Fernando Batista

Fernando BatistaProfessor Associado | SA-HLT 

291B-47F3-63CD
0000-0002-1075-0177
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C-8355-2009
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+351213100300     234A fernando.batista@inesc-id.pt www.hlt.inesc-id.pt/~fmmb

Fernando Batista received his PhD (2011) in Computer Science and Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). He is currently Associate Professor at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, and a researcher at INESC-ID, Lisbon. He was President of the Pedagogical Council of ISCTE-IUL (2017-2019), member of the Permanent Committee of the Pedagogical Council of ISCTE-IUL (2015-2017), and member of the Pedagogical Committee of the ISTA School (2015-2017). He participated in several European and National projects, and coordinated the INESC-ID team in the SpeDial project (2014-2015). His current research focuses on spoken and written Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Text Mining for social media. Member of the organisation team of the Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LXMLS) from 2016 to 2021; and he was also member of the LxMLS technical staff between 2011 and 2015. He was the editorial co-chair of PROPOR 2020, editorial chair of EAMT 2020, web chair of the IPMU 2020, co-chair of the Human-Human languages track of SLATE 2019, co-chair of the demos session in PROPOR 2018, publication chair of IberSPEECH 2016, co-chair of the PROPOR 2016 Student Workshop, publication chair of IberSPEECH 2016, co-chair of the PROPOR 2016 Student Workshop, and handbook chair of EMNLP 2015. He was member of the Program Committee of several national and international conferences. He is Senior Member of the IEEE, and member of the ISCA Speech.

Research Interests

• Machine learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Text and Speech processing
• Shallow Parsing
• Also: Operating Systems and Computer Architectures

Total Publications: 163

Article (Author)

• A comprehensive review on automatic hate speech detection in the age of the transformer
  Gil Ramos, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro, Pedro Fialho, Sérgio Miguel Carneiro Moro, António Fonseca, Rita Guerra, Paula Carvalho, Catarina Marques, Cláudia Silva,
  Social Network Analysis and Mining, vol. 14, n. 204, DOI 10.1007/s13278-024-01361-3, October 2024
• The expression of hate speech against Afro-descendant, Roma, and LGBTQ+ communities in YouTube comments
  Paula Carvalho, Danielle Caled, Cláudia Silva, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, vol. 12, n. 2, DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00085.car, September 2024
• Leveraging Transfer Learning for Hate Speech Detection in Portuguese Social Media Posts
  Gil Ramos, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro, Pedro Fialho, Sérgio Miguel Carneiro Moro, António Fonseca, Rita Guerra, Paula Carvalho, Catarina Marques, Cláudia Silva,
  IEEE Access, vol. 12, pages 101374-101389, DOI 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3430848, July 2024
• Automatic transcription system for parliamentary debates in the context of assembly of the republic of Portugal
  Pedro Miguel Delgado do Nascimento, João Ferreira, Fernando Batista,
  International Journal of Speech Technology, DOI 10.1007/s10772-024-10126-4, July 2024
• Analyzing hate speech dynamics on Twitter/X: Insights from conversational data and the impact of user interaction patterns
  António Fonseca, Catarina Pontes, Sérgio Moro, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro, Rita Guerra, Paula Carvalho, Catarina Marques, Cláudia Silva,
  Heliyon, vol. 10, n. 11, DOI 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e32246, June 2024
• Enriching Portuguese Medieval Texts with Named Entity Recognition
  Maria Inês Bico, Jorge Baptista, Fernando Batista, Esperança Cardeira,
  International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, vol. 18, n. 1, pages 109-124, DOI 10.3366/ijhac.2024.0324, April 2024
• Semantic similarity for mobile application recommendation under scarce user data
  João Vares Coelho, Diogo Mano, Beatriz Paula, Carlos Coutinho, João oliveira, Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista,
  Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 121, DOI 10.1016/j.engappai.2023.105974, December 2023
• Unlocking the power of Twitter communities for startups
  Ana Rita Peixoto, Ana Maria de Almeida, Nuno António, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro, Elsa Cardoso,
  Applied Network Science, vol. 8, n. 1, pages 66, DOI 10.1007/s41109-023-00593-0, September 2023
• SA-MAIS: Hybrid automatic sentiment analyser for stock market
  Bruno Taborda, Ana Maria de Almeida, José Carlos Dias, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  Journal of Information Science, DOI 10.1177/01655515231171361, May 2023
• Diachronic profile of startup companies through social media
  Ana Rita Peixoto, Ana de Almeida, Nuno António, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  Social Network Analysis and Mining, vol. 13, n. 1, pages 52, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-023-01055-2, March 2023
• Examining Airbnb guest satisfaction tendencies: a text mining approach
  Mariana Sofia Barreira Cavique Santos, Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista, Antónia Correia,
  Current Issues in Tourism, n. 0, pages 1-16, DOI 10.1080/13683500.2022.2115877, September 2022
• What are Airbnb hosts advertising? A longitudinal essay in Lisbon
  Mariana Sofia Barreira Cavique Santos, Antónia Correia, Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista,
  Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality, vol. 17, n. 3, pages 312--325, DOI 10.1108/CBTH-10-2021-0253, July 2022
• Towards better subtitles: A multilingual approach for punctuation restoration of speech transcripts
  Nuno M Guerreiro, Ricardo Rei, Fernando Batista,
  Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 186, pages 115740, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115740, December 2021
• eWOM for public institutions: application to the case of the Portuguese Army. Social Network Analysis and Mining
  Joana Azinhaes, Fernando Batista, J. C. Ferreira,
  Social Network Analysis and Mining, vol. 11, n. 1, pages 118, DOI 10.1007/s13278-021-00837-w, November 2021
• A Data-driven Approach to Measure Restaurant Performance Combining Online Reviews and Historical Sales Data
  Elizabeth Fernandes, Sérgio Moro, Paulo Cortez, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  International Journal of Hospitality Management, vol. 94, DOI 10.1016/j.ijhm.2020.102830, April 2021
• Adaptação acústico-prosódica local em Português Europeu
  Vera Cabarrão, Fernando Batista, Helena Moniz, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva,
  Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, December 2019
• Uma abordagem de aprendizagem semissupervisionada para a classificação automática de personalidade baseada em pistas acústico-prosódicas
  Rubén Solera Ureña, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Vera Cabarrão, Anna Maria Pompili, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Isabel Trancoso,
  Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, vol. 5, pages 348-364, DOI https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln5ano2019a23, September 2019
• Are the States United? An analysis of US hotels’ offers through TripAdvisor’s eyes
  Sérgio Moro, Fernando Batista, Paulo Rita, Cristina Oliveira, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, DOI 10.1177/1096348019854793, June 2019
• Adaptação acústico-prosódica entre falantes
  Vera Cabarrão, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva,
  Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, vol. 4, July 2018
• Leveraging national tourist offices through data analytics
  Sérgio Moro, Paulo Rita, Cristina Oliveira, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, vol. 14, n. 4, DOI 10.1108/IJCTHR-04-2018-005, July 2018
• Cross-domain analysis of discourse markers in European Portuguese
  Vera Cabarrão, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Jaime Rodrigues Ferreira, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva,
  Dialogue & Discourse, vol. 9, n. 1, pages 79-106, DOI Journal doi: 10.5087/dad, June 2018
• Hotel online reviews: different languages, different opinions
  Nuno António, Ana de Almeida, Luis Nunes, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  Information Technology & Tourism, vol. 18, n. 1, pages 157--185, DOI 10.1007/s40558-018-0107-x, April 2018
• Hotel online reviews: Creating a multi-source aggregated index
  Nuno António, Ana Almeida, Luis Nunes, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, vol. 30, n. 10, DOI 10.1108/IJCHM-05-2017-0302, March 2018
• Twitter: from platform for mobilization to platform for commentary. The 2014 meet in Lisbon
  Catarina Rebelo, Inês Pereira, Hugo Rosa, Fernando Batista, Joao P. Carvalho,
  (OBS*)ERVATORIO, vol. 11, n. 4, pages 19-41, December 2017
• MISNIS: An Intelligent Platform for Twitter Topic Mining
  Joao P. Carvalho, Hugo Rosa, Gaspar Manuel Rocha Brogueira, Fernando Batista,
  Expert Systems With Applications, vol. 89, pages 374-388, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.08.001, December 2017
• A Smart System for Twitter Corpus Collection, Management and Visualization
  Gaspar Manuel Rocha Brogueira, Fernando Batista, Joao P. Carvalho,
  International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI), vol. 13, n. 3, pages 13-32, December 2016
• Classificação prosódica de marcadores discursivos
  Vera Cabarrão, Helena Moniz, Jaime Rodrigues Ferreira, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Sérgio dos Santos Lopes Curto,
  Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, n. 2, pages 69 -- 95, DOI https://doi.org/10.21747/2183-9077/rapl2, July 2016
• Using geolocated tweets for characterization of Twitter in Portugal and the Portuguese administrative regions
  Gaspar Manuel Rocha Brogueira, Fernando Batista, Joao P. Carvalho,
  Social Network Analysis and Mining, vol. 6, n. 1, pages 1-20, DOI DOI: 10.1007/s13278-016-0347-8, June 2016
• 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
• Speaking style effects in the production of disfluencies
  Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Isabel Trancoso,
  Speech Communication, vol. 65, pages 20-35, DOI 10.1016/j.specom.2014.05.004, November 2014
• Comparing phrase-final patterns across speech styles and groups in European Portuguese
  Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista,
  Noveaux cahiers de linguistique francaise, n. 31, pages 171-176, September 2014
• Sentiment Analysis and Topic Classification based on Binary Maximum Entropy Classifiers
  Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural, vol. 50, n. 1, pages 77–84, March 2013
• Extending Automatic Transcripts in a Unified Data Representation towards a Prosodic-based Metadata Annotation and Evaluation
  Fernando Batista, Helena Moniz, Isabel Trancoso, Nuno J. Mamede, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva,
  Journal of Speech Sciences, vol. 2, n. 2, December 2012
• Bilingual Experiments on Automatic Recovery of Capitalization and Punctuation of Automatic Speech Transcripts
  Fernando Batista, Helena Moniz, Isabel Trancoso, Nuno J. Mamede,
  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 20, n. 2, pages 474 -- 485, DOI 10.1109/TASL.2011.2159594, February 2012
• Recovering Capitalization and Punctuation Marks for Automatic Speech Recognition: Case Study for the Portuguese Broadcast News
  Fernando Batista, Diamantino António Caseiro, Nuno J. Mamede, Isabel Trancoso,
  Speech Communication, vol. 50, n. 10, pages 847-862, DOI 10.1016/j.specom.2008.05.008, October 2008

