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Vitor R. Carvalho
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Language Technologies Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213
Office: 4604 Newell-Simon Hall
Phone: 412-268-5530
vitor's email

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Research:

Interests: Machine Learning, Text Mining, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Natural Language Processing
Advisor: William W. Cohen

Publications:

Software:

Ciranda - Java package for email-speech-act prediction
Jangada - Java package for extraction of signatures (sig files) and reply-to (quotes) lines in email messages
Cut Once - A Mozilla Thunderbird plug-in for email information leak prevention and recipient recommendation
I contribute to Minorthird, a package for text learning, classification, extraction and annotations

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Other Stuff:

Recent program committees: COLING/ACL-06, AAAI-07, CEAS-05-06-07-08 and WWW-08
I organized, with Mark Dredze and Tessa Lau, EMAIL-2008: the AAAI-2008 Workshop on Enhanced Messaging
I was a TA in the Machine Learning (10-601) course during Fall 2007
I used to organize the CMU Machine Learning Lunch organization
I was the TA of the Information Extraction course (MLD 10-707 and LTI 11-748) during Spring 07
I used to organize the CMU Information Retrieval Discussion Series
Alma Matres: CMU-SCS-LTI, UNICAMP-FEEC, UFPE, Colegio Diocesano - Teresina
Check out our radio program on WRCT (88.3 FM) - Fridays, from 6 to 7 p.m. My last programs were: Torquato Neto (November), Tom Ze (April), Los Hermanos (March), Maracatu (November), Gilberto Gil (July), Paulinho da Viola (June), Cordel do Fogo Encantado, Luis Gonzaga...