Carlos Costa

From XLDB

Name: Carlos Roberto do Nascimento Costa
E-mail: ccosta@lasige.di.fc.ul.pt
Telephone: +351 925 852 091
Project: OPTIMISM

Research interests:	Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction and Retrieval, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining, Computational Linguistic Resources (Lexica and Grammars) for Portuguese.
Others interests:	Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Free Software, GNU Systems, Linux, C/C++, Python, Open Source Software Development.

Academic degrees

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• Master in Eletrical and Computer Engineering from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the State University of Campinas, 2006.

• Bachelor in Computer Science from University Center of Pará, 2003.

Main research activities

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• XLDB (since Aug. 2009): Opinion mining in the social web (OPTIMISM), by combining text mining and machine learning techniques with fine-grained linguistic resources. Advisors: Mário J. Silva; Co-advisor: Paula Carvalho.