Biography
Ricardo Campos is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Beira Interior and a guest lecturer at Porto Business School. He is a senior researcher at INESC TEC – LIAAD (Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Laboratory, University of Porto) and a collaborator at the Smart Cities Research Center of the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar.
With over a decade of research experience in information retrieval and natural language processing, Ricardo’s work has earned several prestigious scientific awards at international conferences and competitions. He is the creator of the YAKE! keyword extraction software (http://yake.inesctec.pt) and the “Conta-me Histórias” project (http://contamehistorias.pt/), among others. He has led and contributed to multiple FCT-funded research projects.
Ricardo’s current research focuses on developing methods for extracting narratives from text, particularly in identifying and establishing relationships between entities, events, and their temporal aspects. He has co-organized international conferences and workshops on information retrieval and regularly serves on the program committees of leading international conferences.
He is also a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Data Science and Analytics and the Information Processing and Management Journal, as well as a scientific advisory board member of Portulan Clarin.
For more details, please visit: https://www.di.ubi.pt/~rcampos/