In Proceedings (Author)

• Support Verb Constructions in Medieval Portuguese: Evidence from the CTA Corpus
  Maria Inês Bico, Esperança Cardeira, Jorge Baptista, Fernando Batista,
  Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2024 - vol. 2, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), vol. 2, pages 118--129, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia/Spain, June 2024
• Jasay: Towards Voice Commands in Projectional Editors
  André L. Santos, Alexandre Cancelinha, Fernando Batista,
  Proceedings of the 1st IDE Workshop, colocated with the ICSE'24 conference, April 2024
• Analysis of the Tourist's Behavior in Lisbon using Data from a Mobile Operator
  Bruno Alexandre Mateus Francisco, Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista, João Ferreira,
  Intelligent Transport Systems, Springer Nature Switzerland, vol. 486, pages 3--22, Cham, December 2023
• Web of Science Citation Gaps: An Automatic Approach to Detect Indexed but Missing Citations
  David Miguel Nunes Rodrigues, António Luís Lopes, Fernando Batista,
  12th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2023), Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik, vol. 113, pages 5:1--5:11, Dagstuhl, Germany, June 2023
• Collaborative Filtering for Mobile Application Recommendation with Implicit Feedback
  Beatriz Paula, João Coelho, Diogo Mano, Carlos Coutinho, João P. Oliveira, Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista,
  IEEE ICE - IAMOT Conference 2022, pages 1065 -- 1073, December 2022
• Gutenbrain: An Architecture for Equipment Technical Attributes Extraction from Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams
  João Guarda, Marco Vicente, Fernando Batista,
  KDIR 2022, vol. 1, pages 204-211, October 2022
• Early Experiments on Automatic Annotation of Portuguese Medieval Texts
  Maria Inês Bico, Jorge Baptista, Fernando Batista, Esperança Cardeira,
  TPDL 2022, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, vol. 13541, pages 442--449, Springer International Publishing, Italy, September 2022
• Comparing Different Approaches for Detecting Hate Speech in Online Portuguese Comments
  Bernardo Cunha Matos, Raquel Bento Santos, Paula Carvalho, Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista,
  11th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2022), Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, vol. 104, pages 10:1--10:12, Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16756, July 2022
• Semi-Supervised Annotation of Portuguese Hate Speech Across Social Media Domains
  Raquel Bento Santos, Bernardo Cunha Matos, Paula Carvalho, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  11th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2022), Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, vol. 104, pages 11:1--11:14, Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16757, July 2022
• Hate Speech Dynamics Against African descent, Roma and LGBTQI Communities in Portugal
  Paula Carvalho, Bernardo Cunha Matos, Raquel Bento Santos, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  LREC 2022 - 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), June 2022
• Transformer-based language models for semantic search and mobile applications retrieval
  João Coelho, António Neto, Miguel Tavares, Carlos Coutinho, João oliveira, Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista,
  13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, SciTePress, pages 225-232, SciTePress, October 2021
• From Implicit Preferences to Ratings: Video Games Recommendation based on Collaborative Filtering
  Rosária Patrícia Firmino Bunga, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, SciTePress, SciTePress, October 2021
• Semantic Search of Mobile Applications Using Word Embeddings
  João Coelho, António Neto, Miguel Tavares, Carlos Coutinho, Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista,
  10th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2021), Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, vol. 94, pages 12:1--12:12, Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2021/14429, July 2021
• Sentiment Analysis of Portuguese Economic News
  Cátia Tavares, Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista,
  10th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2021), Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, vol. 94, pages 17:1--17:13, Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, July 2021
• Multilingual Simultaneous Sentence End and Punctuation Prediction
  Ricardo Rei, Fernando Batista, Nuno Miguel Guerreiro, Luísa Coheur,
  Proceedings of the 1st Shared Task on Sentence End and Punctuation Prediction in NLG Text (SEPP-NLG 2021) held at SwissText 2021, June 2021
• Towards the Identification of Fake News in Portuguese
  João Rodrigues, Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista,
  9th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2020), OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, vol. 83, pages 7:1--7:14, Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, September 2020
• Detection of Emerging Words in Portuguese Tweets
  Afonso Pinto, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista,
  9th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2020), OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, vol. 83, pages 3:1--3:10, Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, September 2020
• Different Lexicon-Based Approaches to Emotion Identification in Portuguese Tweets (Short Paper)
  Soraia Filipe, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  9th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2020), OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, vol. 83, pages 12:1--12:8, Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, September 2020
• Automatic truecasing of video subtitles using BERT: a multilingual adaptable approach
  Ricardo Rei, Nuno M Guerreiro, Fernando Batista,
  International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, Springer, Cham, vol. 1237, pages 708-721, Springer, Cham, Lisbon, June 2020
• Automatic Truecasing of Video Subtitles Using BERT: A Multilingual Adaptable Approach
  Ricardo Rei, Nuno Miguel Guerreiro, Fernando Batista,
  IPMU2020 - International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS), Springer International Publishing, vol. 1237, pages 708--721, Springer International Publishing, June 2020
• Creating Classification Models from Textual Descriptions of Companies Using Crunchbase
  Marco Felgueiras, Fernando Batista, Joao P. Carvalho,
  IPMU2020 - International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, vol. 1237, pages 695-707, Springer, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2020
• Using Topic Information to Improve Non-exact Keyword-Based Search for Mobile Applications
  Eugénio Ribeiro, Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista, João oliveira,
  Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, 18th International Conference, IPMU 2020, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, vol. 1237, pages 373-386, Springer, June 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
• Affective analysis of customer service calls
  Vera Cabarrão, Mariana Julião, Rubén Solera Ureña, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva,
  10th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (ExLing 2019), pages 37-40, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2019
• Affective computing based on acoustic-prosodic cues
  Helena Moniz, Rubén Solera Ureña, Vera Cabarrão, Mariana Julião, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso,
  14th Annual INGRoup Conference (Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research), Lisbon, Portugal, July 2019
• Discovering Trends in Brand Interest through Topic Models
  Diana Lopes-Teixeira, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR, SciTePress, vol. 1, pages 245-252, SciTePress, October 2018
• Uma abordagem de aprendizagem semi-supervisionada para a percepção automática de personalidade, baseada em pistas acústico-prosódicas em domínios com poucos recursos
  Rubén Solera Ureña, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Vera Cabarrão, Anna Maria Pompili, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Isabel Trancoso,
  XXXIV Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2018
• Acoustic-prosodic entrainment in structural metadata events
  Vera Cabarrão, Fernando Batista, Helena Moniz, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva,
  Interspeech 2018, ISCA, pages 2176--2180, ISCA, Hyderabad, India, September 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
• Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Brand Interest using Social Networks
  Diana Lopes-Teixeira, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  CISTI'2018 - 13th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, IEEE, IEEE, Cáceres, Spain, June 2018
• A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach for Acoustic-Prosodic Personality Perception in Under-Resourced Domains
  Rubén Solera Ureña, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Vera Cabarrão, Anna Maria Pompili, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Joana Campos, Ana Paiva, Isabel Trancoso,
