Ana Cristina da Costa Oliveira Alves (061A-47E1-2D34)

Curriculum Vitae

Ana Alves has been, since 2007, a member of the Cognitive and Media Systems (CMS) group, integrated into the Center for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC). Her main research interests are Natural Language Processing and Urban Computing, which she has studied to infer the organization of urban spaces and the way people use them by influencing mobility and land use analysis. The information to support this analysis is extracted from opportunistic data and enriched through mining distinct sources such as the Web and social networks. Learning to interconnect and represent this information is another research challenge she is devoted to. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC), Coimbra Institute of Engineering (ISEC), since 2000, lecturing courses on programming, operating systems, ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence. Holding a PhD in Science and Information Technology since 2012, an MSc. in Informatics and Systems in 2004 (pre-bologna), and a 5-year bachelor's degree in informatics engineering in 2000 from the University of Coimbra, Ana Alves has contributed to some indexed scientific journals in their reviewing process as well as is an editorial board member of the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. Furthermore, she is also a member of scientific associations such as the Portuguese Artificial Intelligence Association (APPIA - Associação Portuguesa Para a Inteligência Artificial), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and Registered researcher at the Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia).

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Ana Cristina da Costa Oliveira Alves
Gender: Female

Citation names

Alves, Ana
Ana Oliveira Alves
Ana Oliveira

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 061A-47E1-2D34
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3692-338X
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=B046Q8QAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT

Email addresses

ana@dei.uc.pt (Professional)
aalves@isec.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone

239790200 Ext.: 3514 (Professional)

Addresses

Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra - Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra. Rua Pedro Nunes, Quinta da Nora, 3030-199, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)
Polo II, Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030-290, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

