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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
  • Aggregation policies
• Authorship detection and Stylometry
• Information Retrieval

Publications

International Journals

2008

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

International Conferences

2013

• Paula Cristina Vaz, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos, Understanding Temporal Dynamics of Ratings in the Book Recommendation Scenario, In International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication, ACM, series ISDOC 2013, pages 11-15, doi: 10.1145/2503859.2503862, Lisboa, Portugal, July 2013

• Paula Cristina Vaz, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos, Understanding the Temporal Dynamics of Recommendations across Different Rating Scales, In UMAP 2013, The 21st Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, series Late-Breaking Results, Project Papers and Workshop Proceedin, Rome, Italy, June 2013

• Paula Cristina Vaz, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos, Book Recommender Prototype based on Author’s Writing Style, In OAIR 2013 (the 10th International Conference in the RIAO series), Lisbon, May 2013

2012

• Paula Cristina Vaz, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos, LitRec vs. Movielens: A Comparative Study, In International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR 2012), Barcelona, Spain, October 2012

• Paula Cristina Vaz, David Martins de Matos, Bruno Martins, Stylometric Relevance-feedback towards a Hybrid Book Recommendation Algorithm, In BooksOnline’12 - Online Books, Complementary Social Media (workshop in conjunction with CIKM’12), Maui, Hawaii, USA, October 2012

• Paula Cristina Vaz, David Martins de Matos, Bruno Martins, Pável Calado, Improving a 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

2011

• Paula Cristina Vaz, David Martins de Matos, Incremental Genre Detection for Recommendation in the Long Tail, In LTC11 - 5th Language & Technology Conference, Poznań, Poland, November 2011

2010

• Paula Cristina Vaz, David Martins de Matos, Fairy Tale Corpus Organization Using Latent Semantic Mapping and an Item-to-item Top-n Recommendation Algorithm, In Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - LREC 2010, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Malta, May 2010

• Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Paula Cristina Vaz, Named Entity Recognition in Questions: Towards a Golden Collection, In LREC 2010, Malta, May 2010

2008

• Paula Cristina Vaz, David Martins de Matos, Nuno J. Mamede, Using Lexical Acquisition to Enrich a Predicate Argument Reusable Database, In Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - LREC 2008, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pages 28-30, Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008

Technical Reports

2006

• Fernando Batista, Joana Paulo Pardal, Nuno J. Mamede, Paula Cristina Vaz, Ricardo Ribeiro, Ontology construction: cooking domain, Tech. Rep. 28 / 2006 INESC-ID Lisboa, May 2006

Doctoral Theses

2018

• Paula Cristina Vaz, Cascade Book Recommendation, PhD thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, May 2018

Other Publications

2012

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

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