Research
Livy Real, Marcos Carreira, and I presented our article titled “Getting Logics from LLM: Annotating Natural Language Inference with Sabiá” at Padawan, which was held in conjunction with the BRACIS 2024/STIL conference in Belém, PA, located in the Amazon region. This was a heartwarming opportunity to deepen our understanding of intelligent systems amid the breathtaking nature of Belém. Engaging with the local culture of Pará and connecting with the scientific community were also wonderful outcomes of this trip.
While in Belém, I had the pleasure of meeting with the organization that I am a member, BPLN - Brazilian Women in Natural Language Processing. It was an honor to connect with so many talented women in my field.
Currently, my research for my Master's degree focuses on verb alternations in Brazilian Portuguese, specifically the locative alternation and the holistic/partitive effect. I recently presented my thesis plan to the board committee, and I am pleased to share that it was approved for the next steps!
Presenting our research at BRACIS conference.
Livy Real and I at BRACIS conference.
Brazilian Women in NLP meeting at BRACIS conference.
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.