David Martins de Matos
Scholar

David Martins de Matos

Google Scholar ID: WjiG890AAAAJ
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, INESC ID, Instituto Superior Técnico
Information ExtractionMusic Information RetrievalNatural LanguageProgramming Languages and MethodologyAI and Robotics
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
612
 
H-index
14
 
i10-index
15
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
39
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Total Publications: 162
  • - Representative Papers:
  • - Story Generation from Visual Inputs: Techniques, Related Tasks, and Challenges
  • - Modeling Chronic Pain Experiences from Online Reports Using the Reddit Reports of Chronic Pain Dataset
  • - Analysis of chronic pain descriptions for base-pathology prediction: the case of rheumatoid arthritis versus spondylitis
  • - Automatic Recognition of the General-Purpose Communicative Functions defined by the ISO 24617-2 Standard for Dialog Act Annotation
  • - Learning low-dimensional semantics for music and language via multi-subject fMRI
  • - Assessing Kinetic Meaning via Deep Cross-Modal Retrieval of Music and Dance
Research Experience
  • - Has been teaching since 1993 on logic and functional programming, object-oriented programming, algorithms and data structures, compiler construction, computer architecture, distributed systems, computer graphics, and natural language processing
  • - Was a researcher at INESC from 1988 to 2000, in the Distributed Systems, Telematic Services and Systems, and Software Engineering Groups
  • - Became a member of the Telematic and Computational Systems Center (IST) in 1998 until 2001
  • - Became a member of INESC-ID's newly created Spoken Language Systems Lab (L²F) in 2001
  • - Participated in several European and National projects, as well as projects in the private sector (banking and telecommunications industries), both national and international
Education
  • - Graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1990 from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon
  • - Received a Masters Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1995 (from IST) on object-oriented programming in distributed systems
  • - Received a Doctor of Engineering Degree in Systems and Computer Science (IST) in 2005 on automatic natural language generation
Background
  • His scientific interests include management of linguistic resources; software architectures for natural language engineering; automatic natural language generation and automatic summarization; natural language interfaces; and processing of written language in general. In addition to the above interests, he also conducts research in computational processing of music and applications of machine learning in the health sector.
Miscellany
  • He is a senior member of the ACM (SIGMM, SIGIR) and of the IEEE (Signal Processing Society, Computer Society, Robotics and Automation Society). He is a member of the Order of Portuguese Engineers.