André Filipe Torres Martins

André Martins

Academic position:	Researcher
Joining date:	11-11-2010
Roles in IT:	Senior Researcher
Thematic Line:	Information and Data Sciences
Group:	Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 84 54
Fax: +351 21 841 84 72

31-01-2023

André Martins was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to study artificial neural networks applied to natural language processing

With the DECOLLAGE project (DEep COgnition Learning for LAnguage GEneration), André Martins intends to present solutions to some of the fundamental problems of NLP.

03-11-2022

IT researchers among the most-cited scientists worldwide

Twenty-six IT researchers are listed as the most-cited scientists worldwide by University of Stanford and publisher Elsevier.

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-2012

Expertise Topics

Aprendizagem Estatística e Processamento de Linguagem Natural

Academic Activities

11Supervision of PhD theses

As Supervisor

DeepSPIN, PhD Student, Benjamin Paul Oscar Peters, Expected conclusion 12-2025
DeepSPIN, PhD Student, Marcos Vinicius Treviso, Expected conclusion 12-2025
DeepSPIN, PhD Student, Gonçalo Migueis Matos Afonso Correia, Expected conclusion 04-2025
Quality-Aware Machine Translation, PhD Student, ., Expected conclusion 02-2025
Latent Structure Models for Explainability, PhD Student, Nuno Miguel Serrano Guerreiro, Expected conclusion 09-2024
Context Aware Machine Translation (MAIA project), PhD Student, Patrick Santos Fernandes, Expected conclusion 09-2024
Calibration and Confidence Estimation, PhD Student, Taisiya Glushkova, Expected conclusion 09-2024
Sparsity and Structure for Attention and Text Generation, PhD Student, Pedro Henrique Alves Martins, Expected conclusion 09-2023
DeepSPIN, PhD Student, Tsvetomila Borisova Mihaylova, Expected conclusion 06-2023
Method of Moments for Natural Language Processing, PhD Student, Zita Alexandra Magalhaes Marinho, Defended 02-2018

As Co-supervisor

Document Wide Neural Machine Translation, PhD Student, Sameen Maruf, Defended 11-2019

3Supervision of MSc theses

As Supervisor

Grammar Error Correction for Neural Machine Translation, MSc Student, João Maria Janeiro, Concluded 10-2022
Improving Adequacy in Neural Machine Translation, MSc Student, Pedro Ferreira, Concluded 09-2018

As Co-supervisor

Differential Causal Discovery, MSc Student, Gonçalo Rui Alves Faria, Concluded 05-2022

Publications

2Books Chapters

A. Martins, AD3 : A Fast Decoder for Structured Prediction, Chapter in, Advanced Structured Prediction, Sebastian Nowozin, Peter V. Gehler, Jeremy Jancsary and Christoph H. Lampert, MIT Press, 2014
P. Aguiar, M. Bicego, U. Castellani, M. A. T. Figueiredo, A. Martins, V. Murino, A. Perina, A. Ulas, On the combination of information-theoretic kernels with generative embeddings, Chapter in, Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition, M. Pelillo, Springer, London, 2013

3Papers in Journals

A. Martins, M. A. T. Figueiredo, P. Aguiar, N. A. Smith, E. P. Xing, AD3: Alternating Directions Dual Decomposition for MAP Inference in Graphical Models, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 16, No. Mar, pp. 495 - 545, March, 2015 | BibTex
Das, Chen, A. Martins, Schneider, N. A. Smith, Frame-Semantic Parsing, Computational Linguistics, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 9 - 56, October, 2014 | BibTex
A. Martins, N. A. Smith, E. P. Xing, P. Aguiar, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Nonextensive information theoretic kernels on measures, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 10, No., pp. 937 - 975, April, 2009,
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57Papers in Conferences

