Ongoing Post-Graduate Supervisions

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PhD in Computer Science

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1. Abel Correa Dias (co-supervision). Assessing the Risk of Bias of Clinical Trials. Start Date: 2021.

   • DIAS, A. C. ; DIAS, F. ; MOREIRA, H. ; Moreira, Viviane P. ; COMBA, JOÃO L. D. . Team INF-UFRGS at SemEval-2023 Task 7: Supervised Contrastive Learning for Pair-level Sentence Classification and Evidence Retrieval. In: International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), 2023

2. Lucas Rafael Costella Pessutto. Multilingual Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. Start Date: 2019.

   • Pessutto, L. R. C., de Melo, T., Moreira, V. P., & da Silva, A. (2020, December). BabelEnconding at SemEval-2020 Task 3: Contextual Similarity as a Combination of Multilingualism and Language Models. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (pp. 59-66).

   • Pessutto, Lucas Rafael Costella, Danny Suarez Vargas, and Viviane P. Moreira. "Multilingual aspect clustering for sentiment analysis." Knowledge-Based Systems 192 (2020): 105339

3. ​Júlia Junqueira Start Date: 2024

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MSc in Computer Science

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1. Higor Moreira. Start Date 2022.

2. Antônio Menezes. Start Date 2022.

3. Moniele Kunrath Santos. Improving OCR for Portuguese.Start Date 2022.

   • Santos, M.K., Bazzo, G., de Oliveira, L.L., Moreira, V.P. (2023). ESTER-Pt: An Evaluation Suite for TExt Recognition in Portuguese. In: Document Analysis and Recognition - ICDAR 2023

4. Carlos Ricardo Machado Oliveira. Information extraction from speech. Start Date 2022.

5. Felipe Soares Fagundes Paula. Question Answering. Start Date 2023.

6. Francielle Vasconcelos Pereira. Text Simplification. Start Date 2023.

7. Matheus Westhelle. Start Date 2024

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Completed Supervisions

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PhD in Computer Science

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1. Luciana Regina Bencke. Producing Synthetic Instances for Textual Classification and Natural Language Inference.

   • ​Bencke, Luciana, and Viviane Pereira Moreira. "Data augmentation strategies to improve text classification: a use case in smart cities." Language Resources and Evaluation 58.2 (2024): 659-694.

   • Bencke, Luciana, et al. "InferBR: A Natural Language Inference Dataset in Portuguese." Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). 2024.

2. Danny Suarez Vargas. Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis.

   • VARGAS, DANNY SUAREZ; PESSUTTO, LUCAS RAFAEL COSTELLA ; MOREIRA, V. P. . Simple Unsupervised Similarity-Based Aspect Extraction. In: International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing), 2023, La Rochelle. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2019. v. 13452. p. 619-631.

   • VARGAS, DANNY SUAREZ ; PESSUTTO, LUCAS RAFAEL COSTELLA ; MOREIRA, V. P. . Unsupervised Aspect Term Extraction for Sentiment Analysis through Automatic Labeling. In: International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), 2022.

   • SUAREZ, D. ; PESSUTTO, L. R. C. ; MELO, T. ; SILVA, A. S. ; MOREIRA, V. P. . EurOpi: Multilingual Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis enabled by a Knowledge Base. In: IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2022, Niagara Falls.

3. Diego de Vargas Feijó. Summarizing Legal Rulings. 2021.

   • Feijo, D.d., Moreira, V.P. Improving abstractive summarization of legal rulings through textual entailment. Artificial Intelligence and Law (2021).

   • Feijo, D. D. V., & Moreira, V. P. (2020). Mono vs Multilingual Transformer-based Models: a Comparison across Several Language Tasks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.09757.

   • Feijo, D., & Moreira, V. (2019, September). Summarizing Legal Rulings: Comparative Experiments. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019) (pp. 313-322).

   • de Vargas Feijó, D., & Moreira, V. P. (2018, September). RulingBR: A summarization dataset for legal texts. In International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (pp. 255-264).

4. Solange de Lurdes Pertile. Combinando Métricas Baseadas em Conteúdo e em Referências para a Detecção de Plágio em Artigos Científicos. 2015.

   • Pertile, S. D. L., Moreira, V. P., & Rosso, P. (2016). Comparing and combining Content‐and Citation‐based approaches for plagiarism detection. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(10), 2511-2526.

5. Gustavo Zanini Kantorski. Preenchimento Automático de Formulários na Web Oculta. 2014. Co-supervision.

   • Kantorski, G. Z., Moreira, V. P., & Heuser, C. A. (2015). Automatic filling of hidden web forms: A survey. ACM SIGMOD Record, 44(1), 24-35.

