Samuel González-López

• Ph.D. Computer Science
• Professor (Associate) at Technological University of Nogales, Sonora

Emotion detection in educational dialogues, particularly within student-teacher interactions, has become a crucial research area for improving the learning experience. In this paper, we employ two models, one generic Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) and the Emotion detection model Robustly Optimized BERT Approach (EmoR...

Esta obra reseña y analiza la divulgación digital en redes sociales de 8 personas científicas de Latinoamérica, provenientes de Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, y México (4 hombres y 4 mujeres), que durante la pandemia por COVID-19 se convirtieron en líderes de opinión digitales en ámbitos nacionales e internacionales. Estas personas lograron atraer a...

Agile software development is one of the most important development paradigms these days. However, there are still some challenges to consider to reduce problems during the documentation process. Some assistive methods have been created to support developers in their documentation activities. In this regard, Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be...

Developing machine learning tools to aid students in the process of writing a thesis document is of great interest to students, universities, supervisors and evaluation committees. This article presents the construction and evaluation of readability comparators based in Spanish-written thesis documents of four different academic levels: Advanced Co...

People with hearing disabilities face various communication problems in their environment, both social, workplace, and educational. The World Health Organization reports that more than 360 million people worldwide suffer from hearing problems. The number of certified Mexican Sign Language (MSL) interpreters is low, with approximately 40 in Mexico,...

Evaluating the response to open questions is a complex process since it requires prior knowledge of a specific topic and language. The computational challenge is to analyze the text by learning from a set of correct examples to train a model and then predict unseen cases. Thus, we will be able to capture patterns that characterize answers to open q...

In the teaching-learning process under the competency-based educational model, the instructor is a facilitator and seeks to generate a flexible and adaptable environment for student learning. One of the first tasks of the facilitator is the structuring of didactic planning. Didactic planning includes strategies for teaching and learning, evidence g...

Written communication can be affected by low comprehensibility of documents. In this work, we present a computational-linguistic analysis, evaluation and feedback for academic documents based on three comprehensibility measures: Connectivity, Dispersion, and Comprehensibility Burden. These measures are explored and validated in a document collectio...

Agile global software engineering challenges architectural knowledge (AK) management since face-to-face interactions are preferred over comprehensive documentation, which causes AK loss over time. The AK condensation concept was proposed to reduce AK losing, using the AK shared through unstructured electronic media. A crucial part of this concept i...

Academic theses writing is a complex task that requires the author to be skilled in argumentation. The goal of the academic author is to communicate clear ideas and to convince the reader of the presented claims. However, few students are good arguers, and this is a skill that takes time to master. In this paper, we present an exploration of lexica...

Companies pay close attention to how consumers react on social media to their products or services. Our work focuses on the identification of Consumer Cynicism, defined as a negative attitude that can have a broad or specific focus and comprises cognitive, affective, and behavioral components. We create a corpus of 619 Spanish-language comments on...

Writing a thesis involves complying with certain rules and requirements established by institutional guides of universities. Students, often being too inexperienced to create good written documents, have guidelines to follow when developing their first drafts. This study seeks to help students improve their first writings, based on natural language...

The argumentation in academic writings is necessary to clearly communicate the ideas of the students. The relations between argumentative components are an essential part since this shows the contrast or support of the presented ideas. In this paper, we present two approaches to relation identification between pairs of components. In the first, we...

Knowledge generation is an important asset of great economic powers, and knowledge societies are a fundamental part in the development of countries. Mexico is a country that is in the process of development and improvement of its education system, according to the Educational Reform promoted since 2012 by the Federal Government. We identi�ed an are...

Abstract This work seeks to help students in improving their first research reports, based on natural language processing techniques. We present a Conclusion model that includes three schemes: Goal Connectedness, Judgment and Speculation. These subsystems try to account for the main expected attributes in conclusions, specifically the Connectedness...

La generación de conocimiento es una característica importante de las grandes potencias económicas, las sociedades del conocimiento son parte fundamental en el desarrollo de los países. México es un país que se encuentra en el desarrollo y mejora de su sistema educativo, de acuerdo a la Reforma Educativa promovida desde 2012 por el Gobierno Federal...

This article investigates the use of automatic learning classification techniques applied to the task of recognizing the correct shape and color of pieces in a connector using neural networks. The system presented here shows that you can use a set of features extracted from the side view of the piece to recognize the shape of the piece and the colo...

This work seeks to help students in improving their first research reports, based on natural language processing techniques. We present a Conclusion model that includes three schemes: Goal Connectedness, Judgment and Speculation. These subsystems try to account for the main expected features in conclusions, specifically the Connectedness with the g...

Often, academic programs require students to write a thesis or research proposal. The review of such texts is a heavy load, especially at initial stages. Natural Language Processing techniques are employed to mine existing corpora of research proposals and theses to further assess drafts of college students in information technologies and computer...

El desarrollo ágil y global de software sufre de la falta de conocimiento arquitectónico, afectando la operación. Se ha propuesto recuperar conocimiento arquitectónico de las bitácoras de comunicación entre desarrolladores, basándose en etiquetas asignadas por ellos mismos.Presentamos resultados preliminares de un método de clasificación de conocim...

Arguments in final course project reports written by engineering students are an essential feature of academic texts. Further revisions of instructors reveal to the students their mistakes, such as a lack of argumentation. However, the depth of revisions is often limited by the time availability of the instructor. In this paper, we present a system...

Due to the growth of the population with hearing problems, devices have been developed that facilitate the inclusion of deaf people in society, using technology as a communication tool, such as vision systems. Then, a solution to this problem is presented using neural networks and autoencoders for the classification of American Sign Language images...

