Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Jaén (Spain). She belongs to the SINAI (Sistemas INteligentes de Acceso a la Información: Intelligent Access to Information Systems) research group since its creation in 2001 and her main areas of research are related to Human Language Technologies (HLT), or also known as Natural Language Processing (NLP), applied to information retrieval systems as well as affective and social computing through the application of machine learning techniques and the integration of linguistic resources. She is currently focused on the study and development of sentiment analysis and emotion recognition systems for social purposes such as hate speech detection systems, mental health problems (anorexia, depression, suicide ...) or offensive language detection as well as the generation and integration of linguistic resources for adapting this type of systems to Spanish.