Joana Paulo Pardal graduated in Informatics and Computer Science Engineering (a 5 year full-time degree) in 2001 from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. She received an MSc degree in 2004 also from IST. Both with Nuno J. Mamede as advisor. In 2006 she started her PhD work also at IST on Dynamic Integration of Ontologies in Generic Spoken Dialogue Systems, with Nuno J. Mamede, H. Sofia Pinto and James F. Allen as advisors.
She has been a Lecturer at IST since 2002, teaching object-oriented programming and design patterns, knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, and distributed systems.
She has been a researcher at the Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (L²F) of INESC-ID since 2001. Her research interests include knowledge representation; design, use (and reuse) of ontologies; semantic web and semantic web services; spoken dialogue systems; integration of ontologies in spoken dialogue systems; written natural language processing. She participates on «Dialogs on Dialogs» Reading Group at CMU.
In the past, she has participated in several national projects. In 2004 she was invited for a training period at Groupe de Recherche dans les Industries de la Langue (GRIL), at Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, France. In 2006 she spent the Fall term at the Computer Science Department, University of Rochester, NY, USA. She was part of the Continuous Understanding team and took a course. She returned during the Fall and Winter of 2008/2009 to study the use of Ontologies in TRIPS. During that period, she lived at Cambridge, MA, where she assisted to some courses at the MIT.
She is a student member of ISCA (International Speech Communication Association), ACL (The Association for Computational Linguistics) and AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence).
She got married on July 22th, 2006 and received her husband's family names "Leitão Pardal".
| Name: | Joana Maria Ferrer Lúcio Paulo Leitão Pardal |
| Short name: | Joana Paulo Pardal |
| Place and date of birth: | Lisbon, 6th of December 1978 |
| Marital state: | Married, 22th of July 2006 |
| Nationality: | Portuguese |
| Citizenship: | Portuguese |
Specific Qualifications | ||
| 2005 | • | PhD student of Computer Science Engineering. Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon. Dissertation Title: "Dynamic use of Ontologies in Dialogue Systems" Advisors: Nuno J. Mamede, H. Sofia Pinto and James F. Allen. |
| 2004 | • | MSc in Computer Science Engineering. Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon. Dissertation Title: "(Semi) automatic terms acquisition" Advisor: Nuno J. Mamede. |
| 2001 | • | "Licenciatura" (a 5 year full-time degree) in Computer Science Engineering. Artificial Intelligence area. Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon. Dissertation Title: "PAsMo - a post morphological analyser" Advisor: Nuno J. Mamede. |
| 1996 | • | Finished High School. High School of the Queen Amélia, Lisbon. |
| 2004/-- | • | Lecturer at the Computer Science Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon (on teaching leave since September 2006). |
| 2001/-- | • | Researcher at Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (L²F) - INESC-ID. |
| 2005/06 | • | Lecturer of Object-oriented Programming. |
| 2004/05 | • | Lecturer of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. |
| • | Lecturer of Knowledge Representation. | |
| • | Lecturer of Object-oriented Programming. | |
| 2002/04 | • | Trainee Lecturer at the Computer Science Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon. |
| 2003/04 | • | Trainee Lecturer of Distributed Systems. |
| • | Trainee Lecturer of Object-oriented Programming. | |
| 2002/03 | • | Trainee Lecturer of Artificial Intelligence. |
| • | Teaching Assistant of Knowledge Representation. |
| 2004/- | • | Representative of the Lecturer of the Computer Science Department at the Department's Council. |
