Paula Cristina Vaz

Paula Vaz LoboINESC-ID

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Paula Cristina Vaz graduated in Systems and Informatics Engineering in 1994 from Universidade do Minho (UM), Braga. She received an MSc degree in 1999, on compiler generators from UM. She was a lecturer at University Lusófona and Instituto Politécnico de Setubal, teaching Programming Languages and worked at Altitude. She is currently a researcher at the Spoken Language Systems Lab (L2F) of INESC-ID where she was co-developping a dependency grammar for the portuguese language. Her current research interests are recommendation systems.

Research Interests

• Recommendation Systems
  • Content-based recommendation systems
  • Collaborative filtering
  • Hybrid systems
• Authorship detection and Stylometry
• Information Retrieval

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LitRec License:

• LitRec is available only for research. If you choose to use it, please send me an email to paula.vaz (at) inesc-id.pt and cite the publication below, available at ACM Digital Library: Paula Cristina Vaz, David Martins de Matos, Bruno Martins, Pável Calado, Improving an Hybrid Literary Book Recommendation System through Author Ranking, In ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - JCDL 2012, ACM, series ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Washington, DC, June 2012

Total Publications: 14

Article (Author)

• Using Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation to Guess Verb Subjects on Untagged Corpora
  Paula Vaz Lobo, David Martins de Matos,
  Language Forum, vol. 34, n. 1, pages 95-105, January 2008

In Proceedings (Author)

• Understanding Temporal Dynamics of Ratings in the Book Recommendation Scenario
  Paula Vaz Lobo, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos,
  International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication, ISDOC 2013, ACM, pages 11-15, ACM, Lisboa, Portugal, July 2013
• Understanding the Temporal Dynamics of Recommendations across Different Rating Scales
  Paula Vaz Lobo, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos,
  UMAP 2013, The 21st Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, Late-Breaking Results, Project Papers and Workshop Proceedin, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Rome, Italy, June 2013
• Book Recommender Prototype based on Author’s Writing Style
  Paula Vaz Lobo, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos,
  OAIR 2013 (the 10th International Conference in the RIAO series), Lisbon, May 2013
• Stylometric Relevance-feedback towards a Hybrid Book Recommendation Algorithm
  Paula Vaz Lobo, David Martins de Matos, Bruno Martins,
  BooksOnline’12 - Online Books, Complementary Social Media (workshop in conjunction with CIKM’12), Maui, Hawaii, USA, October 2012
• LitRec vs. Movielens: A Comparative Study
  Paula Vaz Lobo, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos,
  International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR 2012), Barcelona, Spain, October 2012
• Improving a Hybrid Literary Book Recommendation System through Author Ranking
  Paula Vaz Lobo, David Martins de Matos, Bruno Martins, Pável Calado,
  ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - JCDL 2012, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, ACM, ACM, Washington, DC, June 2012
• Incremental Genre Detection for Recommendation in the Long Tail
  Paula Vaz Lobo, David Martins de Matos,
  LTC11 - 5th Language & Technology Conference, Poznań, Poland, November 2011
• Named Entity Recognition in Questions: Towards a Golden Collection
  Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Paula Vaz Lobo,
  LREC 2010, Malta, May 2010
• Fairy Tale Corpus Organization Using Latent Semantic Mapping and an Item-to-item Top-n Recommendation Algorithm
  Paula Vaz Lobo, David Martins de Matos,
  Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - LREC 2010, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Malta, May 2010
• Using Lexical Acquisition to Enrich a Predicate Argument Reusable Database
  Paula Vaz Lobo, David Martins de Matos, Nuno J. Mamede,
  Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - LREC 2008, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pages 28-30, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008

Technical Report (Author)

• 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)

• Improving an Hybrid Literary Book Recommendation System through Author Ranking
  Paula Vaz Lobo, David Martins de Matos, Bruno Martins, Pável Calado,
  , http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.5324, March 2012

Thesis (Author)

• Cascade Book Recommendation
  Paula Vaz Lobo, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Thesis, May 2018

 

Total Projects: 1

Contracts

• Porto Editora - Porto Editora
  INESC-ID Lisboa, Porto Editora, Societal Digital Transformation, 2004-06-01 - 2004-11-06