Patrícia dos Santos Pereira (C012-5314-5BAC)

Curriculum Vitae

Patrícia dos Santos Pereira

Patrícia dos Santos Pereira. Completed the Mestrado integrado in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2020 by Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico and Mestrado in Computer Science and Engineering in 2020 by Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap. Attends the Doutoramento in Electrical and Computer Engineering by Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico since 2020. Is Researcher in Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa. Participated in 10 event(s). Has received 1 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Other in 1 project(s) and Research Fellow in 1 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Patrícia dos Santos Pereira

Citation names

Pereira, Patrícia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: C012-5314-5BAC
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9653-7181

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
French	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2023 - 2026 Ongoing	Lyrical Singing (Ensino secundário) Major in Lyrical Singing Conservatório de Música de Cascais, Portugal
2020 - 2025 Ongoing	Electrical and Computer Engineering (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Emotion Recognition in Textual Conversations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2020 Concluded	Electrical and Computer Engineering (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Attractor Neural Network Modelling of the Lifespan Retrieval Curve" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2020 Concluded	Computer Science and Engineering (Mestrado) Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap, Sweden "Attractor Neural Network Modelling of the Lifespan Retrieval Curve" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2010 Concluded	Grade 5 Piano (Ensino básico 3º ciclo) Major in Piano Conservatório de Música de Cascais, Portugal

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2020/09 - 2023/06	MAIA (Multilingual AI Agent Assistants) 045909 Research Fellow

Other

	Designation	Funders
2023 - 2025	Responsible.AI C645008882-00000055 Other
2021/11 - 2023	Multi3Generation - Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation CA18231	Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract	Dias, Isabel; Rei, Ricardo; Pereira, Patrícia; Coheur, Luisa. "Towards a Sentiment-Aware Conversational Agent". Paper presented in ACM International Conference in Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'22), 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3514197.3549692
Conference paper	Pereira, Patrícia; Moniz, Helena; Carvalho, Joao Paulo. Corresponding author: Pereira, Patrícia. "ConText at WASSA 2024 Empathy and Personality Shared Task: History-Dependent Embedding Utterance Representations for Empathy and Emotion Prediction in Conversations". Paper presented in 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA'24), 2024. Mendonça, John; Pereira, Patrícia; Miguel Menezes; Vera Cabarrão; Ana C Farinha; Helena Gorete Silva Moniz; Joao Paulo Carvalho; Alon Lavie; Isabel Trancoso. Corresponding author: Pereira, Patrícia. "Dialogue Quality and Emotion Annotations for Customer Support Conversations". Paper presented in Generation, Evaluation & Metrics Workshop (GEM'23), 2023. Mendonça, John; Pereira, Patrícia; Helena Gorete Silva Moniz; Joao Paulo Carvalho ; Alon Lavie; Isabel Trancoso. Corresponding author: Mendonça, John. "Simple LLM Prompting is State-of-the-Art for Robust and Multilingual Dialogue Evaluation". Paper presented in The Eleventh Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC'23), 2023. Ribeiro, Rui; Pereira, Patrícia; Coheur, Luisa; Moniz, Helena; Carvalho, Joao Paulo. "Fuzzy Fingerprinting Large Pre-trained Models". Paper presented in Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT'23), 2023. 10.1007/978-3-031-39965-7_20 Pereira, Patrícia; Rui Ribeiro; Helena Gorete Silva Moniz; Coheur, Luisa; Joao Paulo Carvalho. Corresponding author: Pereira, Patrícia. "Fuzzy Fingerprinting Transformer Language-Models for Emotion Recognition in Conversations". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE'23), 2023. 10.1109/FUZZ52849.2023.10309719 Pereira, Patrícia; Moniz, Helena; Dias, Isabel; Carvalho, Joao Paulo. "Context-Dependent Embedding Utterance Representations for Emotion Recognition in Conversations". Paper presented in 13th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA'23), 2023. 10.18653/v1/2023.wassa-1.21 Pereira, Patrícia; Lansner, Anders; Herman, Pawel. "Incremental Attractor Neural Network Modelling of the Lifespan Retrieval Curve". Paper presented in IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'22), 2022. 10.1109/IJCNN55064.2022.9891922 Ramos, Rita Parada; Pereira, Patrícia; Moniz, Helena; Carvalho, Joao Paulo; Martins, Bruno. "Retrieval Augmentation for Deep Neural Networks". Paper presented in INNS/IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'21), 2021. 10.1109/IJCNN52387.2021.9533978
Journal article	Pereira, Patrícia; Moniz, Helena; Carvalho, Joao Paulo. "Deep Emotion Recognition in Textual Conversations: A Survey". Artificial Intelligence Review (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-11010-y

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2022/08/04	Context-Dependent Embedding Utterance Representations for Emotion Recognition in Conversations	MAIA Consortium Meeting Carnegie Mellon University
2022/07/18	Incremental Attractor Neural Network Modelling of the Lifespan Retrieval Curve	IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'22)
2021/11/16	Deep Emotion Recognition in Textual Conversations: A Survey	MAIA meeting Unbabel

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2022/11/21 - 2022/11/22	Participated in the EmAI workshop Workshop	EmAI workshop
2022/11/09 - 2022/11/10	Attended and presented a poster at the CMU Portugal Summit 2022 Symposium	CMU Portugal Summit 2022
2022/09/26 - 2022/09/30	Participated in the Representation Mediated Multimodality Training School Workshop	Representation Mediated Multimodality Training School
2022/09/06 - 2022/09/09	Attended, presented a poster and was student volunteer at IVA 22 Conference	ACM International Conference in Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'22)
2022/03/22 - 2022/03/22	Participation in Unbabel4EU Demo Day Symposium	Unbabel4EU Demo Day Unbabel, Portugal
2021/10/13 - 2021/10/15	Participated and presented a poster at CRS21	Champalimaud Research Symposium (CRS'21) - Dialogues on Neural and Machine Intelligence
2021/09/09 - 2021/09/09	Participated in the TAILOR 2021 Summer School Workshop	TAILOR 2021 Summer School
2021/07/18 - 2021/07/22	Attended, authored a paper and was session chair at IJCNN 2021 Conference	INNS/IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'21)
2021/07/07 - 2021/07/15	Participation in the Lisbon Machine Learning School (LxMLS) 2021 Workshop	Lisbon Machine Learning School (LxMLS) 2021 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/07/01 - 2021/07/06	Participation in ACL 2021 Conference	ACL 2021

Distinctions

Other distinction

2016	Academic Excellence Diploma Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal