Carlos Ramisch - ufrgs

Carlos Ramisch
April 4, 2011 – Ph.D. student in Computer Science
carlosramisch@gmail.com
http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~ceramisch
Education
Sep/2009 to Sep/2012 Ph.D. in Informatics
Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) – Univ. of Grenoble (France)
Advisors: Aline Villavicencio and Christian Boitet
Sep/2008 to Sep/2009 Research Master in Informatics (M2R)
Grenoble Institute of Technology (France)
Advisors: Christian Boitet and Aline Villavicencio
Sep/2007 to Sep/2008 Engineer in Informatics ENSIMAG
Grenoble Institute of Technology (France)
1 year scholarship from CAPES (Brazil)
Mar/2004 to Sep/2009 Bachelor in Computer Science at the Institute of Informatics
Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Professional experiences
Sep/2009 to Sep/2012 Researcher and assistant lecturer in algorithmics
Scholarship from the French Ministry of Research and Education
Joseph Fourier Univ. (France)
Oct/2008 to Mar/2009 Research intern in the Cross-Language Technologies team
Improvements and optimizations for a dynamic translation memory system
Xerox Research Centre Europe (France)
Advisors: Marc Dymetman and Lucia Specia
Apr/2008 to Aug/2008 Research intern in the speech and language processing team (GETALP)
Development of a generic interactive multilingual access gateway
Grenoble Informatics Laboratory (France)
Advisors: Christian Boitet and Valérie Bellynck
May/2006 to Aug/2007 Research intern in the natural language processing team
Autonomous language acquisition: multiword expressions and corpora
Institute of Informatics of UFRGS (Brazil)
Advisors: Aline Villavicencio and Marco Idiart
Aug/2004 to May/2006 Research intern in the Intelligent Databases team
Artificial intelligence applied to the evaluation of petrol reservoirs
Institute of Informatics of UFRGS (Brazil)
Advisor: Mara Abel
Personal interests
Research Natural language processing, machine learning, machine translation, natural
language acquisition, lexical resources, multiword expressions
Technology Python, Java/J2EE, Linux and open source (Mozilla, Ubuntu), PHP, script languages
for text processing (bash, awk, sed), C/C++, MySQL, L ATEX
Hobbies Travelling, cycling, reading novels, cinema, cooking, learning foreign languages

Publications
• Eric Laporte and Preslav Nakov and Carlos Ramisch and Aline Villavicencio, "Proceedings
of the 2010 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Theory to Applications",
Beijing, China, August, 2010.
• Carlos Ramisch, Aline Villavicencio, Christian Boitet, "Multiword Expressions in the
wild? The mwetoolkit comes in handy", Proc. of COLING 2010 (Demonstrations), Beijing,
China, August, 2010.
• Carlos Ramisch, Aline Villavicencio, Christian Boitet, "Web-based and combined
language models: a case study on noun compound identification", Proc. of COLING
2010 (Posters), Beijing, China, August, 2010.
• Carlos Ramisch, Helena Medeiros Caseli, Aline Villavicencio, André Machado, Maria José
Finatto, "A Hybrid Approach for Multiword Expression Identification", Proc. of
PROPOR 2010, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, April, 2010.
• Carlos Ramisch, Aline Villavicencio, Christian Boitet, "mwetoolkit: a Framework for
Multiword Expression Identification", Proc. of LREC 2010, Valetta, Malta, May, 2010.
• Evita Linardaki, Carlos Ramisch, Aline Villavicencio, Aggeliki Fotopoulou, "Towards the
Construction of Language Resources for Greek Multiword Expressions: Extraction
and Evaluation", Proc. of the LREC Workshop on Exploitation of multilingual resources
and tools for Central and (South) Eastern European Languages, Valetta, Malta, 2010.
• Helena Medeiros Caseli, Carlos Ramisch, Maria Graças Volpe Nunes, Aline Villavicencio,
"Alignment-based extraction of multiword expressions", Language Resources &
Evaluation special issue on Multiword expression, 44(1-2):59--77, April, 2010, Springer.
• Aline Villavicencio, Carlos Ramisch, André Machado, Helena Medeiros Caseli, Maria José
Finatto, "Identificação de Expressões Multipalavra em Domínios Específicos",
Linguamática, 2(1):15--33, April, 2010.
• Carlos Ramisch, "Multi-word terminology extraction for domain-specific documents",
Master's thesis, École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatiques et de Mathématiques
Appliquées, Grenoble, France, 2009.
• Carlos Ramisch, Paulo Schreiner, Marco Idiart, Aline Villavicencio, "An Evaluation of
Methods for the Extraction of Multiword Expressions", Proc. of the LREC Workshop on
Multiword Expressions (MWE 2008), Marrakech, Morocco, June, 2008.
• Carlos Ramisch, Aline Villavicencio, Leonardo Moura, Marco Idiart, "Picking them up and
Figuring them out: Verb-Particle Constructions, Noise and Idiomaticity", Proc. of
CoNLL 2008, Manchester, UK, August, 2008.
• Christian Boitet, Valérie Bellynck, Mathieu Mangeot, Carlos Ramisch, "Towards Higher
Quality Internal and Outside Multilingualization of Web Sites", Summer Workshop on
Ontology, NLP, Personalization and IE/IR (ONII 2008), Bombay, India, July, 2008.
• Aline Villavicencio, Valia Kordoni, Yi Zhang, Marco Idiart, Carlos Ramisch, "Validation
and Evaluation of Automatically Acquired Multiword Expressions for Grammar
Engineering", Proc. of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, June, 2007.

Languages
• English: fluent (TOEFL iBT 117/120)
• French: fluent (DALF C1 98/100)
• German: advanced
• Spanish: basic
• Portuguese: mother tongue