2023
Rodrigo Soares dos Santos.
Supervisor: António Horta Branco; Co-Supervisor: João Silva.
Role:Advisory Committee.
PhD in Computer Engineering, University of Lisbon (UL) - Department of Computer Science (DI), Lisbon, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Multimodal Processing with Language and Image for Text Guided Image Manipulation".
[António Horta Branco Website] [João Silva Website] [UL Website] [DI Website]
Demian Gholipour
Supervisor: Georgiana Ifrim; Co-Supervisor: Brian Namee.
Role: Main Arguer.
PhD in Computer Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
Thesis Title: "Automatic Summarisation of Large-Scale News Content".
[Georgiana Ifrim Website][University College of Dublin Website]
2022
Moreno La Quatra
Supervisor: Cagliero Luca; Co-Supervisor:.
Role: Main Arguer.
PhD in Computer and Control Engineering, Polytechnic of Torino (polito), Torino, Italy.
Thesis Title: "Deep Learning for Natural Language Understanding and Summarization".
[Cagliero Luca Website][Polytechnic of Torino Website]
Nuno Ricardo Pinheiro da Silva Guimarães.
Supervisor: Álvaro Figueira; Co-Supervisor: Luís Torgo.
Role: Main Arguer.
PhD in Computer Science , University of Porto (UP) - Department of Computer Science (DCC), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Towards realistic scenarios concerning the identification of unreliable information in social networks".
[Álvaro Figueira Website] [Luís Torgo Website] [UP Website] [DCC Website]
2019
Giorgia Di Tommaso.
Supervisor: Paola Velardi; Co-Supervisor: Giovanni Stilo.
Role: External Reviewer.
PhD in Computer Science , University of Rome (UR) - School Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
Thesis Title: "Semantics-Aware Method for Multi-Domain Entity Recommenders".
[Paola Velardi Website] [Giovanni Stilo Website] [UR Website]
Nuno Ricardo Pinheiro da Silva Guimarães.
Supervisor: Álvaro Figueira; Co-Supervisor: Luís Torgo.
Role:Advisory Committee.
PhD in Computer Science , University of Porto (UP) - Department of Computer Science (DCC), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Analyzing and Developing Indicators for Building an Automatics Detector of Fake News in Social Media".
[Álvaro Figueira Website] [Luís Torgo Website] [UP Website] [DCC Website]
2017
Nuno Miguel Pereira Moniz.
Supervisor: Luís Torgo; Co-Supervisor: Maria de Fátima Rodrigues.
Role: Arguer.
PhD in Computer Science , University of Porto (UP) - Department of Computer Science (DCC), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Prediction and Ranking of Highly Popular Web Content".
[Luís Torgo Website] [UP Website] [DCC Website]
2016
Manika Kar.
Supervisor: Sérgio Nunes.
Co-Supervisor: Cristina Ribeiro
Role: Arguer.
PhD in Computer Science , University of Porto (UP) - Department of Computer Science (DEI), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Summarization of Changes in Dynamic Text Collections".
[Sérgio Nunes Website] [Cristina Ribeiro Website] [UP Website] [DEI Website]
2015
Patrícia Nunes Gonçalves.
Supervisor: António Horta Branco.
Role: Main Arguer.
PhD in Computer Science , University of Lisbon (UL) - Department of Computer Science (DI), Lisbon, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Open-Domain Web-based Multiple Document Question Answering for List Questions with Support for Temporal Restrictors".
[António Branco Website] [UL Website] [DI Website]
2014
Nuno Miguel Pereira Moniz.
Supervisor: Luís Torgo; Co-Supervisor: Maria de Fátima Rodrigues.
Role: Advisory Committee.
PhD in Computer Science , University of Porto (UP) - Department of Computer Science (DCC), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Importance Prediction in News Recommender Systems".
[Luís Torgo Website] [UP Website] [DCC Website]
2022
Francisco Gonçalves.
Co-Supervisor: Alípio Jorge.
Role: Supervisor.
