Jesús Rabanal Álvarez

NLP · Linguistics & Attention · Researcher

I work at the intersection of linguistics, natural language processing, and software development. My interests include neural language models, natural cognitive processes, and practical ML systems for language data.

Currently

  • MSc-level coursework in NLP, ML and Cognitive Science
  • Research-oriented projects involving Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Computational Modeling.
  • Building and evaluating language models for low-resource and structured tasks.

Selected work

Fine-tuning T5 on SCAN

Studied compositional generalization by fine-tuning T5-small on SCAN tasks with custom evaluation.

PyTorchTransformersT5NLPSequence Learning

Multi-author Writing Style Analysis

Built a BERT-based approach to detect authorship changes across paragraph boundaries using ground-truth JSON annotations.

PythonBERTNLPData Analysis

Master Thesis: Ambiguous attachment through the Visual World Paradigm: An experimental study of Danish learners of Spanish

Studied Spanish, Danish, and Danish L2 Spanish anaphora resolution preferences using a visual-world eye-tracking paradigm.

Eye-trackingVisual World ParadigmPsycholinguisticsExperimental DesignData AnalysisAnaphora Resolution