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Ana Cristina da Costa Oliveira Alves
Address
Linked In:https://www.linkedin.com/in/anaoliveiraalves
Research Gate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ana_Alves9
Home Page
http://eden.dei.uc.pt/~anaMember
Cognitive and Media SystemsResearch interests
Intelligent Data AnalysisAmbient Intelligence
Natural Language Processing
Semantic Reasoning
Knowledge Representation
Affiliation
ResearcherAmbient Intelligence Laboratory (AmILab) at Cognitive and Media Systems group (CMS), Center of Informatics and Systems of University of Coimbra (CISUC)
Assistant Professor
Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC) - Coimbra Institute of Engineering (ISEC)
Short Bio
Since 2007, she is a member of the Ambient Intelligence Laboratory (AmILab) of the Cognitive and Media Systems (CMS) group, integrated in the Center for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC). Her research is dedicated mainly to the way urban spaces are organized and how people use them by influencing patterns of mobility and land use analysis. The information to support this analysis is mined primarily from the Web and social networks and consists mostly of textual data. Learning to interconnect and represent this information is also an interesting research challenge she is devoted.She is also an Assistant Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC), Coimbra Institute of Engineering (ISEC), since 2000, lecturing courses on programming, operating systems and ubiquitous computing.
She holds a Ph.D. in Science and Information Technology since 2012, MSc. in Informatics and Systems in 2004 (pre-bolonha), and a 5-year Bachelor degree in Informatics Engineering in 2000 from the University of Coimbra.
She is also member of sicentific associations such as: Portuguese Artificial Intelligence Association (APPIA - Associação Portuguesa Para a Inteligência Artificial); Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL); and Registered researcher at the Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia).
National Projects
SUSpENsE - Sustainable built Environment under Natural Hazards and Extreme Events
AIA: Agente Inteligente para Atendimento no Balcão do Empreendedor
UMove - Understanding User’s Needs, Preferences and Social Interactions for the Design of Future Mobility Services
Past Projects
MARTA - Middleware Assistant for Recognition of Textual Commands
Crowds - Understanding urban land use from digital footprints of crowds
TICE.MOBILIDADE - Sistemas de Mobilidade Centrado no Utilizador
InfoCrowds - Social Web Information Retrieval for crowds mobility management
URBY.SENSE - Urban mobility analysis and prediction for non-routine scenarios using digital footprints. PTDC/ECM-TRA/6803/2014
SUSCITY
Journal Articles
2020
(2 publications)- Andrade, R. and Alves, A. and Bento, C. , "POI Mining for Land Use Classification: A Case Study", ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, vol. 9, pp. 1-23, 2020 [ DOI ]
- Santos, J. and Duarte, L. and Ferreira, J. and Alves, A. and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, , " Developing Amaia: A Conversational Agent for Helping Portuguese Entrepreneurs—An Extensive Exploration of Question-Matching Approaches for Portuguese", Information, vol. 11, 2020 [ DOI ]
2017
(1 publication)- Alexandre Pinto and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Alves, A. , "Predicting the Relevance of Social Media Posts Based on Linguistic Features and Journalistic Criteria", New Generation Computing, vol. 35, pp. 451-472, 2017 [ DOI ]
2016
(1 publication)- Alves, A. and Ricardo Rodrigues and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, , "ASAPP: Alinhamento Semântico Automático de Palavras aplicado ao Português", Linguamática, vol. 8, pp. 43-58, 2016 [ DOI ]
2015
(3 publications)- Jiang, S. and Alves, A. and Rodrigues, F. and Ferreira, J. and Pereira, F.C. , "Mining point-of-interest data from social networks for urban land use classification and disaggregation", Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2015 [ DOI ]
- Alves, A. and Ribeiro, B. , "Consensus-based Approach for Keyword Extraction from Urban Event Collections", Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2015 [ DOI ]
- Alves, A. and Dias, T. and Silva, D. , "A Real-Time, Distributed and Context-Aware System for Managing Solidarity Campaigns", ADCAIJ: Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal, vol. 4, 2015 [ DOI ]
2013
(1 publication)- Rodrigues, F. and Alves, A. and Polisciuc, E. and Jiang, S. and Ferreira, J. and Pereira, F.C. , "Estimating disaggregated employment size from Points-of-Interest and census data: From mining the web to model implementation and visualization", International Journal on Advanced Intelligent Systems, vol. 6, pp. 41-52, 2013 [ DOI ]
2009
(1 publication)Conference Articles
2020
(5 publications)- Santos, J. and Alves, A. and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, , "Leveraging on Semantic Textual Similarity for Developing a Portuguese Dialogue System", in 13th International Conference on the Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR 2020), 2020 [ DOI ]