http://eden.dei.uc.pt/~ana (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2012/07/26 Concluded	Doutoramento em Engenharia Informática (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal ""Semantic Enrichment of Places - Understanding the Meaning of Public Places from Natural Language Texts"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovada por unanimidade, com distinção e louvor.
2004 Concluded	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Pré-Bolonha) (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "Distância Semântica entre Mapas Conceptuais: Uma abordagem empírica" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Muito Bom
1995/10/01 - 2000/09/08 Concluded	Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal "TextStorm: Construção Automática de Mapas Conceptuais a partir de Textos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2012/01/09 - Current	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2007/03/01 - 2012/07/31	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2012/07/27 - Current	Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2000/10/19 - 2012/07/26	Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2014/06/01 - 2015/09/30	Principal Investigator - InfoCrowds (FCT - PTDC/ECM-TRA/1898/2012)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2008/10/01 - 2009/09/30	SEMANTIC ENRICHMENT OF PLACES SFRH/BD/45042/2008 PhD Student Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022/02/10 - 2025/12/31	NextGenAI - Center for responsible AI 7142 PRR - C645008882-00000055 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal	Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31	Intelligent Systems Associate Laboratory LA/P/0104/2020 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Tecnologias e Sistemas, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Tecnologia Mecânica e Automação, Portugal Instituto Politécnico do Porto Centro de Investigação em Sistemas Computacionais Embebidos e de Tempo-Real, Portugal Universidade do Minho, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal Universidade do Minho Instituto de Polímeros e Compósitos, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Engenharia Eletrónica e Informática de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Engenharia Mecânica e Industrial, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal Instituto Politécnico do Porto Grupo de Investigação em Engenharia e Computação Inteligente para a Inovação e o Desenvolvimento, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31	Laboratório Associado de Sistemas Inteligentes 10.54499/LA/P/0104/2020 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Tecnologias e Sistemas, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Tecnologia Mecânica e Automação, Portugal Instituto Politécnico do Porto Centro de Investigação em Sistemas Computacionais Embebidos e de Tempo-Real, Portugal Universidade do Minho, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal Universidade do Minho Instituto de Polímeros e Compósitos, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Engenharia Eletrónica e Informática de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Engenharia Mecânica e Industrial, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal Instituto Politécnico do Porto Grupo de Investigação em Engenharia e Computação Inteligente para a Inovação e o Desenvolvimento, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/12 - 2023/06	FLOWANCE: Automatic Dialogue Flow Extraction and Guidance POCI-01-0247-FEDER-047022 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Ongoing
2018/09 - 2020/02	AIA: Agente Inteligente para Atendimento no Balcão do Empreendedor INCoDe 2030 - Apoio Inteligente a Empreendedores (chatbots) Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal	Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	INESC TEC - INESC Technology and Science UID/EEA/50014/2019 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	CENTRO DE INFORMÁTICA E SISTEMAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA UID/CEC/00326/2019 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2016/06/01 - 2018/08/31	URBY.SENSE - Urban mobility analysis and prediction for non-routine scenarios using digital footprints PTDC/ECM-TRA/6803/2014 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2015/04/27 - 2017/11/10	REMINDS - Sistema para Mineração e Deteção de Relevância UTAP-ICDT/EEI-CTP/0022/2014 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal The University of Texas at Austin, United States	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2015/04 - 2017/04	Relevance Mining and Detection System (REMINDS) Provided by PTCRIS: 137420 Researcher Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. Concluded
2013/06/01 - 2015/09/30	InfoCrowds - Social events web information retrieval for crowds mobility managment PTDC/ECM-TRA/1898/2012 Principal investigator Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Portugal Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2011/04/01 - 2014/09/30	Crowds - Understanding urban land use from digital footprints of crowds PTDC/EIA-EIA/115014/2009 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31	Projecto Estratégico - UI 326 - 2011-2012 PEst-C/EEI/UI0326/2011 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2010/01 - 2013/12	TICE.MOBILIDADE - Sistemas de Mobilidade Centrado no Utilizador QREN Nº 13843 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Cláudia Rodrigues; Marco Veloso; Ana Alves; Carlos Bento. "Using CDR Data to Understand Post-pandemic Mobility Patterns". 2023. 10.1007/978-3-031-49011-8_35 Cláudia Rodrigues; Marco Veloso; Ana Alves; Gonçalo Ferreira; Carlos Bento. "Generating the Users Geographic Map Using Mobile Phone Data". 2022. 10.1007/978-3-031-16474-3_25 José Santos; Ana Alves; Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira. "Leveraging on Semantic Textual Similarity for Developing a Portuguese Dialogue System". 131-142. Springer International Publishing, 2020. 10.1007/978-3-030-41505-1_13 Tiago Sousa; Ana Alves; Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira. "Exploring Portuguese Word Embeddings for Discovering Lexical-Semantic Relations". 399-405. Springer International Publishing, 2020. 10.1007/978-3-030-41505-1_38 Inês Cunha; João Simões; Ana Alves; Rui Gomes; Anabela Ribeiro. "Characterization of Individual Mobility for Non-routine Scenarios from Crowd Sensing and Clustered Data". 296-310. Springer International Publishing, 2019. 10.1007/978-3-030-34255-5_20 André Clemêncio; Ana Alves; Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira. "Recognizing Humor in Portuguese: First Steps". 744-756. Springer International Publishing, 2019. 10.1007/978-3-030-30244-3_61 Simões, João; Gomes, Rui; Alves, Ana; Bernardino, Jorge. "Urban Mobility: Mobile Crowdsensing Applications". In Ambient Intelligence – Software and Applications –, 9th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, 182-189. Springer International Publishing, 2018. Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-01746-0_21 Almeida, Alexandre; Alves, Ana; Gomes, Rui. "Automatic POI Matching Using an Outlier Detection Based Approach". In Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XVII, 40-51. Springer International Publishing, 2018. Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-01768-2_4 Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo; Oliveira Alves, Ana; Rodrigues, Ricardo. "Gradually Improving the Computation of Semantic Textual Similarity in Portuguese". In Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 841-854. Springer International Publishing, 2017. Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-65340-2_68 Alves, Ana; David Silva. Corresponding author: Alves, Ana. "Mobile Crowd Sensing for Solidarity Campaigns". In Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications, 125-133. Springer International Publishing, 2015. 10.1007/978-3-319-19695-4_13 Adriana Ferrugento; Alves, Ana; Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo; Filipe Rodrigues. Corresponding author: Adriana Ferrugento. "Towards the Improvement of a Topic Model with Semantic Knowledge". In Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 759-770. Springer International Publishing, 2015. Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-23485-4_76 Alves, Ana; Francisco Câmara Pereira. Corresponding author: Alves, Ana. "Semantic enrichment of places: From public places descriptions to linked data". In Perspectives on Ontology Learning. IOS Press, 2014. Published
Conference abstract	Alves, Ana; David Simões; Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo; Adriana Ferrugento. Corresponding author: Alves, Ana. "ASAP-II: From the Alignment of Phrases to Textual Similarity". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015), Dublin, 2015. 10.18653/v1/s15-2033
Conference paper	Ferreira, Patrícia; Carvalho, Isabel; Silva, Catarina; Alves, Ana; Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo. "Sentiment-Aware Dialogue Flow Discovery for Guidance and Interpretation of Communication Trends". Paper presented in International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, South Korea, 2024. Submitted Francisco Pais; Ferreira, Patrícia; Silva, Catarina; Ana Oliveira Alves; Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo. "Question Answering for Dialogue State Tracking in Portuguese". Paper presented in 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2024), Santiago de Compostela, 2024. In press Ferreira, Patrícia; Daniel Martins; Ana Oliveira Alves; Silva, Catarina; Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo. "Unsupervised Flow Discovery from Task-oriented Dialogues". Paper presented in Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2023), Porto, 2023. In press Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo; Ferreira, Patrícia; Daniel Martins; Silva, Catarina; Alves, Ana. Corresponding author: Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo. "A Brief Survey of Textual Dialogue Corpora". Paper presented in 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marselle, 2022. Published Rodrigues, Cláudia; Alves, Ana; Marco Veloso; Bento, Carlos. "Identification of Users¿ Geographic Map". Paper presented in GeoKG'21: 11th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2021. Published Leonor Llansol; João Santos; Luís Duarte; José Pedro Santos; Mariana Gaspar Fernandes; Alves, Ana; Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo; Coheur, Luisa. Corresponding author: Coheur, Luisa. "MUAHAH: Taking the Most out of Simple Conversational Agents". Paper presented in 10th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2021), Vila do Conde, 2021. Published • 10.4230/OASICS.SLATE.2021.7 Rodrigues, Cláudia; Alves, Ana; Marco Veloso; Bento, Carlos. "Using Mobile Phone Data to Extract Users' Footprints". Paper presented in Mobility and Transportation Research Group, Porto, 2021. Published Carlos Afonso; Alves, Ana. "Clustering Techniques for On-Demand Transport Data: A Case Study". Paper presented in INTELLI 2020, Porto, 2020. Published Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira (5D1E-BEBF-FEA1); Tiago Sousa; Alves, Ana. "TALES: Test Set of Portuguese Lexical-Semantic Relations for Assessing Word Embeddings, in Proceedings". Paper presented in ECAI 2020 Workshop on Hybrid Intelligence for Natural Language Processing Tasks (HI4NLP 2020), Santiago de Compostela, 2020. Published Tiago Sousa; Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo; Alves, Ana. Corresponding author: Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo. "Exploring Different Methods for Solving Analogies with Portuguese Word Embeddings". Paper presented in 9th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2020), 2020. Published • 10.4230/OASICS.SLATE.2020.9 José Pedro Nogueira Amaro; Jorge Barreiros; Coutinho, Fernanda; Durães, João; Frederico Miguel Santos; Alves, Ana; Marco Silva; Cunha, João Carlos. "Challenges and Solutions from an Embedded Programming Bootcamp". Paper presented in First International Computer Programming Education Conference (ICPEC 2020), 2020. 10.4230/OASICS.ICPEC.2020.2 Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira (5D1E-BEBF-FEA1); João Ferreira; José Santos; Pedro Fialho; Ricardo Rodrigues; Luísa Coheur; Alves, Ana. "AIA-BDE: A Corpus of FAQs in Portuguese and their Variations". Paper presented in 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Merseille, 2020. Published Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira (5D1E-BEBF-FEA1); André Clemêncio; Alves, Ana. "Corpora and Baselines for Humour Recognition in Portuguese". Paper presented in 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Merseille, 2020. Published Renato Andrade; Alves, Ana; Carlos Lisboa Bento. "Exploring different combinations of data and methods for urban land use analysis: a survey". Paper presented in Workshop on Ambient Intelligence for promoting Sustainable Behaviors (BRAINS). Part of the 15th European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Rome, 2019. Published Renato Andrade; Alves, Ana; Carlos Lisboa Bento. "An overview of different data types and methods for urban land use analysis". Paper presented in Poster Session at the 15th European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Rome, 2019. Published Alves, Ana. "ASAPPpy: a Python Framework for Portuguese STS". Paper presented in ASSIN 2 Shared Task: Evaluating Semantic Textual Similarity and Textual Entailment in Portuguese, Salvador, 2019. Published J. Pedro Amaro; Cunha, João Carlos; Barreiros, Jorge; Coutinho, Fernanda; Durães, João; Santos, F.; Alves, Ana; Marco Silva. "Embedded programming bootcamp for career change.". Paper presented in AmiES-International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence and Embedded Systems, 2019. Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira (5D1E-BEBF-FEA1); Filipe, Ricardo; Ricardo Rodrigues; Alves, Ana. "Using Lucene for Developing a Question-Answering Agent in Portuguese". Paper presented in SLATE 2019: Proceedings of 8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies, Coimbra, 2019. Published • 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2019.2 Alves, Ana; Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira (5D1E-BEBF-FEA1); Ricardo Rodrigues; Rui Encarnação. "ASAPP 2.0: Advancing the State-of-the-Art of Semantic Textual Similarity for Portuguese". Paper presented in SLATE'18: 7th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies, Guimarães, 2018. Published • 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2018.12 Almeida, Alexandre; Alves, Ana. "Activity recognition for movement-based interaction in mobile games". Paper presented in MobileHCI '17: 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Viena, 2017. Published • 10.1145/3098279.3125443 Gomes, Rui; Antunes, Francisco; Ana Oliveira Alves; Bento, Carlos; Aguiar, Ana. "Gomes, R., Alves, A., Bento, C., Antunes, F., Aguiar, A., URBY.SENSE - Urban mobility analysis and prediction for non- routine scenarios using digital footprints". Paper presented in 14th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Working Group on Transport Studies (GET), Fatima, 2017. Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira (5D1E-BEBF-FEA1); Alves, Ana. "Poetry from Concept Maps — Yet Another Adaptation of PoeTryMe’s Flexible Architecture". Paper presented in Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2016), Paris, 2016. Published Alexandre Pinto; Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira (5D1E-BEBF-FEA1); Alves, Ana. "Comparing the Performance of Different NLP Toolkits in Formal and Social Media Text". Paper presented in 5th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE'16), Maribor, 2016. Published • 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2016.3 Adriana Ferrugento; Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira (5D1E-BEBF-FEA1); Alves, Ana; Filipe Rodrigues. "Can Topic Modelling benefit from Word Sense Information?". Paper presented in 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2016. Published "Computational Creativity Infrastructure for Online Software Composition: A Conceptual Blending Use Case". 