Scholar
Jayr Alencar Pereira
Google Scholar ID: kpdOUucAAAAJ
Professor at Universidade Federal do Cariri (UFCA)
Citations & Impact
Citations
184
H-index
8
i10-index
6
Publications
20
Co-authors
8
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Proposed Visconde, which is one of the pioneering approaches for incorporating information retrieval into LLMs.
Research Experience
- Professor at the Universidade Federal do Cariri, Brazil, and a collaborator researcher at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). His primary focus is on Assistive Technologies, with a specialization in employing deep learning techniques to enhance sentence construction within augmentative and alternative communication systems. He proposed Visconde, one of the pioneering approaches for incorporating information retrieval into LLMs.
Education
- PhD in Computer Science from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Background
- Artificial Intelligence Researcher | PhD in Computer Science. His research interests lie at the intersection of AI and Assistive Technologies, focusing on leveraging deep learning methodologies to facilitate sentence construction within augmentative and alternative communication systems. He also has extensive experience using Large Language Models (LLMs) for various tasks such as information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, and text summarization.
Miscellany
- Speaks Portuguese, English, and Spanish.
