Vitor R. Carvalho contact: gmail.com@vitordecarvalho Twitter: @vitroc Linkedin: carvalhovitor

My PhD thesis advisor was the ingenious William W. Cohen. I have worked at Microsoft, Qualcomm Research, Inome and Ericsson R&D. I'm interested in applied research interfacing Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Text Mining, Data Mining and AI.  

Writing and Publications :

• A Few Recent papers:
• IJCAI 2017 , Exploring Personalized Neural Conversational Models
• GIS 2012 (GIBDA) , Geocoding Billions of Addresses: Toward a Spatial Record Linkage System with Big Data
• NAACL 2012 , The Intelius Nickname Collection: Quantitative Analyses from Billions of Public Records - LDC link for the data is here
• VLDB-2011 (QDB), The Case for Cost-Sensitive and Easy-To-Interpret Models in Industrial Record Linkage
• ECIR-2011 , An Analysis of Time-Instability in Web Search Results 
• SIGIR Forum 2011 , Crowdsourcing for Search and Data Mining  
• CIKM 2010 , Online Stratified Sampling: Evaluating Classifiers at Web-Scale
• SIGIR CSE-2010 , Proceedings of the SIGIR2010 Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search Evaluation
• SIGIR 2010 FGSIR Workshop , Online Feature Selection for Information Retrieval
• SIGIR 2010 , Exploring Reductions in Long Web Queries
• SIGIR 2010 , Predicting Query Performance on the Web
• SIGIR 2009 , Reducing Long Queries Using Query Quality Predictors 
• CEAS 2009 , Information Leaks and Suggestions: a Case Study using Mozilla Thunderbird 
• CIKM 2008 , Suppressing Outliers in Pairwise Preference Ranking
• AAAI WS-08-04, Proceedings of the AAAI 2008 EMAIL Workshop
• SIGIR-2008 LR4IR, A Meta-Learning Approach for Robust Rank Learning
• AAAI-2008 EMAIL Workshop , CutOnce - Recipient Recommendation and Leak Detection in Action 
• ECIR-2008 , Ranking Users for Intelligent Message Addressing
• WSDM-2008 , Fast Learning of Document Ranking Functions with the Committee Perceptron
• Some older publications you may be looking for:
• WWW 2006 , Finding Advertising Keywords on Web Pages
• KDD 2006 , Single-Pass Online Learning: Performance, Voting Schemes and Online Feature Selection
• SIGIR 2005 , On the Collective Classification of Email "Speech Acts"
• EMNLP 2004 , Learning to Classify Email into "Speech Acts"
  
• CEAS 2004 , Learning to Extract Signature and Reply Lines from Email
• All older publications

• All Publications in chronological order. Google Scholar entry: Vitor R. Carvalho . DBLP entry: Vitor R. Carvalho

• 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

• American English Nicknames Collection: created in our NAACL-HLT 2012 paper and distributed by the LDC (Linguistic Data Consortium)

• 617 messages from the 20 Newsgroups, annotated with reply bodies and signatures, used in the CEAS-2004 paper.

• My "academic lineage" tracing back all the way to Leibniz, James Clerk Maxwell, Poisson, Lagrange, Bernoulli and Euler (compiled by William Cohen)
• I've recently organized the Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search and Data Mining at ACM WSDM 2011 with Matt Lease and Emine Yilmaz.
  
• I organized the SIGIR 2010 Workshop on "Crowdsourcing for Search Evaluation" with Matt Lease and Emine Yilmaz.
  
• A few recent program committees: SIGIR-2011, AAAI HCOMP 2011, NextMail-2011, CEAS-2010, NAACL-ACL 2010 Young Investigators , EMNLP-09, IEEE CEC-09 (E3C), CEAS-09,  IJCAI-09, ICML-09, COLING/ACL-06, AAAI-07, CEAS-05-06-07-08 , WWW-08 
  
• I organized, with Mark Dredze and Tessa Lau, EMAIL-2008: the AAAI-2008 Workshop on Enhanced Messaging 
• Check out our new IR group blog....Probably Irrelevant
• I used to organize the CMU Machine Learning Lunch and the CMU Information Retrieval Discussion Series 
• I was a TA in the Machine Learning (10-601) course during Fall 2007
  
• I was the TA of the Information Extraction course (MLD 10-707 and LTI 11-748) during Spring 07
  
• Alma Matres: CMU-SCS-LTI, UNICAMP-FEEC, UFPE, Colegio Diocesano - Teresina
• When in Pittsburgh, check out our radio program on WRCT (88.3 FM)