Search Results for author: Afonso Mendes

Found 11 papers, 4 papers with code

Priberam Labs at the 3rd Shared Task on SlavNER

no code implementations EACL (BSNLP) 2021 Pedro Ferreira, Ruben Cardoso, Afonso Mendes

This document describes our participation at the 3rd Shared Task on SlavNER, part of the 8th Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing Workshop, where we focused exclusively in the Named Entity Recognition (NER) task.

named-entity-recognition Named Entity Recognition +2

Supervising the Centroid Baseline for Extractive Multi-Document Summarization

1 code implementation29 Nov 2023 Simão Gonçalves, Gonçalo Correia, Diogo Pernes, Afonso Mendes

The centroid method is a simple approach for extractive multi-document summarization and many improvements to its pipeline have been proposed.

Document Summarization Multi-Document Summarization +1

Improving abstractive summarization with energy-based re-ranking

1 code implementation27 Oct 2022 Diogo Pernes, Afonso Mendes, André F. T. Martins

Current abstractive summarization systems present important weaknesses which prevent their deployment in real-world applications, such as the omission of relevant information and the generation of factual inconsistencies (also known as hallucinations).

Abstractive Text Summarization Re-Ranking

Simplifying Multilingual News Clustering Through Projection From a Shared Space

no code implementations28 Apr 2022 João Santos, Afonso Mendes, Sebastião Miranda

Our system achieves state-of-the-art results on a multilingual news stream clustering dataset, and we introduce a new evaluation for zero-shot news clustering in multiple languages.

Clustering

Mapping molecular complexes with Super-Resolution Microscopy and Single-Particle Analysis

no code implementations17 Feb 2022 Afonso Mendes, Hannah S. Heil, Simao Coelho, Christophe Leterrier, Ricardo Henriques

Understanding the structure of supramolecular complexes provides insight into their functional capabilities and how they can be modulated in the context of disease.

Single Particle Analysis Specificity +1

Priberam at MESINESP Multi-label Classification of Medical Texts Task

1 code implementation12 May 2021 Ruben Cardoso, Zita Marinho, Afonso Mendes, Sebastião Miranda

Information retrieval tools are crucial in order to navigate and provide meaningful recommendations for articles and treatments.

Classification Extreme Multi-Label Classification +3

Hierarchical Nested Named Entity Recognition

no code implementations WS 2019 Zita Marinho, Afonso Mendes, Mir, Sebasti{\~a}o a, David Nogueira

In the medical domain and other scientific areas, it is often important to recognize different levels of hierarchy in mentions, such as those related to specific symptoms or diseases associated with different anatomical regions.

named-entity-recognition Named Entity Recognition +1

Automated Fact Checking in the News Room

no code implementations3 Apr 2019 Sebastião Miranda, David Nogueira, Afonso Mendes, Andreas Vlachos, Andrew Secker, Rebecca Garrett, Jeff Mitchel, Zita Marinho

Fact checking is an essential task in journalism; its importance has been highlighted due to recently increased concerns and efforts in combating misinformation.

Fact Checking Misinformation

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