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Gil Rocha is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Human Language Technologies Laboratory (HLT) of Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID). At INESC-ID, he is currently participating in the research project Center for Responsible AI. Gil Rocha obtained a Masters Degree (M.Sc.) in Informatics and Computing Engineering (MIEIC) in 2016 from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), with a specialization in the topics of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Multi-Agent Systems. In 2023, he obtained a Doctoral Degree (Ph.D.) in Informatics Engineering (ProDEI) from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). During his Ph.D., he worked on the research area of Argumentation Mining, combining techniques from computational linguistics and machine learning to automatically detect, identify, and extract arguments from text. He also conducted research towards the development of robust argumentation mining systems that can be employed across different languages and genres, exploring cross-language and cross-genre approaches. From 2016 to 2023, he was a research member at the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Research Laboratory (LIACC), participating in several research projects related to Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Argumentation. Gil Rocha published several papers in peer-reviewed conferences and scientific journals. He co-supervised several students at different academic levels (from scientific initiation to M.Sc. thesis). He was a monitor in a B.Sc. course in Artificial Intelligence and invited assistant lecturer in a M.Sc. course in Agents and Distributed Artificial Intelligence (both at FEUP). He was also a monitor at the Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS 2024). He gave several talks as an invited speaker on topics related to Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and Argumentation Mining. He also participated in the program committee of several scientific conferences (as a reviewer), including top-tier ML and NLP conferences. Gil Rocha is interested in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing; his current research work focuses on the following research topics: Argumentation Mining, Computational Semantics, Transfer Learning, and Cross-Language Learning.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Gil Rocha

Citation names

  • Rocha, Gil

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4417-BB54-FC82
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8252-7292
AuthenticusID
R-00H-G2B
Google Scholar ID
Vbw_-e8AAAAJ
Scopus Author Id
57195593560

Email addresses

  • gil.rocha@fe.up.pt (Professional)
  • gil.rocha@inesc-id.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • INESC-ID, Rua Alves Redol, 9, 1000-029, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Computer Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2017 - 2023
Concluded
 Doctoral Program in Informatics Engineering (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Argumentation Mining from Text Using Semantic Approaches" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2011/09 - 2016/07
Concluded
 Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"ArgMine: Argumentation Mining from Text" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
2015/09/01 - 2016/02/29
Concluded
 Erasmus+ Programme (Master in Artificial Intelligence) (Outros)
Major in Artificial Intelligence
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Department of Computer Science, Spain
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/09/01 - 2023 Research Assistant (Research) Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
(...)
2018/03/28 - 2018/05/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/09 - 2020/02 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2015/03/02 - 2015/06/26 Tutor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/01 - Current Postdoctoral researcher Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2017 - 2023 ProDEI PhD student Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal
(...)
2014/09 - 2015/08 Web Development JCRSoft, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2014/11 - 2015/09 ArgMine: Argumentation Mining from Text
ArgMine
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal

Servidor de Apontadores Portugueses Online, Portugal
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2024/01 - Current Center for Responsible AI
RRP C645008882-00000055
Post-doc
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
 European Union
Ongoing
2018/10 - 2022/07 DARGMINTS: Discourse Analysis and Argumentation Mining from Text Sources
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031460
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/05 - 2020/06 IA.SAE: Artificial Intelligence in Economic and Food Safety
IA.SAE
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/07 - 2019/12 ARGH: Argumentation Hub
ARGH
Researcher
University of Porto Media Innovation Labs, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Rocha, G.; Lopes Cardoso, H.. Rethinking Adversarial Training for Language Adaptation. 2021.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-83527-9_21
Book chapter
  1. Gil Rocha; Bernardo Leite; Luís Trigo; Henrique Lopes Cardoso; Rui Sousa-Silva; Paula Carvalho; Bruno Martins; Miguel Won. "Predicting Argument Density from Multiple Annotations". 2022.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-08473-7_21
  2. Afonso Sousa; Bernardo Leite; Gil Rocha; Henrique Lopes Cardoso. "Cross-Lingual Annotation Projection for Argument Mining in Portuguese". 2021.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-86230-5_59
  3. Gil Rocha; Henrique Lopes Cardoso. "Improving Transfer Learning in Unsupervised Language Adaptation". 2021.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-86383-8_47
  4. Luís Barbosa; João Filgueiras; Gil Rocha; Henrique Lopes Cardoso; Luís Paulo Reis; João Pedro Machado; Ana Cristina Caldeira; Ana Maria Oliveira. "Automatic Identification of Economic Activities in Complaints". 249-260. Springer International Publishing, 2019.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-31372-2_21
Conference paper
  1. Rocha, Gil; Trigo, Luís; Henrique Daniel de Avelar Lopes Cardoso; SOUSA-SILVA, RUI; Paula Carvalho; Bruno Emanuel da Graça Martins; Won, Miguel. Corresponding author: Rocha, Gil. "Annotating Arguments in a Corpus of Opinion Articles". Paper presented in Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC, 2022.
    Published • 2022.lrec-1.201
  2. Rocha, Gil; Henrique Daniel de Avelar Lopes Cardoso. Corresponding author: Rocha, Gil. "Context Matters! Identifying Argumentative Relations in Essays". Paper presented in ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, ACM SAC, 2022.
    Published • 10.1145/3477314.3507246
  3. Pedro Azevedo; Rocha, Gil; Diego Esteves; Henrique Daniel de Avelar Lopes Cardoso. Corresponding author: Rocha, Gil. "Towards Better Evidence Extraction Methods for Fact-Checking Systems". Paper presented in IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI-IAT, 2021.
    Published • 10.1145/3486622.3493930
  4. Rocha, Gil; Lopes Cardoso, Henrique. "Towards Robust Auxiliary Tasks for Language Adaptation". 2021.
    Published • 10.14428/esann/2021.es2021-134
  5. Urbano, J.; Couto, M.; Rocha, G.; Cardoso, H.L.. "Inconsistency detection in job postings". 2021.
    Published • 10.4230/OASIcs.LDK.2021.25
  6. Rocha, Gil. "On Document Representations for Detection of Biased News Articles". 2020.
    Published • 10.1145/3341105.3374025
  7. Rocha, Gil. "Complaint Analysis and Classification for Economic and Food Safety". 2019.
    Published • 10.18653/v1/D19-5107
  8. Rocha, Gil. "A Comparative Analysis of Unsupervised Language Adaptation Methods". 2019.
    Published • 10.18653/v1/D19-6102
  9. Rocha, Gil. "Team Fernando-Pessa at SemEval-2019 Task 4: Back to Basics in Hyperpartisan News Detection". 2019.
    Published • 10.18653/v1/S19-2173
  10. Rocha, Gil. "On Sentence Representations for Propaganda Detection: From Handcrafted Features to Word Embeddings". 2019.
    Published • 10.18653/v1/D19-5015
  11. Rocha, Gil. "Cross-Lingual Argumentative Relation Identification: from English to Portuguese". 2018.
    Published • 10.18653/v1/W18-5217
  12. Rocha, Gil. "DeFactoNLP: Fact Verification using Entity Recognition, TFIDF Vector Comparison and Decomposable Attention". 2018.
    Published • 10.18653/v1/W18-5522
  13. Rocha, Gil. "Exploring Spanish Corpora for Portuguese Coreference Resolution". 2018.
    Published • 10.1109/SNAMS.2018.8554705
  14. Rocha, Gil. "Coreference Resolution in Portuguese: The Impact of Training Set Generation Approaches". Paper presented in Doctoral Symposium in Informatics Engineering, Porto, 2017.
    Published
  15. Rocha, Gil. "Towards a Relation-Based Argument Extraction Model for Argumentation Mining". 2017.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-68456-7_8
  16. Rocha, Gil. "Recognizing Textual Entailment and Paraphrases in Portuguese". 2017.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-65340-2_70
  17. Rocha, Gil. "Towards a Mention-Pair Model for Coreference Resolution in Portuguese". 2017.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-65340-2_69
Journal article
  1. Rocha, Gil; Henrique Daniel de Avelar Lopes Cardoso; Jonas Belouadi; Steffen Eger. Corresponding author: Rocha, Gil. "Cross-genre argument mining: Can language models automatically fill in missing discourse markers?". Argument & Computation (2024): 1-41. https://doi.org/10.3233/AAC-230008.
    Open access • Published • 10.3233/AAC-230008
  2. Henrique Lopes-Cardoso; Tomás Freitas Osório; Luís Vilar Barbosa; Gil Rocha; Luís Paulo Reis; João Pedro Machado; Ana Maria Oliveira. "Robust Complaint Processing in Portuguese". Information (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/info12120525.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/info12120525
  3. André Ferreira Cruz; Gil Rocha; Henrique Lopes Cardoso. "Coreference Resolution: Toward End-to-End and Cross-Lingual Systems". Information 11 2 (2020): 74-74. https://doi.org/10.3390/info11020074.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/info11020074
  4. Rocha, Gil. "Recognizing Textual Entailment: Challenges in the Portuguese Language". Information (2018): http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/9/4/76.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/info9040076