2016. Polisciuc, Evgheni; Alves, Ana; Machado, Penousal. Corresponding author: Alves, Ana. "Understanding Urban Land Use through the Visualization of Points of Interest". Paper presented in Fourth Workshop on Vision and Language, Lisbon, 2015. Published • 10.18653/v1/w15-2810 Pedro Geadas; Alves, Ana; Ribeiro, Bernardete. "Ensemble learning for keyword extraction from event descriptions". Paper presented in 2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Beijing, 2014. Published • 10.1109/ijcnn.2014.6889911 Polisciuc, Evgheni; Alves, Ana; Bento, Carlos; Machado, Penousal. "Visualizing urban mobility". Paper presented in Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference, SIGGRAPH ’13, 2013. Published • 10.1145/2503385.2503511 Alves, Ana; Rodrigues, Joao; Correia, Pedro; Machado, Penousal; Pereira, Francisco C.. "Constructing route choice maps from GPS traces". 2013. Alves, Ana O.; Pereira, Francisco C.. "Making sense of location context". Paper presented in 1st International Workshop on Context Discovery and Data Mining part of the 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Beijing, 2012. Published • 10.1145/2346604.2346609 Alves, Ana O.; Rodrigues, Filipe; Pereira, Francisco C.. "Tagging Space from Information Extraction and Popularity of Points of Interest". Paper presented in International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Amsterdam, 2011. Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-25167-2_13 Oliveirinha, João; Pereira, Francisco; Alves, Ana. "Acquiring semantic context for events from online resources". Paper presented in LocWeb '10: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Location and the Web, Tokyo, 2010. Published • 10.1145/1899662.1899670 Alves, A.O.; Pereira, F.C.; Rodrigues, F.; Oliveirinha, J.. "Place in perspective: Extracting online information about points of interest". Paper presented in AmI 2010: International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Málaga, 2010. Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-16917-5_7 Alves, A.O.; Pereira, F.C.; Biderman, A.; Ratti, C.. "Place enrichment by mining the web". Paper presented in AmI 2009: European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Salzburg, 2009. Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-05408-2_9 Pereira, Francisco C.; Alves, Ana; Oliveirinha, João; Biderman, Assaf. "Perspectives on Semantics of the Place from Online Resources". Paper presented in Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Berkeley, 2009. Published • 10.1109/icsc.2009.23 Antunes, B.; Alves, A.; Pereira, F.C.. "Semantics of place: Ontology enrichment". Paper presented in IBERAMIA 2008: Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lisboa, 2008. Published • 10.1007/978-3-540-88309-8_35 Alves, Ana; Hervás, Raquel; Pereira, Francisco C.; Gervás, Pablo; Bento, Carlos. "Conceptual Enrichment of Locations Pointed Out by the User". Paper presented in KES 2007: International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Vietri Sul Mare, 2007. Published • 10.1007/978-3-540-74819-9_43 Alves, Ana; Nuno Figueiredo; Hugo Gomes; Francisco Câmara Pereira; Maria José Marcelino. Corresponding author: Alves, Ana. "The Ejaki Project: A Quality of Service Regulator for Citizens". Paper presented in 2007 IEEE International Conference on Portable Information Devices, Orlando, 2007. Published • 10.1109/portable.2007.10
Conference poster	Patrícia Ferreira; Daniel Martins; Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo; Silva, Catarina; Alves, Ana. Corresponding author: Patrícia Ferreira. "Natural Language Processing in the Classification of Dialog Act". Paper presented in 28th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2022. Daniel Martins; Patrícia Ferreira; Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo; Silva, Catarina; Alves, Ana. Corresponding author: Daniel Martins. "Can we rely on clustering for approximating intents and dialog acts?". Paper presented in 28th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2022. Alves, Ana; Adriana Ferrugento; Mariana Lourenço; Filipe Rodrigues. Corresponding author: Alves, Ana. "ASAP: Automatic Semantic Alignment for Phrases". Paper presented in 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014), 2014. 10.3115/v1/s14-2013