  Interspeech 2017, pages 929--933, International Speech Communication Association, Stockholm, Sweeden, August 2017
• Detecting relevant tweets in very large tweet collections: the London Riots case study
  Joao P. Carvalho, Hugo Rosa, Fernando Batista,
  FUZZ-IEEE, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Xplorer, IEEE Xplorer, Naples, Italy, July 2017
• Prosodic Exercises for Children with ASD via Virtual Therapy
  Mariana Sofia da Silva Sousa, Isabel Trancoso, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista,
  Jornadas SUPERA 2017, pages 59-69, Porto, Portugal, June 2017
• Automatic Detection of Hyperarticulated Speech
  Eugénio Ribeiro, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos,
  IberSPEECH 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publish, vol. 10077, pages 182--191, Springer International Publish, Lisbon, November 2016
• Global analysis of entrainment in dialogues
  Vera Cabarrão, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista,
  IberSPEECH 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, vol. 10077, pages 215--223, Springer, Lisbon, November 2016
• Assessing User Expertise in Spoken Dialog System Interactions
  Eugénio Ribeiro, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, José Lopes, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos,
  IberSPEECH 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publish, vol. 10077, pages 245--254, Springer International Publish, Lisbon, November 2016
• Acoustic-prosodic automatic personality trait assessment for adults and children
  Rubén Solera Ureña, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Joana Campos, Ana Paiva, Isabel Trancoso,
  IberSPEECH 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, vol. 10077, pages 192--201, Springer International Publishing, Lisbon, November 2016
• Characterizing the Personality of Twitter Users based on their Timeline Information
  Angela Jusupova, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  16 Conferência da Associacao Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informação, pages 292 - 299, Porto, Portugal, October 2016
• Improving Twitter gender classification using multiple classifiers
  Marco Paulo Fernandes Vicente, Fernando Batista, Joao P. Carvalho,
  8th European Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Mathematics (ESCIM 2016), pages 121 - 127, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 2016
• Detecting violence on movie excerpts: A machine-learning approach based on audio and video features
  Luís Dias, Tomas Brandao, Fernando Batista,
  INForum 2016, Gestão de Dados e Conhecimento, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2016
• Cascatas de Classificação de Sentimento em Microblogues
  Fernando Rebelo, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  INFORUM 2016 - Atas do 8.o Simpósio de Informática, pages 203 -- 214, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2016
• Creating Extended Gender Labelled Datasets of Twitter Users
  Marco Paulo Fernandes Vicente, Fernando Batista, Joao P. Carvalho,
  IPMU2016 - 16th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based systems, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, vol. 611, pages 690-702, Springer, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 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
• In search of the role's footprints in client-therapist dialogues
  Anat Lerner, Vered Silber-Varod, Fernando Batista, Helena Moniz,
  Speech Prosody, pages 400--404, Boston, EUA, May 2016
• SPA: Web-based Platform for easy Access to Speech Processing Modules
  Fernando Batista, Pedro dos Santos Lopes Curto, Isabel Trancoso, Alberto Abad, Jaime Rodrigues Ferreira, Eugénio Ribeiro, Helena Moniz, David Martins de Matos, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  LREC, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pages 3886--3892, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Portorož, Slovenia, May 2016
• Sistema Inteligente de Recolha, Armazenamento e Visualização de Informação proveniente do Twitter
  Gaspar Manuel Rocha Brogueira, Fernando Batista, Joao P. Carvalho,
  CAPSI2015 - 15ª Conferência da Associação Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informação, Lisboa, Portugal, October 2015
• Detecting User Influence in Twitter: PageRank vs Katz, a case study
  Hugo Rosa, Joao P. Carvalho, Fernando Batista,
  ESCIM - 7th European Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Mathematics, pages 212-217, Cádiz, Spain, October 2015
• Speech Features for Discriminating Stress
  Mariana Julião, Jorge Silva, Ana Aguiar, Helena Moniz, Jaime Rodrigues Ferreira, Fernando Batista,
  10th Conference on Telecommunications, Conftele 2015, IT, IT, https://www.it.pt/Publications/PaperConference/224, September 2015
• Detecting Repetitions in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Phonetic Distances
  José Lopes, Giampiero Salvi, Gabriel Skantze, Alberto Abad, Joakim Gustafson, Fernando Batista, Raveesh Meena, Isabel Trancoso,
  Interspeech 2015, ISCA, ISCA, Dresden, Germany, September 2015
• Combining Multiple Approaches to Predict the Degree of Nativeness
  Eugénio Ribeiro, Jaime Rodrigues Ferreira, Julia Olcoz, Alberto Abad, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso,
  Interspeech 2015, pages 488-492, Dresden, Germany, September 2015
• Text based classification of companies in CrunchBase
  Fernando Batista, Joao P. Carvalho,
  FUZZ-IEEE2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE, pages , IEEE, Istambul, Turkey, August 2015
• Disfluency Detection Across Domains
  Helena Moniz, Jaime Rodrigues Ferreira, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso,
  DISS 2015, Edinburgh, Scotlan, UK, August 2015
• Prosodic Classification of Discourse Markers
  Vera Cabarrão, Helena Moniz, Jaime Rodrigues Ferreira, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Sérgio dos Santos Lopes Curto,
  International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, August 2015
• Twitter gender classification using user unstructured information
  Marco Paulo Fernandes Vicente, Fernando Batista, Joao P. Carvalho,
  FUZZ-IEEE, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE, IEEE, Istambul, Turkey, August 2015
• Automatic Recognition of Prosodic Patterns in Semantic Verbal Fluency Tests - an Animal Naming Task for Edutainment Applications
  Helena Moniz, Anna Maria Pompili, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Alberto Abad, Cristiana Filipa Lopes Amorim,
  International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, August 2015
• Speech features for discriminating stress using branch and bound wrapper search
  Mariana Julião, Jorge Silva, Ana Aguiar, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista,
  SLATE'15, CCIS, Springer, Springer, Madrid, Spain, June 2015
• Using Geolocated Tweets for Characterization of Portuguese Administrative Regions
  Gaspar Manuel Rocha Brogueira, Fernando Batista, Joao P. Carvalho,
  18th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Lisboa, Portugal, June 2015
• Using Unstructured Profile Information for Gender Classification of Portuguese and English Twitter Users
  Marco Paulo Fernandes Vicente, Joao P. Carvalho, Fernando Batista,
  SLATE'15, IV Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies, Springer, pages 143-148, Springer, Madrid, Spain, June 2015
• Arquitetura e Desenvolvimento de um Repositório de Tweets em Português Europeu
  Gaspar Manuel Rocha Brogueira, Fernando Batista, Joao P. Carvalho,
  5as Jornadas de Informática da Universidade de Évora - JIUE 2015, Springer, Springer, Évora, Portugal, February 2015
• Discriminação automática de sinais de pontuação e de disfluências
  Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Isabel Trancoso,
  Textos Selecionados do XXIX Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, ENAPL, ENAPL, October 2014
• Twitter Topic Fuzzy Fingerprints
  Hugo Rosa, Fernando Batista, Joao P. Carvalho,
  WCCI2014, FUZZ-IEEE, 2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Xplorer, IEEE, pages 776-783, IEEE, Beijing, China, July 2014
• Detecting a Tweet’s Topic within a Large Number of Portuguese Twitter Trends
  Hugo Rosa, Joao P. Carvalho, Fernando Batista,
  SLATE'14 - 3rd Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies, OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Schloss Dagstuhl, vol. 4659, pages 185-199, Schloss Dagstuhl, June 2014
• Expanding a Database of Portuguese Tweets
  Gaspar Manuel Rocha Brogueira, Fernando Batista, Joao P. Carvalho, Helena Moniz,
  SLATE'14 3rd Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies, OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Schloss Dagstuhl, vol. 4569, pages 275-282, Schloss Dagstuhl, Bragança, Portugal, June 2014
• Teenage and Adult Speech in School Context: Building and Processing a Corpus of European Portuguese
  Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Julia Hirschberg,
  Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pages 3914-3919, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2014
• 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
