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Joana P. Pardal

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Surname(s) / First name(s) Joana Maria Ferrer Lúcio Paulo Leitão PardalAddress(es) Rua Cláudio de Oliveira Basto, n. 19 - 4 B

2795 Linda-a-Velha, Oeiras, Portugal

Telephone(s) +351 213 100 351 Mobile: +351 919 040 229

Fax(es) +351 213 145 843

Email(s) [email protected]

Date of birth December 6th, 1978

Gender FemaleMarital State Married

Résumé Joana Paulo Pardal graduated in Informatics and Computer Science Engineering (a 5 year full-timedegree) in 2001 from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. Shereceived an MSc degree in 2004 also from IST. Both with Nuno J. Mamede as advisor.In 2006 she started her PhD work at IST on Dynamic Integration of Ontologies in Generic SpokenDialogue Systems, with Nuno J. Mamede, and James F. Allen as advisors.She has been a Lecturer at IST since 2002, teaching object-oriented programming and designpatterns, knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, autonomous agents and multi-agent systems,distributed systems, and software engineering.She has been a researcher at the Spoken Language Systems Laboratory, L2 F INESC-ID since 2001.Her research interests include knowledge representation; design, use (and reuse) of ontologies;semantic web and semantic web services; spoken dialogue systems; integration of ontologies inspoken dialogue systems; written natural language processing.She has participated in several projects and has over 20 international publications.

Ph.D Student, since 2005IST Technical University of LisbonAdvisers: Nuno J. Mamede, and James F. Allen.

Lecturer, since 2004Computer Science and Engineering DepartmentTécnico Lisboa, Technical University of Lisbon

Junior Researcher, since 2001Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (L2 F)INESC-ID Lisboa

Professional MembershipsAssociation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial)International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

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Professional Activities

since 2004Position held Lecturer at the Computer Science and Engineering Department

Name of employer Instituto Superior TécnicoAddress of employer Av. Rovisco Pais, 1

1049-001 Lisboa, PortugalType of business and sector University, Education

since 2001Position held Junior Researcher at the Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (L2 F)

Name of employer INESC-ID LisboaAddress of employer R. Alves Redol, 9

1000-029 Lisboa, PortugalType of business or sector Research Institute

Fall 2006Position held Visiting Ph.D Student

Name of sponsor James F. AllenResearch Group Conversational Interaction and Spoken Dialogue

Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

July 2004Position held Visiting Junior Researcher

Project PASMO

Name of sponsor Gabriel G. BèsResearch Group Groupe de Recherche dans les Industries de la Langue, GRIL

Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, France

2002–2004Position held Trainee Lecturer at the Computer Science Engineering Department

Name of employer Instituto Superior Técnico

2001–2003Position held Junior Researcher at ATA Automatic Term Acquisition

Name of sponsor Portuguese National Science FoundationProject PLUS/1999/LIN/15150

Project in collaboration with ILTEC and TermiNáutica – Nautical TerminologyType of business or sector Research

2001-2002Position held Teaching Assistant at the Computer Science Engineering Department

Name of employer Instituto Superior Técnico


Scholarships,Honours & Awards

2009 Top 5 in the ISCA’s 10th Anniversary Poster design contest (out of 72)June 2008 ISCA fellowship to attend ‘the Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems’April 2007 ACL fellowship to attend Doctoral Consortium at NAACL-HLT

October 2006 – August 2011 Portuguese National Science Foundation Ph.D grant SFRH/BD/30791/2006September 2001 – September 2002 Portuguese National Science Foundation M.Sc grant PLUS/1999/LIN/15150

University Positions

since 2004 Representative of the Lecturers of the Department at the Department’s Council2005/06 Representative of the University’s Lecturers at the Pedagogical Council Assembly and Coordination

Commission.

