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Researcher

Maria Antònia Martí

Also known as Maria Antonia Martí, Maria Antònia Martí Antonín, M. Antònia Martí, Toni Martí

Maria Antònia Martí is a computational linguist whose work built language resources for Catalan and Spanish. At the University of Barcelona, she earned a degree and doctorate in Romance Philology and developed an automated morphological analyzer for Catalan. She founded CLiC, coauthored AnCora-Verb, served as SEPLN president, and published on compositional distributional semantics; SEPLN recognized her career in 2022. As of October 2026, she is professor emerita in UB's Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics.

Born
1950
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Timeline

  1. 1973–1988

    Romance Philology at UB

    She earns a degree in Romance Philology (Hispanic studies) at the University of Barcelona in 1973 and a PhD in Romance Philology there in 1988.

  2. 1988

    A Catalan morphological analyzer

    In her 1988 thesis, she develops an automated morphological analyzer for Catalan. The system uses a finite-state automaton to segment words and assign morphological categories.

  3. 1990–1996

    President of SEPLN

    From 1990 to 1996, she serves as president of the Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN).

  4. 2008

    AnCora-Verb lexical resources

    She coauthors the AnCora-Verb paper, which presents large Catalan and Spanish verbal lexicons for semantic annotation with arguments and thematic roles in the AnCora corpora.

  5. 2022

    An ICDS paper and SEPLN recognition

    At its 2022 congress, SEPLN recognizes her research career and contributions to the natural language processing community and identifies her as a University of Barcelona professor and CLiC founder. She coauthors a paper defining information-theory-based compositional distributional semantics and studying embedding, composition, and similarity functions.

  6. 2023

    Automatic morphosyntactic analysis

    In 2023, she and Mariona Taulé contribute the chapter “Análisis morfosintáctico y sintáctico automático” to The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Syntax.

  7. 2025

    Honorary committee at CILG

    At the 2025 International Congress of General Linguistics, she serves on its honorary committee as a University of Barcelona representative.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor emerita at UB

    As of October 2026, she is professor emerita in UB's Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics. Her research area is computational linguistics.

Career

  1. NowUniversity of BarcelonaProfessor Emerita
  2. 1990–1996Spanish Society for Natural Language ProcessingPresident
  3. CLiCFounder

Education

  1. 1988University of BarcelonaPhD in Romance Philology
  2. 1973University of BarcelonaDegree in Romance Philology (Hispanic studies)

From the biography.

  1. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes University of Barcelona. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes University of Barcelona. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  3. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.
  4. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIWe estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.

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  1. Maria Antònia Martí es.wikipedia.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Processament informàtic del llenguatge natural: un sistema d'anàlisi morfològica per ordinador - Dialnet dialnet.unirioja.es. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Reconocimiento a la trayectoria científica de socios jubilados en SEPLN 2022 sepln.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. AnCora-Verb: A Lexical Resource for the Semantic Annotation of Corpora - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Information Theory–based Compositional Distributional Semantics - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. M. Antònia Martí Antonín | CLiC clic.ub.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. Comités - CILG 2025, XVI Congreso Internacional de Lingüística General cilg2025.ua.es. Checked 20 October 2026.