Dr. René Venegas is Spanish teacher and graduated in Hispanic Language and Literature at the University of Playa Ancha, Valparaíso, Chile(1994). His master studies are in National Policies Management: Education and Culture at the before mentioned university.  In year 2005, he obtained his doctor degree at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile. Hispost-doctoralresearch was conducted at the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research interests are academic discourse, the study of meaning with computer tools, and natural language processing. He has participated in several research projects as principal and co-principal, with special interest in the description of academic, professional and political discourse using a corpus linguistics and NLP approach.

Dr. Venegas has published several articles in indexed journals and chapters in specialized books both in Spanish and English. His last book is entitled “Lexical-semantics relations in research articles: An approach from the Latent Semantic Analysis” (Spanish edition).

Dr. Venegas was the Vice-president of the Chilean Linguistic Society (SOCHIL 2009-2014). Currently, he is the head of the Institute of Literature and Language Science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. He also  teaches linguistics, semantics, and is thesis director for undergraduate and postgraduate students .