Teaching Activities

1st semester, 2012/13 Programação com Objectos (LEIC-A, LMAC, MEIC-A, MMA)

2nd semester, 2011/12 Engenharia de Software (LEIC-A, LEIC-T, LERC, MEIC-A)

1st semester, 2011/12 Programação com Objectos (LEIC-A, LMAC, MEIC-A)

2010/11 — Licença Sem Vencimento1st semester, 2009/10 Programação com Objectos (LEIC-A, LEIC-T, LERC, MEIC-A, MEE)

2006/09 — Dispensa de Serviço Docente1st semester, 2005/06 Programação com Objectos (LEIC-pB, LEIC-TagusPark-pB, LCI-pB, LERCI-pB)

2nd semester, 2004/05 Agentes Autónomos e Sistemas Multi-Agente (LEIC-pB, LEIC-TagusPark-pB, MEIC-pB)

Representação do Conhecimento (LEIC-pB, LCI-pB)

1st semester, 2004/05 Programação com Objectos (LEIC-pB, LEIC-TagusPark-pB, LCI-pB, LERCI-pB)

2nd semester, 2003/04 Sistemas Distribuídos (LEIC-pB, LEIC-TagusPark-pB, LERCI-pB)

1st semester, 2003/04 Programação com Objectos (LEIC-pB, LCI-pB, MEIC-pB)

2nd semester, 2002/03 Inteligência Artificial (LEIC-TagusPark-pB)

2nd semester, 2001/02 Representação do Conhecimento (LEIC-pB, LCI-pB)

Pedagogical Guides

2012 João Pereira, Joana P. Pardal, and David Ferreira.Guia de Laboratório da cadeira de Engenharia de Software.Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DEI).Instituto Superior Técnico (IST),Technical University of Lisbon (UTL). [G04]

2005 Joana L. Paulo, Celso Melo, Guilherme Raimundo, Rui Prada, H. Sofia Pinto, and Ana Paiva.Guia de Laboratório da cadeira de Agentes Autómatos e Sistemas Multiagente.DEI IST UTL. [G03]

2004 Miguel Pardal, Nuno Santos, Joana L. Paulo, et al.Guia de Laboratório da cadeira de Sistemas Distribuídos.DEI IST UTL. [G02]

2003 Nuno J. Mamede, João Dias Pereira, and Joana L. Paulo.Guia de Laboratório da cadeira de Programação com Objectos.DEI IST UTL. [G01]


Education and training

since 2005 (Expected: 2013)Qualification Ph.D student

School Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of LisbonCourse Information Systems and Computer Engineering

Area Artificial IntelligenceDissertation “Dynamic use of Ontologies in Dialogue Systems”

Advisers Nuno J. Mamede, and James F. Allen

2006Qualification Advanced Specialization Diploma

Final average 5/5School Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of LisbonCourse Information Systems and Computer Engineering

Area Artificial Intelligence

2001–2004Qualification Master (M.Sc)

Final average 15/20School Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of LisbonCourse Information Systems and Computer Engineering

Area Artificial IntelligenceDissertation “(Semi) automatic terms acquisition”

Advisor Nuno J. Mamede

1996–2001Qualification ‘Licenciatura’ pre-Bologna (a 5 year full-time degree)

Final average 15/20School Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of LisbonCourse Information Systems and Computer Engineering – Alameda

Area Artificial IntelligenceDissertation “PAsMo - a Post Morphological Analyser”

Advisor Nuno J. Mamede

1993–1996Qualification High School

Final average 16/20School Escola Secundária da Rainha Dona Amélia, Lisboa

Area Science and Technology


General Qualifications

2011Dates weekly, February 10th – March 3rd, 2011 [10h]

Course Workshop “Voice as a Work Tool”Instructor Prof. Teresa Lima, ACT for All, acting school

Organization Tutoring Support Office, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon

2009Dates March 4th, 2009 [2h]

Course Workshop “Techniques in Oral Communication and Public Presentation”Instructor Maria Júlia Guerra

Organization Tutoring Support Office, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon

2010Dates July 15th – 16th, 2010 [12h]

