Research

My passion lies in understanding the structural and conceptual elements of language with an intersection with other fields. Whereas in my undergraduate studies I tried Philosophy and NLP, my current interest lies in the approaches of Cognitive Science.

Currently I am developing a Master’s thesis in Linguistics, specifically the field of Conceptual Semantics. I am exploring how the Holistic-Partitive alternation works both syntatic and semantically, aiming to map the phenomenon in Brazilian Portuguese. In addition, in 2023 I coordinated a research group on Verbs of Trajectory on Brazilian Portuguese, in the Federal University of Paraná. I am also a member of the Lexical Semantics research group in the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.

For my senior thesis, I delved into Computational Semantics, specifically investigating the Natural Language Inference task in the ASSIN 2 corpus. I blindly reannotated the corpus and presented the main results at the SPLIN22 event. If you are interested, you can find a copy of the event proceedings here (in Portuguese).

During my undergraduate research, from 2019 to 2021, I engaged in the Philosophy of Linguistics. I researched how Idealism and Generativism explained Epistemology, and how Generativism and American Structuralism comprehended Learning Acquisition. If you would like to explore the topics I addressed in Epistemology, you can check out this publication in the Miguilim Journal.