Journal article	Ferreira, Patrícia; Francisco Pais; Silva, Catarina; Alves, Ana; Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo. "MultiWOZ-PT: Um Conjunto de Diálogos Orientados a Tarefas em Português". Linguamática (2024): Submitted Cláudia Rodrigues; Marco Veloso; Ana Alves; Carlos Bento. "Sensing Mobility and Routine Locations through Mobile Phone and Crowdsourced Data: Analyzing Travel and Behavior during COVID-19". ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12080308. 10.3390/ijgi12080308 Ferreira, Patrícia; Martins, Daniel; Silva, Catarina; Alves, Ana; Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo. Corresponding author: Ferreira, Patrícia. "Flow Discovery from Task-oriented Dialogue History". Springer Applied Intelligence (2023): https://www.springer.com/journal/10489/. Submitted Gonçalo Ferreira; Ana Alves; Marco Veloso; Carlos Bento. "Identification and Classification of Routine Locations Using Anonymized Mobile Communication Data". ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 11 4 (2022): 228-228. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11040228. 10.3390/ijgi11040228 João Cunha; João Durães; Ana Alves; Fernanda Coutinho; Jorge Barreiros; José Pedro Amaro; Marco Silva; Frederico Santos. "Empirical Assessment of the Long-Term Impact of an Embedded Systems Programming Requalification Programme". Information (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/info13010016. 10.3390/info13010016 Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo; Alves, Ana. "AIA-BDE: um Corpo de Perguntas, Variações e outras Anotações". Linguamática 13 2 (2021): 19-35. http://dx.doi.org/10.21814/lm.13.2.350. Open access • Published • 10.21814/lm.13.2.350 Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira (5D1E-BEBF-FEA1); Tiago Sousa; Ana Oliveira Alves. "Assessing Lexical-Semantic Regularities in Portuguese Word Embeddings". International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence 6 5 (2021): 34-46. http://dx.doi.org/10.9781/ijimai.2021.02.006. Open access • Published • 10.9781/ijimai.2021.02.006 José Santos; Luís Duarte; João Ferreira; Ana Alves; Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira. "Developing Amaia: A Conversational Agent for Helping Portuguese Entrepreneurs—An Extensive Exploration of Question-Matching Approaches for Portuguese". Information 11 9 (2020): 428-428. https://doi.org/10.3390/info11090428. 10.3390/info11090428 Renato Andrade; Ana Alves; Carlos Bento. "POI Mining for Land Use Classification: A Case Study". ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 9 9 (2020): 493-493. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9090493. 10.3390/ijgi9090493 Pinto, Alexandre; Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo; Figueira, Álvaro; Alves, Ana Oliveira. "Predicting the Relevance of Social Media Posts Based on Linguistic Features and Journalistic Criteria". New Generation Computing 35 4 (2017): 451-472. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00354-017-0015-1. Open access • Published • 10.1007/s00354-017-0015-1 Alves, Ana. "ASAPP: Alinhamento Semântico Automático de Palavras aplicado ao Português". Linguamática 8 2 (2016): 43-58. https://www.linguamatica.com/index.php/linguamatica/article/view/v8n2-5. Open access • Published ALVES, Ana OLIVEIRA; RIBEIRO, Bernardete. "Consensus-based Approach for Keyword Extraction from Urban Events Collections". ADCAIJ: ADVANCES IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE JOURNAL 4 2 (2015): 41-59. http://dx.doi.org/10.14201/adcaij2015424160. Open access • Published • 10.14201/adcaij2015424160 ALVES, Ana OLIVEIRA; DIAS, Tiago; SILVA, David. "A Real-Time, Distributed and Context-Aware System for Managing Solidarity Campaigns". ADCAIJ: ADVANCES IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE JOURNAL 4 2 (2015): 25-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.14201/adcaij2015422540. Open access • Published • 10.14201/adcaij2015422540 Jiang, Shan; Alves, Ana; Rodrigues, Filipe; Ferreira, Joseph; Pereira, Francisco C.. "Mining point-of-interest data from social networks for urban land use classification and disaggregation". Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 53 (2015): 36-46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2014.12.001. Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2014.12.001 Filipe Rodrigues; Alves, Ana; Polisciuc, Evgheni; Jiang, Shan; Joshep Ferreira; Francisco Câmara Pereira. "Estimating Disaggregated Employment Size from Points-of-Interest and Census Data: From Mining the Web to Model Implementation and Visualization". International Journal on Advanced Intelligent Systems 6 2 (2013): 41-52. http://personales.upv.es/thinkmind/IntSys/IntSys_v6_n12_2013/intsys_v6_n12_2013_4.html. Open access • Published Alves, Ana; Antunes, Bruno; Pereira, Francisco C.; Bento, Carlos. "Semantic enrichment of places: Ontology learning from web". International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems 13 1 (2009): 19-30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/kes-2009-0170. Published • 10.3233/kes-2009-0170 Alves, A.; Hervás, R.; Pereira, F.C.; Gervás, P.; Bento, C.. "Conceptual enrichment of locations pointed out by the user". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 4692 LNAI PART 1 (2007): 346-353. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-38049151243&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Thesis / Dissertation	Alves, Ana Cristina da Costa Oliveira. "Semantic enrichment of places. Understanding the meaning of public places from natural language texts". PhD, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/10316/20536. "Distância Semântica entre Mapas Conceptuais: Uma Abordagem Experimental". Master, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, 2004. https://eden.dei.uc.pt/~camara/files/FCTSubmission/AnaMSCThesis.pdf.