Other

Other output
  1. ArgMine: Argumentation Mining from Text. 2016. Rocha, Gil. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/89719.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/02/02 Argumentation Mining from Text Using Semantic Approaches Human Language Technologies Seminars
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020/11 Argumentation Mining: Challenges and Cross-Lingual Learning Language Processing and Information Extraction (PLEI) course from the Doctoral Program in Informatics Engineering (ProDEI)
FEUP (Porto, Portugal)
2019/11 Learning Text Representations Language Processing and Information Extraction (PLEI) course from the Doctoral Program in Informatics Engineering (ProDEI)
FEUP (Porto, Portugal)
2018/10 ArgMine: Argumentation Mining from Text Intelligent Systems, Interaction and Multimedia Seminar (SSIM) from the Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering (MIEIC)
FEUP (Porto, Portugal)
2018/06 Argumentation Mining from Text Smart Data Analytics (SDA) Seminar
Smart Data Analytics (SDA), University of Bonn (Bonn, Germany)
2017/10 Challenges in Natural Language Processing: From Semantic Tasks to Argumentation Mining Jornadas de Análise do Discurso – JADIS VII / MEMITA
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras (Porto, Portugal)
2017/10 ArgMine: Argumentation Mining from Text Language Processing and Information Extraction (PLEI) course from the Doctoral Program in Informatics Engineering (ProDEI)
FEUP (Porto, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/09 - 2025/07 Training-Free Multilingual Image Captioning
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado em Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/10/01 - 2020/07/01 Fact Extraction and Verification
Co-supervisor
 Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018/10 - 2019/08 Extracting Knowledge of Scientific Events from Text
Co-supervisor
 New Talents in Artificial Intelligence (Scientific initiation)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018/10 - 2019/08 Bias Detection in Text
Co-supervisor
 New Talents in Artificial Intelligence (Scientific initiation)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018/10 - 2019/07 Argument Diagramming: Annotation and Evaluation
Co-supervisor
 Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018/10 - 2019/07 Intelligent Analysis of Complaints
Co-supervisor
 Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018/10 - 2019/07 Dynamic Detection of Ambiguities and Contradictions in Job Posting
Co-supervisor
 Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2017/10 - 2018/08 Tackling Portuguese Coreference Resolution Using Cross-Lingual Approaches
Co-supervisor
 New Talents in Artificial Intelligence (Scientific initiation)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2017/10 - 2018/07 Opinion-based Argumentation Mining
Co-supervisor
 Integrated Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018/05/03 - 2018/05/03 Workshop ArgHumantation – Research and Practice(s) of Argumentation, Argumentation Hub (ARGH), Media Innovation Labs (MIL) (2018/05/03 - 2018/05/03)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2017/01 - 2017/01 DSIE – Doctoral Symposium on Informatics Engineering (2017/01 - 2017/01)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2017/07 - 2017/07 ESSLLI brings together logicians, linguists, computer scientists, and philosophers to study logic, language, information and their interconnections. ESSLLI 2017 featured 44 courses at foundational, introductory, and advanced levels, as well as 4 workshops, 4 invited lectures, and a student session to foster interdisciplinary discussion. Courses and workshops are one week long and cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Language and Logic, Language and Computation, and Logic and Computation.
Seminar
 29th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2017)
Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, France

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2017/07 - 2019/06 "ARGH: Argumentation Hub" is a collaborative and interdisciplinary research initiative (involving the Faculty of Engineering, Arts and Law from the University of Porto) created to advance the state-of-the-art in argumentation and related applications Research member

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024 - Current European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
2017 - 2027 IEEE/WIC/ACM IEEE/WIC/ACM
2024 - 2024 NAACL-HLT NAACL-HLT
2024 - 2024 LREC-COLING LREC-COLING
2021 - 2021 NAACL-HLT NAACL-HLT
2021 - 2021 Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM) Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)
2021 - 2021 EACL EACL
2021 - 2021 Doctoral Symposium in Informatics Engineering (DSIE) Doctoral Symposium in Informatics Engineering (DSIE)
2020 - 2021 EMNLP EMNLP
2019 - 2021 ACL ACL
2020 - 2020 AACL AACL
2019 - 2019 NAACL-HLT NAACL-HLT
2017 - 2017 ISMIS ISMIS
2017 - 2017 IEEE S3C IEEE S3C
2017 - 2017 ENIAC ENIAC

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2018 - 2018 Expert Systems with Applications Elsevier

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024/07/11 - 2024/07/17 Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS) Around 200 students
Distinctions

Award

2022 Best Poster Award at ACM SAC 2022 - Conference article "Context Matters! Identifying Argumentative Relations in Essays"
2022 Best Paper Award at NLDB 2022 - Conference article "Predicting Argument Density from Multiple Annotations"
2019 EurNLP 2019 Travel grant
Facebook London, United Kingdom
2013 European BEST Engineering Competition Porto 2013 (Team Design category) - First Place
2013 European BEST Engineering Competition Portugal 2013 (Team Design category) - First Place
2013 European BEST Engineering Competition Final 2013 (Team Design category) - Second Place

Other distinction

2021 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2021 - Outstanding Reviewer Recognition
Association Computational Linguistics, United States
2020 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2020 - Outstanding Reviewer Recognition
Association Computational Linguistics, United States
2018 Erasmus + (Work)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2018 PhD studentship (SFRH/BD/140125/2018)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2017 ProDEI doctoral scholarship - 1st Year
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2015 Feedzai scholarship - LxMLS 2015
2015 SAPO Labs scholarship
2015 Erasmus + (Study)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal