Ana Cristina Mendes
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Publications
International Journals
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
- Sérgio dos Santos Lopes Curto, Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Question Generation based on Lexico-Syntactic Patterns Learned from the Web, Dialogue & Discourse, vol. 3, n. 2, pages 147-175, doi: 10.5087/dad, March 2012
- Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, When the answer comes into question in question-answering: survey and open issues, Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press, doi: 10.1017/S1351324911000350, January 2012
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
International Conferences
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
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
- Angela Costa, Tiago Luís, Joana Ribeiro, Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, An English-Portuguese parallel corpus of questions: translation guidelines and application in SMT, In Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC12), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), May 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
2011
- Sérgio dos Santos Lopes Curto, Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, A minimally supervised approach for question generation: what can we learn from a single seed?, In 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 832-844, September 2011
- Catarina Moreira, Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Bruno Martins, Towards the Rapid Development of a Natural Language Understanding Module, In IVA 2011, the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23974-8_33, September 2011
- Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, An approach for answer selection in Question Answering based on semantic relations, In Twenty-second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press/International Joint Conferences on Artificial Int, series Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Confere, pages 1852-1857, Barcelona, July 2011
- Sérgio dos Santos Lopes Curto, Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Exploring linguistically-rich patterns for question generation, In UCNLG+Eval2011, EMNLP 2011 Workshop: Language Generation and Evaluation, July 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
- Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, IT’S ANSWER TIME Taking the Next Step in Question-Answering, In 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, , November 2010
- Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Paula Cristina Vaz, Named Entity Recognition in Questions: Towards a Golden Collection, In LREC 2010, Malta, May 2010
2009
- Ana Cristina Mendes, Rui Prada, Luísa Coheur, Adapting a Virtual Agent to Users Vocabulary and Needs, In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference IVA 2009, Springer-Verlag, series LNAI 5773, Amsterdam, The Netherlands , October 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
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
- Filipe Martins, Ana Cristina Mendes, Joana Paulo Pardal, Nuno J. Mamede, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Using System Expectations to manage user interactions, In The International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2008), Springer-Verlag, vol. 5190, series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 240-243, doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-85980-2_29, Aveiro, Portugal, September 2008
- Filipe Martins, Ana Cristina Mendes, Márcio Viveiros, Joana Paulo Pardal, Pedro Arez, Nuno J. Mamede, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Reengineering a domain-independent framework for Spoken Dialogue Systems, In Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing, an ACL 2008 Workshop, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 2008
2007
- Ana Raquel Guimarães, Luísa Coheur, Nuno J. Mamede, Ana Cristina Mendes, A natural language interface to a cinema database, In CLIN (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands), , December 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
- 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
Technical Reports
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
- Pedro Miguel Fialho, Sérgio Curto, Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, WordNet framework improvements for NLP: Defining abstraction and scalability layers, Tech. Rep. 56 / 2011 INESC-ID Lisboa, September 2011
2008
- Ana Cristina Mendes, Filipe Martins, Luísa Coheur, João Paulo da Silva Neto, António Joaquim Serralheiro, Duarte Digital - An evaluation\ of educational and entertaining effectiveness, Tech. Rep. 60 / 2008 INESC-ID Lisboa, December 2008
- Filipe Martins, Ana Cristina Mendes, Nuno J. Mamede, API da Plataforma de gestão de diálogo DIGA, Tech. Rep. 51 / 2008 INESC-ID Lisboa, September 2008
Doctoral Theses
2013
- Ana Cristina Mendes, When the Answer comes into Question in Question-Answering, PhD thesis, IST, Lisboa, November 2013
Masters Theses
2007
- Ana Cristina Mendes, CLEFOMANIA, QA@CLEF: primeiros passos, MSc thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2007
Research Interests
Question-Answering