Eugénio Ribeiro


2024

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Automatic Text Readability Assessment in European Portuguese
Eugénio Ribeiro | Nuno Mamede | Jorge Baptista
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese - Vol. 1

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Text Readability Assessment in European Portuguese: A Comparison of Classification and Regression Approaches
Eugénio Ribeiro | Nuno Mamede | Jorge Baptista
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese - Vol. 1

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Exploring the Automated Scoring of Narrative Essays in Brazilian Portuguese using Transformer Models
Eugénio Ribeiro | Nuno Mamede | Jorge Baptista
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese - Vol. 2

2020

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Mapping the Dialog Act Annotations of the LEGO Corpus into ISO 24617-2 Communicative Functions
Eugénio Ribeiro | Ricardo Ribeiro | David Martins de Matos
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

ISO 24617-2, the ISO standard for dialog act annotation, sets the ground for more comparable research in the area. However, the amount of data annotated according to it is still reduced, which impairs the development of approaches for automatic recognition. In this paper, we describe a mapping of the original dialog act labels of the LEGO corpus, which have been neglected, into the communicative functions of the standard. Although this does not lead to a complete annotation according to the standard, the 347 dialogs provide a relevant amount of data that can be used in the development of automatic communicative function recognition approaches, which may lead to a wider adoption of the standard. Using the 17 English dialogs of the DialogBank as gold standard, our preliminary experiments have shown that including the mapped dialogs during the training phase leads to improved performance while recognizing communicative functions in the Task dimension.

2019

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L2F/INESC-ID at SemEval-2019 Task 2: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Frame Induction using Contextualized Word Representations
Eugénio Ribeiro | Vânia Mendonça | Ricardo Ribeiro | David Martins de Matos | Alberto Sardinha | Ana Lúcia Santos | Luísa Coheur
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

Building large datasets annotated with semantic information, such as FrameNet, is an expensive process. Consequently, such resources are unavailable for many languages and specific domains. This problem can be alleviated by using unsupervised approaches to induce the frames evoked by a collection of documents. That is the objective of the second task of SemEval 2019, which comprises three subtasks: clustering of verbs that evoke the same frame and clustering of arguments into both frame-specific slots and semantic roles. We approach all the subtasks by applying a graph clustering algorithm on contextualized embedding representations of the verbs and arguments. Using such representations is appropriate in the context of this task, since they provide cues for word-sense disambiguation. Thus, they can be used to identify different frames evoked by the same words. Using this approach we were able to outperform all of the baselines reported for the task on the test set in terms of Purity F1, as well as in terms of BCubed F1 in most cases.

2016

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SPA: Web-based Platform for easy Access to Speech Processing Modules
Fernando Batista | Pedro Curto | Isabel Trancoso | Alberto Abad | Jaime Ferreira | Eugénio Ribeiro | Helena Moniz | David Martins de Matos | Ricardo Ribeiro
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)

This paper presents SPA, a web-based Speech Analytics platform that integrates several speech processing modules and that makes it possible to use them through the web. It was developed with the aim of facilitating the usage of the modules, without the need to know about software dependencies and specific configurations. Apart from being accessed by a web-browser, the platform also provides a REST API for easy integration with other applications. The platform is flexible, scalable, provides authentication for access restrictions, and was developed taking into consideration the time and effort of providing new services. The platform is still being improved, but it already integrates a considerable number of audio and text processing modules, including: Automatic transcription, speech disfluency classification, emotion detection, dialog act recognition, age and gender classification, non-nativeness detection, hyper-articulation detection, dialog act recognition, and two external modules for feature extraction and DTMF detection. This paper describes the SPA architecture, presents the already integrated modules, and provides a detailed description for the ones most recently integrated.