Anabela Barreiro

Anabela BarreiroInvestigador Auxiliar

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Received her BA, Masters and PhD degrees in Linguistics from the Universidade de Lisboa (1991), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1998), and Universidade do Porto (2009), respectively. Doctoral and post-doctoral research was also developed at New York University, at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Extensive experience in both the academic and the corporate sectors, with various international and multidisciplinary responsibilities. In several occasions, collaborated with the Portuguese National Scientific Computing Foundation FCCN providing linguistic services for the Linguateca project, participated in joint evaluation tasks, and served as an independent expert for the European Commission on the evaluation of proposals submitted to European research and innovation funding programs on language technology (FP7, H2020). Senior roles as an independent consultant, a language teacher, a translator/interpreter between English and Portuguese, and an entrepreneur in distinct fields (home improvement, automotive wholesale, and language industries). Research career in computational linguistics started at INESC’s Natural Language Group (1993–1995). During this 3-year period at INESC, was a consultant for Logos Corporation, a US-based pioneer machine translation company, and then converted to a full-time employee (1995–2001). At Logos, she worked on the English-Portuguese, Italian and Spanish systems, and performed collateral tasks, such as linguistic quality assurance. The research focuses on the development and evaluation of linguistic resources for automated text processing and machine translation, having specialized in the latest years in automated paraphrasing and their application to authoring aids, text production and revision, language learning, language variety conversion, cross-language tasks, multilingualism, and stylistics. Current experience includes exploiting open source resources (namely OpenLogos) to create new linguistically enhanced natural language processing applications. Management Committee member of the enetCollect and Multi3Generation COST Actions, Action Chair of the latest. Currently works at INESC-ID as a researcher in the Human Language Technologies Lab, especially dedicated to the development of the eSPERTo paraphrasing system (partially funded by FCT), to be used in applications such as language learning, translation, question-answering, summarization, among others.

Research Interests

• Human Language Technology * Language Learning * Machine Translation * Multilingualism * Cross-Language NLP * Language Varieties * Paraphrasing * Corporate Language * Linguistic Resources * Ontologies * Linguistic Humor

Projects

• Multi3Generation
• enetCollect
• eSPERTo
• SpeDial
• MT4M
• PT-STAR

Publications before integration in L2F

See list of publications here

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Total Publications: 51

Article (Author)

• Linguistic Resources for Paraphrase Generation in Portuguese: a Lexicon-grammar Approach
  Anabela Barreiro, Cristina Mota, Jorge Baptista, Lucília Chacoto, Paula Carvalho,
  Language Resources and Evaluation, vol. 56, n. 1, pages 1--35, DOI 10.1007/s10579-021-09561-5, October 2022
• Linguistic Resources for Paraphrase Generation in Portuguese: A Lexicon-Grammar Approach
  Anabela Barreiro, Cristina Mota, Jorge Baptista, Lucília Chacoto, Paula Carvalho,
  Language Resources and Evaluation, September 2021
• Alinhamentos Parafrásticos PE-PB de Construções de Predicados Verbais com o Pronome Clítico 'lhe'
  Anabela Barreiro, Rebelo-Arnold, Ida, Paulo Quaresma, Cristina Mota,
  Linguamática, vol. 10, n. 2, pages 3-11, DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.21814/lm.10.2.287, January 2019
• Parafraseamento Automático de Registo Informal em Registo Formal na Língua Portuguesa
  Anabela Barreiro, Rebelo-Arnold, Ida, Jorge Baptista, Cristina Mota,
  Linguamática, vol. 10, n. 2, pages 53-61, DOI https://doi.org/10.21814/lm.10.2.282, January 2019
• Prefácio - Por Outras Palavras (POP@PROPOR 2018)
  Anabela Barreiro, Jorge Baptista, Renata Vieira, Paulo Quaresma,
  Linguamática, vol. 10, n. 2, September 2018
• e-PACT: eSPERTo Paraphrase Aligned Corpus of EN-EP/BP Translations
  Anabela Barreiro, Cristina Mota,
  Tradução em Revista, vol. 1, n. 22, pages 87-102, August 2017
• Tradução automática, ma non troppo
  Anabela Barreiro,
  Oslo Studies in Language, vol. 7, n. 1, pages 207-222, March 2015
• Automatic anonymisation of a new Portuguese-English parallel corpus in the legal-financial domain
  Eckhard Bick, Anabela Barreiro,
  Oslo Studies in Language, vol. 7, n. 1, pages 101-124, March 2015
• Projetos sobre Tradução Automática do Português no Laboratório de Sistemas de Língua Falada do INESC-ID
  Anabela Barreiro, Wang Ling, Luísa Coheur, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso,
  Linguamática, vol. 6, n. 2, pages 75-85, December 2014

