Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva (EE1E-1A7E-9352)

Curriculum Vitae

Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva

Ciência Vitae Summary Researcher: Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva Group: Multimodal Systems of NOVA LINCS Research topics: Text Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Machine Learning Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=WERCl6oAAAAJ&hl=en Assistant professor at Computer Science Department of NOVA School of Science and Technonoly – Universidade Nova de Lisboa PhD in Informática (Computer Science); MSc in Engenharia Informática (Computer Science) Researcher in - 4 international funding projects (concluded); - 1 national funding project as responsible for task coordination (concluded) - 4 national funding projects (concluded) - 1 national funding project (ongoing) Awards: Honourable Mention For Student Paper Award Five recent selected publications: • Joaquim F. Silva, José C. Cunha. Improving LocalMaxs Multiword Expression Statistical Extractor. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Science (ICCS’23) . Springer. Prague, July 2023. (To be published) • Joaquim F. Silva, José C. Cunha. A model for Predicting n-gram Frequency Distribution in Large Corpora. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Science (ICCS’21) . Springer. Krakow, June 2021. • Joaquim F. Silva, José C. Cunha. An Empirical Model for n-gram Frequency Distribution in Large Corpora. Proceedings of the 24th Pacific-Asia conference on knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD’20). May 2020, Singapore. • Carlos Gonçalves, Joaquim F. Silva, José C. Cunha. n-gram Cache Performance in Statistical Extraction of Relevant Terms in Large Corpora. Proceedings of the ICCS’19. Springer LNCS, 11537. June 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-22741-8_6 • Joaquim F. Silva, Sofia Cavaco, Gabriel Pereira Lopes. Automatic Classification of Impact Sounds with Rejection of Unknown Samples. New Generation Computing. Volume 3, nº 4, pp. 341-363. 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s00354-017-0025-z

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva

Citation names

Silva, Joaquim

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: EE1E-1A7E-9352
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5223-1180

