Luísa Coheur graduated in Applied Mathematics and Computation from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, and has a Master degree also from IST. She has a PhD in Computer Science from both IST and Université Blaise-Pascal (France). She is currently a researcher at INESC-ID, and an Associate Professor at IST (Dep. of Computer Science and Engineering). Luísa Coheur is an expert in Natural Language Processing, and her main research interests are Dialogue Systems, Question/Answering and Machine Translation. She strongly believes that science should serve the public good and has been working on a platform to help children with autism to improve their language skills, and in a Text-to-Sign translator to LGP (Língua Gestual Portuguesa). She participated in several international and national projects, published around 100 refereed papers, and supervised more than 70 Master students and 5 PhDs. She is also a part-time writer, and published 3 (non-scientific) books -- Sete histórias por acontecer (2001), Acabou-se! (2001) and E-medo (2007) – and two short stories in the books A República nunca existiu (2008) and O Mensageiro das Estrelas (2012). Both Acabou-se and E-medo won literature prizes.
Publications
Edited Books
2015
- Anja Belz, Luísa Coheur, Vittorio Ferrari, Marie-Francine Moens, Katerina Pastra, Ivan Vulic ́, Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Vision and Language, Association for Computational , September 2015
Book Chapters
2004
International Journals
2023
2021
- Matilde do Carmo Lages Gonçalves, Luísa Coheur, Ana Mineiro, Hugo Nicolau, PE2LGP: tradutor de português europeu para língua gestual portuguesa em glosas, Linguamática, Universidade do Minho e Universidade de Vigo, vol. 13, n. 1, pages 3-21, doi: https://doi.org/10.21814/lm.13.1.338, July 2021
- Hugo Rodrigues, Eric Nyberg, Luísa Coheur, Towards the benchmarking of question generation: introducing the Monserrate corpus, Language Resources and Evaluation, Springer, pages 1-19, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-021-09545-5, June 2021
- Ana Margarida Veiga Simão, Paula Ferreira, Nádia Pereira, Sofia Oliveira, Paula Paulino, Hugo Rosa, Ricardo Ribeiro, Luísa Coheur, Joao P. Carvalho, Isabel Trancoso, Prosociality in Cyberspace: Developing Emotion and Behavioral Regulation to Decrease Aggressive Communication, Cognitive Computation, Springer, vol. 13, n. 3, pages 736–750, doi: 10.1007/s12559-021-09852-7, May 2021
2020
- Matilde do Carmo Lages Gonçalves, Luísa Coheur, Jorge Baptista, Ana Mineiro, Avaliação de recursos computacionais para o português, Linguamática, Universidade do Minho e Universidade de Vigo, vol. 12, n. 2, pages 51-68, doi: https://doi.org/10.21814/lm.12.2.331, December 2020
- Pedro Fialho, Luísa Coheur, Paulo Quaresma, Benchmarking Natural Language Inference and Semantic Textual Similarity for Portuguese., Information, MDPI, n. 11, November 2020
- Miguel Ventura, Jéssica Cristina Azevedo Veiga, Luísa Coheur, Sandra Gama, The B-Subtle framework: tailoring subtitles to your needs, Language Resources and Evaluation, doi: 10.1007/s10579-020-09507-3, October 2020
2019
- Hugo Rosa, Nádia Pereira, Ricardo Ribeiro, Paula da Costa Ferreira, Joao P. Carvalho, Sofia Oliveira, Luísa Coheur, Paula Paulino, Ana Margarida Veiga Simão, Isabel Trancoso, Automatic cyberbullying detection: A systematic review, Computers in Human Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 93, pages 333-345, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.12.021, January 2019
2018
- Pedro Mota, Maxine Eskenazi, Luísa Coheur, MUSED: A multimedia multi-document dataset for topic segmentation, Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press, vol. 24, n. 6, pages 921–946, doi: 10.1017/S1351324918000359, November 2018
2015
- Angela Costa, Wang Ling, Tiago Luís, Rui Correia, Luísa Coheur, A linguistically motivated taxonomy for Machine Translation error analysis, Machine Translation, Springer, vol. 29, pages 127-161, doi: 10.1007/s10590-015-9169-0, June 2015
2014
- Anabela Barreiro, Wang Ling, Luísa Coheur, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Projetos sobre Tradução Automática do Português no Laboratório de Sistemas de Língua Falada do INESC-ID, Linguamática, vol. 6, n. 2, pages 75-85, December 2014
2013
- Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, João Pedro Carlos Gomes da Silva, Hugo Rodrigues, Just Ask – A Multi-Pronged Approach to Question Answering, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, World Scientific Publishing Company, vol. 22, n. 1, pages 34, doi: 10.1142/S0218213012500364, http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S02, February 2013
2012
2011
2010