In Proceedings (Author)

• UniDive: A COST Action on Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology
  Agata Savary, Daniel Zeman, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Anabela Barreiro, Olesea Caftanatov, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Kaja Dobrovoljc, Gülşen Eryiğit, Voula Giouli, Bruno Guillaume, Stella Markantonatou, Nurit Melnik, Joakim Nivre, Atul Kr. Ojha, Carlos Ramisch, Abigail Walsh, Beata Wójtowicz, Alina Wróblewska,
  Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages, ELRA and ICCL, pages 372–382, LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, Italia, May 2024
• An Outlook on Natural Language Generation
  Anabela Barreiro, Elena Lloret, Oleksii Turuta,
  Position Papers of the 18th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems, Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems, PTI, vol. 36, pages 27–34, Maria Ganzha and Leszek Maciaszek and Marcin Paprzycki and Dominik Ślęzak, September 2023
• A Multilingual Paraphrasary of Multiwords
  Anabela Barreiro, Cristina Mota,
  Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multilingual, Multimodal and Multitask Language Generation (Multi3Generation - CA18231), European Association for Machine Translation, pages 47--56, Held in conjunction with the 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023) University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, June 2023
• Multi3Generation: Multitask, Multilingual, Multimodal Language Generation
  Anabela Barreiro, José GC de Souza; Albert Gatt; Mehul Bhatt; Elena Lloret; Aykut Erdem, Dimitra Gkatzia, Helena Moniz, Irene Russo; Fábio Kepler; Iacer Calixto; Marcin Paprzycki, François Portet; Isabelle Augenstein; Mirela Alhasani,
  European Association for Machine Translation 2022, ACL Anthology, ACL Anthology, June 2022
• Paraphrasing Emotions in Portuguese
  Cristina Mota, Diana Santos, Anabela Barreiro,
  Formalising Natural Languages: Applications to Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities. The 14th International NooJ Conference, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, Cham, vol. 1389, pages 134–145, Springer, Cham, March 2021
• Creating Expert Knowledge by Relying on Language Learners: a Generic Approach for Mass-Producing Language Resources by Combining Implicit Crowdsourcing and Language Learning
  Lionel Nicolas, Verena Lyding, Claudia Borg, Corina Forascu, Karën Fort, Katerina Zdravkova, Iztok Kosem, Jaka Čibej, Špela Arhar Holdt, Alice Millour, Alexander König, Christos Rodosthenous, Federico Sangati, Umair ul Hassan, Anisia Katinskaia, Anabela Barreiro, Lavinia Aparaschivei, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner,
  The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), European Language Resources Association, pages 268-278, European Language Resources Association, Marseille, France, May 2020
• One Book, Two Language Varieties
  Anabela Barreiro, Ida Rebelo-Arnold, Fernando Batista, Isabel Garcez, Tanara Zingano Kuhn,
  Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR), Springer International Publishing, pages 379-389, Springer International Publishing, Évora, Portugal, April 2020
• Causal Discourse Connectors in the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language (SLF) for Portuguese Learners Using NooJ
  Andrea Rodrigo, Silvia Reyes, Cristina Mota, Anabela Barreiro,
  Formalizing Natural Languages with NooJ 2019 and Its Natural Language Processing Applications, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, Cham, vol. 1153, pages 161-172, Hammamet, Tunisia, January 2020
• The Lexicon-Grammar of Predicate Nouns with 'ser de' in Port4NooJ
  Cristina Mota, Jorge Baptista, Anabela Barreiro,
  Formalizing Natural Languages with NooJ 2018 and Its Natural Language Processing Applications, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, Cham, vol. 987, pages 124-137, Springer, Cham, Palermo, Italy, December 2018
• Automated Paraphrasing of Portuguese Informal into Formal Language
  Anabela Barreiro, Rebelo-Arnold, Ida, Cristina Mota, Isabel Garcez,
  13th edition of the International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR), PROPOR 2018, PROPOR 2018, Canela, Brazil, September 2018
• EP–BP Paraphrastic Alignments Verbal Predicate Constructions with the Clitic Pronoun ’lhe’
  Rebelo-Arnold, Ida, Anabela Barreiro, Cristina Mota, Paulo Quaresma,
