Sebastião Miranda
Introduction
This page is mostly just a publications list. My CV is at Linkedin.
I specialize in design, development and productization of Machine Learning systems for applications in the Media, Legal and Healthcare industries. I hold an MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon), specializing in algorithms, computer architecture and control systems.
Publications and Talks
2022
Papers
- João Santos, Afonso Mendes, Sebastião Miranda, Simplifying Multilingual News Clustering Through
Projection From a Shared Space Text2Story Workshop at ECIR 2022 [pdf]
- Carlos Amaral, Sebastião Miranda, Monitio - Large Scale MT for Multilingual Media Monitoring EAMT 2022 [pdf]
Talks
- "Keynote 1: Tackling Multilingual Media Monitoring with Natural Language Processing", Invited Talk at PROPOR 2022, about our Research at Priberam and our Media Monitoring platform.
2020
Papers
- Ruben Cardoso, Zita Marinho, Afonso Mendes, Sebastião Miranda, Priberam at MESINESP Multi-label
Classification of Medical Texts Task, MESINESP Multi-label Classification of Medical Texts Task 2020 [pdf]
Talks
- "New Generation of AI-Powered Media Monitoring Tools", Invited Talk at ECIR 2020 Industry Day, about our Research at Priberam and our Media Monitoring platform.
- "Tailoring Media Monitoring with User Feedback", Invited Talk at Text2Story Workshop, ECIR 2020, about leveraging user feedback for training IR models to search through news in a Media Monitoring setting. [proceedings]
2019
Papers
- Sebastiao Miranda, David Nogueira, Afonso Mendes, Andreas Vlachos, Andrew Secker, Rebecca Garrett, Jeff Mitchel and Zita Marinho, Automated Fact-Checking in the News Room, The Web Conference 2019, System Demonstrations [pdf]
- Afonso Mendes, Shashi Narayan, Sebastião Miranda, Zita Marinho, André F. T. Martins and Shay B. Cohen, Extractive and Compressive Neural Summarization Based on Summary State Representations, Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2019 [pdf]
- Zita Marinho, Afonso Mendes, Sebastião Miranda and David Nogueira, Hierarchical Nested Named Entity Recognition, The 2nd Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop (ClinicalNLP 2019) [pdf]
Talks
- "INSIGHT: AI-powered horizon scanning and technology intelligence" at AED days 2019, about our Media Monitoring platform prototype applied to the aerospace industry use-case of EMBRAER.
- "INSIGHT: Advancing NLP for scaling-up Media Monitoring and Technology Watch" at Priberam Machine Learning Seminars.
- "Telling Stories with Data" at the fifth Dataviz meetup, about data visualization techniques for finding relevant entities, story clusters and events.
- "Hierarchical Nested Named Entity Recognition" at NAACL 2019, about our Medical NER system (related to the paper above).
- "AI for clinical text processing" at the Digital Patient Workshop in Centro Hospitalar de São João.
- "A new generation of AI-powered media monitoring tools" at FIBEP 2019, about applying modern AI methods to the problem of multilingual Media Monitoring.
2018
Papers
- Sebastião Miranda, Arturs Znotins, Shay B. Cohen, Guntis Barzdins, Multilingual Clustering of Streaming News, Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2018, Brussels, Belgium [pdf]
- Ulrich Germann, Renars Liepins, Guntis Barzdins, Didzis Gosko, Sebastião Miranda, David Nogueira, The SUMMA Platform: A Scalable Infrastructure for Multi-lingual Multi-media Monitoring, Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics 2018, System Demonstrations [pdf]
- Afonso Mendes, David Nogueira, Samuel Broscheit, Filipe Aleixo, Pedro Balage, Rui Martins, Sebastião Miranda, Mariana S. C. Almeida,
SUMMA at TAC Knowledge Base Population Task 2017, in Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference - TAC, 2018, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
Talks
- "Clustering, Summarization and Entity Linking at the SUMMA #newsHack" at the second SUMMA hackathon, organized by BBC labs.
2017
Papers
- Jonas Feldt, Sebastião Miranda, Frederico Pratas, Nuno Roma, Pedro Tomás, and Ricardo A. Mata, Optimization and benchmarking of a perturbative Metropolis Monte Carlo quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics program, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 147, 244105, 2017, DOI: 10.1063/1.5009820 [link]
- Renars Liepins, Ulrich Germann, Guntis Barzdins, Alexandra Birch, Steve Renals, Susanne Weber, Peggy van der Kreeft, Herve Bourlard, João Prieto, Ondrej Klejch, Peter Bell, Alexandros Lazaridis, Alfonso Mendes, Sebastian Riedel, Mariana S. C. Almeida, Pedro Balage, Shay B. Cohen, Tomasz Dwojak, Philip N. Garner, Andreas Giefer, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Hina Imran, David Nogueira, Ahmed Ali, Sebastião Miranda, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Lesly Miculicich Werlen, Nikos Papasarantopoulos, Abiola Obamuyide, Clive Jones, Fahim Dalvi, Andreas Vlachos, Yang Wang, Sibo Tong, Rico Sennrich, Nikolaos Pappas, Shashi Narayan, Marco Damonte, Nadir Durrani, Sameer Khurana, Ahmed Abdelali, Hassan Sajjad, Stephan Vogel, David Sheppey and Chris Hernon.The SUMMA Platform Prototype. Proceedings of the EACL 2017 Software Demonstrations, Valencia, Spain, April 3-7 2017, pages 116–119. [pdf]
- Peteris Paikens, Guntis Barzdins, Afonso Mendes, Daniel Ferreira, Samuel Broscheit, Mariana S. C. Almeida, Sebastião Miranda, David Nogueira, Pedro Balage, André F. T. Martins, SUMMA at TAC Knowledge Base Population Task 2016, in Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference -TAC, 2017, pp. 1-9., National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA. [pdf] (preprint)
Talks
2016
- Sebastião Miranda, Jonas Feldt, Frederico Pratas, Ricardo Mata, Nuno Roma and Pedro Tomás, Efficient Parallelization of Perturbative Monte Carlo QM/MM Simulations in Heterogeneous Platforms, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, SAGE, 2016, DOI: 10.1177/1094342016649420 [pdf] (preprint).
2015
- Jonas Feldt, Sebastião Miranda, João Oliveira, Ricardo Mata, Perturbative QM/MM Monte Carlo: Efficient Sampling for the Study of Processes in Solution, poster in the 51st Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, 2015.
2014
- Sebastião Miranda advised by Pedro Tomás and Nuno Roma, A Parallel Heterogeneous Approach to Perturbative Monte Carlo QM/MM Simulations, MSc Thesis on Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 2014. [pdf]
Personal Pages
Technical Interests
- Search engines and information retrieval algorithms.
- Automatic text summarization, document clustering and topic detection.
- Parallel programming and high performance computing in general.
- Embedded systems and electronics.