Master in Computer Science (UP) - Department of Computer Science (DCC), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Text2Storyline: Generating Enriched Storylines from Text".
[Alípio Jorge Website] [UP Website] [DCC Website]
Paulo Mendes.
Supervisor: Pedro Rangel Henriques, Cristiana Esteves Araújo.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Engineering Informatics, University of Minho (UM) - Department of Informatics (DI), Braga, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Online-SoBA: Text Analysis to study Social Behaviors".
[Pedro Rangel Henriques Website][Cristiana Esteves Araújo Website] [UM Website] [DI Website]
Bernardo Moreira.
Supervisor: Henrique Cardoso, Bruno Martins and Fábio Goularte.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Informatics and Computer Engineering, University of Porto (UP) - Department of Informatics Engineering (DIE), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Argument Retrieval for Controversial Questions".
[Henrique Cardoso Website][Bruno Martins Website] [UP Website] [DEI Website]
João Araújo.
Supervisor: Carlos Soares, Vítor Rolla.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Informatics and Computer Engineering, University of Porto (UP) - Department of Informatics Engineering (DIE), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "MisInfoBot2: fight misinformation on social media".
[Carlos Soares Website] [Vítor Rolla Website] [UP Website] [DEI Website]
Iolanda Mafalda Dias Pastor Vieira.
Supervisor: João Ricardo Silva.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Ciência Cognitiva, University of Lisbon (UL), Lisbon, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Recognizing Emotions in Short Texts".
2021
Vasco Campos.
Supervisor: Alípio Jorge.
Role: Co-Supervisor.
Master in Data Science, University of Porto (UP) - Department of Computer Science (DCC), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Extracting Narratives from Twitter".
[Alípio Jorge Website] [UP Website] [DCC Website]
Bruno Miguel Faustino Moreno.
Supervisor: Carla Lopes.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Informatics and Computer Engineering, University of Porto (UP) - Department of Informatics Engineering (DIE), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Mutability of Web Search Engines Results - Data Collection and Brief Analysis".
[Carla Lopes Website] [UP Website] [DEI Website]
João Saraiva.
Supervisor: João Cordeiro.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Beira Interior (UBI) - Department of Informatics Engineering (DI), Covilhã, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Automatic Text Summarization".
[João Paulo Cordeiro Website] [UBI Website] [DI Website]
André Monteiro.
Supervisor: João Cordeiro.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Beira Interior (UBI) - Department of Informatics Engineering (DI), Covilhã, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Feature Expansion for Social Media User Characterization".
[João Paulo Cordeiro Website] [UBI Website] [DI Website]
Tiago Emanuel da Costa Santana
Supervisor: Manuel Barros.
Role: President of the Juri.
Master in Master in Computer Engineering-Internet of Things (IPT) - Department of ICT (UDTIC), Tomar, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Tecnologia MERN em projetos de IoT no LINE.IPT".
2019
Humberto José do Vale Ferreira.
Supervisor: Pavel Brazdil.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Data Analytics, University of Porto (UP) - Faculty of Economics and Management (FEP), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Common Legislative Procedure and Political Parties. A Text Mining Approach".
[Pavel Brazdil Website] [UP Website] [FEP Website]
Miguel Rodrigues.
Supervisor: Nuno Pombo e Nuno Garcia.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Beira Interior (UBI) - Department of Informatics Engineering (DI), Covilhã, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Text Mining for Social Networks Sentiment Analysis. Two case studies: "FIFA World Cup 2018" and "Cristiano Ronaldo signs for Juventus"".
[Nuno Pombo Website] [Nuno Garcia Website] [UBI Website] [DI Website]
2018
Ana Rita Monteiro.
Supervisor: Patrícia Oliveira.
Co-Supervisor: Rui Mendes.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Bioinformatics, University of Minho (UM) - School of Engineering, Braga, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Advanced Text Mining for Annotation of Genomic Variants".
[Patrícia Oliveira Website][Rui Mendes Website][UM Website]
Domingos Dionísio.