C Zerva, T. Glushkova, R. Rei, A. Martins, Disentangling Uncertainty in Machine Translation Evaluation, Empirical Methods in Language Processing - EMNLP, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Vol., pp. -, December, 2022,
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R. Rei, M. V. T. Treviso, C Zerva, N. Guerreiro, A. C. Farinha, C. M. Maroti, J.M. Sousa, T. Glushkova, D. M. A. Alves, A. Lavie, L. C. Coheur, A. Martins, CometKiwi: IST-Unbabel 2022 Submission for the Quality Estimation Shared Task, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Vol., pp. -, December, 2022,
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P. Fernandes, M. V. T. Treviso, D. Pruthi, A. Martins, G. Neubig, Learning to Scaffold: Optimizing Model Explanations for Teaching, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems - NIPS, New Orleans, United States, Vol., pp. -, November, 2022,
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P. Fernandes, . ., R. Rei, J. G. de Souza, P O Ogayo, G. Neubig, A. Martins, Quality-Aware Decoding for Neural Machine Translation, Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics NAACL, Seattle, United States, Vol., pp. -, July, 2022,
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B. Peters, A. Martins, Beyond Characters: Subword-level Morpheme Segmentation, Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology SIGMORPHON, Seattle, United States, Vol., pp. -, July, 2022,
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T. Mihaylova, V. Niculae, A. Martins, Modeling Structure with Undirected Neural Networks, International Conf. on Machine Learning - ICML, Baltimore, United States, Vol., pp. -, July, 2022 | Full text (PDF 948 KBs) | BibTex
M. Fomicheva, S. Sun, E.F. Fonseca, C Zerva, F. Blain, V. Chaudhary, F. G. Guzmán, N. L. Lopatina, L. Specia, A. Martins, MLQE-PE: A Multilingual Quality Estimation and Post-Editing Dataset, European Language Resources Association (ELRA) International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - LREC, Marseille, France, Vol., pp. -, June, 2022,
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A. Martins, DeepSPIN - Deep Structured Prediction in Natural Language Processing, Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, Ghent, Belgium, Vol., pp. -, June, 2022 | Full text (PDF 145 KBs) | BibTex
P. H. Martins, Z. Marinho, A. Martins, $infty$-former: Infinite Memory Transformer, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Dublin, Ireland, May, 2022,
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M. V. T. Treviso, A. Gois, P. Fernandes, E.F. Fonseca, A. Martins, Predicting Attention Sparsity in Transformers, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Dublin, Ireland, May, 2022 | Full text (PDF 2 MBs) | BibTex
A. F. Farinhas, W. Aziz, V. Niculae, A. Martins, Sparse Communication via Mixed Distributions, International Conference on Learning Representations ICLR, Conference online, April, 2022,
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G. Faria, A. Martins, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Differentiable Causal Discovery Under Latent Interventions, Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning CLeaR, Eureka, CA, USA, United States, Vol., pp. -, April, 2022,
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T. Glushkova, C Zerva, R. Rei, A. Martins, Uncertainty-Aware Machine Translation Evaluation, Empirical Methods in Language Processing - EMNLP, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November, 2021,
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C Zerva, D. Stigt, R. Rei, A. C. Farinha, P. G. Ramos, J. G. de Souza, T. Glushkova, M. Vera, F. Kepler, A. Martins, IST-Unbabel 2021 Submission for the Quality Estimation Shared Task, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Conference online, November, 2021,
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N. Guerreiro, A. Martins, SPECTRA: Sparse Structured Text Rationalization, Empirical Methods in Language Processing - EMNLP, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November, 2021,
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R. Rei, A. C. Farinha, C Zerva, D. Stigt, C. Stuart, P. G. Ramos, T. Glushkova, A. Martins, A. Lavie, Are References Really Needed? Unbabel-IST 2021 Submission for the Metrics Shared Task, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Conference online, November, 2021,
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L. Specia, F. Blain, M. Fomicheva, C Zerva, Z. Li, V. Chaudhary, A. Martins, Findings of the WMT 2021 Shared Task on Quality Estimation, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Conference online, November, 2021,
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M. V. T. Treviso, N. Guerreiro, R. Rei, A. Martins, IST-Unbabel 2021 Submission for the Explainable Quality Estimation Shared Task, Empirical Methods in Language Processing - EMNLP, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November, 2021 | Full text (PDF 483 KBs) | BibTex
P. H. Martins, V. Niculae, Z. Marinho, A. Martins, Sparse and Structured Visual Attention, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP, Anchorage, United States, September, 2021 | Full text (PDF 6 MBs) | BibTex
P. Fernandes, G. Neubig, A. Martins, Measuring and Increasing Context Usage in Context-Aware Machine Translation, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Bangkok, Thailand, August, 2021,