- Sousa, T. and Alves, A. and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, , "Exploring Portuguese Word Embeddings for Discovering Lexical-Semantic Relations", in 13th International Conference on the Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR 2020), 2020 [ DOI ]
- Santos, J. and Alves, A. and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, , "ASAPPpy: a Python Framework for Portuguese STS", in ASSIN 2 Shared Task: Evaluating Semantic Textual Similarity and Textual Entailment in Portuguese, 2020 [ DOI ]
- Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Ferreira, J. and Santos, J. and Fialho, P. and Ricardo Rodrigues and Coheur, L. and Alves, A. , "AIA-BDE: A Corpus of FAQs in Portuguese and their Variations", in 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2020
- Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Clemêncio, A. and Alves, A. , "Corpora and Baselines for Humour Recognition in Portuguese", in 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2020
2019
(6 publications)- Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Filipe, R. and Ricardo Rodrigues and Alves, A. , "Using Lucene for Developing a Question-Answering Agent in Portuguese", in Proceedings of 8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019), 2019 [ DOI ]
- Clemêncio, A. and Alves, A. and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, , "Recognizing Humor in Portuguese: First Steps", in 19th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019 [ DOI ]
- Andrade, R. and Alves, A. and Bento, C. , "Exploring different combinations of data and methods for urban land use analysis: a survey", in Workshop on Ambient Intelligence for promoting Sustainable Behaviors (BRAINS). Part of the 15th European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, 2019 [ DOI ]
- Cunha, I. and Simões, J. and Alves, A. and Gomes, R. and Ribeiro, A. , "Characterization of Individual Mobility for Non-routine Scenarios from Crowd Sensing and Clustered Data", in 15th European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, 2019 [ DOI ]
- Andrade, R. and Alves, A. and Bento, C. , "An overview of different data types and methods for urban land use analysis", in Poster Session at the 15th European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, 2019 [ DOI ]
- Amaro, P. and Barreiros, J. and Coutinho, F. and Joao Duraes and Santos, F. and Alves, A. and Silva, M. and Cunha, J.C. , "Embedded Programming Bootcamp for Career Change", in 18th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence and Embedded Systems, 2019 [ DOI ]
2018
(4 publications)- Simões, J. and Gomes, R. and Alves, A. and Jorge Bernardino , "Urban Mobility: Mobile Crowdsensing Applications", in 9th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2018), 2018 [ DOI ]
- Alves, A. and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Ricardo Rodrigues and Rui Encarnação , "ASAPP 2.0: Advancing the State-of-the-Art of Semantic Textual Similarity for Portuguese", in 7th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE'18), 2018 [ DOI ]
- Almeida, A. and Alves, A. and Gomes, R. , "Automatic POI Matching Using an Outlier Detection Based Approach", in The Seventeenth International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis , 2018 [ DOI ]
- Andrade, R. and Gonçalves, P. and Alves, A. , "Sensor-based Activity Recognition on Smartphones: A Simple Approach for Sharing Results with Other Applications", in 24th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2018 [ DOI ]
2017
(3 publications)- Gomes, R. and Demissie, M.G. and Francisco Antunes and Bento, C. and Alves, A. and Aguiar, A. , "URBY.SENSE - Urban mobility analysis and prediction for non-routine scenarios using digital footprints", in GET2017 - 14. Encontro Annual do Grupo de Estudos em Transportes, 2017
- Almeida, A. and Alves, A. , "Activity Recognition for Movement-Based Interaction in Mobile Games", in 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Demo Panel, 2017 [ DOI ]
- Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Alves, A. and Ricardo Rodrigues , "Gradually Improving the Computation of Semantic Textual Similarity in Portuguese", in 18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Porto, Portugal, September 5-8, 2017, 2017 [ DOI ]
2016
(4 publications)- Ferrugento, A. and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Alves, A. and Rodrigues, F. , "Can Topic Modelling benefit from Word Sense Information?", in 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2016 [ DOI ]
- Alexandre Pinto and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Alves, A. , "Comparing the Performance of Different NLP Toolkits in Formal and Social Media Text", in 5th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE'16), 2016 [ DOI ]
- Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Alves, A. , "Poetry from Concept Maps — Yet Another Adaptation of PoeTryMe’s Flexible Architecture", in 7th International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2016
