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Matías Molina, INESC TEC researcher in Artificial Intelligence, received the PAIS Outstanding Paper Award at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, one of the most relevant AI events in Europe and the world. The EMERITUS project was the basis for this work: INESC TEC is using AI to improve the investigation of environmental crimes.
14th November 2024
For the next four years, INESC TEC will lead an international consortium with a budget of €2.6M, aimed at using advanced techniques to measure environmental radioactivity. According to estimates, by 2028, new technological solutions will be available that can improve both climate research - particularly in estimating greenhouse gas emissions - and radiological protection for the population and the environment.
02nd October 2024
The Institute joined a European project that's developing a platform targeting police authorities and border guards, towards improving investigation competences when addressing environmental crimes. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) behind the platform is promoted by INESC TEC researchers.
26th February 2024
Digital transition, innovation, business empowerment, financing, disruptive technologies; and a certainty: 2024 will be a year of opportunities for companies that are willing to take risks. Close to 100 participants gathered at Palácio do Freixo to get to know ATTRACT project, coordinated by INESC TEC.
08th February 2024
An unsupervised approach that summarises and orders the main changes verified in two versions of the same document – this is the research work that earned Ricardo Campos, a researcher at INESC TEC, Adam Jatowt and Lukas Éder, researchers at the University of Innsbruck (Austria), the Best Demo Paper Award at CIKM'23 - ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.
10th November 2023
The paper "Event Extraction for Portuguese: A QA-driven Approach using ACE-2005" won the Best Student Paper Award at the 22nd Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA’23). This research work led to the development of an event extraction framework for the Portuguese language. The solution differs not only by targeting Portuguese texts, but by allowing (in addition to the identification and classification of event triggers) the extraction of the arguments associated with the event, namely participants and attributes.
29th September 2023
Over the next three years, João Gama, researcher at INESC TEC, will act as the editor-in-chief of JSDA – International Journal of Data Science and Analytics. This journal promotes the presentation and discussion of new trends and opportunities, and the exchange of ideas and practices, encouraging collaboration between domains towards leveraging the analysis and data science domains.
12th July 2023
Ricardo Campos, researcher at INESC TEC and professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, together with Diogo Correia, was one of the winners of the Arquivo.pt Award. The duo won the third place and an honourable mention by the newspaper Público, thanks to the project Arquivo Público, a web interface focused on the contents published on the newspaper's website over time, and preserved by Arquivo.pt.
05th December 2022
Tiago Neves, an INESC TEC researcher, is the team leader of “MetaFitGame”, one of the 10 contender start-ups of the European Innovation Academy (EIA) 2022. “MetaFitGame” is a mobile fitness app that aims to encourage people to practice sports in a fun way, transforming physical exercises into a game.
27th September 2022
"Metalearning: Applications to Automated Machine Learning and Data Mining" is the title of the new book by Pavel Brazdil and Carlos Soares, researchers at INESC TEC, written in partnership with Jan N. van Rijn and Joaquin Vanschoren.
29th August 2022
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters awarded Dennis Sullivan the Abel Prize in Mathematics, the highest award in the field, comparable to the Nobel Prize. The north American mathematician is one of the world's leading experts in the development of the Theory of Renormalization in Dynamic Systems. INESC TEC researcher Alberto Adrego Pinto had the opportunity to collaborate with Dennis Sullivan in the 1990s. This collaboration led to scientific work with great impact on the researcher’s career.
06th April 2022
The Gentil – Text Mining project won the Portugal Digital Awards in the Best Future of Work Project category, which acknowledges the best initiative related to employees' productivity and effectiveness.
06th January 2022