Research Projects

  • EXPloiting Empirical appRoaches to Translation (EXPERT)
          Sep. 2013 to Present
          Collection and preparation of multilingual data for multiple corpus-based approaches to translation
          EXPERT, Marie Curie Actions, Europen Union's Framework Programme
  • NOVATIC: integración de nuevas herramientas TIC basadas en corpus en el aula de traducción especializada (PIE15-145, tipo B)
          Dec. 2015 to Present
          LEXYTRAD, University of Malaga, Spain
  • Sistema INTELIgente de gestión TERMinológica para traductores (INTELITERM)
          Mar. 2014 to Present
          Desarrollo de un sistema inteligente de gestión terminológica para traductores
          LEXYTRAD, University of Malaga, Spain
  • Forms of Selective Attention in Intelligent Transportation Systems (FASSIT)
          Dec. 2010 to Jun. 2013
          Prototype of an Advanced Travel Information System
          CISUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  • Linguateca
          Sep. 2011 to Dec. 2011
          R&D an online service for browsing Portuguese semantic relations (Folheador)
          Linguateca, FCCN, Portugal
  • Research Integration Scholarship (BII)
          Oct. 2009 to Oct. 2010
          Semi-automatic construction of a Portuguese ontology
          CISUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  • ONTO.PT
          Sep. 2009 to Sep. 2010
          Created NLP algorithms to extract and validate semantic knowledge
          Tested and integrated Google and Yahoo API to validate semantic knowledge
          CISUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  • KDigg
          Sep. 2009 to Jan. 2010
          Implemented automatic algorithms to extract semantic information from ideas & documents
          CISUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Software

  • iPois
    iPois is an Intelligent Traveler Information System based on a generic selective attention-based, multi-agent information system. The architecture of the system involves a master agent and personal agents for each registered traveler.
  • Folheador
    Folheador is an online service for browsing through Portuguese semantic relations, acquired from different sources. Besides facilitating the exploration of Portuguese lexical knowledge bases, an important feature of Folheador is its connection to several services for Portuguese corpora to provide authentic examples of the semantic relations in context.

Part-Time Jobs

  • Spotter
          Jun. 2013 to Jul. 2013
          Sourcing & Harvesting
          SpotData, Coimbra, Portugal
  • Telepizza
          Jul. 2006 to Sep. 2006
          Telepizza Delivery Driver
          Telepizza, Coimbra, Portugal
  • Modelo Continente Hipermercados, S.A.
          Jul. 2005 to Jan. 2006
          Supermarket operator [Certification]
          Continente, Coimbra, Portugal
  • Farming/Agriculture
          mid-Jun. 2003 to mid-Sep 2003
          Fruit and Vegetable Picker
          Saint-Paul-Valor, Beaucaire, France
  • Farming/Agriculture
          Jul. 2002 to mid-Sep 2002
          Fruit and Vegetable Picker
          Saint-Paul-Valor, Beaucaire, France