• Portuguese geolocated tweets: an overview
  Gaspar Manuel Rocha Brogueira, Fernando Batista, Joao P. Carvalho, Helena Moniz,
  ISDOC2014 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication, ACM, pages 178-179, ACM, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2014
• Revising the Annotation of a Broadcast News Corpus: a Linguistic Approach
  Vera Cabarrão, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro, Nuno J. Mamede, Hugo Meinedo, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, David Martins de Matos,
  Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pages 3908-3913, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2014
• Prosodic, Syntactic, Semantic Guidelines for Topic Structures Across Domains and Corpora
  Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Helena Moniz, Telmo Móia, Anabela Gonçalves, Fátima Silva, Fernando Batista, Inês Duarte, Fátima Oliveira, Isabel Falé,
  Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pages 1188-1193, 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
• Extending AuToBI to Prominence Detection in European Portuguese
  Helena Moniz, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Julia Hirschberg, Fernando Batista, Andrew Rosenberg, Isabel Trancoso,
  Speech Prosody, Dublin, Ireland, 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
• Experiments on automatic detection of filled pauses using prosodic features
  Henrique Rodrigues Barbosa de Medeiros, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Hugo Meinedo,
  5th INForum - Simpósio de Informática (INForum 2013), Évora, Portugal, September 2013
• Disfluency Detection Based on Prosodic Features for University Lectures
  Henrique Rodrigues Barbosa de Medeiros, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Luis Nunes, Isabel Trancoso,
  Interspeech 2013, ISCA, ISCA, Lyon, France, August 2013
• Automatic structural metadata identification based on multilayer prosodic information
  Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva,
  Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, DiSS 2013, http://www.diss2013.org/Proceedings_DiSS_2013.pdf, August 2013
• Towards Intelligent Mining of Public Social Networks’ Influence in Society
  Joao P. Carvalho, Vasco Pedro, Fernando Batista,
  IFSA-NAFIPS2013 - 2013 IFSA World Congress and NAFIPS Annual Meeting, IEEE Xplore, pages 478-483, IEEE Xplore, Edmonton, Canada, June 2013
• Comparing different machine learning approaches for disfluency structure detection in a corpus of university lectures
  Henrique Rodrigues Barbosa de Medeiros, Fernando Batista, Helena Moniz, Isabel Trancoso, Luis Nunes,
  Slate 2013 - Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies, Porto, Portugal, June 2013
• Prosodic context-based analysis of disfluencies
  Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva,
  Interspeech 2012, ISCA, ISCA, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., September 2012
• Analysis of disfluencies in a corpus of university lectures
  Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Isabel Trancoso,
  ExLing 2012, August 2012
• Análise de interrogativas em diferentes domínios
  Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva,
  Textos Seleccionados do XXVII Encontro Nacional da APL, Lisboa, July 2012
• A Critical Survey on the use of Fuzzy Sets in Speech and Natural Language Processing
  Joao P. Carvalho, Fernando Batista, Luísa Coheur,
  WCCI2012 - IEEE World Congress on computational Intelligence, IEEE, pages 270-277, IEEE, Brisbane, Australia, July 2012
• Extension of the LECTRA corpus: classroom LECture TRAnscriptions in European Portuguese
  Thomas Pellegrini, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo,
  SPEECH AND CORPORA, Belo Horizonte, March 2012
• Analysis of interrogatives in different domains
  Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva,
  Towards Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware Multimodal Interfaces: Theoretical and Practical Issues. Third COST 2102 International Training School, Book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pages 136-148, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Caserta, Italy, January 2011
• Extending the punctuation module for European Portuguese
  Fernando Batista, Helena Moniz, Isabel Trancoso, Hugo Meinedo, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Nuno J. Mamede,
  Proc. of Interspeech 2010, Mukari, Japan, September 2010
• Prosodically-based automatic segmentation and punctuation
  Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Hugo Meinedo, Alberto Abad, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Nuno J. Mamede,
  Speech Prosody 2010, ISCA, ISCA, Chicago, USA, May 2010
• Comparing Automatic Rich Transcription for Portuguese, Spanish and English Broadcast News
  Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Nuno J. Mamede,
  ASRU - Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Merano, Italy, December 2009
• Automatic Recovery of Punctuation Marks and Capitalization Information for Iberian Languages
  Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Nuno J. Mamede,
  I Joint SIG-IL/Microsoft Workshop on Speech An Language Technologies for Iberian Languages, pages 99 -102, Porto Salvo, Portugal, September 2009
• Impact of dynamic model adaptation beyond speech recognition
  Fernando Batista, Rui Pedro Batoreo Amaral, Isabel Trancoso, Nuno J. Mamede,
  SLT 2008, Goa, India, December 2008
• Temporal Issues and Recognition Errors on the Capitalization of Speech Transcriptions
  Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede, Isabel Trancoso,
  11th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2008), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, vol. 5246, pages 45-52, Springer-Verlag, Brno, Czech Republic, September 2008
• The impact of Language Dynamics on the Capitalization of Broadcast News
  Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede, Isabel Trancoso,
  Proc. of the Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008
• QA@L2F, first steps at QA@CLEF
  Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos, Fernando Batista,
  , Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, vol. 5152, Springer-Verlag, September 2008
• Language Dynamics and Capitalization using Maximum Entropy
  Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede, Isabel Trancoso,
  46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2008), Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 2008
• QA@L2F@QA@CLEF
  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,
  Working Notes for the CLEF 2007 Workshop, September 2007
• A Lightweight on-the-fly Capitalization System for Automatic Speech Recognition
  Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede, Diamantino António Caseiro, Isabel Trancoso,
  Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, vol. 1, Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2007
• Recovering Punctuation Marks for Automatic Speech Recognition
  Fernando Batista, Diamantino António Caseiro, Nuno J. Mamede, Isabel Trancoso,
  Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2007), Interspeech, ISCA, vol. 1, pages 2153-2156, ISCA, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2007
• Cooking an Ontology
  Ricardo Ribeiro, Fernando Batista, Joana Paulo Pardal, Nuno J. Mamede, H. Sofia Pinto,
  The Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, vol. 4183, pages 213-221, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Varna, Bulgaria, September 2006
• Building a Dictionary of Anthroponyms
  Jorge Baptista, Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede,
  PROPOR'2006 - Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg, vol. 3960, pages 21-30, Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg, Itatiaia, Brazil, May 2006
• Npro: um novo recurso para o processamento computacional do Português
  Jorge Baptista, Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede, Cristina Mota,
  XXI Encontro APL, Porto, Portugal, December 2005
• Towards a flexible syntax/semantics interface
  Luísa Coheur, Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede,
  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
• Flexible Module for Shallow Parsing, Using Preferences
  Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede,
  TASHA'2003 - Workshop on Tagging and Shallow Processing of Portuguese, Technical Reports, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, pages 5-6, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, October 2003
• JaVaLI! undestanding real questions
  Luísa Coheur, Fernando Batista, Joana Paulo Pardal,
  Proc. EUROLAN'2003 - Student Workshop on Applied Natural Processing, Hamburg, Germany, July 2003
• SuSAna: Módulo Multifuncional da Análise Sintáctica de Superfície
  Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede,
  Multilingual Information Access and Natural Language Processing Workshop, Sevilla, Spain, November 2002
• Some Language Resources and Tools for Computational Processing of Portuguese at INESC
  Luzia Helena Wittmann, Ricardo Ribeiro, Tânia Pêgo, Fernando Batista,
  LREC2000 – Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, vol. 1, pages 347, Athens, Greece, June 2000

