André leal, LaSIGE researcher and MSc student of Informatics Engineering from DI/FCUL, achieved 2nd position at Task 14 of SemEval-2015, an international competition connected to the automatic processing and clinical text semantic analysis. The work was developed under the orientation of Prof. Francisco M. Couto (LaSIGE – FCUL) and Bruno Martins (INESC-ID – IST), and had the collaboration of Diogo Gonçalves, also MSc student from DI/FCUL.

SemEval workshop will occur in June 4-5, 2015 (co-located with NAACL-2015) in Denver, Colorado, where it will be presented the results of the competition where the LASIGE team obtained top results, with the work ULisboa: Recognition and Normalization of Medical Concepts