- João Pedro Carlos Gomes da Silva, Luísa Coheur, Ana Cristina Mendes, Andreas Wichert, From symbolic to sub-symbolic information in question classification, Artificial Intelligence Review, Kluwer Academic Publishers Norwell, MA, USA , vol. 35, n. 2, pages 137-154, doi: 10.1007/s10462-010-9188-4, November 2010
2004
- Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede, Gabriel Bès, Uma Interface Sintaxe-Semântica no Quadro do Paradigma 5P, Palavra, Departamento de Letras da PUC-Rio, vol. 12, pages 75-90, Rio de Janeiro. Brazil, December 2004
Edited Proceedings
2020
- André Martins, Helena Moniz, Sara Fumega, Bruno Martins, Fernando Batista, Luísa Coheur, Carla Parra, Isabel Trancoso, Marco Turchi, Arianna Bisazza, Joss Moorkens, Ana Guerberof, Mary Nurminen, Lena Marg, Mikel L. Forcada, Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, European Association for Machine Translation, http://eamt2020.inesc-id.pt/proceedings-eamt2020.pdf, October 2020
2019
- Ricardo Rodrigues, Jan Janousek, Luís Ferreira, Luísa Coheur, Fernando Batista, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, 8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019), Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs), 74, http://www.dagstuhl.de/dagpub/978-3-95977-114-6, July 2019
International Conferences
2023
- Rui Orlando Magalhães Ribeiro, Patrícia Pereira, Luísa Coheur, Helena Moniz, Joao P. Carvalho, Fuzzy Fingerprinting Large Pre-trained Models, In Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT), September 2023
- Patrícia Pereira, Rui Orlando Magalhães Ribeiro, Helena Moniz, Luísa Coheur, Joao P. Carvalho, Fuzzy Fingerprinting Transformer Language-Models for Emotion Recognition in Conversations, In IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), August 2023
2022
- Ricardo Rei, José G. C. de Souza, Duarte M. Alves, Chrysoula Zerva, Ana C Farinha, Taisiya Glushkova, Alon Lavie, Luísa Coheur, André F. T. Martins, COMET-22: Unbabel-IST 2022 Submission for the Metrics Shared Task, In Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 578-585, Abu Dhabi, December 2022
- Ricardo Rei, Marcos Treviso, Nuno M. Guerreiro, Chrysoula Zerva, Ana C. Farinha, Christine Maroti, José G. C. de Souza, Taisiya Glushkova, Duarte M. Alves, Alon Lavie, Luísa Coheur, André F. T. Martins, CometKiwi: IST-Unbabel 2022 Submission For The Quality Estimation Shared Task, In Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), Association for Computational Linguistics, series Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), pages 634-645, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid), December 2022
- Rui Orlando Magalhães Ribeiro, Luísa Coheur, SUMBot: Summarizing Context in Open-Domain Dialogue Systems, In IberSpeech 2022, pages 111-115, doi: 10.21437/IberSPEECH.2022-23, Spain, November 2022
- Isabel de Lima Henriques Dias, Ricardo Rei, Patrícia Pereira, Luísa Coheur, Towards a Sentiment-Aware Conversational Agent, In ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), September 2022
- João Carlos Lopes Antunes, Miguel Pardal, Luísa Coheur, A Study on the Best Way to Compress Natural Language Processing Models, In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), IEEE, doi: 10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE55066.2022.9882595, Italy, July 2022
- Ricardo Rei, Ana C Farinha, José G.C. de Souza, Pedro Ramos, André F.T. Martins, Luísa Coheur, Alon Lavie, Searching for COMETINHO: The Little Metric That Could, In Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, European Association for Machine Translation, pages 61–70, Ghent, Belgium, June 2022
- Gonçalo Raposo, Rui Orlando Magalhães Ribeiro, Bruno Martins, Luísa Coheur, Question rewriting? Assessing its importance for conversational question answering, In European Conference on Information Retrieval, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_23, December 2022
2021
- Ricardo Rei, Ana C. Farinha, Craig Stewart, Luísa Coheur, Alon Lavie, MT-TELESCOPE: An interactive platform for contrastive evaluation of MT systems, In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, ACL, pages 73-80, doi: 10.18653/v1/2021.acl-demo.9, https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-demo.9, August 2021
- Leonor Llansol, João Miguel Lucas Santos, Luís Duarte, José Santos, Mariana Rodrigues Seguro Gaspar Fernandes, Ana Alves, Hugo Oliveira, Luísa Coheur, MUAHAH: Taking the Most out of Simple Conversational Agents, In 10th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2021), Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik, vol. 94, pages 1-12, doi: 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2021.7, https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2021/14424, August 2021
