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LASIGE Summer of Research (2nd edition)
Following the success of the first edition and the interest shown by the students who approached us at the CIÊNCIAS ULisboa Jobshop 2026, as well as the strong support from the LASIGE Executive Committee, applications for the second edition of the LASIGE Summer of Research will open on 6 May 2026! “Don’t just study the […]
Alcides Fonseca Keynote Speaker at SLATE’2026
LASIGE integrated researcher Alcides Fonseca delivered a keynote entitled “Æon: A Programming Language with Guardrails” at the SLATE’2026, an international symposium about languages, applications and technologies, on 15 April 2026, held in Lisboa. Our researcher explored the programming language Æon that supports different algorithms: LLMs, Genetic Programming and SMT Solvers, highlighted the advantages of an […]
LASIGE members among those distinguished by Ciências ULisboa in its 115th anniversary
LASIGE members among those distinguished by CIÊNCIAS ULisboa (CIÊNCIAS) on its 115th anniversary, 22 April 2026. The event was dedicated to the recognition of excellence at CIÊNCIAS and, once again, several LASIGE students and teachers were recognized for their work accomplishments: Maxdata Informatics Awards of Excellence 2024/2025 (awarded to the best students of the Department […]
From Question to Prototype: Design Thinking for Interaction Research
That’s a wrap of our Workshop “From Questions to Prototype: Design Thinking for Interaction Research“, which took place this week, on 20 and 21 April 2026. It started with an amazing and provocative talk from Wendy Ju on “How to run a design-forward HCI/HRI lab“, that showed us that starting with the research question may […]
LASIGE @ CIÊNCIAS ULisboa Jobshop 2026
LASIGE took part, once again, in the CIÊNCIAS ULisboa Jobshop 2026 on 15 April. The event aims to be a privileged forum for bringing students and graduates of CIÊNCIAS ULisboa closer to the labour market. The Faculty is part of the largest and most competitive university in Portugal and is recognized for its teaching and […]
A Systematic Look at a Decade of Named Entity Linking in Biomedicine
The paper entitled “Systematic Review of Named Entity Linking and Knowledge Organisation Systems in Biomedical and Clinical Domains” includes contributions from LASIGE researchers Pedro Ruas, Sofia Conceição, and Francisco Couto, and addresses the evolution of approaches, knowledge organisation systems, and open challenges in biomedical and clinical Named Entity Linking over the past decade. This study is a systematic PRISMA review […]