- Znidarsic, M. and Amilcar Cardoso and Gervás, P. and Martins, P. and Hervás, R. and Alves, A. and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Xiao, P. and Linkola, S. and Toivonen, H. and Kranjc, J. and Lavrac, N. , "Computational Creativity Infrastructure for Online Software Composition: A Conceptual Blending Use Case", in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2016), 2016 [ DOI ]
2015
(4 publications)- Alves, A. and Simões, D. and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Ferrugento, A. , "ASAP-II: From the Alignment of Phrases to Textual Similarity", in 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015), 2015 [ DOI ]
- Ferrugento, A. and Alves, A. and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Rodrigues, F. , "Towards the Improvement of a Topic Model with Semantic Knowledge", in 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2015), 2015 [ DOI ]
- Alves, A. and Silva, D. , "Mobile CrowdSensing for Solidarity Campaings", in 6th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2015), 2015 [ DOI ]
- Polisciuc, E. and Alves, A. and Penousal Machado , "Understanding Urban Land Use through the Visualization of Points of Interest", in Fourth Workshop on Vision and Language (VL'15), part of 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP15), 2015 [ DOI ]
2014
(2 publications)- Geadas, P. and Alves, A. and Ribeiro, B. , " Ensemble Learning for Keyword Extraction from Event Descriptions", in IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), July 2014, 2014 [ DOI ]
- Alves, A. and Ferrugento, A. and , M.L. and Rodrigues, F. , "ASAP: Automatic Semantic Alignment for Phrases", in SemEval Workshop, COLING 2014, Ireland, 2014 [ DOI ]
2013
(2 publications)- Rodrigues, J. and Correia, P. and Alves, A. and Penousal Machado and Pereira, F.C. , "Constructing Route Choice Maps from GPS Traces", in World Conference on Transport Research (open track), 2013
- Polisciuc, E. and Alves, A. and Bento, C. and Penousal Machado , "Visualizing urban mobility", in Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference, SIGGRAPH ’13, Anaheim, CA, USA, July 21-25, 2013, Poster Proceedings, page 115. ACM, 2013 [ DOI ]
2012
(3 publications)- Alves, A. and Pereira, F.C. , "Making Sense of Location Context", in 1st International Workshop on Context Discovery and Data Mining part of the 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining , 2012 [ DOI ]
- Santos, J. and Alves, A. and Pereira, F.C. and Pedro Henriques Abreu , "Semantic Enrichment of Places for the Portuguese Language", in INForum2012, 2012
- Rodrigues, F. and Pereira, F.C. and Alves, A. and Jiang, S. and Ferreira, J. , "Automatic Classification of Points-of-Interest for Land-use Analysis", in GEOProcessing 2012 : The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services, 2012 [ DOI ]
2011
(2 publications)- Oliveirinha, J. and Pereira, F.C. and Alves, A. , "Acquiring semantic context for events from online resources", in 3rd International Workshop on Location and the Web, 2011 [ DOI ]
- Alves, A. and Rodrigues, F. and Pereira, F.C. , "Tagging Space from Information Extraction and Popularity of Points of Interest", in International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence, 2011 [ DOI ]
2010
(2 publications)- Jiang, S. and Rodrigues, F. and Alves, A. and Pereira, F.C. and Ferreira, J. , "Towards an activity-based approach for estimating travel destinations", in World Conference in Transport Research (open track), 2010
- Alves, A. and Pereira, F.C. and Rodrigues, F. and Oliveirinha, J. , "Place in perspective: Extracting online information about Points of Interest", in First International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence (acc. rate. 38.5%), 2010 [ DOI ]
2009
(3 publications)- Pereira, F.C. and Alves, A. and Biderman, A. , "Fusion of Semantics with Mobility Information: Prospects and Opportunities", in InMotion \'09 : Pervasive Technologies for Improved Mobility and Transportation. Workshop of Pervasive 2009, 2009
- Pereira, F.C. and Alves, A. and Oliveirinha, J. and Biderman, A. , "Perspectives on semantics of the place from online resources", in Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2009 [ DOI ]
- Alves, A. and Pereira, F.C. and Biderman, A. and Ratti, C. , "Place Enrichment by Mining the Web", in 3rd European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, 2009 [ DOI ]
2008
(1 publication)- Antunes, B. and Alves, A. and Pereira, F.C. , "Semantics of Place: Ontology Enrichment", in 11th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008 [ DOI ]
2007
(3 publications)- Pereira, F.C. and Alves, A. and Gomes, H. and Figueiredo, N.R. and Bento, C. , "The ejaki project: a quality of service regulator for citizens", in IEEE Conference on Portable Information Devices, 2007, 2007
- Alves, A. , "Semantically enriched places: An approach to deal with the position to place problem.", in Doctoral Colloquium of UbiComp Conference, 2007
- Alves, A. and Hervás, R. and Pereira, F.C. and Gervás, P. and Bento, C. , "Conceptual Enrichment of Locations Pointed Out by the User", in Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems 11th International Conference, KES 2007, 2007 [ DOI ]