- Ricardo Rei, Fernando Batista, Nuno Miguel Guerreiro, Luísa Coheur, Multilingual Simultaneous Sentence End and Punctuation Prediction, In Proceedings of the 1st Shared Task on Sentence End and Punctuation Prediction in NLG Text (SEPP-NLG 2021) held at SwissText 2021, June 2021
- Ana Moura Santos, Sofia Sá, Luis Felipe C. Costa, Luísa Coheur, Setting up Educational Escape Games: Lessons learned in a Higher Education setting, In th International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE), IEEE, pages 1-8, doi: 10.1109/CISPEE47794.2021.9507215., https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9507215, June 2021
2020
- Vânia Mendonça, Alberto Sardinha, Luísa Coheur, Ana Lúcia Santos, Query Strategies, Assemble! Active Learning with Expert Advice for Low-resource Natural Language Processing, In IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2020), IEEE, pages 1-8, doi: 10.1109/FUZZ48607.2020.9177707, July 2020
- Luísa Coheur, From Eliza to Siri and beyond, In IPMU2020 Lisboa (invited talk), Lisbon, June 2020
- Pedro Fialho, Luísa Coheur, Paulo Quaresma, To BERT or not to BERT Dealing with possible BERT failures in an Entailment task., In 18th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU), Lisbon , June 2020
- Hugo Oliveira, João Ferreira, José Santos, Pedro Fialho, Ricardo Rodrigues, Luísa Coheur, Ana Alves, AIA-BDE: A Corpus of FAQs in Portuguese and their Variations, In LREC 2020 (cancelled due COVID), April 2020
- Carolina Isabel Martins Neves, Luísa Coheur, Hugo Nicolau, HamNoSyS2SiGML: Translating HamNoSys Into SiGML, In LREC 2020 (cancelled due COVID), April 2020
- Pedro Fialho, Luísa Coheur, Paulo Quaresma, Back to the feature, in entailment detection and similarity measurement for Portuguese, In 14th International Conference, PROPOR 2020, Springer, vol. 12037, series Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series, pages 164-173, Évora, March 2020
- Gonçalo Nuno Ventura de Melo, Luísa Coheur, Towards a Conversational Agent with Character, In Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR), Springer International Publishing, Évora, Portugal, March 2020
2019
- Pedro Mota, Maxine Eskenazi, Luísa Coheur, BeamSeg: a Joint Model for Multi-Document Segmentation and Topic Identification, In Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 582-592, Hong Kong, China, , November 2019
- Mariana Rodrigues Seguro Gaspar Fernandes, Cátia Andreia Gomes Dias, Luísa Coheur, Distinguishing Different Classes of Utterances - the UC-PT Corpus, In 8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019), Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, series OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs), doi: 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2019.14, Dagstuhl, Germany, June 2019
- Pedro Fialho, Luísa Coheur, Paulo Quaresma, From Lexical to Semantic Features in Paraphrase Identification, In 8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies, OASIcs, vol. 74, June 2019
- Eugénio Ribeiro, Vânia Mendonça, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos, Alberto Sardinha, Ana Lúcia Santos, Luísa Coheur, L2F/INESC-ID at SemEval-2019 Task 2: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Frame Induction using Contextualized Word Representations, In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2019), ACL, pages 130-136, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, May 2019
- Hugo Rodrigues, Luísa Coheur, Eric Nyberg, Populating the knowledge base of a conversational agent: human vs. machine, In SAC '19: Proceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, pages 1011-1018, doi: 10.1145/3297280.3297380, April 2019
2018
- Hugo Rosa, David Martins de Matos, Ricardo Ribeiro, Luísa Coheur, Joao P. Carvalho, A "Deeper" Look at Detecting Cyberbullying in Social Networks, In IJCNN, 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IEEE Explorer, pages 323-330, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2018
- Hugo Rosa, Joao P. Carvalho, Pável Calado, Bruno Martins, Luísa Coheur, Ricardo Ribeiro, Using Fuzzy Fingerprints for Cyberbullying Detection in Social Networks, In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), IEEE Xplorer, pages 56-62, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2018
- Pedro Mota, Maxine Eskenazi, Luísa Coheur, Efficient navigation in learning materials: an empirical study on the linking process, In Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), London, June 2018
- Hugo Rodrigues, Luísa Coheur, Eric Nyberg, Improving Question Generation with the Teacher’s Feedback, In Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Springer , series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), June 2018