Course European First Aid CourseSchool First Aid School, Portuguese Red Cross

Expiration July 15th, 2013

2006Dates weekly, March 6th – April 10th, 2006

Course “The History of Science in Portugal and the Scientific Revolution”Instructor Prof. Henrique Leitão (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia,

at the University of Lisbon (CIUHCT-UL))

2005Dates weekly, March 7th – April 11th, 2005

Course “The Origins of Modern Physics”, Science HistoryInstructor Prof. Henrique Leitão

2002Dates weekly, March 22nd to June 7th, 2002 [20h]

Course “Terminology in the Spring”School Institut of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics (ILTEC)

Terminological Information Association (AiT)Instructors Mercè Lorente (IULA, Pompeu Fabra Univ.), Maria Helena Mira Mateus (Lisbon Univ./ILTEC/AiT),

Fernanda Bacelar do Nascimento (CLUL), Ana Rebello de Andrade (ILTEC/AiT),Margarita Correia (Lisbon Univ./ILTEC/AiT), Rute Costa (NOVA Lisbon Univ./Termip),Manuel Célio Conceição (Algarve Univ./Termip),Libânia Ângelo (Biblioteca da Assembleia da República), and Ester Franquesa (TermCat).


Research Interests

– Use of Ontologies in Spoken Dialogue Systems– Tutoring and Coaching Conversational Systems– Knowledge Representation and Ontologies– Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services– Spoken Dialogue Systems– Natural Language Processing– Software Engineering and Maintenance

Scientific Activities

Ongoing Projects2012/13 AVOZ – Models for automatic speech recognition for elderly (PTDC/EEA-PLP/121111/2010, IP02035)

– Thomas Aurelien Pellegrinisince 2012 COOKCOACH v2.0 – an ontology-based coaching dialogue system

2009/12 COOKCOACH v1.0 – a coaching dialogue system in the CMU’s Olympus Framework

Finished Projects2009/12 PT-STAR – Speech Translation Advanced Research to and from Portuguese (IP02027)

– Luísa Coheur2008/12 LIREC – LIving with Robots and InteractivE Companions (IP02024)

– Luís Caldas de Oliveira2010 VIDI-VIDEO – Interactive semantic video search with a large thesaurus of machine learned audio-visual

concepts (IP02022)– Isabel Trancoso

2004/08 DIGA – Dialog Interface for Global Access (IP02012)– Nuno Mamede

2008 Golden collection of parallel multi-language word alignments2005/07 RUDRICO – RUle DRIven COnverter2006/07 STRING – STatistical and Rule-Based Natural LanGuage Processing Chain for Portuguese2005/06 ONTOCHEF.PT – a Portuguese Cooking Ontology2004/05 PASMO++

in colaboration with Gabriel G. Bès, Lionel Lamadon, and Ioana Milutinovici, from GRIL2004 PORTO EDITORA – definition of a strategical plan for the development of their natural language process-

ing architecture (IP02015)– Nuno Mamede

2003/05 FENIX4DEI – an on-line system to deliver and test student assignments2001/03 ATA – Automatic Term Acquisition (IP0204)

– Nuno Mamede99/2001 PASMO – Pós Analisador Morfológico (Post Morphological Analyser)2000/01 POETA – a pedagogical agent to help children aged from 7 to 12 years to write poetry

Services

Organizing Committee2009 YRRSDS – Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems

2007/08 Internal Seminars of L2 F INESC-ID Lisboa

Program Committee2010 CLA – Computational Linguistics Applications2009 CLA – Computational Linguistics Applications

Advisory Committee2010 YRRSDS – Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems


Reviewer2009 NAACL HLT Student Research Workshop2006 FinTAL – 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing

— STAIRS – 3rd European Starting AI Researcher Symposium— TIL – 4th Workshop in Information and Human Language Technology

