DEI/FEUP Rua Dr. Roberto Frias | 4200-465 Porto | PORTUGAL
VoIP: (+351) 220413355 | Phone: (+351) 225081400 ext.1315 | hlc@fe.up.pt | www.fe.up.pt/~hlc

Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto
Institutional page here.
Researcher at LIACC
ORCID: 0000-0003-1252-7515

• Multi-agent Systems (MAS) and agent-based simulation
• Social aspects in MAS (norms, trust, incentives, argumentation)
• Natural Language Processing
• Argument Mining
• Machine Learning and Deep Learning

• Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). Member of the Directive Board in 2014-2015, 2016-2017, 2018-2019, 2020-2021 and 2022-2023.
• Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Lab (LIACC). Integrated member. Member of the Directive Board in 2020-2022.
• Argumentation Hub (ARGH). Coordinator.

• LUHME @ ECAI 2024 – Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, October 20, 2024.
• MASTA 2023 – Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications (@EPIA 2013), Faial Island, Azores, Portugal, September 5-8, 2023.
• LITHME WG1/WH7 joint workshop, August 28-30, 2023, Budapest, Hungary.
• LITHME WG1 workshop, September 5-6, 2022, Luxembourg.
• DSAI @ EPIA 2022 – Doctoral Symposium on Artificial Intelligence at the 21st EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2022), August 31, 2022, IST, Lisbon, Portugal.
• LITHME Roadshow, FEUP, Porto, Portugal, June 1-2, 2022
• LITHME Training School, FLUP, Porto, Portugal, May 30 – June 3, 2022
• EPIA 2021 – 20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, online, September 7-9, 2021
• EASSS 2021 – 22nd European Agent Systems Summer School, online, July 19-23, 2021
• MLSM @ IDEAL 2020 – Workshop on Machine Learning in Smart Mobility, online, November 4, 2020
• MASTA 2019 – Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications (@EPIA 2019), Vila Real, Portugal, September 3-6, 2019
• ArgHumantation Workshop – Research and Practice(s) of Argumentation, Porto, Portugal, May 3, 2018
• EPIA 2017 – 18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Porto, Portugal, September 5-8, 2017
• TINMAS -– Trust, Incentives and Norms in open Multi-Agent Systems (@PAAMS2012), Salamanca, Spain, March 28-30, 2012
• MASTA 2011 – Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications (@EPIA 2011), Lisbon, Portugal, October 10-13, 2011
• CNPLf'06 – 9th Functional and Logic Programming National Contest, Porto, Portugal, May 5-7, 2006
• CNPLf'05 – 8th Functional and Logic Programming National Contest, Bragança, Portugal, May 13-15, 2005
• MASTA 2001 – Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications (@EPIA 2001), Porto, Portugal, December 19, 2001

You can find my publications at

• Google Scholar
• DBLP
• Scopus
• ResearcherID
• Authenticus
• Semantic Scholar
• FEUP

• Afonso Sousa, Paraphrase Generation with Meaning Representations, ProDEI/FEUP, LIACC.
• André Gonçalves, Biomedical Information Extraction in Domain-specific Texts, ProDEI/FEUP, LIACC (co-supervised with Luís Paulo Reis).
• Bernardo Leite, Student-Centric Question Generation, ProDEI/FEUP, LIACC.
• Felermino Ali, Tradução Automática da língua Bantu Moçambicana Emakhuwa, ProDEI/FEUP, LIACC/CLUP (co-supervised with Rui Sousa-Silva (FLUP)).
• Telmo Barros, Methodologies for optimizing flexible, dynamic and realistic vehicle routing problems with real-time concerns, PDCC/FCUP, LIACC (co-supervised with Luís Paulo Reis)
• Tomás Osório, Knowledge Extraction from Historical Documents, ProDEI/FEUP, LIACC.