Activities

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021/10/15 - Current	Automatic Dialogue Flow Extraction and Guidance Co-supervisor of Patrícia Sofia Pereira Ferreira	Engenharia Informática (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021/09/15 - 2023/03/29	Descoberta de Fluxos de Diálogo Através de Técnicas de Aprendizagem Computacional Supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2021/09/15 - 2022/07/11	WHYWHEMOVE: Ferramenta de Apoio à Decisão para o Desenvolvimento Sustentado do Espaço Urbano Co-supervisor of André Filipe de Oliveira Ribeiro	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020/10/01 - 2021/09/07	Positive Energy Assessment in Smart Cities Supervisor of Patrícia Sofia Pereira Ferreira	Engenharia Informática (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2021/07/01	WhereToGo :Identification and classification of places of interest using anonymized mobile communication data Co-supervisor of Gonçalo Francisco Ferreira	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019/02/10 - 2021/02/26	Plataforma de Mobilidade a pedido Supervisor of Carlos Pedro Marques Afonso	Informática e Sistemas (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2020 - 2020/07/13	Classificação e Análise do Uso do Solo Com Base em Pontos de Interesse Supervisor of Renato Ribeiro de Andrade	Informática e Sistemas (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/09/05 - 2019/09/20	Exploração de técnicas para a Resposta Automática a Perguntas por Agentes Conversacionais Co-supervisor of José Pedro Pessoa dos Santos	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2018/08/05 - 2019/09/11	Reconhecimento Automático de Humor Verbal Co-supervisor of André David Fernandes Clemêncio	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017/10/01 - 2019/06/18	FAQBot.PT : sistema de conversação e resposta a perguntas em português Supervisor	Informática e Sistemas (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/10/01 - 2019/05/27	Análise de dados e Machine Learning na mobilidade urbana Supervisor of João Pedro Fernandes Simões	Informática e Sistemas (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2015/10/03 - 2017/05/05	Reconhecimento de atividades para jogos em dispositivos móveis Supervisor	Informática e Sistemas (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2015/10/01 - 2017/05/05	Inferência das atividades na modelização de escolhas de destinos e seu impacto na mobilidade urbana Supervisor	Informática e Sistemas (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2015/09/05 - 2016/09/09	Classification of Social Media Posts according to their Relevance Co-supervisor of Alexandre Pinto	Master (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2014/09/06 - 2015/07/15	Semantic Topic Modelling Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2013/10 - 2014/12	Crowd Sensing para campanhas de solidariedade Supervisor	Informática e Sistemas (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2012/09/05 - 2013/09/11	Visual Tools for the Study of Urban Mobility Co-supervisor of Evgheni Polisciuc,	Design e Multimédia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2011/09/05 - 2012/07/11	KUSCO@TICE.Mobilidade: Enriquecimento Semântico de Lugares e Eventos Co-supervisor of Jorge Alexandre Gomes de Oliveira Santos	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2009/09/15 - 2010/09/10	Enriquecimento Semântico de Pontos de Interesse e sua Visualização Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2009/09/05 - 2010/07/15	POI Mining and Generation Co-supervisor of FIlipe Manuel Pereira Duarte Rodrigues	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2023/12/06	IoT Platform for Personal Healthcare of Elderly People (Thesis) Arguer	Ruben António de Jesus Marques (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/11/03	GISPRESS – Plataforma de Processamento e Visualização em Modo Dinâmico de informação Georreferenciada Supervisor	Raquel Alexandra dos Santos Baptista (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/10/13	Risk assessment for progression of Diabetic Nephropathy based on patient history analysis (Thesis) Arguer	Francisco Gabriel Fonseca Mesquita (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/03/29	Descoberta de Fluxos de Diálogo Através de Técnicas de Aprendizagem Computacional Supervisor	Daniel Lemos Martins (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2022/07/19	CONCEPTUALIZAÇÃO E DESENVOLVIMENTO DE UMA FERRAMENTA WEB, DE ANÁLISE DE SATISFAÇÃO DE CLIENTE COM BASE NO MODELO KANO (Thesis) Arguer	Carlos David Pinto Prata Dias (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2022/06/01	Biomechanical Support System for Lower Limb Rehabilitation (Thesis) Arguer	Emanuel Simões Ferreira (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2021/12/20	Real-Time Quality Control of Heat Sealed Bottles (Thesis) Arguer	Samuel Silva da Cruz (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2021/12/09	A conversational agent to assist users in public institutions of Ecuador (Thesis) Main arguer	Esteban Eduardo Cando Peñaherrera (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2021/05/20	Desenvolvimento de uma plataforma para classificação inteligente de famílias de proteínas (Thesis) Arguer	Hugo David Duarte Lucas (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2021/04/08	Evaluation Methodology for Visual Analytics Software (Thesis) Arguer	Antonio Augusto de Mélo Bessone de Oliveira (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2021/02/25	Automatic and Smart Irrigation (Thesis) Arguer	Stefan Alves de Loureiro (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2021	Previsão de anulação de projetos financiados por fundos públicos. (Thesis) Main arguer	Alberto Neto Vilas (Master) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/06/25	JiTT.travel Web platform	Rui Pedro Barreto Amado Ferreira (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/07/23	Mobile Application for Analysis of Sentiments in Twitter (Thesis) Main arguer	Juan Pablo Guevara Gordillo (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2018/04/03	On the use of CEP in safety-critical systems (Thesis) Arguer	Veronika Sergeevna Abramova (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/05/05	Automação de Espaços : Sauter (Thesis) Main arguer	David José de Figueiredo e Rego (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2016/11/04	Development of a framework to create plugins in Android Apps (Thesis) Main arguer	Rafael Alexandre Marques da Costa (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2016/06/01	Classificação de documentos com processamento de linguagem natural (Thesis) Arguer	Cedric Michael dos Santos (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2016/03/16	Previsão da estrutura de proteínas com modelos HP (Thesis) Arguer	Cátia Regina Craveiro Pires (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2016/03/09	Machine-to-machine emergency system for urban safety (Thesis) Arguer	André Filipe Gomes Duarte (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2015/05/14	Integração de tecnologias móveis nos transportes públicos (Thesis) Arguer	Pedro José de Sousa Ferreira (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2015/02/12	Sistema de recomendação inteligente para uma plataforma de e-learning (Thesis) Arguer	Pedro Filipe Caldeira Neves (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2014/09/05	Desenvolvimento de aplicações móveis para Windows Phone (Thesis) Arguer	Mário José Bento Oliveira (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2013/05/03	Análise da Plataforma Webinos e tecnologias Web Mobile (Thesis) Arguer	Aurélio Oliveira Costa dos Santos (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2023/11/17 - 2024/12/12	Natural Language Engineering (1351-3249)	Cambridge University Press
2024/02/19 - 2024/03/21	Computers, Environment and Urban Systems ( 0198-9715)	Elsevier
2023/11/07 - 2023/12/12	ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (2220-9964)	MDPI
2022/11/10 - 2023/03/17	Linguamática (1647-0818)	Universidade do Minho and Universidade de Vigo
2022/02/24 - 2022/07/12	Transactions in GIS (1467-9671)	Wiley Online Library
2016/06/15 - 2022/03/12	Transportation Research Part C (0968-090X)	Elsevier
2021/07/14 - 2021/09/27	Computer Speech & Language (0885-2308)	Elsevier
2018/12/01 - 2020/06/01	Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (0198-9715)	Elsevier
2020/02/04 - 2020/05/09	IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (2168-2267)	IEEE
2019/06/21 - 2020/03/30	Travel Behaviour and Society (2214-367X)	Elsevier
2016/11/17 - 2018/04/23	Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (0952-1976)	Elsevier