Student Volunteer Work2005 INTERSPEECH’s Students Volunteers – Orange Team

Invited Talks

2010 November 22nd, 2010Spoken Dialogue Systems — an Introduction.Invited class on the MSc Natural Language course.IST Technical University of Lisbon, Tagus Park campus, Oeiras, Portugal.Host: Luísa Coheur [T14]

– October 15th, 2010PC maintenance and Windows XP installation.Invited class on the Education and Training Course (CEF).Colégio de São Tomás, Quinta das Conchas, Lisboa.Host: Inês Gomes [T13]

– April 21st, 2010Scratch programming language.Invited class on the Education and Training Course (CEF).Colégio de São Tomás, Quinta das Conchas, Lisboa.Host: Inês Vilas-Boas [T12]

2009 December 7th, 2009Cooking an ontology-based spoken dialogue system: a proposal.Research Colloquium, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs), Berlin, Germany.Host: Dmitry Butenkov [T11]

2008 June 13th, 2008Reengineering a domain-independent framework for spoken dialogue systems.Dialogs on Dialogs, CMU reading group (via Skype). [T10]

2007 December 3rd and 5th, 2007Spoken Dialogue Systems — an Introduction.Invited class on the MSc Natural Language course.IST Technical University of Lisbon, Tagus Park campus, Oeiras, Portugal.Host: Luísa Coheur [T09]

2006 February 9th, 2006“Spatial Reasoner” – Fall 2006 @ University of Rochester: Term Report.L2 F INESC-ID Seminars, Lisboa, Portugal. [T08]

– December 15th, 2006Dynamic Integration of Ontologies in Generic Spoken Dialogue Systems.Big Picture Talk Series, Computer Science Department, University of Rochester, NY, USA.Host: James F. Allen [T07]

– April 27th, 2006Building an Ontology: Cooking domain.Invited class on the BSc Knowledge Representation course.IST Technical University of Lisbon, Tagus Park campus, Oeiras, Portugal.Host: H. Sofia Pinto [T06]

– February 17th, 2006Integrated Tools and Ontologies.L2 F Day, Academia Militar, Lisboa, Portugal. [T05]

2005 May 12nd, 2005Automatic Terms AcquisitionInvited class on the Terminology course.Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.Host: Margarita Correia [T04]


2001 April 20th, 2001Master thesis work: Automatic word selection.L2 F INESC-ID Seminars, Lisboa, Portugal. [T03]

– June 29th, 2001Aplicação de Técnicas de Língua Natural a Interfaces Multimodais Inteligentes.Presentation for the course of Intelligent Multimodal Interfaces.Host: Joaquim Jorge [T02]

– April 2001Agentes Pedagógicos.Presentation for the course of Autonomous AgentsHost: Ana Paiva [T01]

Publications

Book Chapters2004 Joana L. Paulo, David Martins de Matos, and Nuno J. Mamede.

Terminology Mining with ATA and Galinha, chapter 2.Edições Colibri, Lisbon, Portugal, 2004 [C01]

International Journals2008 Miguel Pardal, Sérgio Fernandes, Jorge Baptista Martins, and Joana P. Pardal.

Customizing Web Services with Extensions in the STEP Framework.International Journal of Web Services Practices - IJWSP, 3(1):1–12, 2008 [J01]

Edited Proceedings2009 Joana Paulo Pardal, Ricardo Ribeiro, Milica Gašic, François Mairesse, Matthew Marge, David Díaz

Pardo de Vera, Christine Howes and Arash Eshghi and Gregory Mills (editors).Proceedings of the 5th Annual Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems.London, UK, September 2009. [E01]

International Conferences2012 Miguel L. Pardal, Joana Paulo Pardal and José Alves Marques.

