Participation in Conferences, Symposia, and Expositions

WCCI 2010 - 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, IJCNN 2010 - International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, July 18-23, 2010. Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.  Paper presented: Biologically Plausible Connectionist Prediction of Natural Language Thematic Relations.

Propor 2010 – 9th. International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. Faculdade de Informática. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, April 27-30 2010.

7º. Simpósio Brasileiro de Tecnologia da Informação e da Linguagem Humana (STIL 2009), September 8-11 2009. ICMC-USP/São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.

IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2009. HIMA 2009 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications. Nashville, Tennessee, USA. March 30 - April 02, 2009. Paper presented: A Hybrid Symbolic-Connectionist Processor of Natural Language Semantic Relations.

  4th. International Symposium on Neural Networks, Nanjing, China, June 3-7, 2007. Paper presented: A Connectionist Thematic Grid Predictor for Pre-parsed Natural Language Sentences.

  The International Joint Conference IBERAMIA/SBIA/SBRN 2006, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, October 23–28, 2006. Paper presented in 1st Workshop on Computational Intelligence (WCI’2006): A Connectionist Model based on Physiological Properties of the Neuron.

  The 2005 ACM-ICPC South America Contest w/ Brazil, for service as a judge. PUC-Campinas. Campinas, SP, Brazil, September 10, 2005.

    IJCNN 2005 - International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Montréal, Canada, July 31-August 04, 2005. Tutorial presented: Biologically Plausible Artificial Neural Networks; Paper presented: BioAnt – Biologically Plausible Computer Simulation of an Environment with Ants; Poster presented: Artificial Neural Networks for Temporal Processing Applied to Prediction of Electric Energy Generation in Small Hydroelectric Power Stations.

  The 2004 ACM-ICPC South America Contest w/ Brazil, for service as a judge. PUC-Campinas. Campinas, SP, Brazil, October 2, 2004.

    MICAI 2004 - Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Mexico City, Mexico, April 26-30, 2004. Presented paper:  A Biologically Motivated and Computationally Efficient Natural Language Processor.

    IEEE SMC’2003 - 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Washington, DC, USA, October 5-8, 2003. Presented paper: A Biologically Plausible and Computationally Efficient Architecture and Algorithm for a Connectionist Natural Language Processor.

    XXIII Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC2003). August 2-8, 2003. Unicamp, Campinas – SP, Brazil.

    VII Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks (SBRN 2002). November 11-14, 2002. Porto de Galinhas – PE - Brazil. Presented paper: A Biologically Inspired Connectionist System for Natural Language Processing.

    IEEE SMC’2002 - 2002 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 6-9, 2002. Presented papers: Next Word Prediction in a Connectionist Distributed Representation System, and A Biologically Motivated Connectionist System for Predicting the Next Word in Natural Language Sentences.

    IEEE SMC’2001 - 2001 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Tucson, Arizona, USA, October 7-10, 2001. Presented paper: HTRP II: Learning thematic relations from semantically sound sentences.

    ICANNGA 2001- Fifth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms,  Prague, Czech Republic , April 22-25, 2001. Presented paper: An Artificial Neural Network Model Based on Neuroscience: Looking Closely at the Brain.

    International Joint Conference 7th. Ibero-American Conference on AI – 15th. Brazilian Symposium on AI – IBERAMIA-SBIA 2000, Atibaia - SP, Brazil. November 19-22, 2000. Presented paper: Linguistic Relations Encoding in a Symbolic-Connectionist Hybrid Natural Language Processor.

    V PROPOR – Encontro para o Processamento Computacional da Língua Portuguesa Escrita e Falada. Atibaia - SP, Brazil. November 19-22, 2000.

    IJCAI’99 – Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1999). July 31 – August 6, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. Presented paper: Hybrid Thematic Role Processor: Symbolic Linguistic Relations Revised by Connectionist Learning.

    ASC’98 - IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (1998). May 27-30, 1998. Cancun, Mexico. Presented paper: A Biologically Fine-grained Artificial Neural Network: Towards a Hybrid Model.

    ASC’97 - IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (1997). July 27 - August 1, 1997. Banff. Canada. Presented paper: A Thematic Connectionist Approach to Portuguese Language Processing.