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K. Yin, P. Fernandes, D. Pruthi, . Chaudhary, A. Martins, G. Neubig, Do Context-Aware Translation Models Pay the Right Attention?, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Bangkok, Thailand, August, 2021,
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B. Peters, A. Martins, Smoothing and Shrinking the Sparse Seq2Seq Search Space, Association for Computational Linguistics Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies NAACL-HLT, Conference online, June, 2021,
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G. Correia, V. Niculae, W. Aziz, A. Martins, Efficient Marginalization of Discrete and Structured Latent Variables via Sparsity, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems - NIPS, Conference online, December, 2020,
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A. Lopes, M. Farajian, R. Bawden, M. Zhang, A. Martins, Document-level Neural MT: A Systematic Comparison, European Conference of Machine Translation, Lisbon, Portugal, November, 2020 | Full text (PDF 249 KBs) | BibTex
P. H. Martins, Z. Marinho, A. Martins, Sparse Text Generation, Empirical Methods in Language Processing - EMNLP, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November, 2020 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
A. Martins, T. Mihaylova, V. Niculae, Understanding the Mechanics of SPIGOT: Surrogate Gradients for Latent Structure Learning, Empirical Methods in Language Processing - EMNLP, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November, 2020 | Full text (PDF 528 KBs) | BibTex
A. Martins, M. V. T. Treviso, The Explanation Game: Towards Prediction Explainability through Sparse Communication, BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November, 2020 | Full text (PDF 642 KBs) | BibTex
B. Peters, A. Martins, DeepSPIN at SIGMORPHON 2020: One-Size-Fits-All Multilingual Models, Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology SIGMORPHON, Seattle, United States, July, 2020,
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E.F. Fonseca, A. Martins, Revisiting Higher-Order Dependency Parsers, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Seattle, United States, Vol., pp. 8795 - 8800, July, 2020,
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V. Niculae, A. Martins, LP-SparseMAP: Differentiable Relaxed Optimization for Sparse Structured Prediction, International Conf. on Machine Learning - ICML, Vienna, Austria, June, 2020 | Full text (PDF 832 KBs) | BibTex
G. Correia, V. Niculae, A. Martins, Adaptively Sparse Transformers, Empirical Methods in Language Processing - EMNLP, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, November, 2019,
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B. Peters, A. Martins, IT–IST at the SIGMORPHON 2019 Shared Task: Sparse Two-headed Models for Inflection, Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology SIGMORPHON, Florence, Italy, August, 2019,
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F. Kepler, J. Trénous, M. V. T. Treviso, M. Vera, A. Gois, M. Farajian, A. Lopes, A. Martins, Unbabel's Participation in the WMT19 Translation Quality Estimation Shared Task, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Florence, Italy, August, 2019 | Full text (PDF 264 KBs) | BibTex
F. Kepler, J. Trénous, M. V. T. Treviso, M. Vera, A. Martins, OpenKiwi: An Open Source Framework for Quality Estimation, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Florence, Italy, August, 2019 | Full text (PDF 327 KBs) | BibTex
E.F. Fonseca, L. Y. Yankovskaya, A. Martins, M. F. Fishel, C. F. Federmann, Findings of the WMT 2019 Shared Tasks on Quality Estimation, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Florence, Italy, Vol., pp. 1 - 10, August, 2019,
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G. Correia, A. Martins, A Simple and Effective Approach to Automatic Post-Editing with Transfer Learning, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Florence, Italy, July, 2019,
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A. Lopes, M. Farajian, G. Correia, J. Trénous, A. Martins, Unbabel’s Submission to the WMT2019 APE Shared Task: BERT-Based Encoder-Decoder for Automatic Post-Editing, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Florence, Italy, July, 2019,
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B. Peters, V. Niculae, A. Martins, Sparse Sequence-to-Sequence Models, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Florence, Italy, July, 2019,
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A. Martins, V. Niculae, T. Mihaylova, N. Nangia, Latent Structure Models for Natural Language Processing, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Florence, Italy, July, 2019 | BibTex
B. Peters, V. Niculae, A. Martins, Interpretable Structure Induction via Sparse Attention, BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, Brussels, Belgium, November, 2018,
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D. Ferreira, A. Martins, M. Almeida, Jointly Learning to Embed and Predict with Multiple Languages, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Berlin, Germany, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, August, 2016 | BibTex
