About Me
My name is Sara Botelho Silveira, and this is my homepage.
Currently, I'm a PhD student at the
Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences,
University of Lisbon,
in Portugal, and my advisor is
Prof. António Branco.
CV
[2009-present] PhD Student in Computer Science at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.
[2006-2007] MSc in Computer Science Engineering at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.
[2002-2006] Degree in Computer Science Engineering at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.
Projects
Research
SemanticShare - Development of annotated corpora for Portuguese.
LX-Center - Development of the website, which hosts the linguistic services developed in all or part by the NLX-Natural Language Speech Group.
LX-Service - Webservice which provides access to the LX-Suite.
LX-NER - Name Entity Recognizer - recognition of expressions for named entities in Portuguese.
XisQuê - Open-domain Question Answering for the Portuguese Web.
Others
(These projects were developed as a Consultant at Novabase).
Integrated System to Customer Support for CTT Correios de Portugal - Portugal Postal Office.
Component of Acceptance of Records in Quantity - Information retrieval for CTT Correios de Portugal - Portugal Postal Office.
Prison Information System for Direcção Geral dos Serviços Prisionais - Directorate of Prisons Services.
Publications
Sara Botelho Silveira and António Branco, September 2012,
"Using a double clustering approach to build extractive multi-document summaries."
In TSD 2012: 15th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, Brno, Czech Republic.
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Sara Botelho Silveira and Ant\~onio Branco, August 2012,
"Combining a double clustering approach with sentence simplification to produce highly informative multi-document summaries."
In IRI 2012: 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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Sara Botelho Silveira and António Branco, July 2012,
"Enhancing multi-document summaries with sentence simplification."
In ICAI 2012: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, USA.
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Sara Botelho Silveira and António Branco, June 2012,
"Extracting multi-document summaries with a double clustering approach."
In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language Processing to Information Systems, Groningen, The Netherlands, Springer.
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Sara Botelho Silveira and António Branco, April 2012,
"SIMBA: An extractive multi-document summarization system for portuguese."
Demo Session of the International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR), Coimbra, Portugal.
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António Branco, Sara Silveira, Sérgio Castro, Mariana Avelãs, Clara Pinto, and Francisco Costa, December 2010,
"Dynamic propbanking with deep linguistic grammars."
In Proceedings, TLT009 - The 8th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, Milan, Italy.
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António Branco, 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 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Valetta, Malta.
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António Branco, Lino Rodrigues, João Silva e Sara Silveira, 2008, "Real-Time Open-Domain QA on the Portuguese Web", Advances in Artificial Intelligence - IBERAMIA 2008, Berlin, Springer.
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António Branco, Lino Rodrigues, João Silva and Sara Silveira, 2008, "XisQuê: An Online QA Service for Portuguese", In Proceedings of the International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR2008), Berlin, Springer.
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António Branco, Francisco Costa, Pedro Martins, Filipe Nunes, João Silva and Sara Silveira, 2008, "LXService: Web Services of Language Technology for Portuguese", In N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, J. Odijk, . Piperidis, D. Tapias (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2008), Paris, ELRA.
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Sara Silveira. "Sistema de Informação Prisional", 2007, Master Thesis.
Papers are available on request.
Contacts
Address
Departamento de Informática
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Bloco C6 - Piso 3, Sala 6.3.32, Campo Grande
1749-016 Lisboa - Portugal
E-mail
sara.silveira (at) di.fc.ul.pt