PhD and MSc Contest
This contest was designed to recognize the best of emerging academic work on processing of the Portuguese language and related issues, concluded in the three years preceding the end of 2009. There were 8 submissions in total (from Brazil and Portugal), of which the top 3 in each category were selected by the evaluation committee for final evaluation at the conference. The papers from the selected final contestants are listed below.
Best PhD Dissertations
Entropy Guided Transformation Learning
Cícero Nogueira dos Santos, Ruy L. Milidiú
A Relational Approach for Word Sense Disambiguation
Lucia Specia, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, Mark
Stevenson
Transfer rule and bilingual dictionary automatic induction in
the ReTraTos project
Helena de Medeiros Caseli, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes
Best MSc Dissertations
Complex Networks and Extractive Summarization
Lucas Antiqueira, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes
Cross-Language Information Retrieval using Algorithms for Mining
Association Rules
André Pinto Geraldo, Viviane Pereira Moreira
Shallow Processing of Portuguese: From Sentence Chunking to
Nominal Lemmatization
João Ricardo Silva, António Branco