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.
1 code implementation • 1 Oct 2024 • Diogo Pernes, Gonçalo M. Correia, Afonso Mendes
Cross-lingual summarization aims to bridge language barriers by summarizing documents in different languages.
1 code implementation • 29 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.
1 code implementation • 27 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).
no code implementations • 28 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.
no code implementations • 24 Feb 2022 • Adelino Leite-Moreira, Afonso Mendes, Afonso Pedrosa, Amândio Rocha-Sousa, Ana Azevedo, André Amaral-Gomes, Cláudia Pinto, Helena Figueira, Nuno Rocha Pereira, Pedro Mendes, Tiago Pimenta
The project aimed to define the rules and develop a technological solution to automatically identify a set of attributes within free-text clinical records written in Portuguese.
no code implementations • 17 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.
1 code implementation • 12 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.
no code implementations • 12 May 2021 • Ruben Cardoso, Afonso Mendes, Andre Lamurias
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia available in 285 languages.
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.
no code implementations • 3 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.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2019 • Afonso Mendes, Shashi Narayan, Sebastião Miranda, Zita Marinho, André F. T. Martins, Shay B. Cohen
We present a new neural model for text summarization that first extracts sentences from a document and then compresses them.