Organizations frequently report problems finding skillful people to cover their most knowledge intensive vacancies. Being software engineering positions some of the such kind of jobs, there is a considerable gap between job postings and hiring skillful engineers in many software engineering organizations. In this paper, we will introduce the protot...

Argumentation during the academic life is a critical skill when writing. This skill is needed to communicate clearly ideas and to convince the reader of the presented claims. However, not many students are good arguers and this is a skill difficult to master. This paper presents advances in the development of an argument assessment module. Such mod...

Developing a thesis is a process that demands time and dedication by the student since it is necessary to comply with conditions and norms established by institutional guides of the universities. This work describes a computational web tool that allows to evaluate the conclusion section of a thesis, focusing on three aspects: "Coverage", i.e. the c...

Writing research findings turns out to be hard work. For college students, the complexity is increased by the lack of experience in writing scientific texts. Defining the general objective allows students to set forward the way for the development of the thesis. One of the three questions suggested by the authors of methodology books; “What will yo...

Writing thesis is a process of constant interaction between the student and academic advisor, but writing correctly is a complex task for students even if they have the support of a teacher. The elaboration of the thesis document requires the implementation of a methodology and procedures, which constitute the elements of the format and structure i...

The proposal draft is the first step to achieve a degree by students in many educational institutions. This proposal is transformed into a thesis after several revisions by an academic adviser. In addition, each proposal must comply with requirements of institutional guidelines. In this paper, we explore a learning approach to identify essential el...

La culminación de una carrera en Instituciones de Educación Superior, en algunos casos, implica la redacción de una tesis. Durante este proceso el estudiante expresa sus ideas en un documento, que es posteriormente revisado por un asesor académico. Este documento posee características establecidas, sin embargo, en ocasiones presentan deficiencias q...

Writing a thesis involves complying with certain requirements and rules established by institutional guides. So, students have guidelines to follow when developing their first draft. Generally this draft presents deficiencies, which has to be polished with the help of the academic advisor to reach an acceptable document. However, this task is repea...

Lexical Richness is a competence that students acquire while advancing in education. This article presents results analyzing lexical richness of drafts of students, in terms of lexical density, variety, and sophistication. A computational model allows reviewing some essential elements in drafts. Results show that there exists a difference in lexica...

Often, academic programs require students to write a thesis or research proposal. The review of such texts is a heavy load, especially at initial stages. One feature evaluated by instructors is coherence, i.e. the interrelationship of the various elements of the text. We present a coherence analyzer, which employs latent semantic analysis (LSA) to...

The proposal draft is the first step to achieve a university degree by students in many educational institutions. This proposal is transformed into a thesis after several revisions by an academic adviser. Each proposal must comply with requirements of institutional guidelines. In this paper we present an analyzer to identify the sequence of concept...

The first draft of an undergraduate student thesis generally presents deficiencies, which must be polished with the help of the academic advisor to get an acceptable document. However, this task is repeated every time a student prepares his thesis, becoming extra time spent by the advisor. Our work seeks to help the student improve the writing, bas...

Research proposal writing is an arduous process for students and instructors. The proposal must comply with requirements of academic guidelines, and is transformed into a thesis in some cases after several revisions by an adviser. In this paper we present an analyzer to identify the flow of concepts within proposal drafts, with the goal of aiding s...

Estudiantes de Nivel Licenciatura llevan a cabo proyectos de final de curso en los cuales se solicita la estructuración de un trabajo de investigación. Con el fin de mejorar la calidad de dicha tarea y guiar en el desarrollo de este tipo de trabajo, se implementó un Sistema Tutor para ayudar a los estudiantes. En este artículo se presenta un Tutor...

At “Universidad de la Sierra”, projects of the end of a course are conducted. These projects are requested to have the structure of a research paper. In order to improve the quality of the assignment and guide the students in developing such work, an intelligent tutoring system was used. In this paper, we show a web-based intelligent tutoring s...

Lexical competence, the writer ability to use properly vocabulary, becomes a basic issue of a writing instructor when reviewing drafts. Here, we present the basic part of a web-based intelligent tutoring system to provide student guidance and evaluation in structuring research proposals. We elaborate a network-based model to follow the progress of...

Guiding students on writing is a hard and time consuming chore for advisors, since it requires several iterations before achieving an acceptable level. Normally, when professors advise students close to graduation, most questions are about the structure of the thesis project. Issues such as the correct wording or abuse of certain terms within a tit...

In many cases, academic programs or courses conclude with a thesis or research proposal text, elaborated by students. The review of such texts is a heavy load, especially at initial stages of drafting. This paper proposes a model that allows linguistic and structural review of some essential elements in proposal drafts of undergraduate students. Th...

En los proyectos de investigación social un aspecto fundamental es el objetivo ya que es el responsable de presentar el resultado final esperado. Debido a ello Los sistemas de manejo de cursos en línea facilitan la tarea del profesor al momento de proporcionar material a los estudiantes, sin embargo es posible mejorar dicho sistemas con la inclusió...

Learning Management Systems help teachers to provide material to students; it’s possible to improve such systems including online analysis systems. In this article we propose the use of a tool that integrates a finite state machine to analyze research objectives in natural language in Spanish to the structure of a course management system Moodle; w...

Nowadays a computer is used as a main tool for many tasks. Usually a session using a computer in a computer center takes from 50 up to 150 minutes, getting the user to be tired. With this research, the dangerous positions adopted by the students in a computer center are analyzed and recommendations of exercises are listed. The exercises avoid the p...