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** PhD student at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL), conducting research at LASIGE. I am supervised by Professor Sara Madeira from FCUL and Professor Piero Fariselli from the Department of Medical Sciences of the University of Turin. I am also currently teaching at FCUL in classes related to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, as an Invited Assistant Professor. ** I am interested in Deep Learning as a field overall and its applicability to many problems. My current research focuses on improving neurodegenerative disease prognosis, with particular attention to ALS and MS, using Deep Learning. More specifically, I am developing Generative Modeling methods for longitudinal medical datasets to enhance the available resources for low-resource chronic diseases. ** I have previously conducted research in Natural Language Processing, at the NLX-Group. My MSc dissertation, supervised by Professor António Branco to obtain a Masters in Data Science, focused on a particular problem named Shortcut Learning, specifically when learning commonsense reasoning. ** I have received 6 Academic Merit awards and 1 Outstanding Paper award.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rúben Miguel Rosa Branco
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Branco, Rúben
  • Branco, Ruben

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F11C-7810-0C86
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8126-8513
Google Scholar ID
7nC30zwAAAAJ

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/09/27 - 2026
Ongoing
 Informática (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/09/09 - 2021/11/03
Concluded
 Ciência de Dados (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"A Study of Commonsense Reasoning with Language Models" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19
2016/09/12 - 2019/07/16
Concluded
 Tecnologias de Informação (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 17
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/11/19 - 2022/09 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/07/29 - Current BRAINTEASER - BRinging Artificial INTelligencE home for a better cAre of amyotrophic lateral
H2020-SC1-DTH-101017598
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Ongoing
2019/10/22 - 2021/06/19 CLARIN - Infraestrutura Comum para os Recursos e Tecnologia da Linguagem
22117
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/04/21 - 2019/10/22 CLARIN - Infraestrutura Comum para os Recursos e Tecnologia da Linguagem
22117
Research Technician Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Ongoing
2018/02/01 - 2019/04/21 ELRI - European Language Resources Infrastructure
INEA/CEF/ICT/A2016/1330962
Research Technician Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Gomes, Luís; Branco, Ruben; Silva, João; Branco, António. "Open and inclusive language processing: Language processing services by PORTULAN to meet the widest needs of CLARIN users". In CLARIN. The infrastructure for language resources.. De Gruyter, 2022.
    In press
Conference paper
  1. Branco, Ruben; Barros Valente, Joana; Andreia S. Martins; Diogo F. Soares; Eduardo N. Castanho; Sara C. Madeira; Aidos, Helena. Corresponding author: Branco, Ruben. "Survival analysis for multiple sclerosis: Predicting risk of disease worsening". Paper presented in CLEF, Thessaloniki, 2023.
    In press
  2. Branco, Ruben; Diogo F. Soares; Andreia S. Martins; Barros Valente, Joana; Eduardo N. Castanho; Sara C. Madeira; Aidos, Helena. Corresponding author: Branco, Ruben. "Investigating the impact of environmental data on als prognosis with survival analysis". Paper presented in CLEF, Thessaloniki, 2023.
    In press
  3. Branco, Ruben; Diogo F. Soares; Andreia S. Martins; Auletta, Eleonora; Eduardo N. Castanho; Susana Nunes; Filipa Serrano; et al. Corresponding author: Branco, Ruben. "Hierarchical Modelling for ALS Prognosis: Predicting the Progression Towards Critical Events". Paper presented in iDPP@CLEF 2022, Bologna, 2022.
    Accepted
  4. Susana Nunes; Rita Sousa; Filipa Serrano; Branco, Ruben; Diogo F. Soares; Andreia S. Martins; Auletta, Eleonora; et al. Corresponding author: Susana Nunes. "Explaining Artificial Intelligence Predictions of Disease Progression with Semantic Similarity". Paper presented in iDPP@CLEF 2022, Bologna, 2022.
    Accepted
  5. Branco, Rúben; António Branco; António Rodrigues, João; João Ricardo Silva. "Shortcutted Commonsense: Data Spuriousness in Deep Learning of Commonsense Reasoning". Paper presented in The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Punta Cana, 2021.
    Published
  6. António Branco; João Silva; João Rodrigues. "Commonsense Reasoning: how do Neuro-Symbolic and Neuro-only approaches compare?". Paper presented in KINN 2021: Workshop on Knowledge Injection in Neural Networks, Gold Coast, 2021.
    Published
