PUBLICATIONS:



2009
Automatic Creation of a Reference Corpus for Political Opinion Mining in User-Generated Content
Luís Sarmento, Paula Carvalho, Mário J. Silva and Eugénio de Oliveira
Proceedings of TSA'09 - Text Sentiment Analysis, held at ACM CIKM 2009
November 6, 2009, Hong Kong, China. ACM Press.
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Clues for Detecting Irony in User-Generated Contents: Oh...!! It's "so easy" ;-)
Paula Carvalho, Luís Sarmento, Mário J. Silva and Eugénio de Oliveira
Proceedings of TSA'09 - Text Sentiment Analysis, held at ACM CIKM 2009
November 6, 2009, Hong Kong, China. ACM Press.
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The Design of OPTIMISM, an Opinion Mining System for Portuguese Politics
Mário J. Silva, Paula Carvalho, Luís Sarmento, Eugénio de Oliveira and Paulo Magalhães
Local Proceedings EPIA - 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
October 12-15, 2009, Aveiro, Portugal.
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Exploring the Vector Space Model for Finding Verb Synonyms in Portuguese
Luís Sarmento, Paula Carvalho and Eugénio Oliveira
RANLP - Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - 2009
September 14-16, 2009, Borovets, Bulgaria
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Propagating Fine-Grained Topic Labels in News Snippets
Luís Sarmento, Sérgio Nunes, Jorge Teixeira and Eugénio Oliveira
Proceedings Workshop on Intelligent Analysis and Processing of Web News Content (held with WI/IAT 2009)
Milan, Italy, September 2009
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An Approach to Web-scale Named-Entity Disambiguation
Luís Sarmento, Alexander Kehlenbeck, Eugénio Oliveira and Lyle Ungar
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM) 2009
LNAI, Leipzig, Germany, Springer Verlag (July 23-25 2009)
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Efficient clustering of web-derived data sets
Luís Sarmento, Alexander Kehlenbeck, Eugénio Oliveira and Lyle Ungar
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM) 2009
LNAI, Leipzig, Germany, Springer Verlag (July 23-25 2009)
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Inferring Local Synonyms for Improving Keyword Suggestion in an On-line Advertisement System
Luís Sarmento, Paulo Trezentos, João Gonçalves and Eugénio Oliveira.
Proceedings 3rd International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising (held with SIGKDD 2009)
Paris, France, 28 June 2009
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Music Artist Tag Propagation with Wikipedia abstracts
Luís Sarmento, Fabien Gouyon and Eugénio Oliveira
Workshop on Information Retrieval over Social Networks, European Conference on Information Retrieval.
Toulouse, 2009
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Visualizing Networks of Music Artists with RAMA
Luís Sarmento, Fabien Gouyon, Bruno Costa and Eugénio Oliveira
In International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, 2009.
Lisbon, 2009
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Automatic Extraction of Quotes and Topics from News Feeds
Luís Sarmento, Sérgio Nunes
DSIE'09 - 4th Doctoral Symposium on Informatics Engineering
Porto, Portugal, 2009
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2008
Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus Based Expansion Techniques in QA-centric IR
Luís Sarmento, Jorge Filipe Teixeira, Eugénio Oliveira
In Carol Peters, Tomas Deselaers, Nicola Ferro, Julio Gonzalo, Gareth J. F. Jones, Mikko Kurimo, Thomas Mandl, Anselmo Peñs & Viviane Petras (eds.), Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008.
Aarhus, Denmark, September 17-19, 2008. Revised Selected Papers. Springer.
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Experiments with Query Expansion in the RAPOSA (FOX) Question Answering System
Luís Sarmento, Jorge Filipe Teixeira, Eugénio Oliveira
In Working Notes for the CLEF 2008 Workshop
Aarhus, Denmark, 17-19 September, 2008
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2007
"More like these": growing entity classes from seeds
Luis Sarmento, Valentin Jijkuon, Maarten de Rijke, Eugénio Oliveira
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '07)
Lisbon, November 2007, ISBN:978-1-59593-803-9.
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Making RAPOSA (FOX) smarter
Luís Sarmento, Eugénio Oliveira
In Alessandro Nardi and Carol Peters (Eds.) Working Notes for the CLEF 2007 Workshop
Budapest, Hungary, 19-21 September, 2007
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2006
A first step to address biography generation as an iterative QA task
Luís Sarmento
In Carol Peters, Paul Clough, Fredric C. Gey, Jussi Karlgren, Bernardo Magnini, Douglas W. Oard, Maarten de Rijke & Maximilian Stempfhuber (eds.), Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval - 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006. Alicante, Spain, September, 2006.
Revised Selected papers. Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007, pp. 473-482.
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"Hunting Answers with RAPOSA (FOX)"
Luís Sarmento
Working Notes of the Cross-Language Evalaution Forum Workshop (CLEF 2006)
Editors: Alessandro Nardi, C.P. & Vicedo, J.L.
Alicant, Spain, 20-22 de September 2006
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"BACO - A large database of text and co-occurrences"
Luís Sarmento
In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'2006)
Génova, Italia, 22-28 de Maio de 2006
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"Corpógrafo V3: From Terminological Aid to Semi-automátic Knowledge Engine"
Luís Sarmento, Belinda Maia, Diana Santos, Ana Pinto & Luís Cabral
In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'2006)
Génova, Italia, 22-28 de Maio de 2006
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"Component Evaluation in a Question Answering System"
Luís Costa & Luís Sarmento
In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'2006)
Génova, Italia, 22-28 de Maio de 2006
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"SIEMÊS - a Named-Entity Recognizer for Portuguese Relying on Similarity Rules "
Luís Sarmento
In Renata Vieira et al (eds.) PROPOR'2006: Processamento Computacional da Língua Portuguesa Escrita e Falada
Itatiaia, RJ, 13 a 17 de Maio
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"REPENTINO - A collaborative wide-scope gazetteer for Entity Recognition in Portuguese"
Luís Sarmento, Ana Sofia Pinto & Luís Cabral
PROPOR'2006: Processamento Computacional da Língua Portuguesa Escrita e Falada
Itatiaia, RJ, 13 a 17 de Maio
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"A expansão de conjuntos de co-hipónimos a partir de colecções de grandes dimensões de texto em Português"
Luís Sarmento
In Actas de 1a Conferência em Metodologias de Investigação Científica
Janeiro 2006. Porto, Portugal
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2005
"Towards an Architecture for Emotional BDI Agents"
David Pereira, Eugénio Oliveira, Nelma Moreira and Luís Sarmento
In IEEE Proceedings of EPIA, Covilhã, December 2005
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"Corpus analysis for indexing: when corpus-based terminology makes a difference"
Débora Oliveira, Luís Sarmento, Belinda Maia & Diana Santos.
In Pernilla Danielsson & Martijn Wagenmakers (eds.), Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2005 Conference
Birmingham, UK, 14-17 July 2005
ISSN: 1747-9398
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"A Simple and Robust Algorithm for Extracting Terminology"
Luís Sarmento
In META Simposium - For a Proactive Translatology Université de Montréal, Québec, Canadá, 7-9 de Abril de 2005
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"The Corpógrafo - an Experiment in Designing a Research and Study Environment
for Comparable Corpora Compilation and Terminology Extraction"
Belinda Maia & Luís Sarmento
In Proceedings of eCoLoRe / MeLLANGE Workshop, Resources and Tools for e-Learning in Translation and Localisation
Centre for Translation Studies, University of Leeds, UK, 21-23 March 2005
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"Introduzindo o Corpógrafo - um conjunto de ferramentas para criar corpora especializados e comparáveis e bases de dados teminológicas"
Belinda Maia, Luís Sarmento & Diana Santos
Terminómetro - Número especial nÂș 7 - A terminologia em Portugal e nos países de língua portuguesa em áfrica (2005): 61-62.


