Luís Morgado Da Costa

Experience

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  Faculty of Letters University of Lisbon

  Nov 2009 - Oct 2010

  Research Assistant

  Collaboration with the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEC), in a multimedia project looking at Portuguese Orientalism in the 19th and 20th centuries;- designed and created an online database destined to collect and organize bibliography; - designed and created a website to support the research project and host the online database; - statistical analysis over the work collected, looking at regions of interest, dates and content of selected bibliography; - digitized 25 volumes of the Boletim da Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (Lisbon Geographical Society's Bulletin). Show less

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  Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, I.P.

  Feb 2011 - Jun 2013

  Research Assistant

  Collaboration with the Camões Virtual Center (Centro Virtual Camões);- managed and produced online content concerning Portuguese culture and language teaching worldwide; - maintained and developed the Camões I.P. digital library;- supported the administration of an integrative system to manage cultural and teaching projects (EPE network) funded by Camões, I.P.;- worked on the design of Camões I.P. 1st Portuguese language certification program;

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  Faculty of Sciences University of Lisbon

  Sept 2013 - Mar 2014

  Research Assistant

  Curation and development of Language Resources and Tools (LRT) for Deep Machine Translation; Deep Parallel TreeBanking;

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  Nanyang Technological University

  Apr 2014 - Aug 2021

  Dissertation: Using Rich Models of Language in Grammatical Error Detection;- developed language models (English and Mandarin) for error detection and correction;- managed two teams of students to produce tagged learner corpora for English (>25k sentences) and Mandarin (>5k sentences), including a treebanked portion;- developed a web app (full stack) to detect common errors in student writing; it was integrated in a Communications' course and has helped more than 6,000 students; Show less Worked with NTU's Computational Linguistics Lab on various long-term projects funded by industrial partners and by the SG Ministry of Education applied to Machine Translation, Word Sense Disambiguation and Sentiment Analysis;- developed multiple layers of the Open Multilingual Wordnet project; was a main contributor of the port to version 2.0 (completely redesigning the DB structures and moving from Python/CGI/HTML to Python/Flask/Bootstrap);- main contributor of IMI, an online semantic annotation environment, used to produce datasets for Machine Translation, Word Sense Disambiguation and Sentiment Analysis;- helped build many language resources such as the NTU Multilingual Corpus and various wordnets for multiple languages (e.g. Chinese, Cantonese, Coptic, Indonesian, Kristang); - helped writing grants to secure funding; organized local and international conferences; hired and managed multiple part-time student teams; Show less

  • Doctoral Candidate and Research Scholar

    Aug 2017 - Aug 2021

  • Proj. Officer., R. Assistant, R. Associate

    Apr 2014 - Jul 2017
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  Palacký University Olomouc

  Nov 2021 - Apr 2023

  Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow

  I'm funded by the the European Commission to work on an individual project entitled "Chinese Intelligent Language Learning (CHILL). Using Grammar Engineering Models for Automated Error Detection". This Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action is hosted by Palacký University Olomouc and aims to advance the research in high-precision error detection for Mandarin Chinese. See more here: https://www.luismc.com/home/msca-chill

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  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)

  Jan 2023 - now

  Assistant Professor