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.

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 ^

Branco, António, 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.

Branco, António, 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.

Branco, António, 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.

Silveira, Sara. "Sistema de Informação Prisional", 2007, Master Thesis.

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