Research Experience and Group
Corpora Building and Data Collection Experience:
2020-present:
Corpus of Brazilian Portuguese Tweets
Group of Inter-institutional Research in Languages (GIRL)
Research Collaborator and Founder
United States, Brazil, and Ireland
2019:
Corpus of Portuguese and Spanish in the Venezuelan Diaspora in Brazil
Principal Investigator, Transcriber and Manager for Transcription Interns
Supported by the College of Humanities Research Grant and the Graduate and Professional Student Council Research Grant (University of Arizona)
Transcription of corpus supported by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Research Grant (University of Arizona)
85 participants
2015-2016:
Corpus of Attitudes towards Spanish varieties by Brazilian learners
Principal Investigator
Languages Learning Center at the University of Campinas, Brazil
60 participants
Research Group:
Group of Inter-institutional Research in Languages (GIRL). Natural Language Processing Research Group
Duties: Corpus compilation, data cleaning, data coding, data analysis, and research publications
2020-present:
Corpus of Brazilian Portuguese Tweets
Group of Inter-institutional Research in Languages (GIRL)
Research Collaborator and Founder
United States, Brazil, and Ireland
2019:
Corpus of Portuguese and Spanish in the Venezuelan Diaspora in Brazil
Principal Investigator, Transcriber and Manager for Transcription Interns
Supported by the College of Humanities Research Grant and the Graduate and Professional Student Council Research Grant (University of Arizona)
Transcription of corpus supported by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Research Grant (University of Arizona)
85 participants
2015-2016:
Corpus of Attitudes towards Spanish varieties by Brazilian learners
Principal Investigator
Languages Learning Center at the University of Campinas, Brazil
60 participants
Research Group:
Group of Inter-institutional Research in Languages (GIRL). Natural Language Processing Research Group
Duties: Corpus compilation, data cleaning, data coding, data analysis, and research publications
Research and Curricular Assistantships:
2022:
Research Assistant in Course Redesign for Portuguese 305
Department of Spanish and Portuguese (University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona)
Supervisor: Dr. Ana Carvalho
Duties: Evaluation of five Portuguese learning manuals and building of a new syllabus selecting activities and materials from two of those manuals
2020:
Research Assistant in Transcription Methods
Project: Bilingual Voices in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands: Technology-Enhanced Transcription and Community-Engaged Scholarship
Principal Investigators: Dr. Katie Christoffersen, Dr. Ryan Bessett, Dr. Ana M. Carvalho
Grant: Bilingual Voices Provide Insight into Community Languages, funded by National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Duties: Evaluation of transcription methods and software applications
2022:
Research Assistant in Course Redesign for Portuguese 305
Department of Spanish and Portuguese (University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona)
Supervisor: Dr. Ana Carvalho
Duties: Evaluation of five Portuguese learning manuals and building of a new syllabus selecting activities and materials from two of those manuals
2020:
Research Assistant in Transcription Methods
Project: Bilingual Voices in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands: Technology-Enhanced Transcription and Community-Engaged Scholarship
Principal Investigators: Dr. Katie Christoffersen, Dr. Ryan Bessett, Dr. Ana M. Carvalho
Grant: Bilingual Voices Provide Insight into Community Languages, funded by National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Duties: Evaluation of transcription methods and software applications