Hernani Pereira Gomes Costa, PhD student
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#Rua Direita,
155-3460, Penedo - Lageosa do Dão
+351-916244743
[email protected]
Overview
My main research interest lie in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially in the fields of
Information Extraction (IE), Information Retriavel (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and
Computational Intelligence.
Education
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University of Coimbra
Coimbra, Portugal
PhD, Information Science and Technology
2011
– Student of the Doctoral Program in Science and Information Technology.
University of Coimbra
MSc, Informatics Engineering
– Graduated with 80% cumulative average.
Coimbra, Portugal
2007-2010
University of Coimbra
BSc, Informatics Engineering
– Graduated with 65% cumulative average.
Coimbra, Portugal
2004-2010
Work Experience
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Currently Working
Coimbra, Portugal
CISUC, CMS Group
Dec. 2010 - Nov. 2011
– Forms of Selective Attention in Intelligent Transportation Systems project.
Secondary Education Teaching Professional
Escola Profissional da Lousã
– Communication Networks and Computers Architecture
Lousã, Portugal
Sep. 2010 - July 2011
Semi-automatic construction of a Portuguese ontology
Coimbra, Portugal
CISUC, CMS Group
Oct. 2009 - Oct. 2010
– Research integration scholarship in the construction of a Portuguese ontology.
ONTO.PT (http://ontopt.dei.uc.pt)
Coimbra, Portugal
CISUC, CMS Group
Sep. 2009 - Sep. 2010
– Created NLP algorithms to extract and validate semantic knowledge.
– Tested and integrated Google and Yahoo API for the semantic knowledge validation task.
KDigg project
Coimbra, Portugal
CISUC, CMS Group
Sep. 2009 - Jan. 2010
– Implemented automatic algorithms to extract semantic information from ideas and documents
in C# language.
Publications
• Published Articles
– Costa Pereira, Hernani and Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo and Gomes, Paulo: “Using the Web to
Validate Lexico-Semantic Relations”, Proc. 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, Lisboa, Portugal - October, 2011
– Gonçalo Oliveira, Hugo and Costa, Hernani and Gomes, Paulo: “Extracção de conhecimento
léxico-semântico a partir de resumos da Wikipédia”, INFORUM 2010, Workshop on Gestão e
Tratamento de Informação (INFORUM’10), Braga, Portugal - September, 2010
– Costa, Hernani and Gonçalo Oliveira and Hugo and Gomes, Paulo: “The Impact of
Distributional Metrics in the Quality of Relational Triples”, ECAI 2010, Workshop on
Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH’10),
Lisbon, Portugal - August, 2010 student.dei.uc.pt/~hpcosta/papers/ecai2010.pdf
• MSc Thesis
– Costa, Hernani: “Automatic Extraction and Validation of Lexical Ontologies from text”,
Coimbra, Portugal - September, 2010
student.dei.uc.pt/~hpcosta/mscthesis/Hernani_Costa-MSc-Thesis-2010.pdf
Skills
Languages: Java, C#, C/C++, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, LATEX.
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android OS.
Applications/Programs: NetBeans, Eclipse, Texmaker, MatLab, OpenOffice, MS Office.
Miscellaneous: Software configuration management, strong verbal and written communication skills,
excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills, exceptional problem solving skills, good team skills.
Interests
Academic: Researching new knowledge in NLP area, more specifically in IE and IR.
Sports: Playing football and swimming.
Computers: Currently exploring Android OS tools, enjoy using and learning Linux system.
Other: Studding English and Spanish.