• ArgMine: Argument Annotation Platform (2019-2021)
• SAJaS: Simple API for JADE-based Simulations / MASSim2Dev: MAS Simulation to Development (2015)
• ANTE: Agreement Negotiation in Normative and Trust-enabled Environments (2011)
• SMACE: A Multi-Agent System for Electronic Commerce (2000)

• LITHME: Language In The Human-Machine Era. October 2020 – October 2024, Funded by European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST Action CA19102). Working Group on Computational Linguistics (WG1).
• ERS: Projeto de Inteligência Artificial. Partners: ERS, FEUP/LIACC. December 2020 - September 2022.
• CIGESCOP: Centro Inteligente de Gestão e Controlo Operacional da ASAE. Partners: ASAE, FEUP/LIACC. 2021.
• DARGMINTS: Discourse Analysis and Argumentation Mining from Text Sources. October 2018 - July 2022. Partners: FEUP/LIACC, FLUP, INESC-ID. Funded by FCT (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031460).
• IDRisk: Improving Data quality for RISK assessment. February 2021 - October 2022. Partners: ASAE, INSA, Agriculture and Food Agency (CSH). Funded by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
• SIAP: Sistema de Inteligência Artificial para Deteção e Alerta de Riscos sobre o Património. September 2020 to September 2021. Partners: Ministério da Cultura – Direcção Regional de Cultura do Norte, FAUP, FLUP, FEUP/LIACC.
• Sono ao Volante 2.0: Sistema de informação para a previsão do sono ao volante e a deteção de distúrbio ou privação crónica do sono. 2019-2022. Partners: Optimizer, FEUP/LIACC, IPCA/2Ai, IS-CCI (Instituto do Sono).
• IA.SAE: Artificial Intelligence in Economic and Food Safety. Partners: FEUP/LIACC, Portuguese Economic and Food Safety Authority (ASAE). National Digital Skills Initiative (INCoDe.2030) – Flagship project. Funded by FCT.
• ArgMine: Argumentation Mining from Text.
• SIMUSAFE: Simulator of Behavioural Aspects for Safer Transport. Partners: ITCL, IBM, IFSTTAR, BrainSigns, EFA, MDH, AIPSS, Hok, Prometeo, Progres123, TMSI, Coventry University, Universidade do Porto, LINK, DELPHI, University of Iowa. Jun. 2017 to Dec. 2020. Funded by Horizon 2020 – Research and Innovation Action (RIA) (Grant Agreement number 723386, H2020-MG-2016-2017/H2020-MG-2016-Two-Stages).
• QVida+: Estimação Contínua de Qualidade de Vida para Auxílio Eficaz à Decisão Clínica. Partners: Optimizer, FEUP, Universidade do Minho. P.I. at FEUP: Henrique Lopes Cardoso. Jan. 2016 to Jun. 2019. Funded by FEDER / Norte 2020 (NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-003446).
• European Network for Social Intelligence (SINTELNET), David Pearce (UPM, coordinator), 2011-2014, FP7-ICT-2009-C Project No. 286370, member of the Working Group on Social Coordination (WG5).
• Trust-aware Automatic E-Contract Negotiation in Agent-based Adaptive Normative Environments. Eugénio Oliveira (coordinator). FEUP, LIACC, INESC Porto. 2010-2013. PTDC/EIA-EIA/104420/2008
• Agreement Technologies, Sascha Ossowski (URJC, chair), 2008-2012, COST Action IC0801, member of the Working Group on Norms (WG2).
• Electronic Institutions providing Automatic Contracting for Virtual Organizations. Eugénio Oliveira (coordinator). FEUP, LIACC, ESTiG/IPB, CentralCasa. 2005-2007. POSC/EIA/57672/2004