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2023/08/30 - 2023/09/01	31st International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2023)	Instituto Superior Técnico
2021/10/06 - 2021/10/08	ISAmI'21 (12th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence)	https://edition2021.isami-conference.net/
2021/07/01 - 2021/07/02	10th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2021)	https://slate-conf.org/2021/home
2020/07/13 - 2020/07/14	9th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2020)	https://slate-conf.org/2020/home
2020/06/17 - 2020/06/19	ISAmI'20 (11th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence)	https://edition2020.isami-conference.net/
2019/06/28 - 2019/06/29	SLATE 2019: Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies	https://slate-conf.org/2019/home

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2023/11/13 - Current	Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (1876-1364)	IOS Press

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2023/09/20 - 2023/09/20	Júri das provas para a atribuição do Título de Especialista, na área de Informática, do candidato Diogo Sérgio Esteves Cardoso	Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2020	Best Paper Award - HI4NLP Workshop on Hybrid Intelligence for Natural Language Processing Tasks Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2020	SLATE'2020 Best Paper Award Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Portugal
2010	Best Prize of MSc Thesis (Filipe Rodrigues) (Co-supervisor of Filipe Rodrigues) Associação Porguesa para a Inteligência Artificial, Portugal
2001	Prémio Henrique Teixeira Bastos Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal