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Publications by Vitor Rocio

2007

Detection of strange and wrong automatic part-of-speech tagging

Authors
Rocio, V; Silva, J; Lopes, G;

Publication
PROGRESS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, PROCEEDINGS

Abstract
Automatic morphosyntactic tagging of corpora is usually imperfect. Wrong or strange tagging may be automatically repeated following some patterns. It is usually hard to manually detect all these errors, as corpora may contain millions of tags. This paper presents an approach to detect sequences of part-of-speech tags that have an internal cohesiveness in corpora. Some sequences match to syntactic chunks or correct sequences, but some are strange or incorrect, usually due to systematically wrong tagging. The amount of time spent in separating incorrect bigrams and trigrams from correct ones is very small, but it allows us to detect 70% of all tagging errors in the corpus.

2022

Proposal of a Context-aware Task Scheduling Algorithm for the Fog Paradigm

Authors
Barros, C; Rocio, V; Sousa, A; Paredes, H; Teixeira, O;

Publication
2022 SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOG AND MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING, FMEC

Abstract
Application execution requests in cloud architecture and fog paradigm are generally heterogeneous in terms of contexts at the device and application level. The scheduling of requests in these architectures is an optimization problem with multiple constraints. Despite numerous efforts, task scheduling in these architectures and paradigms still presents some enticing challenges that make us question how tasks are routed between different physical devices, fog, and cloud nodes. The fog is defined as an extension of the cloud, which provides processing, storage, and network services near the edge network, and due to the density and heterogeneity of devices, the scheduling is very complex, and, in the literature, we still find few studies. Trying to bring innovative contributions in these areas, in this paper, we propose a solution to the context-aware task-scheduling problem for fog paradigm. In our proposal, different context parameters are normalized through Min-Max normalization, requisition priorities are defined through the application of the Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) technique and scheduling is performed using Multi-Objective Non-Linear Programming Optimization (MONLIP) technique. The results obtained from simulations in the iFogSim toolkit, show that our proposal performs better compared to the non-context-aware proposals.

2023

Chatbots Scenarios for Education

Authors
Virkus, S; Mamede, HS; Ramos Rocio, VJ; Dickel, J; Zubikova, O; Butkiene, R; Vaiciukynas, E; Ceponiene, L; Gudoniene, D;

Publication
Information and Software Technologies - 29th International Conference, ICIST 2023, Kaunas, Lithuania, October 12-14, 2023, Proceedings

Abstract
Educational chatbots are digital tools designed to assist learners in various educational settings. These chatbots use natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning algorithms to simulate human conversation and respond to user queries in a way that facilitates learning. They can be integrated into various educational platforms such as learning management systems, educational apps, and websites to provide learners with a personalized and interactive learning experience. Our paper discusses different scenarios for educational purposes and suggests in total four scenarios for educational needs.

2024

Does Fake News have Feelings?

Authors
Laroca, H; Rocio, V; Cunha, A;

Publication
Procedia Computer Science

Abstract
Fake news spreads rapidly, creating issues and making detection harder. The purpose of this study is to determine if fake news contains sentiment polarity (positive or negative), identify the polarity of sentiment present in their textual content and determine whether sentiment polarity is a reliable indication of fake news. For this, we use a deep learning model called BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), trained on a sentiment polarity dataset to classify the polarity of sentiments from a dataset of true and fake news. The findings show that sentiment polarity is not a reliable single feature for recognizing false news correctly and must be combined with other parameters to improve classification accuracy. © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.

2024

Problems and prospects of hybrid learning in higher education

Authors
Bidarra, J; Rocio, V; Sousa, N; Coutinho Rodrigues, J;

Publication
OPEN LEARNING

Abstract
This study was initiated at a time of unprecedented uncertainty, as lecturers and educational institutions across the world tried to manage the move to online education as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic. It started with lecturers' perspectives of their performance during that time to identify innovative teaching strategies beyond the priority of emergency teaching. The main goal was to identify the occurrence of more permanent changes in Higher Education after the pandemic. The research was based on a qualitative approach where faculty members were interviewed about their activities before, during and after lockdown periods. Data collected was analysed with the help of an algorithm based on Artificial Intelligence. Ultimately, it was possible to gather and evaluate practical solutions related to hybrid learning in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, leading to recommendations for stakeholders in Higher Education.

2018

Empathic mediators for distance learning courses

Authors
Cláudio, Ana Paula; Carmo, Maria Beatriz; Silva, João Balsa da; Alves, Catarina Bilé; Costa, Ricardo; Marcos, Adérito; Carvalho, Elizabeth; Rocio, Vitor; Morgado, Leonel; Morgado, Lina; Varghese, Anila Ann; Seixas, Sónia; Barros, Daniela Melaré Vieira; Rodrigues, Ricardo; Martinho, Carlos;

Publication
Proceedings ICGI - 2018. International Conference on Graphics and Interaction

Abstract
Online distance learning introduces several challenges, such as the dependence of online tools, the asynchronous communication between teachers and students, and the lack of synchronous social engagement level that inclassroom teaching can leverage. The existence of an online tutor 24 hours/day would be an interesting asset to potentially work as an additional learning support tool. The Virtual Tutoring project aims at the development of solutions involving anthropomorphic 3D avatars that work as both virtual online tutors in the Moodle e-learning platform as well as coaches in a mobile application that interact empathically with the students by predicting their emotional state and selecting appropriate emotion regulation strategies. This paper presents the current status of the project, preliminary evaluations with students, and future developments.

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