2017
- Vânia Mendonça, Francisco S. Melo, Luísa Coheur, Alberto Sardinha, Online Learning for Conversational Agents, In EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'17), Springer, vol. 10423, series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 739-750, September 2017
- Pedro Fialho, Hugo Rodrigues, Luísa Coheur, Paulo Quaresma, L2F/INESC-ID at SemEval-2017 Tasks 1 and 2: Lexical and semantic features in word and textual similarity, In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017), August 2017
- Vânia Mendonça, Francisco S. Melo, Luísa Coheur, Alberto Sardinha, A conversational agent powered by online learning, In Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '17), International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 1637-1639, , São Paulo, Brazil, May 2017
2016
- Hugo Rodrigues, Luísa Coheur, Eric Nyberg, QGASP: a Framework for Question Generation Based on Different Levels of Linguistic Information, In The 9th International Natural Language Generation conference, The Association for Computational Linguistics, , Edinburgh, UK, September 2016
- Pedro Fialho, Ricardo Marques, Bruno Martins, Luísa Coheur, Paulo Quaresma, INESC-ID at ASSIN: Measuring Semantic Similarity and Recognizing Textual Entailment, In Propor workshop, July 2016
- Angela Costa, Luísa Coheur, Towards a Statistical-Enriched Corpus Containing Portuguese Collocations in Use: Reviewing Possible Extraction Tools, In 12th International Conference, Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9727, Tomar, Portugal, July 2016
- Vânia Mendonça, Cláudia Patrícia Balixa Filipe, Luísa Coheur, Alberto Sardinha, VITHEA-Kids: Improving the Linguistic Skills of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, In 12th International Conference, Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR), , Tomar, Portugal, 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
- Angela Costa, Rui Correia, Luísa Coheur, Building a corpus of errors and quality in Machine Translation: experiments on error impact, In 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Slovenia, May 2016
- Pedro Mota, Maxine Eskenazi, Luísa Coheur, Multi-document Topic Segmentation Using Bayesian Estimation, In Tenth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2016, pages 443-447, doi: 10.1109/ICSC.2016.17, Laguna Hills, CA, USA, February 2016
2015
- Angela Costa, Luísa Coheur, Teresa Lino, Challenges on the translation of collocations, In Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology, Malaga, Spain, June 2015
- Pedro Mota, Francisco S. Melo, Luísa Coheur, Modeling Students Self-Studies Behaviors, In 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, series AAMAS 15, pages 1521-1528, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2015
2014
- David Luís Soares Ameixa, Luísa Coheur, Pedro Fialho, Paulo Quaresma, Luke, I am your father: Dealing with Out-of-domain Requests by Using Movies Subtitles, In International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2014), Springer, series Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Boston, August 2014
- Ricardo João Galamba de Sepulveda Ferrão, Helena Galhardas, Luísa Coheur, A Machine Learning based Natural Language Interface for a database of medicines (poster paper), In International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS), Lisbon, Portugal, July 2014
- Sérgio dos Santos Lopes Curto, Ana Cristina Mendes, Pedro dos Santos Lopes Curto, Luísa Coheur, Angela Costa, JUST.ASK, a QA System that Learns to Answer New Questions from Previous Interactions, In LREC 2014, Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Iceland, May 2014
2013
- Pedro Fialho, Luísa Coheur, Sérgio dos Santos Lopes Curto, Pedro Miguel Abrunhosa Cláúdio, Angela Costa, Alberto Abad, Hugo Meinedo, Isabel Trancoso, MEET EDGAR, A TUTORING AGENT AT MONSERRATE, In ACL, series Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association f, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013
- Joao P. Carvalho, Luísa Coheur, Introducing UWS – A Fuzzy Based Word Similarity Function with Good Discrimination Capability: Preliminary results, In FUZZ-IEEE2013 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Xplore, pages 1369-1376, July 2013
2012
- João Completo, Rui Santos Cruz, Luísa Coheur, Manuel Delgado, Design and Implementation of a Data Warehouse for Benchmarking in Clinical Rehabilitation, In 4th Conference of ENTERprise Information Systems - aligning technology, organizations and people (CENTERIS 2012), Elsevier, vol. 5, series Procedia Technology, pages 885 - 894, doi: 10.1016/j.protcy.2012.09.098, October 2012