2004
"Linguateca: um centro de recursos distribuído para o processamento computacional da língua portuguesa"
Diana Santos, Alberto Simões, Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Ana Pinto, Anabela Barreiro, Belinda Maia, Cristina Mota, Débora Oliveira, Eckhard Bick, Elisabete Ranchhod, José João Dias de Almeida, Luís Cabral, Luís Costa, Luís Sarmento, Marcirio Chaves, Nuno Cardoso, Paulo Rocha, Rachel Aires, Rosário Silva, Rui Vilela & Susana Afonso.
In Guillermo De Ita Luna, Olac Fuentes Chávez & Mauricio Osorio Galindo (eds.),
Proceedings of the international workshop "Taller de Herramientas y Recursos Linguísticos para el Espanõl y el Portugués"
IX Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA 2004)
Puebla, México, Novembro de 2004), pp. 147-154.
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"The Corpógrafo - a Web-based environment for corpora research"
Luís Sarmento, Belinda Maia & Diana Santos.
LREC 04, Lisbon, May 2004
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"Gathering empirical data to evaluate MT from English to Portuguese"
Diana Santos, Belinda Maia & Luís Sarmento
LREC 04, Workshop "The Amazing Utility of Parallel and Comparable Corpora", Lisbon, May 2004
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"Idéias que cruzam o Oceano"
Belinda Maia, Luís Sarmento, Stella E. O. Tagnin & Sandra Maria Aluísio
CROP - Revista da área de Língua e Literatura Inglesa e Norte-Americana 10 (2004): 43-64.
Brasil: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo.



"Agrupamento de contextos de palavras polisémicas".
Luís Sarmento. Relatório Técnico ProDEI - FEUP (não publicado). 2006
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"Fighting Fire with Fear"
Luís Sarmento, Daniel Moura and Eugénio Oliveira
Proceeding of the 2nd European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2004), Barcelona, 16-17 December 2004
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"An Emotion-based Agent Architecture"
Luís Sarmento
Msc. Thesis 2004, Faculdade de Ciências Universidade do Porto, May 2004.
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2003
"O projecto AC/DC: acesso a corpora/disponibilização de corpora"
Diana Santos & Luís Sarmento
In Amália Mendes & Tiago Freitas (orgs.), Actas do XVIII Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística (APL 2002)
Porto, 2-4 de Outubro de 2003
Lisboa: APL, pp. 705-717
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"Gestor de corpora - Um ambiente Web integrado para Linguística baseada em Corpora"
Luís Sarmento & Belinda Maia
CP3A: Corpora Paralelos, Aplicações e Algoritmos Associados, Univ. Minho, Maio 2003
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"Emotional Advantage for Autonomy and Adaptability"
Eugénio Oliveira & Luís Sarmento
AAMAS 03, Melbourne, July 2003.
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2002
"Emotional Valence-based Mechanisms and Agent Personality"
Eugénio Oliveira, Luís Sarmento
SBIA'02, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, November 2002.
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1998
"Secure transmission of MPEG video sources"
Luís Teixeira and Luís Sarmento
ISPACS'98 - Melbourne, November 1998
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"Guaranteeing Confidentiality and Integrity of compressed video sources"
Luís Sarmento, Luís Teixeira, Artur P. Alves
RECPAD'98 - IST, Lisboa, March 1998.
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