Improving Web Services performance, one STEP at a time.In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER2012, Porto, Portugal, April 18th–22nd, 2012. [P19]

2011 Joana Paulo Pardal and Nuno J. Mamede.Starting to Cook a Coaching Dialogue System in the Olympus framework.In Ramón López-Cózar Delgado and Tetsunori Kobayashi, editors, Proceedings of the Paralinguistic In-formation and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems Workshop, International Workshop on SpokenDialogue Systems (IWSDS), pages 255–267, Granada, Spain, August 2011. Springer New York [P18]

2009 Joana P. Pardal.Position paper on Ontology-based Spoken Dialogue Systems.In Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems, YRRoSDS, 2009 [P17]

2008 Filipe M. Martins, Joana P. Pardal, Luís Franqueira, Pedro Arez, and Nuno J. Mamede.Starting to Cook a Tutoring Dialogue System.In Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT, pages 145–148. IEEE, December 2008 [P16]

– Filipe M. Martins, Ana C. Mendes, Joana P. Pardal, Nuno J. Mamede, and João Paulo Neto.Using system expectations to manage user interactions.In A. Joaquim da Silva Teixeira, Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima, Luís Caldas de Oliveira, and PauloQuaresma, editors, 8th International Conference on the Computational Processing of the PortugueseLanguage, PROPOR, volume 5190 of LNCS, LNAI, Aveiro, Portugal, 2008. Springer Berlin [P15]

– Joana P. Pardal.Position paper on Ontology-based Spoken Dialogue Systems.In Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems, YRRoSDS, 2008 [P14]

– Filipe M. Martins, Ana C. Mendes, Márcio Viveiros, Joana P. Pardal, Pedro Arez, Nuno J. Mamede, andJoão Paulo Neto.Reengineering a domain-independent framework for Spoken Dialogue Systems.In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for NaturalLanguage Processing, SETQA-NLP, pages 68–76, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, June 2008. ACL, Associationfor Computational Linguistics [P13]


– João Graça, Joana P. Pardal, Luísa Coheur, and Diamantino Caseiro.Building a golden collection of parallel Multi-Language Word Alignment.In The 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008, 2008 [P12]

2007 Carlos Gómez Gallo, Gregory Aist, James F. Allen, William De Beaumont, Sergio Coria, Whitney Gegg-Harrison, Joana P. Pardal, and Mary Swift.Annotating Continuous Understanding in a Multimodal Dialogue Corpus.In SEMDIAL 2007 - DECALOG, 2007 [P11]

– Joana P. Pardal.Dynamic use of ontologies in dialogue systems.In Proc. NAACL-HLT 2007 DC, 2007 [P10]

2006 Celso Melo, Rui Prada, Guilherme Raimundo, Joana P. Pardal, H. Sofia Pinto, and Ana Paiva.Mainstream Games in the Multi-agent Classroom.In IAT 2006, pages 757–761. IEEE Computer Society, 2006 [P09]

– Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista, Joana P. Pardal, Nuno J. Mamede, and H. Sofia Pinto.Cooking an Ontology, volume 4183 of LNCS, pages 213–221.Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, September 2006 [P08]

2004 Joana L. Paulo and Nuno J. Mamede.Terms Spotting with Linguistics and Statistics, pages 298–304.IBERAMIA, 2004 [P07]

2003 Gabriel G. Bès, Veronica Dahl, Daniel Guillot, Lionel Lamadon, Ioana Milutinovici, and Joana L. Paulo.A parsing system for balanced parentheses in NL texts.In Proceedings of the Lorraine/Saarland Workshop on Prospects and Recent Advances in the Syntax-Semantics Interface, CLIN, Nancy, France, October 2003. [P06]

– Joana L. Paulo, David Martins de Matos, Nuno J. Mamede.Easy automatic Terms acquisition with ATA and Galinha.In Proceedings of the Workshop on Tagging and Shallow Processing of Portuguese, TASHA, pp. 29-30,Science College at University of Lisbon, Portugal, October 2003. [P05]

– Luísa Coheur, Fernando Batista, and Joana L. Paulo.JAVALI!: understanding real questions.In Student Workshop on Applied Natural Language Processing – possible applications for the SemanticWeb, held as part of the EUROLAN, Springer-Verlag, pp. 19-25, Bucharest, Romania, July 28th – August8th, 2003. [P04]