- Hugo Rodrigues, Luísa Coheur, 2B$ - Testing Past Algorithms in Nowadays Web, In 15th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD), Springer, vol. 7499, series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Brno, Czech Republic, September 2012
- Pedro Mota, Luísa Coheur, Sérgio dos Santos Lopes Curto, Pedro Fialho, Natural Language Understanding: From Laboratory Predictions to Real Interactions, In 15th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD), Springer, vol. 7499, series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Brno, Czech Republic, September 2012
- Hugo Rodrigues, Luísa Coheur, Ana Cristina Mendes, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos, Testing lexical approaches in QA4MRE, In CLEF 2012, Online Working Notes, Roma, Italy, September 2012
- Pedro Fialho, Sérgio dos Santos Lopes Curto, Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Extending a wordnet framework for simplicity and scalability, In Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC12), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012
- Pedro Fialho, Sérgio dos Santos Lopes Curto, Luísa Coheur, Ricardo Ribeiro, E-TUTOR: a tutoring agent, In International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (Propor) , , Coimbra, Portugal, April 2012
2011
- Wang Ling, Pável Calado, Bruno Martins, Isabel Trancoso, Alan Black, Luísa Coheur, Named Entity Translation using Anchor Texts, In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) , San Francisco, USA, December 2011
- Wang Ling, Tiago Luís, João Graça, Isabel Trancoso, Luísa Coheur, Reordering Modeling using Weighted Alignment Matrices, In Proc. ACL 2011 - The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, ACL, pages 450-454, , Portland, Oregon, USA, June 2011
- Luís Marujo, Nuno Grazina, Tiago Luís, Wang Ling, Luísa Coheur, Isabel Trancoso, BP2EP - Adaptation of Brazilian Portuguese texts to European Portuguese, In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, European Association for Machine Translation, pages 129-136, Leuven, Belgium, May 2011
- Ana Cristina Mendes, Sérgio dos Santos Lopes Curto, Luísa Coheur, Bootstrapping Multiple-Choice Tests with The-Mentor, In 12th International Conference, CICLing 2011, Springer-Verlag, vol. 6608, series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 451-562, Tokyo, February 2011
2010
2009
- Luísa Coheur, Ana Cristina Mendes, João Miguel Rodrigues da Cunha Guimarães, Nuno J. Mamede, Ricardo Ribeiro, Question Interpretation in QA@L2F, In Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, vol. 5706, series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 377-384, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-04447-2_44, September 2009
- João Pedro Videira Bastos, Gonçalo Fernandes Simões, Luísa Coheur, Helena Galhardas, Medicine.Ask: A Facility to assist Doctors on prescribing Medicines (poster/demo paper), In International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS), Manchester, UK, July 2009
2008
- Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos, Fernando Batista, QA@L2F, first steps at QA@CLEF, Springer-Verlag, vol. 5152, series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, September 2008
2007
- Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede, QA@L2F: First Steps, In SDIA - Simpósio Doutoral em Inteligência Artificial, APPIA - Associação Portuguesa para a Inteligência Artificial, pages 13-20, Guimarães, Portugal, December 2007
- Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede, Question-Answering using a Constraint Relaxation Mechanism, In CLIN (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands), , December 2007
- João Graça, Diamantino António Caseiro, Luísa Coheur, The INESC-ID IWSLT07 SMT System, In Proceedings of IWSLT International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, pages 125-130, October 2007
- Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede, Luís Carlos da Silva Romão, João Miguel Sanches Loureiro, Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista, David Martins de Matos, QA@L2F@QA@CLEF, In Working Notes for the CLEF 2007 Workshop, September 2007
2004
- Luísa Coheur, Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede, Towards a flexible syntax/semantics interface, In Proceedings of the Herramientas y Recursos Linguísticos para el Español y el Portugués workshop, a satelite of the Ninth, pages 265-272, Puebla, Mexico, November 2004
- Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede, Gabriel Bès, A Multi-use Incremental Syntax-Semantics Interface, In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference EsTAL — España for Natural Language Processing, Springer-Verlag, series Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3230, pages 231-242, Alicante, Spain, October 2004
- Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede, A Step Towards Incremental Generation of Logical Forms, In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural Language Data - ROMAND'2004, a worshop of the, pages 42-50, Genebra, Suisse, August 2004
- Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede, Gabriel Bès, From a Surface Analysis to a Dependency Structure, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Recent Advances in Dependency Grammars, a worshop of the Twentieth International Conferen, pages 85-89, Genebra, Suisse, August 2004
2003
- Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede, G. Bès, Ás de Copas: a syntactic-semantic interface, In Eleventh Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, series LNAI (2902), pages 455-459, Beja, Portugal,, December 2003
- Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede, Tira-Teimas: After Shallow Parsing, In TASHA'2003 - Workshop on Tagging and Shallow Processing of Portuguese, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, series Technical Reports, pages 19-20, Lisboa, Portugal, October 2003
- Luísa Coheur, Fernando Batista, Joana Paulo Pardal, JaVaLI! undestanding real questions, In Proc. EUROLAN'2003 - Student Workshop on Applied Natural Processing, Hamburg, Germany, July 2003
2002
National Journals
2016
- Pedro Fialho, Ricardo Miguel Machado Marques, Bruno Martins, Luísa Coheur, Paulo Quaresma, INESC-ID@ASSIN: Medição de Similaridade Semântica e Reconhecimento de Inferência Textual}, Linguamática, pages 33-42, December 2016
2009
- João Graça, Diamantino António Caseiro, Luísa Coheur, Tradução Automática Estatística, 3Ts - Revista de Tradução, Terminologia e Tecnologias, n. 0, pages 91-102, December 2009
National Conferences
2012
- Pedro Mota, Luísa Coheur, Natural Language Understanding as a classification process: report of initial experiments and results, In Inforum, September 2012
2009
- Gonçalo Fernandes Simões, Helena Galhardas, Luísa Coheur, Information extraction tasks: a survey (short paper), In Inforum, September 2009
1997
Technical Reports
2014
- Anabela Barreiro, Luísa Coheur, Tiago Luís, Angela Costa, Fernando Batista, João Graça, Isabel Trancoso, Multiword and Semantico-Syntactic Unit Alignments, Tech. Rep. 23 / 2014 INESC-ID Lisboa, December 2014
2013
2012
- Anabela Barreiro, Luísa Coheur, Tiago Luís, Angela Costa, João Graça, CLUE Guidelines, Tech. Rep. 17 / 2012 INESC-ID Lisboa, June 2012
- Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Sérgio dos Santos Lopes Curto, Learning to answer questions, Tech. Rep. 14 / 2012 INESC-ID Lisboa, May 2012
2011
2009
2008
- David Martins de Matos, Ricardo Ribeiro, Sérgio Paulo, Fernando Batista, Luísa Coheur, Joana Paulo Pardal, Natural Language Engineering on a Computational Grid (NLE-GRID) T2 - Encapsulation of Reusable Components, Tech. Rep. 31 / 2008 INESC-ID Lisboa, January 2008
2006
Doctoral Theses
2004
PhD theses
Ongoing
- Natural language generation and evaluation in multilingual conversation, Ricardo Rei. (2020-). Luísa Coheur, advisor.
- Deep semantic similarity through graph matching, Pedro Fialho. Universidade de Évora (2012-). Paulo Quaresma, advisor. Luísa Coheur, co-advisor.
Finished
- Best of All Worlds for Low-resource Natural Language Processing, Vânia Patrícia Padrão Mendonça. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (2016-2022). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Alberto Sardinha, co-advisor.
- Learning Semantic Patterns for Question Generation, Hugo Rodrigues. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa/Carnegie Mellon University (2012-2020). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Eric Nyberg, co-advisor.
- Interacting with a virtual teaching assistant: from the student model to the intelligent tutor, Pedro Mota. (2012-2019). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Maxine Eskenazi, co-advisor.
- As colocações em corpora de PL2: identificação, classificação e análise de erros, Angela Costa. Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2011-2017). Teresa Lino, advisor. Luísa Coheur, co-advisor.
- Combining multiple parallel streams for improved speech processing, João Miranda. Carnegie Mellon University/Instituto Superior T ́ecnico (2011-2016). João Paulo da Silva Neto, advisor. Luísa Coheur, co-advisor.
- Machine Translation 4 Microblogs, Wang Ling. Instituto Superior Técnico / Carnegie Mellon University (2010-2015). Isabel Trancoso, advisor. Luísa Coheur, co-advisor.
MSc theses
Ongoing
- Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhancing Medical Education, César Reis. Instituto Superior Técnico (2023-). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Catarina Sousa Cardio, co-advisor.