• IBERAMIA – Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence: IBERAMIA 2024 (Montevideu, Uruguai, November 13-15, 2024).
• ECAI – European Conference on Artificial Intelligence: ECAI 2024 (Santiago de Compostela, Spain, October 19-24, 2024), ECAI 2023 (Kraków, Poland, October 1-6, 2023), ECAI 2020 (Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 29-September 2, 2020).
• IJCAI – International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: IJCAI 2024 (Jeju, August 3-9, 2024), IJCAI 2023 (Cape Town, South Africa, August 19-25, 2023), IJCAI 2021 (Montreal, Canada, August 21-26, 2021).
• xAI – World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence: xAI 2024 (Valletta, Malta, July 17-19, 2024), xAI 2023 (Lisbon, Portugal, July 26-28, 2023).
• ACM SAC – ACM ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing: ACM SAC 2024 (Ávila, Spain, April 8-12, 2024), ACM SAC 2023 (Tallinn, Estonia, March 27 - April 2, 2023), ACM SAC 2022 (Brno, Czech Republic, April 25-29, 2022), ACM SAC 2021 (Gwangju, South Korea, March 22- 26, 2021).
• Text2Story – Workshop on Narrative Extraction From Text: Text2Story@ECIR2024 (Glasgow, Scotland, March 24, 2024), Text2Story@ECIR2023 (Dublin, Ireland, April 2, 2023), Text2Story@ECIR2022 (Stavanger, Norway, April 10, 2022), Text2Story@ECIR2021 (Lucca, Italy, April 1, 2021), Text2Story@ECIR2020 (Lisbon, Portugal, April 14, 2020), Text2Story@ECIR2019 (Cologne, Germany, April 14, 2019), Text2Story@ECIR2018 (Grenoble, France, March 26, 2018).
• PROPOR - International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese: PROPOR 2024 (Santiago de Compostela, March 14-15, 2024).
• EMNLP – Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2023 (Singapore, December 6-10, 2023), EMNLP 2022 (Abu Dhabi, December 7-11, 2022), EMNLP 2021 (Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November 7-11, 2021).
• PAAMS – International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: PAAMS 2023 (Guimarães, Portugal, July 12-14, 2023), PAAMS 2022 (L’Aquila, Italy, July 13-15, 2022), PAAMS 2021 (Salamanca, Spain, October 6-8, 2021), PAAMS 2020 (L’Aquila, Italy, October 7-9, 2020), PAAMS 2019 (Ávila, Spain, June 26-28, 2019), PAAMS 2018 (Toledo, Spain, June 20-22, 2018), PAAMS 2017 (Porto, Portugal, June 21-23, 2017).
• ACL – Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 (Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023).
• EACL – European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023 (Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2-6, 2023).
• ICAART – International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence: ICAART 2023 (Lisbon, Portugal, February 22-24, 2023), ICAART 2022 (online, February 3-5, 2022), ICAART 2021 (online, February 4-6, 2021), ICAART 2020 (Valletta, Malta, February 22-24, 2020), ICAART 2019 (Prague, Czech Republic, February 19-21, 2019), ICAART 2018 (Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 16-18, 2018).
• AACL-IJCNLP – Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: AACL-IJCNLP 2022 (Taipei, Taiwan, November 20-23, 2022), AACL-IJCNLP 2020 (Suzhou, China, December 4–7, 2020).
• WI-IAT – IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology: WI-IAT 2022 (Niagara Falls, Canada, November 17-20, 2022), WI-IAT 2021 (Melbourne, Australia, December 14-17, 2021), WI-IAT 2020 (Melbourne, Australia, December 14-17, 2020).
• PRIMA – International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems: PRIMA 2022 (Valencia, Spain, 16-18 November 2022).
• ISMIS – International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems: ISMIS 2022 (Cosenza, Italy, October 3-5, 2022), ISMIS 2020 (Graz, Austria, September 23-25, 2020), ISMIS 2018 (Cyprus, October 29-31, 2018), ISMIS 2017 (Warsaw, Poland, June 26-29, 2017).
• EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence: EPIA 2022 (Lisboa, Portugal, August 1 to July 2, 2022), EPIA 2021 (online, September 7-9, 2021), EPIA 2019 (Vila Real, Portugal, September 3-6, 2019), EPIA 2017 (Porto, Portugal, September 5-8, 2017), EPIA 2015 (Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-11, 2015), EPIA 2013 (Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal, September 9-13, 2013).
• IJCAI-ECAI – The 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 25th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence: IJCAI-ECAI 2022 (Vienna, Austria, July 23-29, 2022).
