The paper “Generating Biomedical Question Answering Corpora from Q&A Forums”, co-authored by Andre Lamurias, Diana Sousa and Francisco Couto, was accepted for publication at IEEE Access, a top-ranked journal.

FCiências.ID Awards

(awards the Doctoral theses completed in 2019 that stood out for Excellence)

Information and Communication Technologies research area: André Lamúrias

https://ciencias.ulisboa.pt/sites/default/files/fcul/institucional/premios_desempenho/Premio_FCienciasID_2019.pdf

Python packaging tutorial by André Lamúrias

When: November 28, 3:00pm – 4:00pm Where: 6.3.26

Description:

This tutorial is for researchers who use python to develop tools and methods, and wish to make them more accessible to the community. The tutorial will not focus on coding style and patterns, but on the documentation and packaging process.

Objective: Learn to develop a python package from scratch using these tools:
– Track changes with git
– Create documentation with sphinx
– Create package with setuptools
– Upload to pypi with twine

Prerequisites: basic python knowledge, laptop with internet access, GitHub account
Duration: 60 minutes

Data science seminar

By André Lamúrias

Date: October 4th 2019 14:30h

Where: C6 6.3.38

Bioinformatics and computational biology seminar

By Diana Sousa

Date: October 3rd 2019 12:30h

Where: C2 2.4.16 FCUL

Presenting “Sousa, D., Lamurias, A., & Couto, F. M. (2019). A Silver Standard Corpus of Human Phenotype-Gene Relations”