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Rui Correia

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Background

Rui Correa is a student of the dual Ph.D. program in Language Technologies between Carnegie Mellon University and Portugal. He received his master degree at Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal) in 2010, over the topic "Automatic Question Generation for REAP.PT". Since then, he focused his work on Computer Assisted Language Learning systems, covering topics such as Word Sense Disambiguation and Serious Games. Currently his focus goes to Multimedia Learning Materials, under supervision of Maxine Eskenazi (CMU) and Nuno Mamede (IST). At the same time, he is trying to understand how the use of Machine Translation can affect students' performance in REAP tutoring system.

Project Proposal

Word Alignments using an HMM-based model

Writeups

• Papers
  • Bikel et al MLJ 1999
  • Lau et al HLT 1993
  • Mayfield et al, CoNLL 2003
  • Krogh 1994
• Methods
  • Generalized Iterative Scaling

Publications

• Thomas Pellegrini, Rui Correia, Isabel Trancoso, Jorge Baptista, Nuno J. Mamede, Automatic generation of listening comprehension learning material in European Portuguese, In Interspeech, Florence, Italy, August 2011

• Rui Correia, Thomas Pellegrini, Maxine Eskenazi, Isabel Trancoso, Jorge Baptista, Nuno J. Mamede, Listening Comprehension Games for Portuguese: exploring the best features, In Speech and Language Technology in Education, Venice, Italy, August 2011

• José Lopes, Isabel Trancoso, Rui Correia, Thomas Pellegrini, Hugo Meinedo, Nuno J. Mamede, Maxine Eskenazi, Multimedia Learning Materials, In IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, IEEE, Berkeley, USA, December 2010

• Rui Correia, Jorge Baptista, Nuno J. Mamede, Isabel Trancoso, Maxine Eskenazi, Automatic Generation of Cloze Question Distractors, In Second Language Studies: Acquisition, Learning, Education and Technology, SLaTE: the ISCA SIG on Speech and Language Technology in Edu, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, September 2010