Diego Burgos
Diego Burgos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Placement Appeals, and Native Speaker Exemptions
336-758-2175
Greene 525
Terminology Theory, Translation Studies, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Domain-Specific NLP
Diego A. Burgos is Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Wake Forest University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Spanish, translation studies, and linguistics. He received his B.A. in English–French–Spanish Translation from the University of Antioquia (Colombia), his M.A. in Applied Linguistics and Advanced Studies Diploma (DEA) from the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain), and his Ph.D. in Language Sciences and Applied Linguistics from Pompeu Fabra University.
His research investigates how specialized language represents, organizes, and reveals scientific knowledge at the intersection of terminology, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and translation studies. He is the founder of the Quantum Theory of Terms (QTT), a recent theoretical framework that models specialized terms as dynamic semantic systems and explores their applications to knowledge representation, clinical natural language processing, biomedical text mining, and multilingual language technologies.
His publications span terminology theory, translation studies, corpus linguistics, computational semantics, and Domain-Specific NLP, including recent work on biomedical term extraction, disease detection from electronic health records, and meaning representation. His broader research program seeks to develop theoretical and computational models that connect language, concepts, and scientific knowledge across disciplines.
Professor Burgos has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Spanish language, translation, medical translation, linguistics, and language engineering since joining Wake Forest University in 2011. He has directed more than thirty graduate research projects and regularly collaborates with researchers in North America, Europe, and Latin America.
- SPA 153: Intermediate Spanish
- SPA 309: Grammar and Composition
- SPA 324: Med & Scientific Translation
- SPA 381: Spanish Translation
- SPA 385: Special Topics in Translation
- SPA 399: Honors Directed Writing