• AAMAS – International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: AAMAS 2022 (Auckland, New Zealand, May 9-13, 2022), AAMAS 2021 (London, UK, May 3-7, 2021), AAMAS 2020 (Auckland, New Zealand, May 9-13, 2020), AAMAS 2019 (Montreal, Canada, May 13-17, 2019), AAMAS 2016 (Singapore, May 9-13, 2016), AAMAS 2013 (Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 6-10, 2013).
• NLP4IF – Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: censorship, disinformation, and propaganda: NLP4IF@NAACL 2021 (Mexico City, Mexico, June 12, 2021), NLP4IF@COLING 2020 (Barcelona, Spain, December 12, 2020).
• DSIE – Doctoral Symposium on Informatics Engineering, FEUP, Portugal: DSIE 2021 (6-7 de Abril de 2021), DSIE 2020 (11-12 de Fevereiro de 2020), DSIE 2019 (6 de Março de 2019), DSIE 2018 (30-31 de Janeiro de 2018), DSIE 2017 (31 de Janeiro de 2017), DSIE 2016 (3 de Fevereiro de 2016), DSIE 2014 (30-31 de Janeiro de 2014), DSIE 2013 (24-25 de Janeiro de 2013), DSIE 2012 (26-27 de Janeiro de 2012), DSIE 2011 (27-28 de Janeiro de 2011), DSIE 2010 (28-29 de Janeiro de 2010), DSIE 2008 (7-8 de Fevereiro de 2008).
• NLP4IF – Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: censorship, disinformation, and propaganda: NLP4IF@COLING 2020 (Barcelona, Spain, December 12).
• AT – International Conference on Agreement Technologies: AT 2020 (Thessaloniki, Greece, July 13-14, 2020).
• ADAPTIVE – International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications: ADAPTIVE 2019 (Venice, Italy, May 5-9, 2019), ADAPTIVE 2018 (Barcelona, Spain, February 18-22, 2018),ADAPTIVE 2017 (Athens, Greece, February 19-23, 2017), ADAPTIVE 2016 (Rome, Italy, March 20-24, 2016), ADAPTIVE 2015 (Nice, France, March 22-25, 2015), ADAPTIVE 2014 (Venice, Italy, May 25-29, 2014), ADAPTIVE 2013 (Valencia, Spain, May 27 - June 1, 2013), ADAPTIVE 2012 (Nice, France, July 22-27, 2012), ADAPTIVE 2011 (Rome, Italy, September 25-30, 2011).
• WI – IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence: WI 2018 (Chile, December 4-6, 2018), WI 2017 (Leipzig, Germany, August 23-26, 2017).
• COIN – Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems: COIN@AAMAS2017 (São Paulo, Brazil, May 8-9, 2017), COIN@ECAI2016 (The Hague, The Netherlands, August 30, 2016), COIN@AAMAS2016 (Singapore, May 9/10, 2016), COIN@AAMAS2015 (Istanbul, Turkey, May 4/5, 2015), COIN@MALLOW2010 (Lyon, France, August 30, 2010).
• WorldCIST – World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies: WorldCIST 2017 Workshop on Educational and Serious Games (Porto Santo, Portugal, 11-13 April 2017), WorldCIST 2016 Workshop on Intelligent Systems (Recife, Brazil, 22-24 March 2016).
• ECML PKDD – European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases: ECML PKDD 2015 (Porto, Portugal, September 7-11, 2015).
• A2HC – Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care: A2HC@AAMAS2015 (Istanbul, Turkey, May 4/5, 2015).
• ECSI – European Conference on Social Intelligence (Barcelona, Spain, November 3-5 2014).
• IAT4SIS – Workshop on Intelligent Agents and Technologies for Socially Interconnected Systems, ECAI 2014 (Prague, Czech Republic, August 18-19, 2014).
• CLIMA – International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems: CLIMA XV (Prague, Czech Republic, August 18-19, 2014).
• IAT – IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology: IAT 2014 (Warsaw, Poland, August 11-14, 2014), IAT 2013 (Atlanta, GA, USA, November 17-20, 2013), IAT 2012 (Macau, December 4-7, 2012), IAT 2011 (Lyon, France, August 22-27, 2011).
• CoMIC – Conferência de Metodologias de Investigação Científica, Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Informática, FEUP, Portugal: CoMIC’07 (1-2 de Fevereiro de 2007), CoMIC’06 (9 de Janeiro de 2006).
• CBComp – Congresso Brasileiro de Computação: CBComp 2004 (Itajaí, Brasil, 8-12 de Outubro de 2004.

• Gil Rocha, on Argumentation Mining from Text Using Semantic Approaches, ProDEI/FEUP, LIACC, October 2023.
• Luís Teófilo, Methodologies and Tools for Creating Competitive Poker Playing Agents, ProDEI/FEUP, LIACC, July 2016 (co-supervised with Luís Paulo Reis).

1st semester

• Analysis of Complex Data (MECD)
• Language Processing and Information Extraction (ProDEI)
• Multi-agent Systems (ProDEI)

2nd semester

• Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (M.EIC)
• Artificial Intelligence (L.EIC)
• Machine Learning Complements (M.EIC)
• Natural Language Processing (M.EIC)
• Planning and Scheduling Methodologies (ProDEI)