   • Kantorski, G. Z., Moraes, T. G., Moreira, V. P., & Heuser, C. A. (2013). Choosing values for text fields in web forms. In Advances in Databases and Information Systems (pp. 125-136)

6. Maurício Coutinho Moraes. Towards Completely Automatized HTML Form Discovery on the Web. 2012. Co-supervision.

   • Moraes, Mauricio C. ; Heuser, Carlos A. ; Moreira, Viviane P. ; Barbosa, Denilson. Prequery Discovery of Domain-Specific Query Forms: A Survey. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (Print), v. 25, p. 1830-1848, 2013.

   • Mauricio C. Moraes, Carlos A. Heuser, Viviane Pereira Moreira, Denilson Barbosa: Automatically Training Form Classifiers. WISE 2013: 441-453.

 

MSc in Computer Science

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1. Daniel Matheus Kuhn Aprendizado de máquina em tarefas prognósticas de COVID-19 : avaliação de algoritmos de classificação.  2022.

   • KUHN, D. M. ; LORETO, M. ; MENDOZA, M. R. ; COMBA, JOÃO L. D. ; MOREIRA, V. P. . Explainability of COVID-19 Classification Models using Dimensionality Reduction of SHAP values. In: Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS), 2023, Belo Horizonte.

2. Lucas Lima de Oliveira.  Creating Resources and Evaluating the Impact of OCR Quality on Information Retrieval: A Case Study in the Geoscientific Domain. 2022

• de Oliveira, L.L., Vargas, D.S., Alexandre, A.M.A. et al. Evaluating and mitigating the impact of OCR errors on information retrieval. Int J Digit Libr 24, 45–62 (2023).

• Lima Oliveira, Lucas, Regis Kruel Romeu, and Viviane Pereira Moreira. "REGIS: A Test Collection for Geoscientific Documents in Portuguese." Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. 2021.

1. Mattyws Ferreira Grawe. Heterogeneous Ensemble Models for In-Hospital Mortality Prediction: 2021.

2. Hortênsia Costa Barcelos. Feature Fusion for Data Mining. 2020.

   • Barcelos, Hortênsia C., Mariana Recamonde-Mendoza, and Viviane P. Moreira. "Identifying and Fusing Duplicate Features for Data Mining."

3. Melina Silva de Loreto. Early Prediction of ICU Readmissions using Classification Algorithms. 2020.

   • Loreto, Melina, Thiago Lisboa, and Viviane P. Moreira. "Early prediction of ICU readmissions using classification algorithms." Computers in Biology and Medicine 118 (2020): 103636.

4. Cleber de Souza Alcântara. A Study on Offensive Video Detection. 2020.

   • Alcântara, Cleber, Viviane Moreira, and Diego Feijo. "Offensive Video Detection: Dataset and Baseline Results." Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. 2020

5. Rogers Prates de Pelle. Identificação de Comentários Ofensivos na Web. 2019.

   • de Pelle, Rogers Prates, and Viviane P. Moreira. Offensive Comments in the Brazilian Web: a dataset and baseline results. Anais do VI Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining. SBC, 2017

6. Lucas Rafael Costella Pessutto. Clustering multilingual aspect phrases for Sentiment Analysis. 2018.

   • Pessutto, Lucas Rafael Costella, Danny Suarez Vargas, and Viviane P. Moreira. "Clustering multilingual aspect phrases for sentiment analysis." 2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI). IEEE, 2018.

7. Cassio Alan Garcia. Extração de Informações de Conferências em Páginas Web. 2017.

   • Extração de Dados de Conferências a Partir da Web. Brazilian Symposium on Databases 2017

8. Anderson Uiliam Kauer. Análise de Sentimentos baseada em Aspectos e Atribuição de Polaridade. 2016.

   • Kauer, Anderson Uilian, and Viviane P. Moreira. "Using information retrieval for sentiment polarity prediction." Expert Systems with Applications 61 (2016): 282-289.

   • Kauer, A. ; Moreira, Viviane P. . UFRGS: Identifying Categories and Targets in Customer Reviews. In: International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval), 2015, Denver, Colorado. Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015), 2015.

9. Danny Suarez Vargas. Detecting Contrastive Sentences for Sentiment Analysis. 2016.

   • Suarez, D.; Moreira, V. P. Identifying Sentiment-Based Contradictions In: Simpósio Brasileiro de Bancos de Dados, 2016, Salvador. p.76 – 87.

   • Suarez, D.; Moreira, Viviane P. Finding Contradictions for Sentiment Analysis In: Simpósio Brasileiro de Bancos de Bados (SBBD), 2015, Petrópolis-RJ.

10. Aline Graciela Lermen dos Santos.Experimentos comparativos combinando aprendizado supervisionado e tradução automática para mineração de emoçoes em textos multilíngues. 2016. (co-supervision).

    • Becker, K., Moreira, V. P., & dos Santos, A. G. (2017). Multilingual emotion classification using supervised learning: Comparative experiments. Information Processing & Management, 53(3), 684-704.

