
• University of Sheffield
• Trinity College Dublin
• UNED

The second ATLAS meeting will be held at the University of La Rioja in July 2025.