Luís Filipe Costa Cunha (2C1C-A41C-EBB1)

Curriculum Vitae

Luís Filipe Costa Cunha

Luís Filipe Cunha is a PhD student at the University of Porto and an Invited Assistant Professor at the University of Minho. He is a researcher at LIAAD INESC TEC, the Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Lab of U. Porto. He finished his BSc and master’s degree in Computer Engineering in 2016 and 2022 respectively with the thesis “NER in Archival Descriptions”, where he developed several projects such as the NER@DI web platform (http://ner.epl.di.uminho.pt). Since February 2022, he has been teaching Natural Language Processing at the Universidade do Minho in the Masters in Computer Engineering and the Masters of Biomedical Engineering. In September 2022, he started his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Porto, focusing on "Document Level Event Extraction from Narratives" under the FCT-funded StorySense project. During his PhD he has published several papers in highly regarded conferences (CORE A and A*) and has received several awards.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Luís Filipe Costa Cunha
Date of birth: 1997/02/06
Gender: Male

Citation names

Cunha, Luis Filipe

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 2C1C-A41C-EBB1
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1365-0080
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F9mWgmEAAAAJ&hl=en
Scopus Author Id: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57534330600

Email addresses

lfc@di.uminho.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2022/09/12 - 2026/09/12 Ongoing	Ciência de Computadores (Doutoramento) Major in Processamento de Linguagem Natural; Inteligência Artificial Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2016/07/31 - 2022/02/17 Concluded	Engenharia Informática (Mestrado integrado) Major in Aplicações Web, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning Universidade do Minho, Portugal "NER in Archival Descriptions" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16

Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/02/14 - Current	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/06/01 - Current	StorySense: Atingir as Camadas Semânticas de Histórias em Texto 2022.09312.PTDC Research Fellow Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal	Ongoing
2023/11 - 2024/11	PTicola - Increasing Computationally Language Resources for Portuguese CPCA-IAC/AV/594794/2023 Researcher Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2022/10/06 - 2023/05/30	Text2Story: Extração de narrativas jornalísticas a partir de textos e sua representação numa linguagem de modelos narrativos. PTDC/CCI-COM/31857/2017 Research Fellow Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal Universidade do Porto, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Cunha, Luis Filipe; Almeida, João José; Simões, Alberto. Corresponding author: Cunha, Luis Filipe. "Reasoning with Portuguese Word Embeddings". In 11th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2022), 17:1-17:14. Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2022. Published Cunha, Luis; Ramalho, José Carlos Leite. "NER in Archival Finding Aids". In 10th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies, 105-120. Saarbrücken/Warden, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH, 2021. Published
Conference paper	Cunha, Luis Filipe; Silvano, Purificação; Campos, Ricardo; Jorge, Alípio. Corresponding author: Cunha, Luis Filipe. "ACE-2005-PT: Corpus for Event Extraction in Portuguese". Paper presented in 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Washington D. C., 2024. Published • 10.1145/3626772.3657872 Luís Filipe Cunha. "Document Level Event Extraction from Narratives". Paper presented in 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Glasgow, 2024. Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_38 Rúben Almeida; Hugo Sousa; Luís F. Cunha; Nuno Guimarães; Ricardo Campos; Alípio Jorge. "Physio: An LLM-Based Physiotherapy Advisor". Paper presented in 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Glasgow, 2024. Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_16 Cunha, Luis Filipe; Campos, Ricardo; Jorge, Alípio. Corresponding author: Cunha, Luis Filipe. "Event Extraction for Portuguese: A QA-driven Approach using ACE-2005". Paper presented in EPIA'23 - 22nd Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Horta, Faial, 2023. Published Cunha, Luis Filipe; Ramalho, José Carlos. Corresponding author: Cunha, Luis Filipe. "ARCANO - No caminho para adicionar semântica às descrições arquivísticas". Paper presented in 14º Congresso Nacional BAD (Associação Portuguesa de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas, Profissionais da Informação e Documentação)), Faro, 2023. Published Cunha, Luis Filipe; Ramalho, José Carlos. Corresponding author: Cunha, Luis Filipe. "Fine-Tuning BERT Models to Extract Named Entities from Archival Finding Aids". Paper presented in Proceedings of the Workshops and Doctoral Consortium of the 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Padua, 2022. Published Cunha, Luis Filipe; Almeida, João José; Simões, Alberto. Corresponding author: Cunha, Luis Filipe. "Reasoning with Portuguese Word Embeddings". Paper presented in SLATE 2022 - Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies, Covilhã, 2022. Published • 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2022.17 Neto, Cristiana; Ferreira, Diana; Nunes, João; Martins, Luís; Braga, Luís; Cunha, Luis Filipe; Machado, José. "Classification of Dementia in Adults". 2021. Published • 10.1007/978-981-16-4884-7_23 Cunha, Luis; Ramalho, José Carlos Leite. "Towards Entity Linking, NER in Archival Finding Aids". Paper presented in Linked Archives International Workshop 2021, 2021. Published
Journal article	Luis Filipe Costa Cunha; José Carlos Ramalho. "NER in Archival Finding Aids: Extended". Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/2504-4990/4/1/3. 10.3390/make4010003
Online resource	Cunha, Luis Filipe; Campos, Ricardo; Jorge, Alípio M.. Corresponding author: Cunha, Luis Filipe. Automatic Content Extraction for Portuguese. 2024. https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T05. https://doi.org/10.35111/8gr4-tn81

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/02/02	Reconhecimento de Entidades em Descrições Arquivísticas	2ª Conferência Internacional de Gestão da Informação e Arquivos (CIGIA) Associação Portuguesa de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas, Profissionais da Informação e Documentação (Torres Vedras, Portugal)

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2022/09/19 - Current	Algoritmos e Técnicas de Programação	Licenciatura em Engenharia Biomédica (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/02/14 - Current	Scripting no Processamento de Linguagem Natural	Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Mestrado)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/02/14 - Current	Processamento de Linguagem Natural em Engenharia Biomédica	Mestrado em Engenharia Biomédica - Área de Especialização em Informática Médica (Mestrado)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/10 - 2023/01	Computer science	European Master in Lexicography (Master Universitario)	Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Distinctions

Award

2024	Best Demo Paper Award European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), United Kingdom
2024	SIGIR Student Travel Award SIGIR '24: The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, United States
2023	Best Student Paper Award EPIA'23 - The 22nd Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Portugal
2023	3rd Sword AI Challenge 2023 Sword Health Inc, United States

Other distinction

2023	Distinguished as an “Outstanding” researcher by INESC TEC Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal