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João Costa is a researcher at Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS. He graduated in 2019 with a MSc. in Bioengineering, focused on the field of Biomedical Engineering, from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. His master’s dissertation focused on the automatic application and analysis of Verbal Fluency Tests for early detection of Neurocognitive Disorders on elderly people. In the past 5 years, João has been working with Artificial Intelligence and, more specifically, Natural Language Processing applied to the context of health. Some of his work in this area include automatic cooking recipe analysis for nutrient quantification, automatic ICD-10 codification of clinical notes, and Information Extracton from clinical text.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João António Fernandes da Costa

Citation names

  • Costa, João

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D815-B419-5FB7

Websites

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019
Concluded
Bioengenharia (Mestrado)
Major in Área de especialização: Engenharia Biomédica
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"AutoSpeech: Automatic Speech Analysis of Verbal Fluency for Older Adults" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/08/05 - Current Researcher (Research) Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
2019/09/02 - 2020/07/31 Research Trainee (Research) Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
2018/07/02 - 2018/10/26 Research Trainee (Research) Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Ribeiro, David; Costa, Joao; Lopes, Ines; Barbosa, Telmo; Soares, Carlos; Sousa, Filipe; Ribeiro, Jorge; Rocha, Duarte; Silva, Marlos. "FILLET - Platform for Intelligent Nutrition". 2020.
    Published • 10.1109/aiccsa50499.2020.9316490
  2. João Costa; Inês Lopes; André Carreiro; David Ribeiro; Carlos Soares. "Fraunhofer AICOS at CLEF eHealth 2020 Task 1: Clinical Code Extraction From Textual Data Using Fine-Tuned BERT Models". Paper presented in CLEF eHealth 2020, 2020.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Costa, João; Pereira, Ana; Ferreira, Liliana. "Automatic administration of semantic verbal fluency tests for Portuguese". Paper presented in ExLing 2019 - 10th Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, 2019.
    10.36505/exling-2019/10/0015/000377
Journal article
  1. Gomes, Diana; Moreira, Dinis; Costa, João; Graça, Ricardo; Madureira, João. "Surf Session Events’ Profiling Using Smartphones’ Embedded Sensors". Sensors 19 14 (2019): 3138. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19143138.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/s19143138
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. João António Fernandes da Costa. "AutoSpeech: Automatic Speech Analysis of Verbal Fluency for Older Adults". Master, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/121793.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022/03/01 - Current MisInfoBot2: A Chatbot to Fight Misinformation about COVID on Social Media
Co-supervisor
Mestrado em Engenharia Informática e Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/02/01 - 2021/07/22 MisInfoBot: Fight Misinformation about COVID on Social Media
Co-supervisor
Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2020 CLEF eHealth CodiEsp awards - third position at CodiEsp-Explainable AI
Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, Spain
2020 CLEF eHealth CodiEsp awards - second position at CodiEsp-Procedure Coding
Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, Spain