  7. Branco, António; António Rodrigues, João; Salawa, Malgorzata; Branco, Rúben; Saedi, Chakaveh. "Comparative Probing of Lexical Semantics Theories for Cognitive Plausibility and Technological Usefulness". Paper presented in International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020.
    Published • 10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.354
  8. Lima, Beatriz; Branco, Rúben; Castanheira, João; Fonseca, Gustavo; Pesquita, Cátia. "Learning reference alignments for ontology matching within and across domains". Paper presented in International Workshop on Ontology Matching, 2020.
    Published
  9. Branco, António; Grilo, Sara; Bolrinha, Márcia; Saedi, Chakaveh; Branco, Rúben; Silva, João; Querido, Andreia; et al. "The MWN.PT WordNet for Portuguese: Projection, Validation, Cross-lingual Alignment and Distribution". Paper presented in Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marseílle, 2020.
    In press
  10. António Rodrigues, João; Branco, Rúben; Silva, João; Branco, António. "Reproduction and Revival of the Argument Reasoning Comprehension Task". Paper presented in Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marseílle, 2020.
    In press
  11. Salawa, Malgorzata; Branco, António; Branco, Rúben; António Rodrigues, João; Saedi, Chakaveh. "Whom to Learn From? Graph- vs. Text-basedWord Embeddings". Paper presented in International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), Varna, 2019.
    Published • 10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_120
  12. Branco, Rúben; António Rodrigues, João; Saedi, Chakaveh; Branco, António. "Assessing Wordnets with WordNet Embeddings". Paper presented in Global WordNet Conference 2019, Wroclaw, 2019.
    Published
  13. Gomes, Luís; Apolónia, Frederico; Branco, Rúben; Silva, João; Branco, António. "Setting up the PORTULAN / CLARIN repository". Paper presented in CLARIN Annual Conference 2018, Pisa, 2018.
    Published
  14. António Rodrigues, João; Silva, João; Saedi, Chakaveh; Branco, António. "Predicting Brain Activation with WordNet Embeddings". Paper presented in Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning (CogACLL), 2018.
    Published • 10.18653/v1/w18-2801
  15. António Branco; Branco, Rúben; Chakaveh Saedi; João Silva. "Browsing and Supporting Pluricentric Global Wordnet, or just your Wordnet of Interest". Paper presented in Language Resources and Evaluation, Miyazaki, 2018.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Tavazzi, Erica; Longato, Enrico; Vettoretti, Martina; Aidos, Helena; Trescato, Isotta; Roversi, Chiara; Martins, Andreia S.; et al. "Artificial intelligence and statistical methods for stratification and prediction of progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A systematic review". Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 142 (2023): 102588. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2023.102588.
    10.1016/j.artmed.2023.102588
Preprint
  1. António Rodrigues, João; Branco, Ruben; Branco, António. "Transfer Learning of Lexical Semantic Families for Argumentative Discourse Units Identification". 2022. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.02495.pdf.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "A Study of Commonsense Reasoning with Language Models". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2021. https://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/51357.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/06/30 Shortcut Learning In Commonsense Reasoning (and NLP overall) LITHME Whole Action Conference
University of Jyväskylä (Jyväskylä, Finland)
2022/02/09 Shortcut Learning In Commonsense Reasoning (and NLP overall) Deep Learning Sessions Portugal Meetups
Deep Learning Sessions Portugal (Portugal)

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2021/06 - 2021/07 The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
2020/05/11 - 2020/05/16 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Marseílle, France

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2022/09 - 2023/11 Explaining Deep Prognostic Models of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Francisco Miguel Delgado Calado Malveiro

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/02/14 - 2022/02/17 Winter School on e-Health and Pervasive Technologies, hosted at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies (FEEIT), Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (UKIM), North Macedonia. Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Macedonia
Distinctions

Award

2022 Academic Merit Scholarship
Direção-Geral de Ensino Superior, Portugal
2021 Prémio Maxdata Excelência em Informática
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021 Outstanding Paper Award - EMNLP2021
EMNLP, United States
2020 Academic Merit Award
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018 FCiências.ID Award
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Other distinction

2019 Academic Merit Diploma
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018 Academic Merit Diploma
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal