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Rodrigo Soares dos Santos.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rodrigo Soares dos Santos

Citation names

  • Santos, Rodrigo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4017-D51B-9C05
ORCID iD
0009-0006-2142-8649
Google Scholar ID
X8l08G4AAAAJ
Education
Degree Classification
2020/03 - 2024
Ongoing
 Informática (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017/09 - 2019/09
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática (Mestrado)
Major in Interação e Conhecimento
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Portuguese-Chinese Neural Machine Translation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014/09 - 2017/06
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/04/01 - Current Research Assistant (Research) FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/04/01 - 2019/10/01 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/02/01 - 2022/08/01 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/11/11 - 2022/11/10 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) PACT – Parque do Alentejo de Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/02 - 2025/01 IMPROMPT - Image Alteration with Language Prompts
CPCA-IAC/AV/590897/2023
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Google Inc
Ongoing
2022/12 - 2023/11 GPTPT - Transformer-based Decoder for the Portuguese Language
CPCA-IAC/AV/478395/2022
 Google Inc
Concluded
2022/12 - 2023/11 ALBERTINA - Foundation Encoder Model for Portuguese and AI
CPCA-IAC/AV/478394/2022
 Google Inc
Concluded
2023/01 - 2023/07 Language Driven Image Design with Diffusion
2022.15880.CPCA.A1
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Rede Nacional de Computação Avançada
Concluded
2019/11/11 - 2022/11/10 PORTULAN CLARIN - Research Infrastruture for the Science and Technology of Language
PINFRA/22117/2016
Assistente de investigação
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/04/01 - 2019/10/01 ASSET-Intelligent Assistance for Everyone Everywhere
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-003279
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018 - 2019 CNPTDeepMT-Chinese/Portuguese Deep Machine Translation in eCommerce Domain
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Other
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Soochow University School of Computer Science and Technology, China

Alibaba Group, China
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Silva, João; Grilo, Sara; Bolrinha, Márcia; Santos, Rodrigo; Gomes, Luís; Branco, António; Vaz, Rui. "Where do I belong in six centuries of literature? Datasets and AI-based tools for Portuguese literary documentos made possible and available by PORTULAN CLARIN". In CLARIN: The infrastructure for language resources. De Gruyter, 2022.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Tomás Freitas Osório; Bernardo Leite; Lopes Cardoso, Henrique; Gomes, Luís; Rodrigues, João; Santos, Rodrigo; Branco, António. "PORTULAN ExtraGLUE Datasets and Models: Kick-starting a Benchmark for the Neural Processing of Portuguese". Paper presented in Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC) @ LREC-COLING 2024, 2024.
  2. Gomes, Luís; Branco, António; Silva, João; Rodrigues, João; Santos, Rodrigo. "Open Sentence Embeddings for Portuguese with the Serafim PT* encoders family". Paper presented in Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA), 2024.
    Published
  3. Santos, Rodrigo; Rodrigues, João; Gomes, Luís; Silva, João; Branco, António; Lopes Cardoso, Henrique; Osório, Tomás; Leite, Bernardo. "Fostering the Ecosystem of Open Neural Encoders for Portuguese with Albertina PT* Family". Paper presented in Annual Meeting of the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL2024), 2024.
    In press • 10.48550/ARXIV.2403.01897
  4. Santos, Rodrigo; Silva, João; Gomes, Luís; Rodrigues, João; Branco, António. "Advancing Generative AI for Portuguese with Open Decoder Gervásio PT*". Paper presented in Annual Meeting of the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL2024), 2024.
    In press • 10.48550/ARXIV.2402.18766
  5. Santos, Rodrigo; Silva, João; Branco, António. "Leveraging LLMs for On-the-fly Instruction Guided Image Editing". Paper presented in Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA), 2024.
    Published
  6. João Rodrigues; Luís Gomes; João Silva; António Branco; Rodrigo Santos; Henrique Lopes Cardoso; Tomás Osório; et al. "Advancing Neural Encoding of Portuguese with Transformer Albertina PT-*". Paper presented in Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA), 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-49008-8_35
  7. Santos, Rodrigo; Branco, António; João Ricardo Martins Ferreira da Silva. Corresponding author: Santos, Rodrigo. "Cost-Effective Language Driven Image Editing with LX-DRIM". Paper presented in First Workshop on Performance and Interpretability Evaluations of Multimodal, Multipurpose, Massive-Scale Models (MMMPIE, co-located with COLING 2022), 2022.
  8. Santos, Rodrigo; Branco, António; João Ricardo Martins Ferreira da Silva; Rodrigo Santos; António Branco; João Silva. Corresponding author: Santos, Rodrigo. "Language driven image editing via Transformers". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Technological Advancements and Innovation (ICTAI 2022), 2022.
    Accepted • 10.1109/ictai56018.2022.00139
  9. Santos, Rodrigo; Rodrigues, João; Branco, António; Vaz, Rui. Corresponding author: Santos, Rodrigo. "Neural Text Categorization with Transformers for Learning Portuguese as a Second Language". Paper presented in EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-86230-5_56
  10. Santos, Rodrigo; Silva, João; Branco, António. Corresponding author: Santos, Rodrigo. "More Data Is Better Only to Some Level, After Which It Is Harmful: Profiling Neural Machine Translation Self-learning with Back-Translation". Paper presented in EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-86230-5_57
  11. Santos, Rodrigo; António Manuel Horta Branco; João Ricardo Martins Ferreira da Silva. "Making the Most of Synthetic Parallel Texts: Portuguese-Chinese Neural Machine Translation Enhanced with Back-Translation". Paper presented in PROPOR, Évora, 2020.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41505-1_12
  12. Santos, Rodrigo; António Manuel Horta Branco; João Ricardo Martins Ferreira da Silva. "The Direct Path May Not Be The Best: Portuguese-Chinese Neural Machine Translation". Paper presented in EPIA, Vila Real, 2019.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30244-3_62
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Santos, Rodrigo Soares dos. "Portuguese-Chinese neural machine translation". Master, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/39863.
Distinctions

Award

2020 Best MSc Dissertation Award
PROPOR-2020, Évora, Portugal