[1][2] Marti graduated in Romance Philology (Hispanic) in 1973 and has a PhD in Romance Philology from the University of Barcelona since 1988 when she defended her thesis entitled Processament informàtic del llenguatge natural: un sistema d'anàlisi morfològica per ordinador (Natural language processing: a computer-based morphological analysis system) under the supervision of Maria Teresa Cabré.

[1][6] Her scientific achievements are reflected in her publications,[7][8] in the research projects that on many occasions included large state and international consortia that she successfully brought together and led, and in the more than twelve doctoral theses she has supervised.

This has included the creation and direction of CLiC,[1][2] and serving as President of the scientific society Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN) from 1990 to 1996.

[12] The linguistic technologies that have become so familiar in the present day, associated with Artificial Intelligence, were not so well-known at the beginning of the 21st-century, but it was then that the foundations for their current success were being laid.

[13] In 2003, Mari and Juan Alberto Alonso Martín, with the UOC publishing house, a book that collected the state of the art in Language Technologies at that time.