– David Martins de Matos, Joana Lúcio Paulo, and Nuno J. Mamede.Managing Linguistic Resources and Tools.In Nuno J. Mamede, Jorge Baptista, Isabel Trancoso, and Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, editors, Com-putational Processing of the Portuguese Language, 6th International Workshop, PROPOR 2003, Faro,Portugal, June 26-27, 2003. Proceedings, volume 2721 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages135–142. Springer, 2003 [P03]

2002 Joana Lúcio Paulo, Margarita Correia, Nuno J. Mamede, and Caroline Hagège.Using Morphological, Syntactical and Statistical Information for Automatic Term Acquisition.In Elisabete Ranchod and Nuno J. Mamede, editors, Advances in Natural Language Processing, ThirdInternational Conference, PorTAL 2002, Faro, Portugal, June 23-26, 2002, Proceedings, volume 2389 ofLecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 219–228. Springer, 2002 [P02]

2001 Joana L. Paulo and Nuno J. Mamede.ATA – Automatic Term Acquisition.In Proceedings of the Workshop on Extraction of Knowledge from Databases, Encontro Português deInteligência Artificial, EPIA 2001, pp. 51-54, Porto, Portugal, December 2001. [P01]

National Conferences2000 Ana Pacheco, Joana L. Paulo, and Nuno Ferreira.

POETA – Poetry teaching agent.In Proceedings of the Workshop of Introduction to Autonomous Agents, WIAA, Lisboa, Portugal, De-cember 2000. [N01]

Technical Reports &Project Deliverables

2008 João Graça, Joana P. Pardal, Luísa Coheur, and Diamantino Caseiro.Multi-Language Word Alignments Annotation Guidelines.Technical Report 38, INESC-ID, 2008 [R04]


– David Martins de Matos, Ricardo Ribeiro, Sérgio Paulo, Fernando Batista, Luísa Coheur, and Joana P.Pardal.Natural Language Engineering on a Computational Grid (NLE-GRID) T2 - Encapsulation of ReusableComponents.Technical Report 31, INESC-ID, 2008 [R03]

2006 Joana L. Paulo and David Martins de Matos.PASMO – Pós Analisador Morfológico.Technical Report 40, INESC-ID, June 2006. [R02]

– Fernando Batista, Joana P. Pardal, Nuno J. Mamede, Paula C. Vaz, and Ricardo Ribeiro.Ontology construction: cooking domain.Technical Report 28, INESC-ID, 2006 [R01]

Masters Theses2004 July 26th, 2004

Joana L. Paulo.Aquisição Semi Automática de Termos.MSc thesis, IST Technical University of Lisbon. [MSc]

Graduation Theses2001 July 13th, 2001

Joana L. Paulo.PASMO – Pós analisador morfológico.Graduation thesis, IST Technical University of Lisbon. [TFC]

Final grade: 17/20Other Publications

2009 David Pardo de Vera, Milica Gašic, Joana P. Pardal, Ricardo Ribeiro, Matthew Marge, François Mairesse.Young researchers face-to-face on human-machine dialogue.IEEE Signal Processing Society, Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee’s,SLTC NewsLetter, October 2009. [L01]

Attended Conferences &Seminars

since 2001 Internal Seminars.L2 F INESC-ID, Lisbon.– regular presentations on Speech and Language Processing topics.

since 2006 Dialogs on Dialogs, reading group.Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (via Skype).– a student reading group focused on research in the areas of spoken dialogue systems / conversational agents.

2011 September 1st to 3rd, 20113rd International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems TechnologyParalinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems.Saray Hotel, Granada, Spain.– an international forum for the presentation of research and applications.

2009 September 13th to 14th, 2009The Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems.Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.– an annual workshop designed for students, post docs, and junior researchers of spoken dialogue systems.

