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Anna Maria Pompili is an auxiliary researcher at the Human Language Technologies (HLT) laboratory at NESC-ID, Lisbon. Presently, she is engaged in the Accelarat.AI project, which aims to develop innovative conversational AI solutions to enhance remote customer experiences and drive digital transformation in Portugal. With a career spanning over 20 years, split between industry and academia, Anna's research focuses on human language technologies, particularly speech-based solutions for healthcare applications - an area to which she has devoted her academic journey. In a broader context, Anna's research interests extend to the application of natural language processing and machine learning solutions aimed at enhancing people's quality of life and addressing societal challenges. Throughout her career, she has actively contributed as a team member to numerous national and international projects covering diverse topics such as health (VITHEA, Biovisualspeech), heritage (PICCH, HOUDINI), and public security (AIDA, STARLIGHT). Anna has co-authored 17 peer-reviewed publications in conferences and scientific journals within the field, earning recognition through several awards for the contributions to healthcare research.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Anna Maria Pompili

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
CA13-C81F-EB88
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9790-6463
Education
Degree Classification
2019
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
"Speech and language technologies applied to diagnosis and therapy of brain diseases" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Pass with Distinction
2013
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"New features for on-line aphasia therapy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2011
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Bachelor)
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
"Virtual Therapist for Aphasia Treatment" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09 - Current Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2019/12 - 2020/05 Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2010/11 - 2014/02 Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2006/02 - 2008/03 Técnico de Informática Grau 3 Nível 1 (Técnico de informática) Evolvi S.r.l., Italy
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy
2005/05 - 2006/02 Técnico de Informática Grau 2 Nível 2 (Técnico de informática) Proxima Informatica S.p.A., Italy
Automobile Club d'Italia, Italy
2002/03 - 2005/05 Técnico de Informática Grau 2 Nível 1 (Técnico de informática) Movenda S.p.A., Italy
Telecom Italia Media SpA, Italy

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/06 - 2023/05 Research Associate Voiceinteraction, Portugal
2014/03 - 2019/12 PhD Student Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/09/01 - Current Accelerat.AI
02/C05-i01.01/2022.PC644865762-00000008
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP
Ongoing
2021/10 - 2023/05 Sustainable Autonomy and Resilience for LEAs using AI against High priority Threats (STARLIGHT) - 53 Partners
Grant Agreement No. 101021797
Researcher
European Union's Research and Innovation
Ongoing
2021/06 - 2023/05 HOUDINI: Plataforma de conteúdos imersivos para património com história
LISBOA-01-0247-FEDER-069902 e POCI-01-0247-FEDER-069902
Researcher
Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal

Fundação Côa Parque – Fundação para a salvaguarda e valorização do Vale do Côa, Portugal

EMBRACEGADGET - LDA., Portugal

Voiceinteraction, Portugal
Autoridade de Gestão do Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização
Concluded
2021/05 - 2023/05 PICCH - Polyvocal Interpretation of Contested Colonial Heritage
JPICH/0002/2020
Researcher
Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom

Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus Institutt for arkiv- bibliotek- og informasjonsfag, Norway

Aix-Marseille Université, France

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Voiceinteraction, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2020/09 - 2023/02 Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Analytics for Law Enforcement Agencies (AIDA) - 21 Partners
Grant Agreement No. 883596
Researcher
European Union's Research and Innovation
Concluded
2019/08 - 2020/05 Plataforma interactiva com bio-feedback visual para terapia da fala
CMUP-ERI/TIC/0033/2014
Research Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal

Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal

Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/11 - 2013/05 VITHEA : Terapeuta Virtual para o tratamento da Afasia
RIPD/ADA/109646/2009
Research Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal

Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento da Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Anna Pompili; Alberto Abad; Isabel Trancoso; José Fonseca; Isabel P. Martins. "Evaluation and Extensions of an Automatic Speech Therapy Platform". 43-52. Springer International Publishing, 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-41505-1_5
  2. Pompili, Anna; Abad, Alberto; Romano, Paolo; Martins, Isabel P; Cardoso, Rita; Santos, Helena; Carvalho, Joana; Guimarães, Isabel; Ferreira, Joaquim. "Automatic detection of Parkinson's Disease: an experimental analysis of common speech production tasks used for diagnosis". 411-419. Springer, 2017.
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-64206-2_46
Conference paper
  1. Pompili, Anna; Luís, Tiago; Monteiro, Nuno; Miranda, João; Mendes, Carlo; Paulo, Sérgio. "On the detection of acoustic events for public security: the challenges of the counter-terrorism domain". Paper presented in IberSPEECH 2022, 2022.
    10.21437/iberspeech.2022-40
  2. Pompili, Anna; Rolland, Thomas; Abad, Alberto. "The INESC-ID Multi-Modal System for the ADReSS 2020 Challenge". 2020.
    10.21437/interspeech.2020-2833
  3. Pompili, Anna; Solera-Urena, Rubén; Abad, Alberto; Cardoso, Rita; Guimarães, Isabel; Fabbri, Margherita; Martins, Isabel; Ferreira, Joaquim. "Assessment of Parkinson's disease medication state through automatic speech analysis". 2020.
    10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2726
  4. Pompili, Anna; Abad, Alberto; Martins de Matos, David; Pavão Martins, Isabel. "Topic coherence analysis for the classification of Alzheimer's disease". 2018.
    10.21437/iberspeech.2018-59
  5. Reis, Sónia ; Pompili, Anna; Abad, Alberto; Baptista, Jorge. "O provérbio como estímulo num terapeuta virtual". Paper presented in VI SIMPÓSIO MUNDIAL DE ESTUDOS DA LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA, 2017.
  6. Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Moniz, Helena; Batista, Fernando; Cabarrão, Vera; Pompili, Anna; Fernández-Astudillo, Ramón; Trancoso, Isabel. "A semi-supervised learning approach for automatic personality classification based on acoustic-prosodic cues". Paper presented in 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2017, 2017.
  7. Pompili, Anna; Abad, Alberto. "The L2F Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection system for the ALBAYZIN 2016 evaluation". 2016.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49169-1
  8. Moniz, Helena; Pompili, Anna; Batista, Fernando; Trancoso, Isabel; Abad, Alberto; Amorim, Cristiana. "Automatic Recognition of Prosodic Patterns in Semantic Verbal Fluency Tests - an Animal Naming Task for Edutainment Applications". Paper presented in International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), 2015.
  9. Pompili, Anna; Amorim, Cristiana; Abad, Alberto; Trancoso, Isabel. "Speech and language technologies for the automatic monitoring and training of cognitive functions". Paper presented in 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), 2015.
    10.18653/v1/w15-5118
  10. Abad, Alberto; Pompili, Anna; Costa, Angela; Trancoso, Isabel. "Automatic word naming recognition for treatment and assessment of aphasia". Paper presented in 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012, 2012.
  11. Pompili, Anna; Abad, Alberto; Trancoso, Isabel; Fonseca, Jose ; Martins, Isabel P.; Leal, Gabriela; Farrajota, Luisa. "An on-line system for remote treatment of aphasia". Paper presented in Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, 2011.
Journal article
  1. Pompili, Anna; Alberto Abad; David Martins de Matos; Isabel Pavao Martins. "Pragmatic Aspects of Discourse Production for the Automatic Identification of Alzheimer's Disease". IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing 14 2 (2020): 261-271.
    10.1109/JSTSP.2020.2967879
  2. Solera-Ureña, Rubén; Moniz, Helena; Batista, Fernando; Cabarrão, Vera; Pompili, Anna; Fernández-Astudillo, Ramón; Trancoso, Isabel. "Uma abordagem de aprendizagem semissupervisionada para a classificação automática de personalidade baseada em pistas acústico-prosódicas". Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística 5 (2019): 348-364.
    10.26334/2183-9077/rapln5ano2019a23
  3. Tejedor, Javier; Toledano, Doroteo T.; Lopez-Otero, Paula; Docio-Fernandez, Laura; Proença, Jorge; Perdigão, Fernando; García-Granada, Fernando; et al. "ALBAYZIN Query-by-example Spoken Term Detection 2016 evaluation". (2018):
    10.1186/s13636-018-0125-9
  4. Abad, Alberto; Pompili, Anna; Costa, Angela; Trancoso, Isabel; Fonseca, José; Leal, Gabriela; Farrajota, Luisa; Martins, Isabel P.. "Automatic word naming recognition for an on-line aphasia treatment system". Computer Speech & Language 27 6 (2013): 1235-1248.
    10.1016/j.csl.2012.10.003
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/03 - Current Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/02 - 2019/12 Vithea. Development of Mobile a Application For Remote Speech Therapy
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/09 - 2018/10 Language Dynamics in Dementia Patients
Co-supervisor
 Internship, Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa (Other)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2016/11/15 - 2016/11/25 Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages - Third International Conference, (IberSPEECH 2016) - Volunteer staff. Lisbon, Portugal. (2016/11/23 - 2016/11/25)
Conference (Other)
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2015/09/10 - 2015/09/21 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015) - Volunteer staff. Lisbon, Portugal (2015/09/17 - 2015/09/21)
Conference (Other)
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2014/07/19 - 2014/07/24 International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC 2014) - Volunteer staff. Lisbon, Portugal. (2014/07/19 - 2014/07/24)
Conference (Other)
 International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Canada

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2021/06/19 - 2021/06/22 Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science & Technology (YFRSW-2021), an official Interspeech 2021 satellite event.
Member
 International Speech Communications Association, France

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2021/08/30 - 2021/09/03 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2021) Incheon, Korea
2020/10/25 - 2020/10/29 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2020) Brno, Czech Republic

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2021/04 - 2021/12 Computer Speech & Language Elsevier Inc.
2021/02 - 2021/05 Frontiers in Computer Science Frontiers
2020/11 - 2020/12 IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing IEEE Advancing Technology for Humanity
2020/04 - 2020/04 Sensors Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Distinctions

Award

2014 Second award at the Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge for the MSc thesis "Speech and language technologies for aphasia therapy"
Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Portugal
2013 IV Gala of Inclusion - Applied Research AWARD to INESC-ID for his work in the VITHEA project
2013 Best presented Service Award at the Conference Saúde CUF 2013 - Mobile Health (VITHEA project)
José de Mello Saúde SA, Portugal
2012 2nd Best Demo Award at Iberspeech 2012 (VITHEA project)