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Cristina Mota graduated in Informatics and Computer Engineering in 1997 from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, and received a DEA (Diplome d'Etude Approfondies) degree in 1999, on Fundamental Informatics and Applications, from Université Paris 7 - Denis-Diderot. Since 2005, she is pursuing a PhD degree on Informatics and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico in collaboration with New York University.

She started working in Natural Language Processing, on computational lexicons and grammars, in 1997 at LabEL (Laboratório de Engenharia da Linguagem) where she stayed till 2004. Between 2002 and 2003 she also worked for Linguateca. She has been a researcher at the Spoken Language Systems Lab (L2F) of INESC-ID since 2005.

From 1999 to 2003 she was a Teaching Assistant in Applications in Natural Language Processing, and Computational Linguistics II classes, at Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa.

Her main research interests in natural language processing are finite-state techniques and unsupervised machine learning methods applied to information extraction, in particular, named entity recognition.

Publications

Book Chapters

2018

• Cristina Mota, Jorge Baptista, Anabela Barreiro, The Lexicon-Grammar of Predicate Nouns with 'ser de' in Port4NooJ., chapter Formalizing NaturalLanguages with NooJ 2018 and Its Natural Language Processing Applications, Springer, , December 2018

International Journals

2021

• Anabela Barreiro, Cristina Mota, Jorge Baptista, Lucília Chacoto, Paula Carvalho, Linguistic Resources for Paraphrase Generation in Portuguese: A Lexicon-Grammar Approach, Language Resources and Evaluation, Springer International Publishing, September 2021

2019

• Anabela Barreiro, Rebelo-Arnold, Ida, Paulo Quaresma, Cristina Mota, Alinhamentos Parafrásticos PE-PB de Construções de Predicados Verbais com o Pronome Clítico 'lhe', Linguamática, Universidade do Minho and Universidade de Vigo, vol. 10, n. 2, pages 3-11, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21814/lm.10.2.287, January 2019

2018

• Rebelo-Arnold, Ida, Anabela Barreiro, Paulo Quaresma, Cristina Mota, Alinhamentos Parafrásticos PE--PB de Construções de Predicados Verbais com o Pronome Clítico 'lhe', Linguamática, Universidade do Minho and Universidade de Vigo, vol. 10, n. 2, pages 3-11, December 2018

• Anabela Barreiro, Rebelo-Arnold, Ida, Jorge Baptista, Cristina Mota, Parafraseamento Automático de Registo Informal em Registo Formal na Língua Portuguesa, Linguamática, Universidade do Minho and Universidade de Vigo, vol. 10, n. 2, pages 53-61, December 2018

2017

• Anabela Barreiro, Cristina Mota, e-PACT: eSPERTo Paraphrase Aligned Corpus of EN-EP/BP Translations, Tradução em Revista, PUC-Rio, vol. 1, n. 22, pages 87-102, Rio de Janeiro, August 2017

International Conferences

2020

• Cristina Mota, Diana Santos, Anabela Barreiro, Paraphrasing Emotions in Portuguese, In The 14th International NooJ Conference, Springer, Cham, December 2020

• Andrea Rodrigo, Silvia Reyes, Cristina Mota, Anabela Barreiro, Causal Discourse Connectors in the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language (SLF) for Portuguese Learners Using NooJ, In The 13th International NooJ Conference, Springer International Publishing, series Communications in Computer and Information Science, pages 161-172, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38833-1_14, , Hammamet, Tunisia, January 2020

2018

• Rebelo-Arnold, Ida, Anabela Barreiro, Cristina Mota, Paulo Quaresma, EP–BP Paraphrastic Alignments Verbal Predicate Constructions with the Clitic Pronoun ’lhe’, In The 13th International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR), PROPOR 2018, , Canela, Brazil, September 2018

• Anabela Barreiro, Rebelo-Arnold, Ida, Cristina Mota, Isabel Garcez, Automated Paraphrasing of Portuguese Informal into Formal Language, In 13th edition of the International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR), PROPOR 2018, August 2018

• Anabela Barreiro, Cristina Mota, Paraphrastic Variance between European and Brazilian Portuguese, In The Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial) co-located with COLING, Association for Computational Linguistics, series ACL Anthology, pages 111-121, , Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 2018

• Cristina Mota, Jorge Baptista, Anabela Barreiro, The Lexicon-Grammar of Predicate Nouns with 'ser de' in Port4NooJ, In The 12th International Conference on Automatic Processing of Natural-Language Electronic Texts with NooJ, Springer, Cham, series Formalizing Natural Languages with NooJ 2018 and Its Natural Language Processing Applications, pages 124-137, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10868-7, Palermo, Italy, June 2018

2016

• Cristina Mota, Paula Carvalho, Francisco Afonso Raposo, Anabela Barreiro, Generating Paraphrases of Human Intransitive Adjective Constructions with Port4NooJ, Springer, Cham, series Communications in Computer and Information Science, pages 107-122, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42471-2_10, 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

• Cristina Mota, Paula Carvalho, Anabela Barreiro, Port4NooJ v3.0: Integrated Linguistic Resources for Portuguese NLP, In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), ELRA, pages 1264-1269, Portorož, Slovenia, May 2016

2010

• Cristina Mota, Journalistic corpus similarity over time, In Corpus linguistic applications: Current studies, new directions, Rodopi, vol. 71, series Language and Computers, pages 67-83, March 2010

2009

• Cristina Mota, Ralph Grishman, Updating a Name Tagger Using Contemporary Unlabeled Data, In Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers, Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 353-356, Suntec, Singapore, August 2009

2008

• Cristina Mota, Ralph Grishman, Is this NE tagger getting old, In Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation - LREC 2008), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pages 28-30, Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008

National Journals

2011

• Cristina Mota, Paula Carvalho, O passar do TEMPO no HAREM, Linguamática - Revista para o Processamento Automático das Línguas Ibéricas, vol. 1, n. 3, pages 45-58, April 2011

National Conferences

2005

• Jorge Baptista, Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede, Cristina Mota, Npro: um novo recurso para o processamento computacional do Português, In XXI Encontro APL, Porto, Portugal, December 2005

Doctoral Theses

2009

• Cristina Mota, How to keep up with Language Dynamics: A case-study on Named Entity Recognition, PhD thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, May 2009