Supervisor: João Cordeiro.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Beira Interior (UBI) - Department of Informatics Engineering (DI), Covilhã, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Caracterização Estética do Texto".
[João Paulo Cordeiro Website] [UBI Website] [DI Website]
Vânia Nogueira Moutinho.
Supervisor: João Paulo Cordeiro and Pavel Brazdil.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Data Analytics, University of Porto (UP) - Faculty of Economics and Management (FEP), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Association and Temporality between News and Tweets".
[João Paulo Cordeiro Website] [Pavel Brazdil Website] [UP Website] [FEP Website]
Claúdio Luis de Sousa Monteiro.
Supervisor: Carla Lopes and João Rocha Silva.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Informatics and Computer Engineering, University of Porto (UP) - Department of Informatics Engineering (DIE), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Dendro Keywords: Supporting data description through information extraction".
[Carla Lopes Website] [João Rocha Silva Website] [UP Website] [DEI Website]
Diogo Magalhães Moura.
Supervisor: Carla Lopes.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Informatics and Computer Engineering, University of Porto (UP) - Department of Informatics Engineering (DIE), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Exploring search engine counts in the identification and characterization of search queries".
[Carla Lopes Website] [UP Website] [DEI Website]
2017
Jorge Miguel Reis Alpedrinha Matos Rosa
Supervisor: Nuno Madeira.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Analytics and Organizational Ingelligence (IPT) - Department of ICT (UDTIC), Tomar, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Os Principais Produtos SAP em Ambiente Empresarial no Contexto de Big Data".
Filipe Fernandes Miranda.
Supervisor: Álvaro Figueira.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Informatics and Computer Engineering, University of Porto (UP) - Department of Informatics Engineering (DIE), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Computing the Accuracy of an Automatic System for Relevance Detection in Social Networks".
Filipe Daniel da Gama Batista.
Supervisor: Álvaro Figueira.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Informatics and Computer Engineering, University of Porto (UP) - Department of Informatics Engineering (DIE), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Using Named Entity Recognition for Relevance Detection in Social Network Messages".
2016
Nuno Guimarães.
Supervisor: Luis Torgo / Álvaro Figueira.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Computer Science , University of Porto (UP) - Department of Computer Science (DCS), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Lexicon Expansion System for Domain and Time Oriented Sentiment Analysis".
[Luis Torgo Website] [UP Website] [DCS Website]
Bruno Felipe.
Supervisor: João Cordeiro.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Beira Interior (UBI) - Department of Informatics Engineering (DI), Covilhã, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Métodos Eficientes de Deteção de Plágio em Grandes Corpora".
[João Paulo Cordeiro Website] [UBI Website] [DI Website]
2015
Nuno C Garcia.
Supervisor: Hugo Proença.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Beira Interior (UBI) - Department of Informatics Engineering (DI), Covilhã, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Social Network Analysis for Insurance Fraud Detection".
[Hugo Proença Website] [UBI Website] [DI Website]
Patrícia Alexandra Lopes Antunes.
Supervisor: Pavel Brazdil.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Data Analytics, University of Porto (UP) - Faculty of Economics and Management (FEP), Porto, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Sentiment Analysis in Financial News".
[Pavel Brazdil Website] [UP Website] [FEP Website]
2014
Bruno Miguel Fernandes.
Supervisor: João Paulo Cordeiro.
Role: Main Arguer.
Master in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Beira Interior (UBI) - Department of Informatics Engineering (DI), Covilhã, Portugal.
Thesis Title: "Sumarização Personalizada e Subjectiva de Texto".
2020
Luis Damas.
Título de Especialista em Ciências Informáticas. Instituto Politécnico de Setubal.
Title: "BiblioBase - Desenho e implementação de um pacote de software para a gestão de bibliotecas e centros de documentação."
Carlos Antunes
Título de Especialista em Ciências Informáticas. Instituto Politécnico de Leiria.
Title: "Automatização de sistemas, ciclos de desenvolvimento e entregas de software. Projetos de integração em contexto empresarial."