Current position

• Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Researcher of the Center of Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC)

Academic Degrees

• 2013: Doctor in Science & Information Technology, University of Coimbra, Portugal (see PhD thesis)
• 2007: Master in Informatics Engineering, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal (see MSc thesis)
• 2006: Degree in Informatics Engineering, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Main Research Interests

• Computational Creativity
• Natural Language Processing
• Lexical Knowledge Bases
• Semantic Similarity
• Dialogue Systems

Non-scientific interests

• Music
• Beer
• Following competitions: Formula 1, cycling, tennis, football, Eurovision...
• Portuguese History

Social networks

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• ResearchGate
• Facebook
• Instagram

Teaching

• 2023-present: Associate Professor in the Departament of Informatics Engineering of University of Coimbra.
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
  • Knowledge Based Systems
  • Computational Creativity for Design
  • Multimedia Programming
• 2013-2022: Assistant Professor in the Departament of Informatics Engineering of University of Coimbra.
  • Semantic Web
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Social Web Technologies
  • Internet Technologies
  • Theory of Computation
  • Introduction to Programming & Problem Resolution
• 2011-2012: Guest Class Assistant in the Departament of Informatics Engineering of University of Coimbra.
  • Software Engineering
  • Organization, Behavior, Knowledge & Innovation
• 2007: Class monitor in the Departament of Informatics Engineering of University of Coimbra.
  • Computer Architecture

Research

• 2014-present: Full member at CISUC
• 2013: Post-doctoral researcher at CISUC, in the scope of the iCIS project
• 2009-2013: PhD student, enrolled in the Doctoral Program in Information Science and Technology, with a scholarship funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
• 2007-2008: Researcher of Linguateca, in the node of Coimbra/CISUC

Industry

• 2013: NLP Engineer at Spotdata, a Spotter company

Artistic activity

• 2003-2011: Guitar player of the rock band Fitacola

Online profiles

• CISUC
• Google Scholar
• ORCID
• DBLP
• Research Gate

Awards

• 2022 World Cultural Council Special Recognition in "Education"
• Best PhD thesis on the computational processing of the Portuguese Language (2012-2014), in the scope of a satellite event of 11th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2014)
• Honourable mention on the Best PhD Thesis Award 2013-2014 of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA)

Funded projects

• 2023-26: EA-Digifolk: An European and Ibero-American approach for the digital collection, analysis and dissemination of folk music (MSC Grant 101086338)
• 2023-25: NextGenAI: Centre For Responsible AI (PRR C645008882-00000055)
• 2022-23: FireLoc: Where’s the Fire? - Identification, positioning and monitoring forest fires with crowdsourced data (PCIF/MPG/0128/2017)
• 2021-23: FLOWANCE: Automatic Dialogue Flow Extraction and Guidance (POCI-01-0247-FEDER-047022)
• 2021-23: SmartEDU: Smart assistant for generating educational questions and presentations (CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-072620)
• 2021-23: SafetyDesk: Smart toxicological analysis of chemical substances (CENTRO, FEDER)
• 2020-24: POWER -- Empowering a digital future (POCI-01-0247-FEDER-070365)
• 2019-23: NexusLinguarum: European network for Web-centred linguistic data science [COST Action CA18209]
• 2018-20: AIA: Apoio Inteligente a Empreendedores (chatbots) (FCT)
• 2017-19: SOCIALITE: Social-Oriented Internet of Things Architecture, Solutions and Environment (FCT, PTDC/EEI-SCR/2072/2014)
• 2015-16: REMINDS: A System for Mining and Relevance Detection) (FCT-UT Austin, UTAP-ICDT/EEI-CTP/0022/2014)
• 2014-15: InfoCrowds: Social events web information retrieval for crowds mobility management (FCT, PTDC/ECM-TRA/1898/2012)
• 2014-15: Detecção de Eventos em Tempo Real Através de Padrões Comunicacionais (PT Inovação)
• 2013-16: ConCreTe: Concept Creation Technology (FET, FP7-ICT)
• 2013-16: PROSECCO: Promoting the Scientific Exploration of Computational Creativity(FET, FP7-ICT)
• 2013-15: iCIS: Intelligent Computing in the Internet of Services (QREN, CENTRO-07-ST24-FEDER-002003)

Publications

• List of scientific publications

Tools and Resources

• NLP-CISUC: Github Repository of NLP-related software and data, developed or supervised by, in CISUC
• PT-Lexical Semantics: lexical resources for the computational processing of Portuguese
• PoeTryMe: versatile poetry generation platform
• Onto.PT: automatic construction of a lexical ontology for Portuguese
• PAPEL: Palavras Associadas Porto Editora - Linguateca

Other research activity

• 2022-present: Executive editor of the Linguamática journal on the computational processing of the Iberian languages (ISSN: 1647-0818)