Welcome!
To "The Center for Human Language Technology and Bioinformatics" - (HULTIG)
ABOUT
The Center for Human Language Technology and Bioinformatics (HULTIG) is a research group of the Department of Informatics, University of Beira Interior. Over time, we have worked on a variety of topics related to the automatic processing of human language, with particular focus on the application side of them. Among the various sub-domains, we have devoted special attention to Information Search, Mining and Text Extraction, Automatic Summarization, Automatic Plagiarism Detection, Emotion Analysis in Text, Lexical Semantics, Similarity Textual Alignment, Text Aesthetic Characterization.
Besides a majority concern with application and technology, we also consider the more theoretical and conceptual aspects of the study of human language, especially computational linguistics. In this sense, we maintain collaboration with other groups and research units, in a spirit of constant openness to multi-disciplinarity, knowing that it is at the intersection of knowledge that the most interesting solutions to the most complex problems often emerge.
Resources
A package for creating and training language
modelsfor text classification based on BERT.
Lexicon of extreme sentiments created
based on SentiWordNet and SenticNet
Crawler for Scoial networks.
Text Web Crawler with Python & MySQL.
Text Web Crawler with Python & MySQL.
Publications
Journals
- Jamil, M. Luqman, Sebastião Pais, and João Cordeiro. "Detection of dangerous events on social media: a critical review." Social Network Analysis and Mining 12.1 (2022): 154.
- Jamil, M. Luqman, et al. "Detection of extreme sentiments on social networks with BERT." Social Network Analysis and Mining 12.1 (2022): 55.
- Pais, Sebastião, João Cordeiro, and M. Luqman Jamil. "NLP-based platform as a service: a brief review." Journal of Big Data 9.1 (2022): 1-26.
Conferences
- Silvano, Maria da Purificação, et al. "DRIPPS: a Corpus with Discourse Relations in Perfect Participial Sentences." Language, Data and Knowledge 2023 (LDK 2023): Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge. 2023.
- Abolohom, Abdullatif, et al. "A comparative study of linguistic and computational features based on a machine learning for arabic anaphora resolution." Procedia Computer Science 189 (2021): 37-47.
- Pais, Sebastiao, et al. "A lexicon based approach to detect extreme sentiments." Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection. 2020.
- Sebastião Pais, João Cordeiro, Ricardo Martins, and Miguel Albardeiro. 2020. SocialNetCrawler: Online Social Network Crawler. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 16–22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3297662.3365805
- S. Pais, I. K. Tanoli, M. Albardeiro and J. Cordeiro, "Unsupervised Approach to Detect Extreme Sentiments on Social Networks," 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), The Hague, Netherlands, 2020, pp. 651-658, doi: 10.1109/ASONAM49781.2020.9381420.
- Ponciano, Ricardo, Sebastião Pais, and João Casal. "Using accuracy analysis to find the best classifier for intelligent personal assistants." Procedia computer science 52 (2015): 310-317.
- Cordeiro, J., Inácio, P., Fernandes, D. (2015). Fractal Beauty in Text. Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2015, LNAI (To appear), Springer Verlag.
Master's Thesis
- Giovana Voltoline. Big Textual Data Visualization. Started: 2022 - Ongoing. M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering - University of Beira Interior.
- Inês Lopes. Sports News Generation. Started: 2022 - Ongoing. M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering - University of Beira Interior.
- Francisco Jerónimo. Personality Retrieval. Started: 2022 - Ongoing. M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering - University of Beira Interior.
- Faustino Muetunda. Knowledge Base for MENTAL AI, in Data Science Context. Started: 2021 - Concluded: 2022. M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering - University of Beira Interior.
- M. Luqman Jamil. Event Detection and Tracking. Started: 2020 - Concluded: 2022. M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering - University of Beira Interior.
- Fábio Mota. Recolha de Informação de Eventos Desportivos usando Técnicas de Mineração de Dados: Investigação, Desenho e Implementação de uma Solução Web baseada na Nuvem. Started: 2019 - Concluded: 2020. M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering - University of Beira Interior.
- Miguel Albardeiro. Unsupervised and Language Independent Approach to Extremism and Collective Radicalization Understanding. Started: 2018 - Concluded: 2019. M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering - University of Beira Interior.
- Fátima Dantas. Interface Ubíqua, Interoperativa e Escalável para uma Plataforma de Serviços PLN em Big Data. Started: 2017 - Concluded: 2018. M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering - University of Beira Interior.
- Ramos Pedro. Adaptabilidade não Supervisionada Independente da Língua, ao Perfil Linguístico do Utilizador. Started: 2017 - Concluded: 2018. M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering - University of Beira Interior.
Doctorate Thesis
- Faustino Muetunda. Multimodal Mental Health Retrieval. Started: 2022 - Ongoing. Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering - University of Beira Interior.
- M. Luqman Jamil. Temporal Mental Health Retrieval. Started: 2022 - Ongoing. Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering - University of Beira Interior.