In Book (Author)

• Recognizing and Linking Named Entities in Portuguese Medieval Texts
  Maria Inês Bico, Jorge Baptista, Fernando Batista, Esperança Cardeira,
  Digital Humanities Looking at the World : Exploring Innovative Approaches and Contributions to Society, ed. Araújo, Sílvia and Aguiar, Micaela and Ermakova, Liana, pages 329--337, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, May 2024
• 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
• Gender Detection of Twitter Users Based on Multiple Information Sources
  Marco Vicente, Fernando Batista, Joao P. Carvalho,
  Gender Detection of Twitter Users Based on Multiple Information Sources, pages 39-54, Springer International Publishing, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01632-6_3, May 2019
• Page Rank vs. Katz: Is the centrality algorithm choice relevant to measure user influence in Twitter?
  Hugo Rosa, Fernando Batista, Joao P. Carvalho,
  Interactions Between Computational Intelligence and Mathematics (Special issue of ESCIM2015), Springer, October 2018
• Stylistic variation in the intonation of European Portuguese teenagers and adults
  Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista,
  Intonational grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields, Amsterdam:John Benjamins, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ihll.6, September 2016
• Towards automatic language processing and intonational labeling in European Portuguese
  Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Isabel Trancoso,
  Intonational grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 10.1075/ihll.6, September 2016
• Creating Extended Gender Labelled Datasets of Twitter Users, pp 690-702
  Marco Paulo Fernandes Vicente, Fernando Batista, Joao P. Carvalho,
  Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems - Volume 611 of the series Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, June 2016
• Speech Features for Discriminating Stress Using Branch and Bound Wrapper Search
  Mariana Julião, Jorge Silva, Ana Aguiar, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista,
  Languages, Applications and Technologies, Springer International Publish, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27653-3_1, December 2015
• Using Unstructured Profile Information for Gender Classification of Portuguese and English Twitter Users, pp 57-64
  Marco Paulo Fernandes Vicente, Joao P. Carvalho, Fernando Batista,
  Communications in Computer and Information Science Vol 563 - International Languages, Applications and Technologies, Springer, December 2015
• Handbook of Research on Trends and Future Directions in Big Data and Web Intelligence
  Jose Moura, Fernando Batista, Elsa Cardoso, Luis Nunes,
  Chapter 6. Intelligent Management and Efficient Operation of Big Data, IGI Global, http://www.igi-global.com/book/handbook-research-t, September 2015
• SuSAna: Shallow Parsing with Preferences
  Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede,
  Language Technology for Portuguese: Shallow Processing Tools and Resources, Edições Colibri, Lisboa, Portugal, October 2004

