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Francisco graduated in Information Systems and Computer Engineering in 2012 from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon. He received a Masters degree in Information Systems and Computer Engineering in 2014 (from IST) on automatic summarization for music classification and a PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2022 (from IST) on computational modeling of embodied music semantics under the supervision of professors David Martins de Matos and Ricardo Ribeiro.

Francisco has been a teaching assistant of the Operating Systems, Compilers, and Object-Oriented Programming courses at IST.

He was a research grant holder in the project eSPERTo, supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT).

He was also a research intern at National Institute of Informatics (NII) working on music cross-modal retrieval.

Research Interests

• Music
• Semantics
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Music Information Retrieval
• Multimedia
• Machine Learning

Publications

International Journals

2022

• Francisco Afonso Raposo, David Martins de Matos, Ricardo Ribeiro, Learning low-dimensional semantics for music and language via multi-subject fMRI, Neuroinformatics, Springer, doi: 10.1007/s12021-021-09560-5, January 2022

2021

• Francisco Afonso Raposo, David Martins de Matos, Ricardo Ribeiro, Assessing Kinetic Meaning via Deep Cross-Modal Retrieval of Music and Dance, Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, vol. 33, n. 21, pages 14481-14493, doi: 10.1007/s00521-021-06090-8, April 2021

2019

• Francisco Afonso Raposo, David Martins de Matos, Ricardo Ribeiro, An information-theoretic approach to machine-oriented music summarization, Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier, doi: 10.1016/j.patrec.2019.03.014, March 2019

• Yi Yu, Suhua Tang, Francisco Afonso Raposo, Lei Chen, Deep Cross-Modal Correlation Learning for Audio and Lyrics in Music Retrieval, ACM, vol. 15, n. 1, doi: 10.1145/3281746, New York, February 2019

2016

• Francisco Afonso Raposo, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos, Using Generic Summarization to Improve Music Information Retrieval Tasks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, IEEE, vol. 24, n. 6, pages 1119-1128, doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2016.2541299, May 2016

• Ana Marta Simões Aparício, Paulo César Dias Figueiredo, Francisco Afonso Raposo, David Martins de Matos, Ricardo Ribeiro, Luís Marujo, Summarization of Films and Documentaries Based on Subtitles and Scripts, Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier, vol. 73, pages 7-12, doi: 10.1016/j.patrec.2015.12.016, April 2016

2015

• Francisco Afonso Raposo, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos, On the Application of Generic Summarization Algorithms to Music, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE, vol. 22, n. 1, doi: 10.1109/LSP.2014.2347582, January 2015

International Conferences

2016

• Cristina Mota, Paula Carvalho, Francisco Afonso Raposo, Anabela Barreiro, Generating Paraphrases of Human Intransitive Adjective Constructions with Port4NooJ, Springer, Cham, series Communications in Computer and Information Science, pages 107-122, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42471-2_10, July 2016

• Cristina Mota, Anabela Barreiro, Francisco Afonso Raposo, Ricardo Ribeiro, Sérgio dos Santos Lopes Curto, Luísa Coheur, eSPERTo Paraphrastic Knowledge Applied to Question-Answering and Summarization, In NooJ 2016: Automatic Processing of Natural-Language Electronic Texts with NooJ, Springer International Publish, vol. 667, series Communications in Computer and Information Science, pages 208-220, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-55002-2_18, June 2016

• Anabela Barreiro, Francisco Afonso Raposo, Tiago Luís, CLUE-Aligner: An Alignment Tool to Annotate Pairs of Paraphrastic and Translation Units, In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), ELRA, pages 7-13, Portorož, Slovenia, May 2016

Doctoral Theses

2022

• Francisco Afonso Raposo, Semantic Structures of Music Artifacts, PhD thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, June 2022

Masters Theses

2014

• Francisco Afonso Raposo, Influence of Summarization on Music Classification Tasks, MSc thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, October 2014

Other Publications

2019

• Francisco Afonso Raposo, David Martins de Matos, Ricardo Ribeiro, Low-dimensional Embodied Semantics for Music and Language, https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11759, June 2019

• Francisco Afonso Raposo, David Martins de Matos, Ricardo Ribeiro, Learning Embodied Semantics via Music and Dance Semiotic Correlations, https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10534, March 2019

2017

• Francisco Afonso Raposo, David Martins de Matos, Ricardo Ribeiro, Suhua Tang, Yi Yu, Towards Deep Modeling of Music Semantics using EEG Regularizers, https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05197, December 2017

2016

• Francisco Afonso Raposo, David Martins de Matos, Ricardo Ribeiro, An Information-theoretic Approach to Machine-oriented Music Summarization, https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02350, December 2016

2015

• Ana Marta Simões Aparício, Paulo César Dias Figueiredo, Francisco Afonso Raposo, David Martins de Matos, Ricardo Ribeiro, Summarization of Films and Documentaries Based on Subtitles and Scripts, http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01273, June 2015

• Francisco Afonso Raposo, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos, Using Generic Summarization to improve Music Information Retrieval Tasks, http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.0666, March 2015

2014

• Francisco Afonso Raposo, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos, On the Application of Generic Summarization Algorithms to Music, http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4877, June 2014

MSc theses

Ongoing

• Automatic Choreography for Virtual Agents, Pedro Galhardo. Instituto Superior Técnico (2022-). David Martins de Matos, advisor. Francisco Afonso Raposo, co-advisor.