Sara B. Silveira

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.

[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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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