Contact information

• email address
  js@il.va@di.fc..ul.pt
• postal address
  Sala 6.3.32, Edifício C6
  Departamento de Informática
  Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
  Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa
  Portugal
  

Publications

• Silva, João and António Branco,
  to appear. Deep, Consistent and Also Useful: Extracting Vistas from Deep Corpora for Shallower Tasks. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Treebanking at the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12).
• Branco, António, Catarina Carvalheiro, Sílvia Pereira, Sara Silveira, João Silva, Sérgio Castro and João Graça
  , to appear. A PropBank for Portuguese: the CINTIL-PropBank. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12).

• Branco, António, Sérgio Castro, João Silva, Francisco Costa
  , 2011. CINTIL DepBank Handbook: Design Options for the Representation of Grammatical Dependencies. Technical Report TR-2011-03, Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon.
• Branco, António, João Silva, Francisco Costa, Sérgio Castro
  , 2011. CINTIL TreeBank Handbook: Design Options for the Representation of Syntactic Constituency. Technical Report TR-2011-02, Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon.

• Branco, António, Francisco Costa, João Silva, Sara Silveira, Sérgio Castro, Mariana Avelãs, Clara Pinto and João Graça
  , 2010. Developing a Deep Linguistic Databank Supporting a Collection of Treebanks: the CINTIL DeepGramBank In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), pp. 1810–1815.
• Silva, João, António Branco and Patricia Nunes
  , 2010. Top-performing Robust Parsing of Portuguese: Freely available in as many ways as you can get it. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), pp. 1960–1963.
• Silva, João, António Branco, Sérgio Castro and Ruben Reis
  , 2010. Out-of-the-Box Robust Parsing of Portuguese. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR'10), pp. 75–85.

• Branco, António, Francisco Costa, Eduardo Ferreira, Pedro Martins, Filipe Nunes, João Silva and Sara Silveira
  , 2009. LX-Center: A Center of Online Services for Education, Research and Development on Language Science and Technology. In Proceedings of the 1st Iberian SLTech—1st Joint SIG-IL/Microsoft Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages.
• Branco, António, Francisco Costa, Eduardo Ferreira, Pedro Martins, Filipe Nunes, João Silva and Sara Silveira
  , 2009. LX-Center: A Center of Online Linguistic Services. In Proceedings of the Demo Session, ACL-IJCNLP 2009.

• Branco, António, Lino Rodrigues, João Silva and Sara Silveira
  , 2008. XisQuê: An Online QA Service for Portuguese. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR'08). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 5190, Springer.
• Branco, António, Lino Rodrigues, João Silva and Sara Silveira
  , 2008. Real-Time Open-Domain QA on the Portuguese Web. In Hector Geffner, Rui Prada, Isabel Machado Alexandre and Nuno David (eds.): Advances in Artificial Intelligence—IBERAMIA 2008, 11th Ibero-American Conference on AI. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 5290, Springer.
• Branco, António, Francisco Costa, Pedro Martins, Filipe Nunes, João Silva and Sara Silveira
  , 2008. LXService: Web Services of Language Technology for Portuguese. In Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stellos Piperidis and Daniel Tapias (eds.): Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08).

• Silva, João
  , 2007. Shallow Processing of Portuguese: From Sentence Chunking to Nominal Lemmatization. MSc thesis, University of Lisbon. Published as Technical Report DI-FCUL-TR-07-16.
• Branco, António and João Silva
  , 2007. Very High Accuracy Rule-Based Nominal Lemmatization with a Minimal Lexicon. In Actas do XXI Encontro Anual da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística (APL'07).

• Branco, António and João Silva
  , 2006. Dedicated Nominal Featurization of Portuguese. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 3960, Springer.
• Barreto, Florbela, António Branco, Eduardo Ferreira, Amália Mendes, Maria Fernanda Nascimento, Filipe Nunes e João Silva
  , 2006. Open Resources and Tools for the Shallow Processing of Portuguese: The TagShare Project. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'06).
• Branco, António and João Silva
  , 2006. LX-Suite: Shallow Processing Tools for Portuguese. In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'06), pp. 179–182.
• Barreto, Florbela, António Branco, Eduardo Ferreira, Amália Mendes, Fernanda Bacelar Nascimento, Filipe Nunes, João Silva
  , 2006. Linguistic Resources and Software for Shallow Processing. In Actas do XXI Encontro Anual da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística de Lisboa (APL'06).

• Branco, António and João Silva
  , 2005. Accurate Annotation: an Efficiency Metric. In Nicolas Nicolov, Kalina Bontcheva, Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov (eds.): Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing III, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, ISBN 9027247749, pp. 173–182.

• Branco, António and João Silva
  , 2004. Swift Development of State of the Art Taggers for Portuguese. In António Branco, Amália Mendes and Ricardo Ribeiro (eds.): Language Technology for Portuguese: Shallow Processing Tools and Resources, Lisbon, Edições Colibri, pp. 29–45.
• Branco, António and João Silva
  , 2004. Evaluating Solutions for the Rapid Development of State-of-the-Art POS Taggers for Portuguese. In Maria Teresa Lino, Maria Francisca Xavier, Fátima Ferreira, Rute Costa and Raquel Silva (eds.): Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'04), Paris, ELRA, ISBN 2-9517408-1-6, pp. 507–510.

• Branco, António and João Silva
  , 2003. Portuguese-Specific Issues in the Rapid Development of State of the Art Taggers. In António Branco, Amália Mendes and Ricardo Ribeiro (eds.): Tagging and Shallow Processing of Portuguese: Workshop Notes of TASHA'2003, Lisbon, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Informatics, Technical Report TR-2003-28, pp. 7–10.
• Branco, António and João Silva
  , 2003. A Metric for the Efficency of Accurate Tagging Procedures. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'03), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Borovets, Bulgaria, 10–12 September, ISBN 954-90906-6-3, pp. 71–77.
• Branco, António and João Silva
  , 2003. Contractions: Breaking the Tokenization-Tagging Circularity. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 2721, Berlin, Spinger, ISSN 0302-9743, pp. 167–170.
• Branco, António and João Silva
  , 2003. Tokenization of Portuguese: Resolving the Hard Cases. Technical Report TR-2003-4, Departament of Informatics, University of Lisbon.
• Branco, António and João Silva
  , 2003. Morpho-syntactic Tagging without Training Corpus or Lexicon: How Far is it Possible to Get?. In Amália Mendes and Tiago Freitas (eds.): Actas do XVIII Encontro Anual da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística (APL'03), Lisboa, APL, pp. 211–222.

• Branco, António, José Leitão and João Silva
  , 2002. Nexing Corpus: A Corpus of Verbal Protocols on Syllogistic Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'02), pp. 397–403.

• Branco, António and João Silva
  , 2001. EtiFac: A Facilitating Tool for Manual Tagging. In Actas do XVII Encontro Anual da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística (APL'02), pp. 81–90.