S t u d e n t s

Post-Doc Students:

• On-going | Antoine Favier | Applying Natural Language Processing to Genomics Data. Co-supervision with Antonio Rausell. Started in 2025

PhD Students:

• On-going | Søren Foomsgaard | PhD Thesis at the University of Caen Normandie (France) and University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) on Automatic Detection of Political Bots. Co-supervision with Berta Orosa Garcia and Pierre Larrivée. This thesis is funded by the HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN HYBRIDS project. Started in 2023


• On-going | Nilesh Tete | PhD Thesis in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) and Munster Technological University (Ireland) on Haptic and Oral Transmodality for Non Visual Information Access. Co-supervision with Mohammed Hasanuzzaman. This thesis is co-funded by the Normandy Region and the Munster Technological University. Started in 2023


• On-going | Soumaya Sabry | PhD Thesis in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) and Munster Technological University (Ireland) on Text Generation for Mental Health. Co-supervision with Mohammed Hasanuzzaman. This thesis is co-funded by the FHU A2M2P project and the Munster Technological University. Started in 2022


• 2024 | Kirill Milintsevich | PhD in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) on Estimation of Depression Level from Text: Symptom-Based Approach, External Knowledge, Dataset Validity. Co-supervision with Kairit Sirts and Sonia Dollfus. The thesis is funded by the University of Caen Normandie. Post-doc student at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (France)


• 2024 | Navneet Agarwal | PhD Thesis in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) on Automatic Depression Level Estimation : A Study on Discourse Structure, Input Representation and Clinical Reliability. This thesis is funded by the French Ministry of Superior Education and Research. Post-doc student at the University of Tartu (Estonia)


• 2022 | Houssam Akhmouch | PhD in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) on Multitask Strategies for the Identification of Lexico-semantic Relations. The thesis is funded by ANRT as a CIFRE contract with Crédit Agricole Brie-Picardie. Houssam Akhmouch is CEO of 9tales


• 2014 | José Moreno | PhD Thesis in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) on Text-Based Ephemeral Clustering for Web Image Retrieval on Mobile Devices. This thesis was funded by the French Ministry of Superior Education and Research. José Moreno is Assistant Professor at the University of Toulouse (France)


• 2013 | Sebastião Pais | PhD Thesis in Computer Science at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (France) on Asymmetric Distributional Similarity Measures to Recognize Textual Entailment by Generality. Co-supervision with Robert Mahl and Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska. Sebastião Pais is Assistant Professor at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal)


• 2013 | Ricardo Campos | PhD Thesis in Computer Science at the University of Porto (Portugal) on Disambiguating Implicit Temporal Queries for Temporal Information Retrieval Applications. Co-supervision with Alípio Jorge. This thesis was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology under the reference SFRH/BD/63646/2009. Fraunhofer Portugal PhD thesis Challenge 2013 Winner. Ricardo Campos is Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (Portugal)


• 2013 | Rumen Moraliyski | PhD Thesis in Computer Science at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal) on Discovery of Word Semantic Relations based on Sentential Context Analysis. This thesis was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology under the reference SFRH/BD/19909/2004. Rumen Moraliyski works at Kodar Ltd. (Bulgaria)


• 2012 | Isabel Marcelino | PhD Thesis in Linguistics at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal) on Lexique Médical Unifié pour le Portugais - UMLP. Co-supervision with João Casteleiro and José Oliveira. This thesis was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology under the reference SFRH/BD/29625/2006


• 2011 | João Paulo Cordeiro | PhD Thesis in Computer Science at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal) on Rule Induction for Sentence Reduction. Co-supervision with Pavel Brazdil. João Paulo Cordeiro is Assistant Professor at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal)


• 2011 | Dinko Lambov | PhD Thesis in Computer Science at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal) on Cross Domain Multi-View Sentiment Classification. This thesis was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology under the reference SFRH/BD/31532/2006. Dinko Lambov works at Visteon Corporation (Bulgaria)

Master Students:

• 2025 | Mariia Liaskovskaia | Master in Language Studies at University of Caen Normandy (France) on Emotion Stability in Automatic Generation of Easy-to-Read Texts


• 2025 | Elisa Gouzonnat | Master in Language Studies at University of Caen Normandy (France) on Syntax Constructs from Human- and Machine-generated Texts


• 2025 | Mélanie Berthelot | Master in Language Studies at University of Caen Normandy (France) on Linguistic Analysis of Suicidal Reiteration Corpora


• 2025 | Stanislas Moravac | Master in Language Studies at University of Caen Normandy (France) on Automated Pseudonymization of Suicidal Reiteration Corpora


• 2024 | Sami Mechtouf | Master in Computer Science at University of Caen Normandy (France) on Multimodal Text Generation for Cognitively Impaired People


• 2024 | Thomas Berthelin Le Tellier | Master in Computer Science at University of Caen Normandy (France) on NLP-guided Oral-Tactile Interfaces for Visually Impaired People


• 2024 | Dhia Merzoughi | Master in Computer Science at University of Caen Normandy (France) on Generation of Clinical Notes in Psychiatry


• 2024 | Aurélien Bournonville | Master in Computer Science at University of Caen Normandy (France) on Combination of Haptic and Oral Feedback for Non-visual Web Information Access


• 2024 | Azamat Kaibaldiyev | Master in Marine and Maritime Intelligent Robotics at University of Toulon (France) on Visual Attention Modelling Constrained by Text


• 2023 | Paul Cussac | Master in Applied Mathematics at CY Cergy Paris University (France) on Stock-market Analysis using Transformers


• 2022 | Valentin Renier | Master in Computer Science at University of Caen Normandie (France) on Embodied Conversational Agent for Mental Health


• 2021 | Alexandre Perier | Master in Computer Science at IMT Atlantique (France) on Unsupervised Generation of Humorous Quotes


• 2021 | Riya Gupta | Master in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University (USA) on Multidomain Neural Text Style Transfer


• 2021 | François Ledoyen | Master in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) on Image-to-Text Generation for Web Page Skimming


• 2019 | Nesrine Bannour | Master in Computer Science at the Graduate School in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Communications Networks (France) on Patch-based Identification of Lexical Semantic Relations


• 2013 | Sotra Belkhir | Master in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) on Analysis of the Dynamics of Terminological Ontologies


• 2012 | Amira Missaoui | Master in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) on Predictor Model within Dynamics of Social Network Metadata


• 2010 | Ruben Costa | Master in Computer Science at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal) on Escul@pio: Uma plataforma Colaborativa de Acesso ao UMLP


• 2010 | Tiago Barbosa | Master in Computer Science at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal) on Construção Automática de Micro-Ontologias para a Personalização na Web


• 2009 | Nuno Guimarães | Master in Computer Science at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal) on Detecção Automática da Negação


• 2009 | Manuel Lourenço | Master in Computer Science at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal) on Extração de Palavras Compostas por Bootstrapping


• 2009 | David Machado | Master in Computer Science at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal) on Procura Estruturada de Textos para Perfis de Utilizadores


• 2009 | Daniel Rodrigues | Master in Computer Science at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal) on Construção Automática de um Dicionário Emocional para o Português


• 2009 | Sónia Bastos | Master in Computer Science at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal) on Unsupervised Learning of Ontology in the Medical Domain


• 2007 | Sebastião Pais | Master in Computer Science at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal) on Classification of Opinionated Texts by Analogy


• 2006 | Claúdia Santos | Master in Computer Science at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal) on Sentence Selection for Automatic Summarization using Soft Clustering Techniques


• 2006 | Ricardo Campos | Master in Computer Science at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal) on Web Document Clustering using Web Content Mining Techniques

Bachelor Students (only recent):

• 2024 | Asmit Gangli | Bachelor in Computer Science at the IIT-Patna (India) on Neuro-symbolic Models for the Generation of Humorous Quotes


• 2024 | Samarth Garg | Bachelor in Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Gwalior (India) on Belief-based Learning for Language Modelling


• 2023 | Ramakrishna Pinninti | Bachelor in Computer Science at the Central Institute of Technology Korajhar (India) on Knowledge-based Humour Generation


• 2021 | Prince Jha | Bachelor in Computer Science at the IIT-Patna (India) on Multimodal Patch-based Identification of Lexico-semantic Relations


• 2021 | Sriram Pingali | Bachelor in Computer Science at the IIT-Patna (India) on Neural Sentence Compression


• 2020 | Chinmay Rane | Bachelor in Computer Science at the IIIT-Gwalior (India) on Neural Text Style Transfer


• 2020 | Rohan Kumar | Bachelor in Computer Science at the IIT-Patna (India) on Speaker-addressee Identification and Dialogue Generation


• 2020 | Anubhav Jangra | Bachelor in Computer Science at the IIT-Patna (India) on Multimodal Identification of Lexico-semantic Relations


• 2019 | Karan Praharaj | Bachelor in Computer Science at the Shiv Nadar University (India) on Patch-based Methodologies for the Identification of Lexical Similarity


• 2019 | Arbaaz Qureshi | Bachelor in Computer Science at the IIT-Patna (India) on Multimodal Deep Learning Techniques for the Estimation of Depression Level


• 2019 | Srivatsa Ramesh | Bachelor in Computer Science at the IIT-Patna (India) on Multi-Objective Clustering for Web Page Segmentation