| 2005/6 | • | Representative of the School's Lecturer at the Pedagogical Council Assembly and Coordination Comission. |
| 2006/-- | • | Participation at «Dialogs on Dialogs» Reading Group (CMU). |
| 2006/-- | • | Part of the development team of DIGA, a framework for spoken dialogue systems and STAR, the dialogue management module. |
| 2006/8 | • | Development of RuDriCo, a Rule Driven Converter. |
| 2005/6 | • | Part of the development team of OntoChef, an Ontology on the Cooking domain. |
| 2003/05 | • | Integration of several on-line systems to deliver and test homeworks using web facilities (Fenix4DEI). |
| 2004/05 | • | Development of new features for the Post-Morphological Analysis Tool, PAsMo, in colaboration with Gabriel G. Bès, Lionel Lamadon e Ioana Milutinovici from «Groupe de Recherche dans les Industries de la Langue», GRIL at Université Blaise Pascal. |
| 2004 | • | Training period at «Groupe de Recherche dans les Industries de la Langue», GRIL at Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, France. |
| 2001/03 | • | Researcher at ATA Automatic Term Acquisition. Portuguese National Science Foundation project PLUS/1999/LIN/15150. Project in collaboration with ILTEC and TermiNáutica - Nautical Terminology. |
| 2000/01 | • | Development of a Post-Morphological Analysis Tool, PAsMo (graduation thesis project). |
| • | Implementation of a pedagogical agent to help children from 7 to 12 years to write poetry (course project). |
Book chapters | ||
| 2004 | • | Joana L. Paulo, David Martins de Matos, Nuno J. Mamede, "Terminology Mining with ATA and Galinha" in António Branco, Amália Mendes and Ricardo Ribeiro (eds.), Language Technology for Portuguese: shallow processing tools and resources. Edições Colibri, ISBN 972-772-494-9, chapter 2, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2004 (pdf). |
International Journals | ||
| 2008 | • | Miguel Pardal, Sérgio Fernandes, Jorge Martins, Joana Paulo Pardal, "Customizing Web Services with Extensions in the STEP Framework" in International Journal of Web Services Practices - IJWSP, Volume 3, Issue 1, special issue (pdf). |
International Conferences | ||
| 2008 | • | Filipe M. Martins, Joana Paulo Pardal, Luís Franqueira, Pedro Arez, Nuno J. Mamede, "Starting to cook a tutoring dialogue system", In Proceeding of the IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology — SLT, Goa, India, December 15th - 18th, 2008 (pdf - IEEE Xplore 2.0, poster). |
| • | Filipe M. Martins, Ana Mendes, Joana Paulo Pardal, Nuno J. Mamede, João Paulo Neto, "Using system expectations to manage user interactions", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese - PROPOR, Springer-Verlag, Aveiro, Portugal, September 8th - 10th, 2008 (pdf). | |
| • | Joana Paulo Pardal, Position paper, In Proceedings of the Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (workshop of ACL SIGDial) Columbus, Ohio, June 21st, 2008 (pdf, personal presentation slide: png). | |
| • | Filipe M. Martins, Ana Mendes, Márcio Viveiros, Joana Paulo Pardal, Pedro Arez, Nuno J. Mamede, João Paulo Neto, "Reengineering a domain-independent framework for Spoken Dialogue Systems", In Proceedings of ACL Workshop on Software engineering, testing, and quality assurance for natural language processing, ACL08-SETQA-NLP, Columbus, Ohio, June 20th, 2008 (pdf). | |
| • | João Graça, Joana Paulo Pardal, Luísa Coheur, Diamantino Caseiro, "Building a golden collection of parallel Multi-Language Word Alignment", In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation,LREC 2008, Marrakech, Morocco, May 28th - 30 th, 2008 (pdf, more information...). | |
| 2007 | • | Carlos Gomez-Gallo, Gregory Aist, James Allen, William de Beaumont, Sergio Coria, Whitney Gegg-Harrison, Joana Paulo Pardal, Mary Swift, "Annotating Continuous Understanding in a Multimodal Dialogue Corpus". In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue SEMDIAL 2007 - DECALOG), Rovereto, Italy, May 30th - June 1st, 2007 (pdf). |