- Dissertation: Exploiting Language Models to Improve Pedagogical Material Creation in Programming Education, Aylton Silva. Instituto Superior Técnico (2023-). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Alberto Abad, co-advisor.
- BR2PT_2.0: do Português do Brasil para Português Europeu, João Sanches. (2023-). Luísa Coheur, advisor.
- Identifying Personas in Subtitles, , Catarina alegria. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (2022-). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Rui Orlando Magalhães Ribeiro, co-advisor.
- Identifying Scenes in Subtitles, Tomás Prego. Instituto Superior Técnico (2022-). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Rui Orlando Magalhães Ribeiro, co-advisor.
- Explorando Linguagens Neutras, Leonor Veloso. Instituto Superior Técnico (2022-). Luísa Coheur, advisor.
- PE2LGP.5.0 - de Português Europeu para a Língua Gestual Portuguesa., Catarina Sousa. Instituto Superior Técnico (2022-). Luísa Coheur, advisor.
- Dialogue Summarization with Retrieval-Augmented Transformers, Diogo Fouto. Instituto Superior Técnico (2022-). Luísa Coheur, advisor.
- ErrorIST3.0 – Inserção de erros em texto.”, Diogo Ravasco. Instituto Superior Técnico (2022-). Luísa Coheur, advisor.
- Telescope 2.0 - Avaliação fina de Modelos de Tradução, Rita Castro Oliveira. Instituto Superior Técnico (2022-). Luísa Coheur, advisor.
Finished
- Root Cause Analysis of Bias Detection and Classification in Natural Language Processing, Sofia Evans. Instituto Superior Técnico (2021-2022). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Helena Moniz, co-advisor.
- Chronicles of Crime: Alexa, the Little Assistant Detective, Miguel Cardoso Valério. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (2020-2021). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Rui Prada, co-advisor.
- Best Way to Squeeze: A Comparison of Model Compression Techniques in Natural Language Processing, João Carlos Lopes Antunes. Instituto Superior Técnico (2020-2021). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Miguel Pardal, co-advisor.
- Building chatbots for customer support: fast and serious!”, Diogo André Barradas Fernandes. IST (2020-2021). Luísa Coheur, advisor.
- Customer Support with Sentiment, Isabel de Lima Henriques Dias, . (2020-2021). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Ricardo Rei, co-advisor.
- FakeNewSSItes, Diogo Miguel Ferreira Pinheiro. (2019-2021). Joao P. Carvalho, advisor. Luísa Coheur, co-advisor.
- Criação de uma Chatbot como base em legendas de filmes, Gonçalo Nuno Ventura de Melo. (2018-2021). Luísa Coheur, advisor.
- Enrichment of Location Databases, Maria Sofia Barros Feio de Almeida. (2020-2021). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Pável Calado, co-advisor.
- Towards a multi-agent dialogue system with contextual agents and tailored distractors, Leonor Llansol. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (2019-2021). Luísa Coheur, advisor.
- As legendas de filmes ao serviço do processamento da língua natural, Jéssica Cristina Azevedo Veiga. (2019-2020). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Sandra Gama, co-advisor.
- PE2LGP 4.0: Português Europeu para Língua Gestual Portuguesa, Matilde do Carmo Lages Gonçalves. (2019-2020). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Hugo Nicolau, co-advisor.
- Extendo o VITHEA KIDS com Exercícios que Visam Testar e Melhorar Variadas Competências Linguísticas de Crianças, Sílvia Maria Matos Timóteo. (2016-2020). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Alberto Sardinha, co-advisor.
- Chattuga - desenvolvimento de um chatbot para português, Mariana Rodrigues Seguro Gaspar Fernandes. (2018-2019). Luísa Coheur, advisor.
- Say something Smart 3.0 - um chatbot em domínio aberto, João Miguel Lucas Santos. (2018-2019). Luísa Coheur, advisor.
- PALbot: a Plug&(Almost)pLay chatbot, André Gilberto Tai. Iscte (2018-2019). Ricardo Ribeiro, advisor. Luísa Coheur, co-advisor.
- Question Generation With Deep Neural Networks, Ângela Margarida Gonçalves Ferreira. (2017-2019). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Bruno Martins, co-advisor.
- Multi-lingual automatic reply for customer support, Ricardo Rei. (2018-2019). Luísa Coheur, advisor. João Graça, co-advisor.
- Learning language skills based on implicit, explicit and active learning, Luís Miguel Santos Henriques. (2017-2018). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Francisco S. Melo, co-advisor.
