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NOVA LINCS PhD student, Ricardo Veiga, selected for the Future Talent Programme’s Lightning Talk Challenge
Ricardo Veiga, PhD student supervised by NOVA LINCS researcher João Rodrigues at the University of the Algarve, has been selected for The Future Talent Programme’s Lightning Talk Challenge (FTP24), promoted by the GÉANT Network, that interconnects Europe’s national research and education networks. The GÉANT Future Talent Programme’s Lightning Talk Challenge offers students and young professionals […]
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GlórIA: the new Portuguese-European Large Language Model
GlórIA is the new Portuguese LLM, developed at the NOVA LINCS Multimodal Systems Group. GlórIA is a PT-PT top-performing LLM, capable of generating high-quality texts on a multitude of topics, such as History, Environment, Culinary, and many more. Led by Prof. David Semedo and together with Ricardo Lopes and Prof. João Magalhães, the team has […]
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NOVA LINCS PhD student, Diogo Lavado, distinguished by REN and Fraunhofer Portugal
Diogo Lavado, NOVA LINCS PhD student, was distinguished by REN Award and the Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge Master Thesis Award, for his master thesis “Detection of Power Line Supporting Towers Via Interpretable Semantic Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds”. His thesis aims to contribute to improving the inspection and maintenance work of power transmission networks. The innovative […]
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João Leite elected Vice-President of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence
The PI of NOVA LINCS Intelligent Systems Group, João Leite, was elected to the position of Vice-President of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA) for the 2024-2025 biennium. The Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA), founded in 1984, aims to promote research, teaching, and dissemination of artificial intelligence as a scientific domain. APPIA is […]
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NOVA LINCS’s TWIZ team earn first place in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2
The team led by João Magalhães, NOVA LINCS researcher from Multimodal Systems Group and Professor at the Department of Computer Science at NOVA School of Science and Technology, ranked first place among the 10 international research groups selected by Amazon to participate in the Alexa Taskbot research challenge.
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NOVA LINCS team is among the five finalists selected for Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2
For the second year in a row, the TWIZ team, supervised by the NOVA LINCS researcher João Magalhães is among the top 5 finalists in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge to advance Conversational AI.
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NOVA LINCS is among the 10 research labs selected by Amazon for Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2
The TWIZ team, supervised by the NOVA LINCS researcher João Magalhães, is among the 10 teams around the globe selected by Amazon to participate in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2, a university challenge focused on developing multimodal (voice and vision) conversational agents that assist customers in completing tasks requiring multiple steps and decisions.
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World Logic Day | Talks at NOVA LINCS
To celebrate the World Logic Day, NOVA LINCS will host two talks: "Logic, Computation, and Programming Languages" by Luís Caires and "Logic-based Explanations for Neural Networks" by João Leite.
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From Ambiguity to Clarity: Navigating Uncertainty in Human-Machine Conversations
NOVA LINCS Seminar by Malihe Alikhani (Northeastern University)
15 July 2024, 11h00
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How Large Corpora Sizes Influence the Distribution of Low Frequency Text n-grams
NOVA LINCS Seminar by Joaquim Ferreira da Silva (NOVA FCT – NOVA LINCS)
10 July 2024, 14h00
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Plan-Grounded Language Models for Dual Goal Conversational Settings
NOVA LINCS Seminar by Diogo Silva (NOVA FCT – NOVA LINCS)
3 July 2024, 14h00
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Split Learning and its Optimization Challenges
NOVA LINCS Seminar by Dimitra Tsigkari (Telefonica Research)
26 June 2024, 14h00
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Fostering Inclusion using Social Robots in mixed-visual ability classrooms using multimodal feedback
NOVA LINCS Seminar by Isabel Neto (IST – Lisbon University) 10 January 2024, 14h00