2025 - PyCon Lithuania - Vilnius
Smarter Retrieval, Better Generation Improving RAG Systems
Ligthining talk - Autoquizzer
Autoquizzer is application built with Haystack which generates a quiz from a given URL. You can then play the quiz yourself and see the score, or let the LLM play it either using only the internal knowledge or reying on web searches to generate the answers.
2022 - Arquivo com Café from Portuguese Web Archive (online)
Politiquives.PT (in portuguese)
Politiquices.PT, which won the 2nd place on the Arquivo.pt Award 2021, allows us to explore support and opposition relationships between political personalities, extracted from news headlines of 25 years of Portuguese archived newspapers. The relationships are indexed in a SPARQL engine allowing the graph to be explored through SPARQL queries. This presentation is in Portuguese.
2021 - Seminar @ Instituto Politécnico Tomar (online)
Lead NLP @ Comtravo GbmH (in portuguese)
I had the honour of being invited by Ricardo Campos to deliver a seminar where I had the opportunity to present an overview of the groundbreaking work we have undertaken at Comtravo GbmH. Additionally, I took the initiative to provide an introductory presentation on Politiquices.PT. This presentation is in Portuguese.
2017 - PyData Berlin (HTW Berlin)
Bootstrapping of Relationship Extractors with Distributional Semantics
Presenting BREDS, a bootstrapping system for relationship extraction relying on word embeddings. The paper was published in EMNLP 2015 and won an Honorable Mention for Best Short Paper.
Others
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November 2025 - “An NLP Journey” at Talking about NLP for students from DIS (Berlin)
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March 2025 - “An NLP Journey” at Talking about NLP for students from DIS (Berlin)
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2016 - “Issue Focussed Sentiment Analysis of Political Parties” at PyData Berlin - Political Bias Hackathon (Berlin)
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2010 - “Extracting Geographic Entities with Conditional Random Fields” at Priberam Machine Learning Lunch Seminars (Lisbon)