- PE2LGP 3.0: from European Portuguese to Portuguese Sign Language, Rui Jorge Aço Ferreira. Instituto Superior Técnico (2017-2018). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Ana Mineiro (Universidade Católica), co-advisor.
- Virtual Assistant for Web Dashboard (Analytic Bot), Anisa Shahidian. (2017-2018). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Ângela Pimentel, co-advisor.
- A Virtual Assistant for Web Dashboards ( Support BOT), Ricardo Serralheiro Mendes Lopes. (2017-2018). Luísa Coheur, advisor.
- Watson contra o Mundo, André Ricardo Anselmo Félix. (2017-2018). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Pável Calado, co-advisor.
- One thousand agents speaking all the languages in the world, Miguel Ângelo António Ventura. (2017-2018). Luísa Coheur, advisor.
- Ultimate Capsule -- an app that helps you dress better with less clothes, Susana Isabel Guerreiro. Unversidade de Lisboa (2017-2018). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Sandra Gama, co-advisor.
- A personal fashion adviser application with a social component, Margarida Correia. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (2016-2017). Sandra Gama, advisor. Luísa Coheur, co-advisor.
- Mafia/Werewolf AI Player, Mariana Vaz Pinto Loureiro. (2016-2017). Pedro Santos, advisor. Luísa Coheur, co-advisor.
- Automatizando o Processo de Resposta a Posts das Redes Sociais da TAP, Tiago Miguel Rodrigues Simões. Instituto Superior Técnico (2016-2017). Joao P. Carvalho, advisor. Luísa Coheur, co-advisor.
- Improving and Enhancing Vithea Kids, Cláudia Patrícia Balixa Filipe. (2015-2017). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Alberto Sardinha, co-advisor.
- Criando Textos Com Erros, Tiago Manuel Ferrão dos Santos. (2015-2016). Luísa Coheur, advisor. João de Almeida Varelas Graça, co-advisor.
- Diz-me o que escreves, dir-te-ei quem és., Vanessa Feliciano. (2012-2015). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Joao P. Carvalho, co-advisor.
- Say Something Smart, David Luís Soares Ameixa. Instituto Superior Técnico (2012-2013). Luísa Coheur, advisor.
- Design and Implementation of a Data Warehouse for Benchmarking in Clinical Rehabilitation, João Luís Dias Completo. IST (2011-2012). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Rui Santos Cruz, co-advisor.
- Fala comigo - Agente virtual conversacional, Saulo Tavares Rego. (2008-2010). João Paulo da Silva Neto, advisor. Luísa Coheur, co-advisor.
- Qa+ml@wikipedia&google, João Pedro Carlos Gomes da Silva. (2008-2009). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Andreas Wichert, co-advisor.
- Porque sorri a Mona Lisa?, Paula Alexandra Baptista da Silva Fonseca. (2008-2009). Luísa Coheur, advisor. João Paulo da Silva Neto, co-advisor.
- Prontuário Terapêutico, João Pedro Videira Bastos. Instituto Superior Técnico (2008-2009). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Helena Galhardas, co-advisor.
- Workflow Control for Distributed Natural Language Processing Applications, Wang Ling. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (2008-2009). David Martins de Matos, advisor. Luísa Coheur, co-advisor.
- CLEFOMANIA 2, João Miguel Rodrigues da Cunha Guimarães. (2007-2009). Luísa Coheur, advisor. Nuno J. Mamede, co-advisor.
Graduation theses
Finished
- Generating Realistic Sign Language Animations., Inês Lacerda. Instituto Superior Técnico (2019-2021). Luísa Coheur, advisor.
Internships
Finished
- Automatic Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction (Erasmus Internship), Benjamim Chamand. INESC-ID (2016). Rubén Solera Ureña, advisor. Luísa Coheur, co-advisor.
Research Interests
- QA, Dialogue Systems and Machine Translation Evaluation
Books
Check: https://wnfe.my-free.website
"Missão 121908" in “Em República nunca existiu”, Saída de Emergência, 2008
"e-medo", Câmara Municipal de Portimão, 2007
"7 histórias por acontecer", Hugin, 2001
"Acabou-se!", Colibri, 2000
Prizes
"e-medo", Menção Honrosa, Prémio Revelação Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Câmara Municipal de Portimão, 2007
"Acabou-se!", Menção Honrosa, Prémio Revelação Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Câmara Municipal de Portimão, 2000