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... Patrick Santos Fernandes

PhD Student

Patrick Fernandes

Academic position: PhD Student
Joining date: 01-09-2020
Roles in IT: PhD Student
Thematic Line: Information and Data Sciences
Group: Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx

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Scientific Achievements

  • Context Aware Machine Translation (MAIA project), Instituto Superior Técnico, PhD Student, Patrick Santos Fernandes, Supervisor: A. Martins, set-2020 - set-2025
11Papers in Conferences
  • I. Wu, P. Fernandes, A, B. Bertsch, S. Kim, S. Pakazad, G. Neubig, Better Instruction-Following Through Minimum Bayes Risk, International Conference on Learning Representations ICLR, Singapore, Singapore, Vol., pp. -, April, 2025,
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  • J. Pombal, R. Rei, N. Guerreiro, J. Alves, P. H. Martins, P. Fernandes, HW Wu, T. Vaz, D. A. Alves, M. Farajian, S. A. Agrawal, A. F. Farinhas, J. G. de Souza, A. Martins, TOWER-V2: Unbabel-IST 2024 Submission for the General MT Shared Task, Empirical Methods in Language Processing - EMNLP, Miami, United States, November, 2024,
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  • S. A. Agrawal, J. G. de Souza, R. Rei, A. F. Farinhas, G. Faria, P. Fernandes, N. Guerreiro, A. Martins, Modeling User Preferences with Automatic Metrics: Creating a High-Quality Preference Dataset for Machine Translation, Empirical Methods in Language Processing - EMNLP, Miami, United States, November, 2024 | BibTex
  • N. Guerreiro, D. A. Alves, J. Pombal, P. H. Martins, J. Alves, M. Farajian, B. Peters, R. Rei, P. Fernandes, S. A. Agrawal, P. Colombo, J. G. de Souza, A. Martins, Tower: An Open Multilingual Large Language Model for Translation-Related Tasks, Conference on Language Modeling COLM, Philadelphia, United States, Vol., pp. -, October, 2024,
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  • P. Martins, N. Guerreiro, P. Fernandes, J. Alves, R. Rei, D. A. Alves, J. Pombal, M. Farajian, M. Faysse, P. Colombo, B. Haddow, J. G. de Souza, A. Birch, A. Martins, EuroLLM: Multilingual Language Models for Europe, EuroHPC User Day, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Vol., pp. -, October, 2024,
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  • S. Honda, P. Fernandes, C Zerva, Context-aware Neural Machine Translation for English-Japanese Business Scene Dialogues, Machine Translation Summit MT Summit, Macau, China, Vol., pp. -, September, 2023,
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  • P. Fernandes, M. V. T. Treviso, D. Pruthi, A. Martins, G. Neubig, Learning to Scaffold: Optimizing Model Explanations for Teaching, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems - NIPS, New Orleans, United States, Vol., pp. -, November, 2022,
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  • P. Fernandes, . ., R. Rei, J. G. de Souza, P O Ogayo, G. Neubig, A. Martins, Quality-Aware Decoding for Neural Machine Translation, Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics NAACL, Seattle, United States, Vol., pp. -, July, 2022,
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  • M. V. T. Treviso, A. Gois, P. Fernandes, E.F. Fonseca, A. Martins, Predicting Attention Sparsity in Transformers, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Dublin, Ireland, May, 2022 | BibTex
  • P. Fernandes, G. Neubig, A. Martins, Measuring and Increasing Context Usage in Context-Aware Machine Translation, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Bangkok, Thailand, August, 2021,
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  • K. Yin, P. Fernandes, D. Pruthi, . Chaudhary, A. Martins, G. Neubig, Do Context-Aware Translation Models Pay the Right Attention?, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Bangkok, Thailand, August, 2021,
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Currently running projects3

Acronym Name Funding Agency Start date Ending date
DECOLLAGE DECOLLAGE - DEep COgnition Learning for LAnguage GEneration EU/Horizon Europe 01-08-2023 31-07-2028
NextGenAI NextGenAI - Center for Responsible AI IAPMEI 01-10-2021 31-12-2025
UTTER Unified Transcription and Translation for Extended Reality EU 01-10-2022 30-09-2025

Closed Projects1

Acronym Name Funding Agency Start date Ending date
MAIA Multilingual Virtual Agents for Customer Service P2020 01-07-2020 01-07-2023

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