Proceedings (Editor)

• Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language: 15th International Conference, PROPOR 2022, Fortaleza, Brazil, March 2123, 2022, Proceedings
  Vládia Pinheiro, Pablo Gamallo, Raquel Amaro, Carolina Scarton, Fernando Batista, Diego Silva, Catarina Magro, Hugo Pinto,
  , Springer International Publishing, ISBN 978-3-030-98304-8, December 2022
• Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
  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,
  , European Association for Machine Translation, ISBN 978-989-33-0589-8, http://eamt2020.inesc-id.pt/proceedings-eamt2020.pdf, October 2020
• Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, 14th International Conference, PROPOR 2020
  Paulo Quaresma, Renata Vieira, Sandra Aluísio, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Teresa Gonçalves,
  , Springer, March 2020
• 8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019)
  Ricardo Rodrigues, Jan Janousek, Luis Ferreira, Luísa Coheur, Fernando Batista, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira,
  , Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, ISBN 978-3-95977-114-6, http://www.dagstuhl.de/dagpub/978-3-95977-114-6, July 2019

Book (Editor)

• Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages: Third International Conference, IberSPEECH 2016
  Alberto Abad, Alfonso Ortega, António Teixeira, Carmen Mateo, Carlos Hinarejos, Fernando Perdigão, Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede,
  , Springer International Publish, Lisboa, Portugal, November 2016

Book (Author)

• Book of Abstracts of IPMU 2020
  Joao P. Carvalho, Marek Reformat, Marie-Jeanne Lesot, Susana Vieira, Fernando Batista,
  , ISBN 978-989-330672, INESC-ID, https://ipmu2020.inesc-id.pt/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/booklet.pdf, September 2020

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
• Natural Language Engineering on a Computational Grid (NLE-GRID) T2 - Encapsulation of Reusable Components
  David Martins de Matos, Ricardo Ribeiro, Sérgio Paulo, Fernando Batista, Luísa Coheur, Joana Paulo Pardal,
  TechnicalReport, INESC-ID Lisboa, n. 31, January 2008
• Ontology construction: cooking domain
  Fernando Batista, Joana Paulo Pardal, Nuno J. Mamede, Paula Vaz Lobo, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  TechnicalReport, INESC-ID Lisboa, n. 28, May 2006

Miscellaneous (Author)

• Assessing User Expertise in Spoken Dialog System Interactions
  Eugénio Ribeiro, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, José Lopes, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos,
  , https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05011, January 2017
• Discourse markers in spontaneous speech in European Portuguese: a first approach
  Vera Cabarrão, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Sérgio dos Santos Lopes Curto,
  , Università dell'Insubria, October 2014
• The L2F Strategy for Sentiment Analysis and Topic Classification
  Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro,
  , Workshop on Sentiment Analysis, September 2012
• Recovering Capitalization and Punctuation Marks on Speech Transcriptions
  Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede,
  , PhD Dissertation contest, PROP, April 2012

Thesis (Author)

• Recovering Capitalization and Punctuation Marks on Speech Transcriptions
  Fernando Batista, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Thesis, May 2011
• Análise Sintáctica de Superfície
  Fernando Batista, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Thesis, July 2003

 