| • | Joana Paulo Pardal, "Dynamic use of ontologies in dialogue systems", In Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2007 Doctoral Consortium, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 25-28, Rochester, New York, April 22nd, 2007 (pdf). | |
| 2006 | • | Celso Melo, Rui Prada, Guilherme Raimundo, Joana Paulo Pardal, H. Sofia Pinto, Ana Paiva, "Mainstream Games in the Multi-agent Classroom", In Proceeding of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology - IAT 2006, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 757-761, (ISI: 000245650000119) Hong Kong, China, December 18th - 22nd, 2006 (pdf). |
| • | Ricardo Ribeiro Fernando Batista, Joana Paulo Pardal, Nuno J. Mamede, H. Sofia Pinto, "Cooking an Ontology", AIMSA'2006 - 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications, AIMSA 2006, Springer-Verlag, LNAI 4183, pp. 213-221, ISSN 0302-9743, (ISI: 000242122400021) Varna, Bulgaria, September 3rd, 2006 (pdf). | |
| 2004 | • | Joana L. Paulo, Nuno J. Mamede, "Terms Spotting with Linguistics and Statistics", In Proceedings of the Taller de Herramientas y Recursos Linguísticos para el Español y el Português (workshop), IX Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA 2004), Guillermo de Ita Luna, Olac Fuentes Chávez and Mauricio Osorio Galindo (eds.), Springer-Verlag, pp. 298-304, Tonantzintla, Puebla, México, November 22nd - 26 th, 2004 (pdf). |
| 2003 | • | Gabriel G. Bès, Veronica Dahl, Daniel Guillot, Lionel Lamadon, Ioana Milutinovici, Joana L. Paulo, "A parsing system for balanced parentheses in NL texts" in Proceedings of the Lorraine/Saarland Workshop on Prospects and Recent Advances in the Syntax-Semantics Interface — CLIN'2003, Nancy, France, October 20th - 21st, (pdf, poster). |
| • | Joana L. Paulo, David Martins de Matos, Nuno J. Mamede, "Easy automatic Terms acquisition with ATA and Galinha", in Proc. TASHA'2003 - Workshop on Tagging and Shallow Processing of Portuguese, pp. 29-30, Science College at University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, October 3rd, 2003 (pdf). | |
| • | Luísa Coheur, Fernando Batista, Joana L. Paulo, "JaVaLI!: understanding real questions", in Student Workshop "Applied Natural Language Processing - possible applications for the Semantic Web -" International Workshop held as part of the EUROLAN'2003, Springer-Verlag, pp. 19-25, Bucharest, Romania, July 28th - August 8th, 2003 (pdf). | |
| • | David Martins de Matos, Joana L. Paulo, Nuno J. Mamede, "Managing Linguistic Resources and Tools", in 6th PROPOR Workshop. Springer-Verlag, pp. 135-142 Faro, Portugal, June 26th - 27th, 2003 (ISI: 000185510800020) (pdf) | |
| 2002 | • | Joana L. Paulo, Margarita Correia, Nuno J. Mamede, Caroline Hagège, "Using Morphological, Syntactical and Statistical Information for Automatic Term Acquisition", in Proceedings of the PorTAL - Portugal for Natural Language Processing, Springer-Verlag, pp. 219-227, Faro, Portugal, June 23rd - 26th, 2002 (pdf). |
| 2001 | • | Joana L. Paulo, Nuno J. Mamede, "ATA - Automatic Term Acquisition", in Proceedings of the Workshop on Extraction of Knowledge from Databases, EPIA 2001, pp. 51-54, Porto, Portugal, December 17th - 20th, 2001 (pdf). |
National Conferences | ||
| 2001 | • | Ana Pacheco, Joana L. Paulo, Nuno Ferreira, "PoeTA - Poetry teaching agent", in Proceedings of the WIAA 2001 Workshop of Introduction to Autonomous Agents, Lisboa, Portugal, December, (pdf). |
Technical Reports | ||
| 2008 | • | João Graça, Joana Paulo Pardal, Luísa Coheur, Diamantino Caseiro, "Multi-Language Word Alignments Annotation Guidelines", L²F -- Spoken Language Systems Laboratory, INESC-ID, TR/38/2008, April 2008 (pdf). |
