Ariadna received a B.A. with honors in Translation and Interpreting (English and German; Thesis: "A bottom-up chart parser for PATR unification grammars in prolog") from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in 1996 (Barcelona). After earning her B.A., she worked as a Research Assitant at the Institut de Lingüística Aplicada (IULA) and at the Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS) at Universität Stuttgart, participating in several European projects.
In 1997, Ariadna joined a Cognitive Sciences and Language Doctoral program in Barcelona UPF, Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona (UAB), Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya (UPC). She was awarded a La Caixa Foundation fellowship to pursue graduate studies in the USA in 1999.

Ariadna has also worked on a Spanish Generation Grammar for the Microsoft Research Machine Translation system through an internship in 2000. She has also been actively involved in promoting and mentoring women in computing and technology through the Women@SCS organization since 2001. She received a Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship in 2005 and the SCS Graduate Student Citizenship Award in 2004.