Total Supervisions: 46

Doctoral Theses

• Leveraging LLMs and generative AI for project appraisal
  Diogo Ribeiro Santos
  Ricardo Ribeiro (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Doctoral Thesis, ISCTE, 2023-11-15 - Ongoing
• Aplicação de sistemas automáticos de processamento computacional da língua no Corpus de Textos Antigos
  Maria Inês Bico
  Esperança Cardeira (advisor), Jorge Baptista (coadvisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Doctoral Thesis, Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, 2021-02-01 - Ongoing
• Complexity of Language Variation and Sentence Structures
  Eduardo M. Freitas
  Fernando Batista (advisor), Ricardo Ribeiro (coadvisor)
  Doctoral Thesis, ISCTE, 2020-02-01 - Ongoing
• Exploring the Perspectives of Hosts and Guests in Peer-to-Peer Accommodation using Text Mining
  Mariana Sofia Barreira Cavique Santos
  Ricardo Ribeiro (advisor), Antónia Correia (coadvisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Doctoral Thesis, ISCTE, 2019-10-01 - 2024-05-03

Master's Theses

• Extração de informação para processamento de faturas em várias línguas
  Marta Pereira
  Ricardo Ribeiro (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2024-05-15 - Ongoing
• Detection of Hate Speech in Portuguese Social Media Posts
  Gil Ramos
  Fernando Batista (advisor), Ricardo Ribeiro (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2023-11-16 - Ongoing
• Predicting the movie success: Case Study on Latin-language movies
  Margarida Paias Moura
  Ricardo Ribeiro (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2023-09-01 - Ongoing
• Análise de Sentimento e Emoções em Diálogos
  Inês Filipa Correia Morais
  Ricardo Ribeiro (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2024-09-01 - 2024-12-03
• Unveiling Key Hotel Satisfaction Factors in Maputo Using Guest Reviews
  Jaciara Aly Ferreira
  Fernando Batista (advisor), Ricardo Ribeiro (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2023-08-31 - 2024-12-03
• Navigating the Mobile App Galaxy: Harnessing Textual Metadata for App Categorization
  Pedro d'Oliveira
  Ricardo Ribeiro (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2024-05-23 - 2024-11-22
• Text Mining e o Terroir Português: Uma Análise de Reviews de Vinhos Online
  Mariana Ferreira
  Ricardo Ribeiro (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2024-04-10 - 2024-11-19
• Impacto da Pandemia de Covid-19 nas Experiências dos Anfitriões e dos Hóspedes no Airbnb em Lisboa
  Filipa Camarate Gonçalves
  Fernando Batista (advisor), Ricardo Ribeiro (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2023-09-01 - 2024-11-18
• Assessing NER Tools for Dialogue Data Anonymization
  Miguel Pereira
  Fernando Batista (advisor), Ricardo Ribeiro (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2021-09-01 - 2024-10-09
• Sistema de Transcrição Automática de Debates Parlamentares no Contexto da Assembleia da República Portuguesa
  Pedro Miguel Delgado do Nascimento
  João Ferreira (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2023-01-01 - 2023-12-31
• A Utilização da Aprendizagem Automática e do Text Mining na Previsão do Mercado de Ações
  Alexandre Costa Pereira
  Diana Mendes (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2022-09-01 - 2023-10-31
• Automatic Detection of Missing Information in the Indexing of Scientific Publications
  David Rodrigues
  Fernando Batista (advisor), António Luís Lopes (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2022-09-01 - 2023-10-31
• Coding by voice in a projectional editor
  Alexandre Cancelinha
  André L. Santos (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2022-09-01 - 2023-10-31
• Analysis of the Tourists behavior in Lisbon using Data from a Mobile Operator
  Bruno Alexandre Mateus Francisco
  Ricardo Ribeiro (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2021-10-01 - 2022-12-01
• Humor and Offense Speech Classification and scoring using Natural Language Processing
  Marcelo Custódio Mathias
  Fernando Batista (advisor), Ricardo Ribeiro (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2021-10-01 - 2022-12-01
• Identificação de Fatores de Risco na Gravidade dos Acidentes Rodoviários
  Inês Mendes dos Santos Rodrigues de Carvalho
  Fernando Batista (advisor), Luis Nunes (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2021-10-01 - 2022-12-01
• Twitter's content trends depending on users profile and time of the year
  Érica Rosa
  Fernando Batista (advisor), Ricardo Ribeiro (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2021-10-01 - 2022-12-01
• Influencers, are they responsible for Bitcoin's volatility? Transfer Entropy and Granger causality in prol of an answer
  Jana Luisa Teixeira Lage
  Diana Mendes (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2021-09-01 - 2022-12-01
• Semi-Automatic Selection and Annotation of Hate Speech from Social Media
  Raquel Bento Santos
  Fernando Batista (advisor), Paula Carvalho (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 2021-09-01 - 2022-11-01
• Deteção Automática de Sinais de Depressão em Redes Sociais
  Daniela Cristina da Silva Carlos
  Ricardo Ribeiro (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2020-12-01 - 2021-12-01
• Previsão automática de fraude em transações financeiras
  Appio Indiano do Brazil Americano Neto
  Fernando Batista (advisor), Sérgio Miguel Carneiro Moro (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2020-09-01 - 2021-12-01
• Sentiment Analysis to Predict the Portuguese Economic Sentiment Based on Economic News
  Cátia Daniela Lopes Tavares
  Ricardo Ribeiro (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2020-09-01 - 2021-12-01
• Student Data Prediction
  Nuno Miguel Soares Fialho de Carvalho
  Elsa Cardoso (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2020-09-01 - 2021-12-01
• Automatic Aggression Detection in Social Media
  Tiago Filipe Pardal de Almeida
  Ricardo Ribeiro (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2020-07-01 - 2021-11-01
• Classificação de Emoções em Redes Sociais
  Soraia Alexandra Cardoso Filipe
  Fernando Batista (advisor), Ricardo Ribeiro (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2018-11-01 - 2021-01-01
• A Book-oriented Chatbot
  Nuno Alexandre Mestre Barradas
  Ricardo Ribeiro (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis (before Bologna), ISCTE, 2020-07-01 - 2020-12-01
• Sistema de Recomendação de Videojogos
  Rosária Patrícia Firmino Bunga
  Ricardo Ribeiro (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2020-01-01 - 2020-10-01
• Análise de criptomoeda baseada em conteúdo gerado por utilizadores de redes sociais
  Miguel de Guerra Narciso
  Luis Nunes (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2019-09-01 - 2020-10-01
• Avaliação do impacto emocional do vídeo usando técnicas de aprendizagem automática
  André Filipe Lopes Maia
  Tomás Gomes Silva Serpa Brandão (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2019-09-01 - 2020-10-01
• Classificação de Fake News na Língua Portuguesa Europeia
  João Filipe Carriço Rodrigues
  Ricardo Ribeiro (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2019-09-01 - 2020-10-01
• Detecção de Sentimentos Psíquicos em Utilizadores de Redes Sociais
  Patrícia de Sousa dos Santos
  Ricardo Ribeiro (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2019-09-01 - 2020-10-01
• Multilabel classification of unstructured data using Crunchbase
  Marco Filipe Madeira Felgueiras
  Fernando Batista (advisor),
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2018-10-01 - 2020-10-01
• Deteção de palavras emergentes em tweets portugueses e análise do seu percurso na redes sociais
  Afonso do Carmo Marques Mendes Pinto
  Fernando Batista (advisor),
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2019-09-01 - 2020-09-01
• eWOM para instituições públicas: aplicação ao caso do Exército Português
  Joana de Azinhaes Horta
  Fernando Batista (advisor), João Ferreira (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2019-10-01 - 2020-07-01
• Characterizing the Personality of Twitter Users Based on their Timeline Information
  Anzhela Zhusupova
  Fernando Batista (advisor),
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2015-09-01 - 2016-12-01
• Análise de Sentimento em Microblogues com base em Cascatas de Classificação
  Fernando Manuel Dias Rebelo
  Fernando Batista (advisor), Ricardo Ribeiro (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2015-09-01 - 2016-11-01
• Detecting Violent Excerpts in Movies using Audio and Video Features
  Luís Jorge Gregório Dias
  Tomas Brandao (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2015-09-01 - 2016-11-01
• Detecting Portuguese and English Twitter User’s Gender
  Marco Paulo Fernandes Vicente
  Fernando Batista (advisor), Joao P. Carvalho (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2015-01-01 - 2015-11-01
• Sistema Inteligente de Recolha e Armazenamento de Informação provenienter do Twitter
  Gaspar Manuel Rocha Brogueira
  Fernando Batista (advisor), Joao P. Carvalho (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2014-03-01 - 2015-10-01
• Automatic Detection of Disfluencies in a Corpus of University Lectures
  Henrique Rodrigues Barbosa de Medeiros
  Fernando Batista (advisor), Helena Moniz (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, ISCTE, 2012-10-01 - 2014-10-01
• Topic Detection within Public Social Networks
  Hugo Rosa
  Joao P. Carvalho (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Master's Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 2013-02-01 - 2014-05-01