| • | David Martins de Matos, Ricardo Daniel Ribeiro, Sérgio Paulo, Fernando Batista, Luísa Coheur, Joana Paulo Pardal, "Natural Language Engineering on a Computational Grid (NLE-GRID) T2 - Encapsulation of Reusable Components" L²F -- Spoken Language Systems Laboratory, INESC-ID, TR/31/2008, January 2008. | |
| 2006 | • | Joana L. Paulo, David Martins de Matos, "PAsMo -- Pós Analisador Morfológico", L²F -- Spoken Language Systems Laboratory, INESC-ID, TR/40/2006, June 2006. |
| • | Fernando Batista, Joana L. Paulo, Nuno J. Mamede, Paula C. Vaz, Ricardo Ribeiro (alphabetical order), "Ontology construction: cooking domain", Knowledge Sharing and Reuse Project, L²F -- Spoken Language Systems Laboratory, INESC-ID, TR/28/2006, May 2006 (pdf). | |
Pedagogical Guides | ||
| 2004 | • | Joana Paulo Pardal, Celso Melo, Guilherme Raimundo, Rui Prada, H. Sofia Pinto, Ana Paiva, "Guia de Laboratório da cadeira de Agentes Autómatos e Sistemas Multiagente", Computer Science Department, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 2003 | • | Nuno J. Mamede, João Dias Pereira, Joana Paulo Pardal, "Guia de Laboratório da cadeira de Programação com Objectos", Computer Science Department, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. |
Theses | ||
| 2004 | • | Joana L. Paulo, "Aquisição Semi Automática de Termos", MSc thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, July 26th, 2004 (pdf). |
| 2001 | • | Joana L. Paulo, "Aquisição Automática de Termos, PAsMo -- Pós analisador morfológico", Graduation thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, July 13th, 2001 (pdf). |
| 2008 | • | June 13th, "Reengineering a domain-independent framework for spoken dialogue systems", Dialogs on Dialogs, CMU reading group, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (via Skype and Google Docs). |
| 2007 | • | December 3rd and 5th, "Spoken Dialogue Systems — an Introduction" (slides), MSc Natural Language course, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, Tagus Park campus, Oeiras, Portugal. |
| • | February 9rd, Fall 2006 @ University of Rochester, Term Report, L²F Seminars, Lisboa, Portugal. | |
| 2006 | • | December 15th, "Dynamic Integration of Ontologies in Generic Spoken Dialogue Systems", Big Picture Talk Series, Computer Science Department, University of Rochester, NY, USA. |
| • | April 27th, "Building an Ontology: Cooking domain", Knowledge Representation course, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, Tagus Park campus, Oeiras, Portugal. | |
| • | February 17th, "Integrated Tools and Ontologies", L²F Day'2006, Academia Militar, Lisboa, Portugal. | |
| 2005 | • | May 12th, "Automatic Terms Acquisition", Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. |
| 2001 | • | April 20th, "Master thesis work: Automatic word selection", L²F Seminars, Lisboa, Portugal. |
| • | June 29th, "Aplicação de Técnicas de Língua Natural a Interfaces Multimodais Inteligentes", presentation for the course of Intelligent Multimodal Interfaces (available only in Portuguese at slideshare). | |
| • | April _th, "Agentes Pedagógicos", presentation for the course of Autonomous Agents (available only in Portuguese at slideshare). |
| 2001/- | • | Internal Seminars at L²F. |
| 2006/- | • | Dialogs on Dialogs,
CMU reading group, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (via Skype and Google Docs). |
| 2008 | • | The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems, (ACL workshop), The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 21st and 22nd, 2008 (Proceedings). |
| • | Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing (ACL workshop), Hyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 20th, 2008. | |
| • | SIGdial, Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, (ACL workshop), Hyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 19th and 20th, 2008 (Proceedings). | |
| • | ACL-08: HLT, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 15th — 20th, 2008. | |
| 2007 | • | Doctoral Consortium at NAACL-HLT, Rochester, NY, USA, April 22nd, 2008. |