Telephones

Mobile phone

910211766 (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
1999/09/01 - 2004/02/04 Concluded	Engenharia Informática (Computer Science, MSc) (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2004 Concluded	Informática (Computer Science, PhD) (Doutoramento) Major in Especialidade: Informática (Computer Science) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Extracção de Unidades Textuais, Agrupamento, Caracterização e Classificação de Documentos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2004 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2004/02/04 - 2024/02/09	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2024/01/03 - Current	A Trustworthy Large Language Model for Portuguese and English. Sponsor: Google/FCT CPCA-IAC/AV/594875/2023 Researcher	Ongoing
2011/09/01 - 2013/03/01	BestSupplier BestSupplier Researcher Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal	INSPIRE Concluded
2011/03/01 - 2013/02/28	ISTRION --- Melhorando a Tradução Estatística via supervisão PTDC/EIA-EIA/114521/2009 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2008/11/01 - 2012/04/30	Acesso Ubíquo à Web para Cegos (VIP-ACCESS) PTDC/PLP/72142/2006 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Matemática e Aplicações, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2005/05/01 - 2007/11/30	Paralelismo para a Aprendizagem computacional de TRAduçõeS --- PATRAS POSC/PLP/61520/2004 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2003/01/01 - 2007/06/01	TransGRID TransGRID Researcher	Concluded
2004/01/01 - 2005/12/01	WE-LEARN - Web Intelligent Portal for e-learning with Teacher-Student interaction mediated by the Machine 4.1.3/CAPES/CPLP Researcher	Concluded
2003/12/01 - 2005/12/01	ASTROLABIUM - Portuguese Researchers' Mobility Portal and Network of Mobility Centres MOBI-CT-2003-003344 Researcher	Concluded
2003/03/01 - 2003/06/01	LEONARDO-1 - New Computer Technologies for Access to Vast Arrays of Multilingual Information LEONARDO-1 Researcher	Concluded
2000/12/01 - 2003/04/01	TRADAUT-PT- Automatic Translation System from and into Portuguese for Public Administration TRADAUT-PT Researcher	Concluded
1998/01/01 - 2001/01/01	PGR - Selective Access to the information contained in the Opinions of the Portuguese Republic LO59-P31B-02/97 Researcher	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Silva, Joaquim; Lopes, G.; Falcäo, A.. "Mining causality from non-categorical numerical data". In Behavior Computing. Springer, 2012. Published • 10.1007/978-1-4471-2969-1_13
Conference paper	Silva, Joaquim; Cunha, José. "How Large Corpora Sizes Influence the Distribution of Low Frequency Text n-grams". Paper presented in PAKDD 2024, Taipei, 2024. Accepted Silva, Joaquim; Oliveira, Pedro. "Authorship Attribution with Rejection Capability in Challenging Contexts of Limited Datasets". Paper presented in PROPOR 2024, Santiago, 2024. Accepted Rosário, Luís; Cavaco, Sofia; Silva, Joaquim; Freitas Luís; Verborgh, Philippe. Corresponding author: Silva, Joaquim. "Vocalization Features to Recognize Small Dolphin Species for Limited Datasets". Paper presented in EPIA 2023, Horta, 2023. Published Silva, Joaquim; Jose C. Cunha. "Improving LocalMaxs Multiword Expression Statistical Extractor". Paper presented in International Conference on Computer Science, ICCS 2023, Prague, 2023. Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-36021-3_13 Silva, Joaquim; Jose C. Cunha. "A Model for Predicting n-gram Frequency Distribution in Large Corpora". Paper presented in International Conference on Computer Science, ICCS 2021, Krakow, 2021. Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-77961-0_55 Jose C. Cunha; Silva, Joaquim. "An Empirical Model for n-gram Frequency Distribution in Large Corpora". Paper presented in PAKDD 2020, Singapore, 2020. Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-47436-2_63 Carlos Goncalves; Silva, Joaquim; Jose C. Cunha. "n-gram Cache Performance in Statistical Extraction of Relevant Terms in Large Corpora". Paper presented in 19th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2019, Faro, 2019. Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-22741-8_6 Goncalves, C.; Cunha, J.C.; Silva, Joaquim. "An n-gram cache for large-scale parallel extraction of multiword relevant expressions with LocalMaxs". Paper presented in 2016 IEEE 12th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science), 2017. 10.1109/eScience.2016.7870892 Silva, Joaquim; Goncalves, C.; Cunha, J.C.. "A theoretical model for n-gram distribution in big data corpora". Paper presented in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Washington, 2016. Published • 10.1109/BigData.2016.7840598 Ventura, J.; Silva, Joaquim. "New techniques for relevant word ranking and extraction". Paper presented in Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2027, 2015. Published Casteleiro, J.; Silva, Joaquim; Lopes, G.P.. "Cross-lingual word sense clustering for sense disambiguation". Paper presented in Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2015, 2015. Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-23485-4_75 Gonçalves, C.; Silva, Joaquim; Cunha, J.C.. "A parallel algorithm for statistical multiword term extraction from very large corpora". Paper presented in High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), 2015, 2015. Published • 10.1109/HPCC-CSS-ICESS.2015.72 Casteleiro, J.; Lopes, G.P.; Silva, Joaquim. "Bilingually learning word senses for translation". Paper presented in International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2014, 2014. Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-54903-8_24 Casteiro, João; Silva, Joaquim; José Gabriel Pereira Lopes. "Context Sense Clustering for Translation". Paper presented in EMNLP Conference, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014. Published Ventura, João; Silva, Joaquim. "Automatic Extraction of Explicit and Implicit Keywords to Build Document Descriptors". Paper presented in EPIA 2013, 2013. Published Ventura, João; Silva, Joaquim. "Using Clusters of Concepts to Extract Semantic Relations from Standalone Documents". Paper presented in EPIA 2013, 2013. Published Ventura, João; Silva, Joaquim. "Mining concepts from texts". Paper presented in International Conference on Computer Science, ICCS 2012, 2012. Published • 10.1016/j.procs.2012.04.004 Barreira, L.; Cavaco, S.; Silva, Joaquim. "Unsupervised music genre classification with a model-based approach". Paper presented in EPIA 2011, 2011. Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-24769-9_20 José Gabriel Pereira Lopes; Joaquim Silva; Peleja, F.. "Text Categorization: An extensive comparison of classifiers, feature selection metrics and document representation". Paper presented in EPIA 2011, 2011. Published Lopes, G.P.; Silva, Joaquim. "A document descriptor extractor based on relevant expressions". Paper presented in EPIA 2009, 2009. Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-04686-5_53 Aires, J.; Lopes, G.; Silva, Joaquim. "Efficient multi-word expressions extractor using suffix arrays and related structures". Paper presented in ACM workshop on Improving Non English Web Searching, iNEWS 2008, 2008. Published • 10.1145/1460027.1460029 Rocio, V.; Lopes, G.; Silva, Joaquim. "Detection of strange and wrong automatic part-of-speech tagging". Paper presented in Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2007, 2007. Published Silva, Joaquim; Lopes, G.P.. "Identification of document language is not yet a completely solved problem". Paper presented in CIMCA 2006: International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, Jointly with IAWTIC 2006: International Conference on Intelligent Agents Web Technologies, 2006. 10.1109/CIMCA.2006.117 Gamallo, P.; Lopes, G.P.; Silva, Joaquim. "A divide-and-conquer approach to acquire syntactic categories". Paper presented in Grammatical Inference: Algorithms and Applications, 7th International Colloquium, ICGI 2004, 2004. Accepted • 10.1007/978-3-540-30195-0_14 Silva, Joaquim; Coelho, C.A.; Mexia, Joao; Lopes, G.. "Multilingual document clustering, topic extraction and data transformations". Paper presented in Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence EPIA 2001, 2001. Published Silva, Joaquim; Mexia, J.; Coelho, A.; Lopes, G.. "Document clustering and cluster topic extraction in multilingual corpora". Paper presented in International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2001, 2001. Published Silva, Joaquim; Dias, G.; Guilloré, S.; Lopes, J.G.P.. "Using LocalMaxs algorithm for the extraction of contiguous and non-contiguous multiword lexical units". Paper presented in Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 1999, 1999. Published • 10.1007/3-540-48159-1_9
Conference poster	Silva, Joaquim; Lopes, G.. "Towards automatic building of document keywords". Paper presented in Coling 2010, 2010.
Journal article	Silva, Joaquim; Sofia Cavaco; Gabriel Pereira Lopes. "Automatic Classification of Impact Sounds with Rejection of Unknown Samples". New Generation Computing 35 (2017): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00354-017-0025-z. 10.1007/s00354-017-0025-z Silva, Joaquim; Jacinto, C.. "Finding occupational accident patterns in the extractive industry using a systematic data mining approach". Reliability Engineering and System Safety 108 (2012): 108-122. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84866001210&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1016/j.ress.2012.07.001 Silva, Joaquim; Coelho, C. Agra; Mexia, Joao; Lopes, J.G.P.. "Using Covariance as a Similarity Measure for Document Language Identification in Hard Contexts.". Pliska Studia Mathematica Bulgarica. 2007 18 (2007): 341-360. http://www.math.bas.bg/pliska/Pliska-18/Pliska-18-2007-341-360.pdf. Published Silva, Joaquim; Mexia, Joao; COELHO, Carlsos Agra; Lopes, J.G.P.. "A statistical Approach for Multilingual Document Clustering and Topic Extraction from Clusters". Pliska Studia Mathematica Bulgarica. 2004. 16 (2004): 207-228. http://www.math.bas.bg/pliska/Pliska-16/Pliska-16-2004-207-228.pdf. Published Barahona, P.; Walton, R.; Ilic, Z.; Silva, Joaquim. "Deep medical knowledge to design clinical guidelines". Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 48 1-2 (1995): 27-34. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0029361133&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/0169-2607(95)01656-E
Thesis / Dissertation	"Unsupervised, language independent multiwords extraction, clustering, characterization, and classification of documents". PhD, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2004.

