Alberto Simões

Alberto SimõesAlberto Simões is a PhD in Natural Language Processing affiliated with the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (Portugal), and works as a researcher at the Computer Science and Technology Center of the University of Minho. His research interests focus on parallel corpora alignment, probabilistic translation dictionaries and bilingual terminology extraction. Some of his major publications are NATools – a statistical word aligner workbench in Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 31 (2003), Makefile::Parallel dependency specification language. In Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Luc Bougé and Thierry Priol, editors, Euro-Parl 2007, volume 4641 and Portuguese English word alignment: some experiments. In LREC 2008 – The 6th edition of the Language and Resources Evaluation Conference, Marrakech (2008).

Publications

A Primer on Gamification Standardization
A Primer on Gamification Standardization
Ricardo Alexandre Peixoto de Queiros, Mário Pinto, Alberto Simões, Carlos Filipe Portela. © 2023. 13 pages.
Computer science education has always been a challenging topic for both sides of the trench: educators and learners. Nowadays, with the pandemic state that we are facing, these...
A Primer on Gamification Standardization
A Primer on Gamification Standardization
Ricardo Alexandre Peixoto de Queiros, Mário Pinto, Alberto Simões, Carlos Filipe Portela. © 2022. 13 pages.
Computer science education has always been a challenging topic for both sides of the trench: educators and learners. Nowadays, with the pandemic state that we are facing, these...
Code Generation, Analysis Tools, and Testing for Quality
Code Generation, Analysis Tools, and Testing for Quality
Ricardo Alexandre Peixoto de Queirós, Alberto Simões, Mário Teixeira Pinto. © 2019. 288 pages.
Despite the advances that have been made in programming, there is still a lack of sufficient methods for quality control. While code standards try to force programmers to follow...
Operator Overloading as a DSL Parsing Mechanism
Operator Overloading as a DSL Parsing Mechanism
Alberto Simões, Rui Miguel da Costa Meira. © 2019. 12 pages.
This chapter describes an approach for the implementation of embedded domain-specific languages by using operator overloads and the creation of abstract syntax trees in run-time....
Foreword
Foreword
Alberto Simões. © 2015. 2 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book Innovative Teaching Strategies and New Learning Paradigms in Computer Programming.
Innovations in XML Applications and Metadata Management: Advancing Technologies
Innovations in XML Applications and Metadata Management: Advancing Technologies
José Carlos Ramalho, Alberto Simões, Ricardo Queirós. © 2013. 258 pages.
As new concepts such as virtualization, cloud computing, and web applications continue to emerge, XML has begun to assume the role as the universal language for communication...