| 2006 | • | Big Picture Talk Series at the Computer Science Department, University of Rochester, NY, USA. |
| • | XATA 2006 - XML - Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas, Portalegre, Portugal. | |
| 2003 | • | TASHA 2003 Workshop on Tagging and Shallow Processing of Portuguese, Lisboa, Portugal. |
| 2002 | • | PorTAL 2002 Portugal for Natural Language Processing, Faro, Portugal. |
| • | Terminology in Spring, ILTEC, Lisboa, Portugal. | |
| 2001 | • | Workshop on Extraction of Knowledge from Databases, EPIA 2001, Porto, Portugal. |
| • | Workshop of Introduction to Autonomous Agents, WIAA 2001, Lisboa, Portugal. |
| 2006/- | • | Portuguese National Science Foundation PhD grant from October 2006: SFRH/BD/30791/2006 |
| 2008 | • | ISCA fellowship to attend The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (report). |
| 2007 | • | ACL fellowship to attend Doctoral Consortium at NAACL-HLT. |
| 2001/2 | • | Portuguese National Science Foundation MSc grant from September 2001 to September 2002: PLUS/1999/LIN/15150 |
| 2009 | • | Organizing Committee of YRR 2009 — The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems |
| • | Program Committee of CLA 2009 — Computational Linguistics - Applications |
| 2009 | • | CLA 2009 — Computational Linguistics - Applications |
| • | NAACL HLT 2009 Student Research Workshop | |
| 2006 | • | FinTAL 2006 — 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing |
| • | STAIRS 2006 — 3rd European Starting AI Researcher Symposium | |
| • | TIL 2006 — 4th Workshop in Information and Human Language Technology |
| 2006 | • | Free course on Science History about «The Science History in Portugal and the Scientific Revolution», 6th March to 10th April by Prof. Henrique Leitão (member of the Science History Centre at Science College da University of Lisbon). |
| 2005 | • | Free course on Science History about «Origins of Modern Physics», 7th March to 11th April by Prof. Henrique Leitão (member of the Science History Centre at Science College da University of Lisbon). |
| 1994 | • | First Aid Basics (at Portuguese Red Cross). |
| Mother tongue | • | Portuguese |
| Other languages: | Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: • Basic user (levels A1 and A2) • Independent user (levels B1 and B2) • Proficient user (levels C1 and C2) • | |
| • | English Self-assessment: Understanding — Listening: & Reading: Speaking — Spoken interaction: & Spoken production: Writing: TOEFL iBT: 108/120 (Reading: 29/30; Listening: 30/30; Speaking: 22/30; Writing: 27/30) | |
| • | Spanish Self-assessment: Understanding — Listening: & Reading: Speaking — Spoken interaction: & Spoken production: Writing: | |
| • | Italian Self-assessment: Understanding — Listening: & Reading: Speaking — Spoken interaction: & Spoken production: Writing: | |
| • | French Self-assessment: Understanding — Listening: & Reading: Speaking — Spoken interaction: & Spoken production: Writing: | |
NOTE: Unless stated otherwise, the courses were taken at the Computer Science Department (DEI) of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) at Technical University of Lisbon (UTL), Portugal.
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| 2005/06 | • Spring | • Knowledge Share and Reuse, with Prof. H. Sofia Pinto |
| 2006/07 | • Fall | • CSC 247/447:
Natural Language Procesing,
Computer Science Department, University of Rochester with Prof. Lenhart K. Schubert and Benjamin Van Durme (TA). • CSC 244/444: Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Department, University of Rochester with Prof. James F. Allen (just audited, didn't grade) |
| 2008/09 | • Fall | • 6.864:
Advanced Natural Language Procesing,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with Prof. Regina Barzilay (just audited, didn't grade) • 6.867: Machine Learning, CSAIL, MIT with Prof. Tommi Jaakkola and Prof. Michael Collins (just audited, didn't grade) |