Other

Software

Silva, Joaquim; Cunha, José C.. "Available software to calculate the size of the groups of word n-grams occurring k times in corpora". 2024.
Silva, Joaquim; Cunha, José C.. "Available Software for extracting Relevant Expressions from text corpora". 2023.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2007/01/21	Identification of Document Language in Hard Context	Departamento de Informática da FCT/UNL
2005/05/05	Language-independent Clustering of Highly Frequent Words into Morpho-syntactic Classes - a statistical approach	Universidade Aberta em Lisboa

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2018 - Current	Deteção automática de combinações improváveis de variáveis categóricas no contexto dos acidentes de trabalho Supervisor of Rodolfo Simões Ferreira	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023 - 2023	CLASSIFICADORES DE TEXTO: APRENDIZAGEM CLÁSSICA VS. APRENDIZAGEM PROFUNDA Supervisor of PEDRO JORGE DE OLIVEIRA MARTINS DIAS DINIS
2022 - 2022	Vocal signature feature set for the distinction of Macaronesian dolphin species Supervisor of Luís Filipe Sobral do Rosário	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 - 2022	Identificação de classes em texto Supervisor of Serhiy Hulevych	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 - 2022	Enhancements on multiword extraction and inclusion of relevant single words on localmaxs Supervisor of Tomás Maria Fernandes Farrajota de Morais Alves	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 - 2022	Deep test to Transformers Architecture In Named Entity Recognition Supervisor of Gonçalo André Santos Antunes	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 - 2022	Attribute Selection for Unsupervised and Language Independent Classification of Documents Supervisor of Gonçalo Abrantes Fazenda	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 - 2022	Bio-acoustic Classification of Cetacean Species Vocalizations Supervisor of Tomás Valente Melo Nunes	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 - 2022	Classificação Supervisionada de Documentos de Texto Cru em contextos difíceis Supervisor of Pedro Miguel Rocha Correia de Oliveira	Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
2020 - 2020	Machine Learning Algorithms – Application on Big Data to Predict Retention Actions Needs Supervisor of Catarina Gonçalves Simões Nicolau Vicente	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019 - 2019	Estudo de Implementações Eficientes em correlações estatísticas de Expressões Relevantes de Linguagem Natural Supervisor of João Manuel Pinto Simões	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019 - 2019	Clustering Smart Metering Data for Energy Efficiency Supervisor of Maria Portugal Queiroga Nogueira
2019 - 2019	Automatic Document Classification to leverage Funds and Grants’s information retrieval systems Supervisor of Guilherme Belo Alves	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2011/09 - 2017/12	Parallel and Distributed Statistical-based Extraction of Relevant Multiwords from Large Corpora Co-supervisor of Carlos Jorge Gonçalves	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2009/12 - 2014	Automatic Extraction of Concepts from Texts and Applications Supervisor of João Miguel Jones Ventura	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2013 - 2013	Improvements on the KNN classifier Supervisor of Ricardo Jorge Palheira Mestre	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2013 - 2013	Towards improving WEBSOM with Multi-Word Expresions Co-supervisor of Stefan Alves	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2012 - 2012	Detecção de Correlação e Causalidade em Séries Temporais não Categóricas Supervisor of António Texixeira Falcão	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2010 - 2010	Unsupervised Automatic Music Genre Classification Supervisor of Luís Marques Barreira	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2008 - 2008	Detecção Automática de Unidades Relevantes em Texto Supervisor of João Ventura	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2007 - 2007	Identificaçao Automática da Língua em Texto Supervisor of José Vicente Pereira dos Reis	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023 - 2023	Member of the Track Organising Committee & contact person. EPIA 2023 Natural Language Processing and Text Mining and Application (NLP-TeMA) Thematic Track. Portuguese International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2023 (2023 - 2023) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2022 - 2022	Track Organising Committee & contact person. EPIA 2022 Text Mining and Application (TeMA) Thematic Track. Portuguese International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2022 (2022 - 2022) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2021 - 2021	Member of the Track Organising Committee & contact person. EPIA 2021 Text Mining and Application (TeMA) Thematic Track. Portuguese International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2021 (2021 - 2021) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2020 - 2020	Member of the Track Organising Committee & contact person. EPIA 2020 Text Mining and Application (TeMA) Thematic Track. Portuguese International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2020 (2020 - 2020) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2019 - 2019	Member of the Track Organising Committee & contact person. EPIA 2019 Text Mining and Application (TeMA) Thematic Track. Portuguese International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2019 (2019 - 2019) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2017 - 2017	Member of the Track Organising Committee & contact person. EPIA 2017 Text Mining and Application (TeMA) Thematic Track. Portuguese International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2017 (2017 - 2017) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2015 - 2015	Member of the Track Organising Committee & contact person. EPIA 2015 Text Mining and Application (TeMA) Thematic Track. Portuguese International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2015 (2015 - 2015) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2013 - 2013	Member of the Track Organising Committee & contact person. EPIA 2013 Text Mining and Application (TeMA) Thematic Track. Portuguese International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2013 (2013 - 2013) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2011 - 2011	Member of the Track Organising Committee & contact person. EPIA 2011 Text Mining and Application (TeMA) Thematic Track. Portuguese International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2011 (2011 - 2011) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2009 - 2009	Member of the Track Organising Committee & contact person. EPIA 2009 Text Mining and Application (TeMA) Thematic Track. Portuguese International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2009 (2009 - 2009) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2007 - 2007	Member of the Track Organising Committee & contact person. EPIA 2009 Text Mining and Application (TeMA) Thematic Track. Portuguese International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2007 (2007 - 2007) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2005 - 2005	Member of the Track Organising Committee & contact person. EPIA 2005 Text Mining and Application (TeMA) Thematic Track. Portuguese International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2005 (2005 - 2005) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2021	Named Entity Recognition and Linking in a Multilingual Biomedical Setting (Thesis) Arguer	Vítor Daniel Torres Andrade (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2020	Monitorização de defeitos em runtime President of the jury	Bruno Miguel Figueiredo Carvalho (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019	Recommender system to support comprehensive exploration of large scale scientific datasets (Thesis) Arguer	MARCIA CRISTINA AFONSO BARROS (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018	Extracting Biomedical Relations From Biomedical Literature (Thesis) Arguer	Tânia Maldonado (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018	Gestão de micro-serviços na Cloud e Edge President of the jury	André Vasconcelos Carrusca (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017	Translation Alignment and Extraction Within a Lexica-Centered Iterative Workflow. (Thesis) Arguer	Luis Manuel dos Santos Gomes (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017	Augmenting Translation Lexica by Learning Generalized Translation Patterns (Thesis) Arguer	Kavitha Mahesh (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017	Aquisição Automática de Subcategorização Sintáctico-Semântica e sua utilização em Sistemas de Processamento de Língua Natural (Thesis) Arguer	Alexandre Agustini (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017	Automatic Best-Photo Selection President of the jury	Carlos Manuel Teixeira Machado (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2016	The view update problem in the OutSystems aggregate language President of the jury	Luís Afonso Correia Soares da Silva Carvalho (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2015	Suporte para Bilhética numa plataforma Web para organizar eventos President of the jury	Paulo Jorge Gregório Granja (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2015	DataSets:compile to "NoSQL" in the OutSystems Platform President of the jury	Bruno Manuel Pires Grácio (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2014/12	Automatic Extraction of Concepts from Texts and Applications Supervisor	João Miguel Jones Ventura (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2012	Gestão de Projectos Informáticos: Metodologias Waterfall vs. Scrum President of the jury	Maria Inês de Almeida Ribeiro (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2017/04 - 2017/04	Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2023/05 - 2023/05	Member of the Program Committee of the The 19th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2023), at EACL 2023 Member
2023 - 2023	Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Computer Science (ICCS’23) Member
2022 - 2022	Member of the Program Committee of the 18th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2022), at ACL (colocated with LREC) Member
2021 - 2021	Member of the Program Committee of The 17th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2021), at ACL-IJCNLP 2021 Member
2020 - 2020	Member of the Program Committee of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons (MWE-LEX 2020), at COLING 2020 Member
2019 - 2019	Membeer of the Program Committee of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019), at ACL 2019 Member
2018 - 2018	Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018), at COLING 2018 Member
2017 - 2017	Member of the Program Committee of The 13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2017), at EACL 2017 Member
2016 - 2016	Member of the Program Committee of The 12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2016), at ACL 2016 Member
2014 - 2014	Member of the Program Committee of The 10th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2014), at EACL 2014 Member
2013 - 2013	Member of the Program Committee of The 9th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2013), at NAACL 2013 Member
2013 - 2013	Member of the Program Committee of the Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence – KDBI Thematic Track. Portuguese International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2013 Member
2010 - 2010	Member of the Program Committee of The International Conference of Computer Science (ICCS). 2010, May 31 – Jun 2

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2016 - 2016	Member of the monitoring jury of the PhD thesis of Kavitha Karimbi Mahesh	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2014 - 2014	Member of the monitoring jury of the PhD thesis of Carlos Jorge Gonçalves	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2011 - 2011	Member of the monitoring jury of the PhD thesis of João Miguel Jones Ventura	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2011 - 2011	Member of the monitoring jury of the PhD thesis of Luis Manuel Santos Gomes	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2023	Honourable Mention For Student Paper Award 22nd Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA2023), Portugal