– September 11th to 12th, 2009SIGDIAL – 10th annual meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (ACL & ISCA)Queen Mary University of London, UK.– a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue.

– September 6th to 10th, 2009INTERSPEECH – 10th annual International Conference on Speech Communication and TechnologySpeech and Intelligence.The Brighton Centre, Brighton, United Kingdom.– the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on speech and language processing.

– September 6th, 2009INTERSPEECH Tutorial on Statistical approaches to dialogue systems.Presented by Jason Williams, Steve Young, and Blaise Thomson.The Brighton Centre, Brighton, United Kingdom.– recent work that explored applying statistical techniques to spoken dialogue systems.


2008 June 21st and 22nd, 2008The Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems.The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

– June 20th, 2008Workshop on Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing(SETQA-NLP), workshop of the ACL.Hyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, USA.– raising awareness of the need for good software engineering practices in NLP.

– June 19th and 20th, 2008SIGDIAL – Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue.Hyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

– June 16th to 18th, 2008Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)and the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT) of the North American Chapter of the ACL.Hyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, USA.– a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards enabling intelligent systems to interact with humans using naturallanguage.

– June 15th, 2008ACL Tutorial on Building Practical Spoken Dialog Systems.Presented by Antoine Raux, Brian Langner, Maxine Eskenazi, and Alan BlackHyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, USA.– a practical description of the free software Carnegie Mellon OLYMPUS 2 Spoken Dialogue Framework.

– June 15th, 2008ACL Tutorial on Speech Technology from Research to Industry.Presented by Roberto Pieraccini.Hyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, USA.– the evolution of speech technology from research to a mature industry.

2007 April 22nd, 2008Doctoral Consortium at NAACL-HLT.Rochester, NY, USA.– an opportunity to discuss and explore research and career objectives with a panel of established researchers.

2006 Fall 2006Big Picture Talk Series.Computer Science Department, University of Rochester, NY, USA.– weekly series focuses on topics in AI, NLP, KR, CL and many related areas.

– February 9th and 10th, 2006XATA: XML – Aplicações e Tecnologias AssociadasEscola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Portalegre (ESTGP)Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portugal.– national conference about XML, its usage and related technologies.

2005 September 4th to 8th, 2005INTERSPEECH – 6th annual International Conference on Speech Communication and TechnologyEUROSPEECH – 9th biennial European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology.Ubiquitous Speech Processing.Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal.

2003 October 3rd, 2003TASHA: Workshop on Tagging and Shallow Processing of Portuguese.University of Lisbon, Portugal.– review the current state of the art in the field in what concerns the Portuguese language.

2002 June 23rd to 26th, 2002PorTAL: Portugal for Natural Language ProcessingAlgarve University, Faro, Portugal.– all aspects of natural language processing related areas.

2001 December 17th to 20th, 2001Workshop on Extraction of Knowledge from Databases, of the 10th Portuguese Conference on ArtificialIntelligence (EPIA)Porto, Portugal.

Personal skillsand competences

Mother tongue(s) Portuguese


Other languagesSelf-assessment

European level (*) Understanding Speaking WritingListening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production

English C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user

FrenchB1 Independent

userB1 Independent

userB1 Independent

userB1 Independent

userB1 Independent

user

ItalianB2 Independent

userB2 Independent

userB2 Independent

userB2 Independent

userB2 Independent

user

SpanishB2 Independent

userB2 Independent

userB2 Independent

userB2 Independent

userB2 Independent

user

(*)Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level

Academic Activities

97/2001 Students representative (delegada) during the 5 years of the course.

99/2000 Senior student mentor of Computer Science and Engineering 1st year undergraduate students.

99/2000 Students Representative at the University’s Senate.

99/2000 Student Member of the University’s Representation Assembly.

1994/95 Director, editor and reporter of the High School monthly newspaper “Victrix”

1994/95 Co-Founder of the Science Club of the Queen Amélia High School.


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