Talks

2025 - PyCon Lithuania - Vilnius

A tour of RAG retrieval techniques, from baseline methods to sentence-window retrieval, auto-merging, and maximum marginal relevance.

Lightning talk on Autoquizzer, a Haystack app that generates a quiz from any URL. Play it yourself, or let the LLM answer using its own knowledge or web search.

2022 - Portuguese Web Archive

Politiquices.PT, winner of 2nd place in the Arquivo.pt Award 2021, explores support and opposition relationships between political figures extracted from 25 years of Portuguese news headlines.

2021 - Seminar @ Instituto Politécnico Tomar

Invited by Ricardo Campos to deliver a seminar on our work at Comtravo GbmH, plus an introduction to Politiquices.PT. This presentation is in Portuguese.

2017 - PyData Berlin @ HTW Berlin

Presenting BREDS, a bootstrapping system for relationship extraction relying on word embeddings. The paper was published in EMNLP 2015 and won an Honorable Mention for Best Short Paper.

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