Patrícia Pereira

Patrícia PereiraINESC-ID | SA-HLT 

C012-5314-5BAC
0000-0002-9653-7181

+351213100300     212 patriciaspereira@inesc-id.pt

Patrícia Pereira is a PhD student at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and researcher at INESC-ID, working at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Affective Computing. She graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST and received a Dual Master's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST and Computer Science and Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. In her PhD, she has been focusing on Emotion Recognition in Conversations and also worked on Emotion Annotation Guidelines, Emotional Response Generation and automatic metrics for Dialogue Quality Estimation.

Besides her current research fields, she is interested at the intersection of Music, AI and Neuroscience.

 

Total Publications: 12

Article (Author)

• Deep emotion recognition in textual conversations: a survey
  Patrícia Pereira, Helena Moniz, Joao P. Carvalho,
  Artificial Intelligence Review, vol. 58, n. 58, 10 (2025), DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-11010-y, January 2025

In Proceedings (Author)

• ConText at WASSA 2024 Empathy and Personality Shared Task: History-Dependent Embedding Utterance Representations for Empathy and Emotion Prediction in Conversations
  Patrícia Pereira, Helena Moniz, Joao P. Carvalho,
  14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis (WASSA), pages 448–453, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), August 2024
• Dialogue Quality and Emotion Annotations for Customer Support Conversations
  John Mendonça, Patrícia Pereira, Luís Miguel Menezes, Vera Cabarrão, Catarina Farinha, Helena Moniz, Joao P. Carvalho, Alon Lavie, Isabel Trancoso,
  Generation, Evaluation & Metrics Workshop at EMNLP, Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, December 2023
• Simple LLM Prompting is State-of-the-Art for Robust and Multilingual Dialogue Evaluation
  John Mendonça, Patrícia Pereira, Helena Moniz, Joao P. Carvalho, Alon Lavie, Isabel Trancoso,
  The Eleventh Dialog System Technology Challenge, Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, September 2023
• Fuzzy Fingerprinting Large Pre-trained Models
  Rui Orlando Magalhães Ribeiro, Patrícia Pereira, Luísa Coheur, Helena Moniz, Joao P. Carvalho,
  Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, vol. 14069, pages 232-243, EUSFLAT, September 2023
• Fuzzy Fingerprinting Transformer Language-Models for Emotion Recognition in Conversations
  Patrícia Pereira, Rui Orlando Magalhães Ribeiro, Helena Moniz, Luísa Coheur, Joao P. Carvalho,
  2023 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), IEEE, IEEE, August 2023
• Context-Dependent Embedding Utterance Representations for Emotion Recognition in Conversations
  Patrícia Pereira, Helena Moniz, Isabel de Lima Henriques Dias, Joao P. Carvalho,
  13th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis (WASSA), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 228–236, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), July 2023
• Towards a Sentiment-Aware Conversational Agent
  Isabel de Lima Henriques Dias, Ricardo Rei, Patrícia Pereira, Luísa Coheur,
  ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), September 2022
• Incremental Attractor Neural Network Modelling of the Lifespan Retrieval Curve
  Patrícia Pereira, Anders Lansner, Pawel Herman,
  IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), July 2022
• Retrieval Augmentation for Deep Neural Networks
  Rita Ramos, Patrícia Pereira, Helena Moniz, Joao P. Carvalho, Bruno Martins,
  IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), July 2021

Miscellaneous (Author)

• Deep Emotion Recognition in Textual Conversations: A Survey
  Patrícia Pereira, Helena Moniz, Joao P. Carvalho,
  , ArXiv Preprint, DOI https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2211.09172, November 2022
• Attractor Neural Network Modelling of the Lifespan Retrieval Curve
  Patrícia Pereira, Anders Lansner, Pawel Herman,
  , Champalimaud Research Symposium (CRS21) - Dialogues on Neural and Machine Intelligence, October 2021

 

Total Projects: 1

National Projects

• CRAI - Center for Responsible AI
  Unbabel, IAPMEI, Societal Digital Transformation, 2023-01-01 - 2025-12-31