11. Felipe Nunes Flores. Assessing the Impact of Stemming Accuracy on Information Retrieval - A Multilingual Perspective. 2015.

    • Felipe N. Flores, Viviane Pereira Moreira. Assessing the impact of Stemming Accuracy on Information Retrieval - A multilingual perspective. Inf. Process. Manage. 52(5): 840-854 (2016).

12. Bruno Rezende Laranjeira. On the application of Focused Crawling for Statistical Machine Translation Domain Adaptation. 2015.

    • Laranjeira, B., Moreira, V. P., Villavicencio, A., Ramisch, C., & Finatto, M. J. B. (2014, May). Comparing the Quality of Focused Crawlers and of the Translation Resources Obtained from them. In LREC (pp. 3572-3578).

13. Carlos Eduardo Manzoni Moreira. Identifying Missing Cross-Language Links in Wikipedia. 2014.

    • Moreira, C. E. M., & Moreira, V. P. (2013). Finding missing cross-language links in Wikipedia. Journal of Information and Data Management, 4(3), 251-251.

14. Alan Pinto Souza. Metadata extraction from Scientific Documents in PDF. 2014. Co-supervision

    • Souza, A., Moreira, V., & Heuser, C. (2014, September). ARCTIC: metadata extraction from scientific papers in pdf using two-layer CRF. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM symposium on Document engineering (pp. 121-130).

15. Edson Roberto Duarte Weren. Atribuição de Perfis de Autoria. 2014.

    • Edson R. D. Weren, Anderson U. Kauer, Lucas Mizusaki, Viviane Pereira Moreira, José Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira, Leandro Krug Wives: Examining Multiple Features for Author Profiling. JIDM 5(3): 266-279 (2014).

    • Edson R. D. Weren, Viviane Pereira Moreira, José Palazzo M. de Oliveira: Exploring Information Retrieval Features for Author Profiling. CLEF (Working Notes) 2014: 1164-1171 2013.

    • Edson R. D. Weren, Viviane Pereira Moreira, José Palazzo M. de Oliveira: Using Simple Content Features for the Author Profiling Task Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2013. CLEF (Working Notes) 2013.

16. Otavio Costa Acosta. Identificação e tratamento de expressões multipalavras aplicado à Recuperação de Informações. 2011.  Co-supervision.

    • Acosta, O., Villavicencio, A., & Moreira, V. (2011, June). Identification and treatment of multiword expressions applied to information retrieval. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Parsing and Generation to the Real World (pp. 101-109).

17. Isabel Cristina Volpe. Cell Assemblies para Expansão de Consultas. 2011.

    • Volpe, I., Moreira, V., & Huyck, C. (2011, July). Cell assemblies for query expansion in Information Retrieval. In The 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (pp. 551-558). IEEE.

18. Rafael Corezola Pereira. Cross-Language Plagiarism Detection. 2010.

    • Pereira, R.C., V.P. Moreira, and R. Galante, A New Approach for Cross-Language Plagiarism Analysis, in Proceedings of the CLEF 2010 Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation, M. Agosti, et al., Editors. 2010, Springer: Padua, Italy. p. 15-26

    • Pereira, R.C., V.P. Moreira, and R. Galante. UFRGS@PAN2010: Detecting External Plagiarism. in PAN 2010 - Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse. 2010. Padua, Italy.

19. André Pinto Geraldo. Aplicando Algoritmos de Mineração de Regras de Associação para Recuperação de Informações Multilíngues. 2009.

    • Geraldo, A.P., V.P. Moreira, and M.A. Gonçalves, On-Demand Associative Cross-Language Information Retrieval, in String Processing and Information Retrieval, 16th International Symposium (LNCS 5721), J. Karlgren, T. J., and H. Hyyro, Editors. 2009, Springer: Saariselkä. p. 165-173.

    • Geraldo, A.P. and V.M. Orengo, UFRGS@CLEF2008: Using Association rules for Cross-Language Information Retrieval, in Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access (LNCS 5706), F. Borri, A. Nardi, and C. Peters, Editors. 2008, Springer: Aarhus, Denmark. p. 66-74.

    • Geraldo, A.P. and V. Moreira Orengo. Ajustando a importância dos termos: uma extensão à BM25. in Anais da Sessão de Pôsteres do Simpósio Brasileiro de Bancos de Dados. 2008.

20. Juliana Bonato dos Santos. Automatizando o processo de estimativa de revocação e precisão de funções de similaridade. 2008. Co-supervision. 

    • dos Santos, J.B., C.A. Heuser, V.P. Moreira, and L.K. Wives, Automatic threshold estimation for data matching applications. Information Sciences. v. 181, p. 2685-2699, 2011.

    • Santos, J.B.d., C.A. Heuser, V.M. Orengo, and L.K. Wives, Automatic threshold estimation for data matching applications, in Proceedings of the 23rd Brazilian symposium on Databases. 2008, Sociedade Brasileira de Computação: Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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