Speaker Name
Luís Sarmento
Bio
PhD student in Software Engineering at FEUP under FCT scholarship SFRH/BD/23590/2005, and I am a member of the NIAD&R team. I
His research is related to studying and developing methods for measuring semantic similarity (or dissimilarity) between words (names and verbs) or concepts (identified by noun phases or names). The goal of this research is being able to use such semantic information for helping to build more powerful semi-supervised methods for NLP/IE tasks.
Blog
Sessions
- Map Reduce (2009)