Fernando Batista

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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.

Conference Organization

  • DiSS 2025, Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2025 (Co-Chair)
  • EMNLP 2015, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2015 (Local team)

Research Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Machine learning
  • Text Mining
  • Speech processing

Total Publications: 173

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Total Supervisions: 61

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Total Projects: 20

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

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  • 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

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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

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