Academic interests
Computational processing of Portuguese, natural language processing, semantics, translation, information retrieval, evaluation, corpus processing, contrastive studies, statistics, language and culture, distant reading.
Teaching
Regular
- Portuguese grammar, BA level (POR1101, POR1102, POR1104, POR2102, POR2105)
- Portuguese grammar, contrastive linguistics and translation, MA level (POR4120, POR4104, POR4103)
- Lusophone history, MA level (POR4501)
- MA supervision
- Introduction to statistical thinking and doing, PhD level (HFILOS9501)
Once or past
- Courses on Portuguese grammar, BA-level (POR2101)
- Introduction to statistical methods in linguistics and literature, MA level (SPR4104)
- Introduction to MA thesis writing, MA level, on publication and quantitative methods (IBER4100)
- PhD course on Emotions in Language (June 2015)
- BA Courses on lusophone history and culture (part of IBER1501) (autumn 2016)
Higher education and employment history
I hold a (5 years) electronics and computers engineering degree, a MSc (3 years) with a thesis on machine translation, and a PhD on contrastive corpus-based semantics, all from Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon (Portugal).
I taught at the Technical University of Lisbon from 1983-1990, 1994.
I have been a researcher at INESC (1991-1996), IBM Portugal (1989-1990) and SINTEF ICT (1998-2010), and employee at the Research Computing Services at the University of Oslo (2010).
My current position in Portuguese linguistics at the University of Oslo started 15 January 2011, as associate professor until October 2012, and full professor since.
Cooperation
Through leading Linguateca, an international project for deploying and fostering the development and availability of resources for the computational processing of Portuguese, I have a long-standing cooperation with the major universities in Portugal and Brazil, as well as with the University of Southern Denmark.
See also
My page at Linguateca for a longer and wider perspective, and my old personal page at the University of Oslo for more details on my presence here at the University of Oslo, both in English.