  The 13th International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR), PROPOR 2018, PROPOR 2018, Canela, Brazil, September 2018
• Paraphrastic Variance between European and Brazilian Portuguese
  Anabela Barreiro, Cristina Mota,
  The Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial) co-located with COLING, ACL Anthology, Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 111-121, Association for Computational Linguistics, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 2018
• Contractions: To Align or Not to Align, That Is the Question
  Anabela Barreiro, Fernando Batista,
  The First Workshop on Linguistic Resources for NLP (LR4NLP) co-located with COLING, pages 122-130, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 2018
• Integrating the Lexicon-Grammar of Predicate Nouns with Support Verb 'fazer' into Port4NooJ
  Cristina Mota, Lucília Chacoto, Anabela Barreiro,
  Formalizing Natural Languages with NooJ and Its Natural Language Processing Applications, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer Cham, vol. 811, pages 29-39, International Conference on Automatic Processing of Natural-Language Electronic Texts with NooJ, December 2017
• Generating Paraphrases of Human Intransitive Adjective Constructions with Port4NooJ
  Cristina Mota, Cristina Mota, Paula Carvalho, Paula Carvalho, Francisco Afonso Raposo, Francisco Afonso Raposo, Anabela Barreiro, Anabela Barreiro,
  Automatic Processing of Natural-Language Electronic Texts with NooJ, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, Cham, pages 107-122, Springer, Cham, Minsk, Belarus, July 2016
• Machine Translation of Non-Contiguous Multiword Units
  Anabela Barreiro, Fernando Batista,
  Proceedings of DiscoNLP 2016, Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 22--30, Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2016
• eSPERTo Paraphrastic Knowledge Applied to Question-Answering and Summarization
  Cristina Mota, Anabela Barreiro, Francisco Afonso Raposo, Ricardo Ribeiro, Sérgio dos Santos Lopes Curto, Luísa Coheur,
  NooJ 2016: Automatic Processing of Natural-Language Electronic Texts with NooJ, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer International Publish, vol. 667, pages 208-220, Springer International Publish, June 2016
• CLUE-Aligner: An Alignment Tool to Annotate Pairs of Paraphrastic and Translation Units
  Anabela Barreiro, Francisco Afonso Raposo, Tiago Luís,
  Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), ELRA, pages 7-13, ELRA, Portorož, Slovenia, May 2016
• Port4NooJ v3.0: Integrated Linguistic Resources for Portuguese NLP
  Cristina Mota, Paula Carvalho, Anabela Barreiro,
  Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), ELRA, pages 1264-1269, ELRA, Portorož, Slovenia, May 2016
• Linguistic Evaluation of Support Verb Constructions by OpenLogos and Google Translate
  Anabela Barreiro, Johanna Monti, Brigitte Orliac, Susanne Preuß, Kutz Arrieta, Wang Ling, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso,
  Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pages 35-40, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2014
• OpenLogos Semantico-Syntactic Knowledge-Rich Bilingual Dictionaries
  Anabela Barreiro, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro, Helena Moniz, Isabel Trancoso,
  Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pages 3774-3781, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), May 2014
• When Multiwords Go Bad in Machine Translation
  Anabela Barreiro, Johanna Monti, Brigitte Orliac, Fernando Batista,
  Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology, http://www.mt-archive.info/10/MTS-2013-W4-Barreiro, September 2013
• Paraphrastic Cross-Language Plagiarism Detection with Semantico-Syntactic Unit Mapping
  Parth Gupta, Anabela Barreiro, Paolo Rosso,
  Proceedings of the I Workshop de Procesamiento Automatizado de Textos y Corpora (WoPATeC-2012), Viña del Mar, Chile, July 2012
• Cross-language Semantic Relations between English and Portuguese
  Anabela Barreiro, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira,
  27th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing, pages 49-58, Huelva, Spain, September 2011
• Taking on new challenges in multi-word unit processing for Machine Translation
  Johanna Monti, Anabela Barreiro, Annibale Elia, Federica Marano, Antonella Napoli,
  Second International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, January 2011

In Book (Author)

