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2009

February 5th: Working on opinion mining.

January 23rd: Added a consulting section.

2008

November 3rd: Back to work, as a software mercenary for premium clients in Brazil and Europe, in projects involving language engineering, classification and the so-called WEB 2.0. Oh, and back to Brazil.

October 31: After a first skimm on the plane of my very-late-delivered AI Game Programming Wisdom 4 copies; I must say that I am very satisfied with the overall result. It is nice to see that goal-oriented action planning and spreading activation for action selection are ceasing to be arcane in game dev cycles.

July 19th: As many of you have asked me by mail where in the old world I have been, here it goes: In Delft/Netherlands. Cozy city, nice people, but once again, with a terrible weather. The combination of work, adaptation to a new land, and Dutch language learning did not leave up much time for page updating!

March 16(b): Back to the old world; working with a leading-edge natural language technology enterprise. More news soon.

March 16(a): As the contract for my new site is a week past its back-to-life deadline, I am putting the old one with a quick update back on.

January 30: Leaving the UK and the University of Sheffield and going to Brazil. I will be reachable again only on March - in between you're welcome to meet me in the coast or in the vast fields of the pampas.

2007

November 30th: Research Associate and Research Assistant positions open to work in the Companions project (Deadline December 4th). The Associate will work mainly in machine learning applied to dialogue management and the assistant in the development and testing of multimodal dialogue systems. 

October 13th: 12-month public deliverables of the Companions project released.

August 2nd:  My blog on pragmatical research, "AI Engineer", was launched this afternoon. The first series of posts report on the Elsnet Summer School on Advanced Dialogue Systems.

July 30th: Back from the Elsnet Summer School on Advanced Dialogue Systems at Belfast, Ireland. Interesting lectures, intelligent and nice colleagues and promising partnerships!

July 10th: Network section updated.

April 17th: I will contribute two articles to AI Wisdom 4, to be published on the first half of 2008: "Spoken Dialogue Systems" and "Dialogue Managers". Both are review articles, biased towards game developers.  A tentative TOC is available at AI Wisdom 4 site.

April 5th: I will attend the UIMA Workshop at Tuebingen, staying 10-11 April. If you are going to be there, and have an interest on dialogue or lexical semantics, please drop me a note.

April 4th: At Torino 13-15 May, for Companions Meeting. 

March 17th: I will be at Rochester from the night of April 22 to the morning of April 27, to attend NAACL -HTL 2007.

Feb 12th: Formal appointment at the University of Sheffield(UK) complete. Climate is terrible, but work is great!:)

January 19th: I left Vetta Labs/ Novamente LLC to take up a post at the University of Sheffield(UK), in the Companions project. More news upon my arrival.

2006

October 26th: Added the powerpoint presentations of my thesis defense (August 2005), the presentation at MICAI05,  the tutorial at UFMG(October 2005) and the seminar at UFRGS(October 2006). About time!

October 3rd: I am giving a bio-NLP talk at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul on October 4th. Go to Courses/Talks to find out more about it.

July 16th: Added a notification-only list, so you can get informed whenever I make a new resource or article available. You may subscribe here.

July 15th: Added Semcor 2.0 data converted to GATE's ANNIE format, in the Resources section.

July 9th: Added NAACL06 and CMC06 articles to Publications section.

June 6th: The Poster "Automatic Creation and Translation of Concept Maps for Computer Science-Related Theses and Dissertations" will be presented at the Concept Map 2006 Conference. This is a result of collaboration between Virginia Tech, Vetta Labs and Novamente LLC.

May 20: The Goertzel's present "Using Dependency Parsing and Probabilistic Inference to Extract Gene/Protein Interactions Implicit in the Combination of Multiple Biomedical Research Abstracts" in the AGIRI 2006 Workshop. You can download the slides of the presentations in the AGIRI forum.

April 17th: The poster "Using Dependency Parsing and Probabilistic Inference to Extract Relationships between Genes, Proteins and Malignancies Implicit Among Multiple Biomedical Research Abstracts" will be presented at NYC, during a BioNLP Workshop (part of NAACL 06). It pretty much summarizes my Bio-NLP work at Novamente LLC / Vetta Labs last year.