Internships

• Domain Specific Conversational Agents using Machine Leaning and Natural Language Generation
  Stefania Budulan
  Helena Moniz (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
  Internship, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest - Romania, 2024-05-01 - 2024-08-31

 

Total Projects: 18

International Projects

• LAW TRAIN - Mixed-reality environment for training cross-national teams in joint investigative interrogation-Intelligent interrogation training simulator
  INESC-ID Lisboa, Horizon 2020, , 2015-05-01 - 2018-04-29
• SpeDial - Spoken Dialogue Analytics
  Athena Research and Innovation Center in Information Communication and Knowledge Technologies, EC FP7-ICT-2013-SME-DCA, , 2013-12-01 - 2015-11-30
• DIRHA - Distant-speech Interaction for Robust Home Applications
  Fondazione Bruno KESSLER, European Commission - 7th Framework Programme, , 2012-01-01 - 2014-12-01

National Projects

• CRAI - Center for Responsible AI
  Unbabel, IAPMEI, Societal Digital Transformation, 2023-01-01 - 2025-12-31
• MAICT - A Multimodal Approach for Identifying Conspiracy Theories in Social Media
  INESC-ID Lisboa, FCT, Societal Digital Transformation, 2022-01-01 - 2023-06-30
• HATE COVID - HATE COVID-19.PT - Detecting Overt and Covert Hate Speech in Social Media
  INESC-ID Lisboa, FCT, Societal Digital Transformation, 2021-05-01 - 2022-07-30
• U4V - Unbabel for Video
  INESC-ID Lisboa, Unbabel, Societal Digital Transformation, 2019-02-01 - 2022-12-31
• eSPERTo - Sistema de Parafraseamento para Edição e Revisão de Texto
  INESC-ID Lisboa, FCT, , 2014-10-01 - 2015-09-30
• MISNIS - Intelligent Mining of Public Social Networks’ Influence in Society
  INESC-ID Lisboa, FCT, , 2013-04-01 - 2015-03-31
• PT-STAR - Speech Translation Advanced Research to and from Portuguese
  INESC-ID Lisboa, FCT Carnegie Mellon, , 2009-05-01 - 2012-07-31
• POSTPORT - POrting Speech Technologies to other varieties of PORTuguese
  INESC-ID Lisboa, FCT, , 2008-01-01 - 2010-12-31
• NLE-GRID - Natural Language Engineering on a Computational GRID
  INESC-ID Lisboa, FCT, Life and Health Technology, 2005-06-01 - 2007-01-31
• LECTRA - Rich Transcription of Lectures for E-Learning Applications
  INESC-ID Lisboa, FCT, , 2005-03-01 - 2007-09-30
• ATA - Automatic Term Acquisition
  INESC-ID Lisboa, FCT, Life and Health Technology, 2001-01-01 - 2003-03-31

Contracts

• Porto Editora 2 - Porto Editora 2
  INESC-ID Lisboa, Porto Editora, , 2006-03-17 - 2007-12-31
• Porto Editora - Porto Editora
  INESC-ID Lisboa, Porto Editora, Societal Digital Transformation, 2004-06-01 - 2004-11-06

Conferences

• IPMU 2024 - 20th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems.
  INESC-ID Lisboa, Registration fees/Sponsorships, Societal Digital Transformation, Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica, INESC-ID Lisboa2024-07-22 - 2024-07-27
• IberSPEECH 2016 - IberIX Jornadas en Tecnologías del Habla and the V Iberian SLTech Workshop events
  INESC-ID Lisboa, Conference Registration, , 2016-11-23 - 2016-11-25

 

Projects

Past Projects

• SpeDial - Spoken Dialogue Analytics
• COPAS - Contrast and Parallelism in Speech (03-2012 a 07-2015)
• MISNIS - Intelligent Mining of Public Social Networks’ Influence in Society (04-2013 a 07-2015)
• DIRHA - Distant-speech Interaction for Robust Home Applications (01-2012 a 12-2014)
• METANET4U - European project aiming at supporting language technology for European languages and multilingualism (02-2011 a 02-2013)
• PT-STAR - Speech Translation Advanced Research to And From Portuguese (05-2009 a 07-2012)
• POSTPORT - Porting Speech Technologies to other Varieties of Portuguese (01-2008 a 06-2011)
• Automatic Punctuation and Capitalization for automatic speech transcripts
• Implementation of a shallow parser

Other Activities

• Organisation Committee, LxMLS 2016 -- LxMLS 2021
• Handbook Chair, EMNLP2015 - 2015 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2015
• Student Workshop Co-chair, PROPOR 2016