A. Martins, R. Astudillo, C. Hokamp, F. Kepler, Unbabel's Participation in the WMT16 Word-Level Translation Quality Estimation Shared Task, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Berlin, Germany, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, August, 2016 | BibTex
A. Martins, R. Astudillo, From Softmax to Sparsemax: A Sparse Model of Attention and Multi-Label Classification, International Conf. on Machine Learning - ICML, New York, United States, Vol. 48, pp. 1614 - 1623, June, 2016 | BibTex
M. Almeida, C. Pinto, H. Figueira, P. Mendes, A. Martins, Aligning Opinions: Cross-Lingual Opinion Mining with Dependencies., Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Beijing, China, Vol. -, pp. - - -, July, 2015,
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A. Martins, F. González, Parsing as Reduction, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Beijing, China, Vol. -, pp. - - -, July, 2015 | BibTex
A. Martins, Transferring Coreference Resolvers with Posterior Regularization, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Beijing, China, Vol. -, pp. - - -, July, 2015 | BibTex
M. Almeida, A. Martins, Lisbon: Evaluating TurboSemanticParser on Multiple Languages and Out-of-Domain Data, International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation - SemEval, Denver, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, June, 2015,
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M. P. Negrinho, A. Martins, Orbit Regularization, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems - NIPS, Montreal, Canada, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, December, 2014 | BibTex
A. Martins, M. Almeida, Priberam: A Turbo Semantic Parser with Second Order Features, International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation - SemEval, Dublin, Ireland, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, August, 2014 | BibTex
A. Martins, M. Almeida, N. A. Smith, "Turning on the Turbo: Fast Third-Order Non-Projective Turbo Parsers", Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Sofia, Bulgaria, Vol. -, pp. 617 - 622, August, 2013 | BibTex
M. Almeida, A. Martins, Fast and Robust Compressive Summarization with Dual Decomposition and Multi-Task Learning, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Sofia, Bulgaria, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, August, 2013,
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A. Martins, N. A. Smith, P. Aguiar, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Structured sparsity in structured prediction, Empirical Methods in Language Processing - EMNLP, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, July, 2011,
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A. Martins, N. A. Smith, M. A. T. Figueiredo, P. Aguiar, Dual Decomposition with Many Overlapping Components, Empirical Methods in Language Processing - EMNLP, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, July, 2011,
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A. Martins, M. A. T. Figueiredo, P. Aguiar, N. A. Smith, E. P. Xing, An Augmented Lagrangian Approach to Constrained MAP Inference, International Conf. on Machine Learning - ICML, Bellevue, WA, United States, Vol., pp. 169 - 176, June, 2011,
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A. Martins, M. A. T. Figueiredo, P. Aguiar, N. A. Smith, E. P. Xing, Online Learning of Structured Predictors with Multiple Kernels, International Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics - AISTATS, Fort Lauderdale, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, April, 2011,
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A. Martins, M. A. T. Figueiredo, P. Aguiar, Online MKL for Structured Prediction, NIPS Workshop in Optimization for Machine Learning, Whistler, Canada, Vol. ?, pp. ? - ?, December, 2010,
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A. Martins, M. A. T. Figueiredo, P. Aguiar, N. A. Smith, E. P. Xing, Augmented Dual Decomposition for MAP Inference, NIPS Workshop in Optimization for Machine Learning, Whistler, Canada, Vol. ?, pp. ? - ?, December, 2010,
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Projects

Currently running projects4

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
MAIA	Multilingual Virtual Agents for Customer Service	P2020	01-07-2020	01-07-2023
NextGenAI	NextGenAI - Center for Responsible AI	IAPMEI	01-10-2021	31-12-2025
PRELUNA	Precise and Efficient Learning using Attention Mechanisms	FCT	01-01-2022	31-12-2024
UTTER	Unified Transcription and Translation for Extended Reality	EU	01-10-2022	30-09-2025

Closed Projects4

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
DeepSPIN	DeepSPIN	EU/H2020	01-02-2018	01-02-2023
GoLocal	GoLocal -- From Monitoring Global Data Streams to Context-Aware Recommendations	FCT/ CMU	01-03-2016	01-02-2020
HAnDLE	Hardware Accelerated Deep Learning Framework	FCT	12-07-2018	11-07-2021
LearnBIG	Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning from Big Data	FCT/PTDC	01-05-2016	01-06-2018

IT Member Profile

André Martins

31-01-2023

André Martins was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to study artificial neural networks applied to natural language processing

03-11-2022

IT researchers among the most-cited scientists worldwide

Scientific Achievements

As Supervisor

As Co-supervisor

As Supervisor

As Co-supervisor

Currently running projects4

Closed Projects4