• Introducing an implicit crowdsourcing opportunity to teachers
  Lionel Nicolas, Ostanina Olszewska, Špela Arhar Holdt, Jaka Čibej, Verena Lyding, Anabela Barreiro,
  Introducing an implicit crowdsourcing opportunity to teachers, CALL for Background, pages 115-136, Peter Lang, https://doi.org/10.3726/b18131, October 2021
• Análise Comparativa das Edições Portuguesa e Brasileira da Obra Os Livros Que Devoraram o Meu Pai, de Afonso Cruz
  Tanara Zingano Kuhn, Ida Rebelo-Arnold, Anabela Barreiro, Isabel Garcez, Fernando Batista,
  História, política e cultura no mundo lusófono, Fransmar Costa Lima e Lauro Fabiano de Souza Carvalho (Eds), ed. 1, n. 2, pages 119-131, Editora LiberArs Ltda, https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/bitstream/10071/28264/1/bookPart_92243.pdf, January 2021
• Contributos para o Aumento de Qualidade na Língua Digital
  Anabela Barreiro,
  O Português como Língua num Mundo Global: problemas e potencialidades, Edições Húmus, June 2016

Proceedings (Editor)

• Linguistic Tools and Resources for Paraphrasing in Portuguese
  Anabela Barreiro, Jorge Baptista, Renata Vieira, Paulo Quaresma,
  , PROPOR 2018, Canela, Brazil, September 2018
• First Workshop on Linguistic Resources for Natural Language Processing (LR4NLP)
  Anabela Barreiro, Peter Machonis, Kristina Kocijan, Max Silberztein,
  , co-located with COLING, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 2018

Book (Editor)

• Linguística, Informática e Tradução: Mundos que se Cruzam
  Alberto Simões, Anabela Barreiro, Diana Santos, Rui Sousa-Silva, Stella E.O. Tagnin,
  Oslo Studies in Language, n. 7, ed. 1, web, ISBN 978-82-91398-12-9, OSLa, Oslo, Norway, March 2015
• As Wordnets do Português
  Alberto Simões, Anabela Barreiro, Diana Santos, Rui Sousa-Silva, Stella E. O. Tagnin,
  , University of Oslo, March 2015
• SEPLN Workshop on Iberian Cross-Language Natural Language Processing Tasks, ICL-2011
  Paolo Rosso, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Marta Vila, Jorge Civera, Anabela Barreiro, Iñaki Alegria,
  , CEUR Workshop Proceedings, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-824/, September 2011

Book (Author)

• Por Outras Palavras - In Other Words POP1 @ PROPOR 2018: 1st Workshop on Linguistic Tools and Resources for Paraphrasing in Portuguese
  Anabela Barreiro, Jorge Baptista, Renata Vieira, Paulo Quaresma,
  Linguamática, n. 10, ed. 2, web, ISBN 1647-0818, Linguamática, Canela, Brazil, December 2018

Technical Report (Author)

• Multiword and Semantico-Syntactic Unit Alignments
  Anabela Barreiro, Luísa Coheur, Tiago Luís, Angela Costa, Fernando Batista, João Graça, Isabel Trancoso,
  TechnicalReport, INESC-ID Lisboa, n. 23, December 2014
• CLUE Guidelines
  Anabela Barreiro, Luísa Coheur, Tiago Luís, Angela Costa, João Graça,
  TechnicalReport, INESC-ID Lisboa, n. 17, June 2012

Miscellaneous (Author)

• Paraphrases and the Editorial Process
  Anabela Barreiro, Isabel Garcez,
  , Livro de resumos (Book of abstracts) pp. 87, web, June 2022
• Syntactic Semantic Knowledge Copling with Statistical Machine Translation
  Anabela Barreiro,
  , January 2011

 

Total Projects: 5

International Projects

• COST Action CA18231 - Multi3Generation_5
  INESC-ID Lisboa, COST, Life and Health Technology, 2023-11-01 - 2024-03-08
• Multi3Generation - Multi3Generation Multitask, Multilingual, Multimodal Language Generation
  INESC-ID Lisboa, COST, Societal Digital Transformation, 2022-11-01 - 2023-09-08
• Multi3Generation_3 - Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation
  INESC-ID Lisboa, COST, Societal Digital Transformation, 2021-11-01 - 2022-10-31

National Projects

• M4TM - Machine Translation for Microblogs - Tradução Automática para Microblogues
  INESC-ID Lisboa, CMUP-EPB/TIC/0026/2013, , 2015-01-01 - 2015-12-01
• eSPERTo - Sistema de Parafraseamento para Edição e Revisão de Texto
  INESC-ID Lisboa, FCT, , 2014-10-01 - 2015-09-30