Faculty

Alessandro Jocelito Beccari

a.beccari@unesp.br

He holds a Licentiate degree in Portuguese and English (2005) and a Bachelor’s degree in Latin (2007) from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). He earned both his Master’s (2007) and PhD (2013) from the same institution. In both graduate programs, he chose the research area of the History and Philosophy of Linguistics, in which he studied grammatical works from the late Middle Ages and translated the Speculative Grammar (Grammatica speculativa) by Thomas of Erfurt (c. 1310). He is a professor in the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DELL) in the Undergraduate Program in Language and Literature at UNESP/FCL-Assis, where he also works in the Professional Master’s Program in Letters, PROFLETRAS. He is also a faculty member of the Graduate Program in Linguistics at UFJF. In 2023, he completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Center for Documentation in Linguistic Historiography (CEDOCH) of the Department of Linguistics at the School of Philosophy, Languages, and Literature of the University of São Paulo (USP). He has experience in Latin Language, Classical Studies, English Language, Linguistic Studies, and Linguistic Historiography.

Alexandre José Pinto Cadilhe de Assis Jácome

alexandre.cadilhe@ufjf.br

Alexandre Cadilhe holds a PhD in Language Studies from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF/2013) and a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ/2007), with postgraduate specializations in Gender and Sexuality from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ/2016) and Reading & Text Production from Fluminense Federal University (UFF/2004). He is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) in the Department of Education (Language and Teaching area) and in the Graduate Program in Linguistics. He has experience in the field of Linguistics, with an emphasis on Applied Linguistics, working primarily on the following topics: Interactional Sociolinguistics; Critical Discourse Analysis; Analysis of Talk-in-Interaction; Literacies; and Language, Gender, and Sexuality in institutional contexts (with an emphasis on health and education).

Aline Alves Fonseca

aline.fonseca@.ufjf.br

An Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), she holds a PhD (2012) in Linguistic Studies from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, with a research exchange period at the University of Lisbon. She has experience in the field of Linguistics, with an emphasis on Psycholinguistics and Phonology, working mainly on the following topics: syntax/prosody interface, language processing, prosodic phonology, and intonational phonology. She is currently the director of the Faculty of Letters at UFJF.

Alvaro Joao Magalhaes de Queiroz 

queirozj@gmail.com|https://joaoqueirozsemiotics.wordpress.com/

PhD in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP, with postdoctoral studies in Intelligent Systems and Artificial Life (AI and ALIFE) at UNICAMP, and in Philosophy of Biology and Biosemiotics at UFBA and the University of the Basque Country. He has taught courses on Creative Translation, Intersemiotic Translation, Cognitive Semiotics, and Intermediality Studies, and has supervised projects in areas such as Translation Studies, Semiotics, Literature/Art & Technology, and Cognitive Science. He is a member of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS), serves on the expert panel of the Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS, Sweden), and is part of the Artificial Cognition Research Group at UEFS. He is an associate researcher at the Department of Linguistics and Language Practice at the University of the Free State (South Africa). He leads the Iconicity Research Group (IRG).

Amitza Torres Vieira

amitza.vieira@ufjf.br

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature from the State University of Minas Gerais, Carangola Campus (1997), a Master’s degree in Linguistics from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2002), a PhD in Language Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2007), and a Postdoctoral degree in Language Studies from the Fluminense Federal University (2017). She is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, teaching at the Faculty of Letters and in the Graduate Program in Linguistics. Her research focuses on the interface between language and law, with an emphasis on the use of video evidence in judicial court proceedings. She also studies institutional talk-in-interaction, with a focus on argumentation in the institutional context of Preliminary Hearings in Small Claims Criminal Courts.

Ana Paula Grillo El-Jaick

ana.jaick@ufjf.br

She is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). She completed her postdoctoral studies at Fluminense Federal University, as a member of the Language Archives Group (Grupo Arquivos de Língua – GAL). She holds a PhD in Language Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2009), which included a research internship at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris). She also earned a Master’s degree in Literature from the same university (2005), and holds undergraduate degrees in Language and Literature (2005) and Law (1999) from Fluminense Federal University. Her experience is in the field of Linguistics, with an emphasis on Philosophy of Language, currently working on the research project “Discourse as Monument and Other Epistemologies.”

Ana Paula Scher

ana.scher@ufjf.br

Ana Paula is a livre-docente and senior (retired) professor from the University of São Paulo, currently a visiting Full Professor (Titular-E) in the Department of Letters at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), and a Level 2 Research Productivity Fellow with CNPq. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (1988), a Master’s degree in Linguistics from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP, 1996), and a PhD in Linguistics from UNICAMP (2004), which included a research exchange at the University of Southern California under the supervision of Joseph Aoun. She completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Calgary (2006), University College London (2011–2012), UNICAMP (2017–2018), and UFJF (2023–2024).

She has experience in Linguistics, with an emphasis on Grammar Theory, conducting research primarily within the Generative Grammar framework, particularly Distributed Morphology. Her work focuses on the interfaces between morphology and syntax, phonology, and semantics. She coordinates the Distributed Morphology Research Group (GREMD) at USP, co-leads the Distributed Morphology Working Group at CNPq in partnership with Paula Armelin, and is a member of INTEGRA-UFJF, coordinated by Paula Armelin.

Carol Martins da Rocha

carol.rocha@ufjf.br

Faculty member in the Department of Letters at the Faculty of Letters of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) since 2017. In 2015, she completed her PhD in Linguistics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Isabella Tardin Cardoso (IEL/Unicamp), with a dissertation entitled “From Flatfish to Punny Tongue: Gender and Discourse of the Mulieres Plautinae”, which included a research stay abroad at the Seminar für Klassische Philologie (University of Heidelberg), both supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). In addition to continuing her research on Plautine comedy, she has been developing and supervising studies on the work of Ovid, with an emphasis on the Heroides, particularly regarding female characters. Another area of focus is gender studies, especially as applied to Antiquity. She served as editor of Rónai – Journal of Classical and Translation Studies from 2017 to 2023.

Christiano Pereira de Almeida 

christiano.almeida@ufjf.br

Holds degrees in Psychology (UFJF), Languages and Literature (Licentiate in Portuguese, English, and Classical Languages and their literatures – UFJF), and Philosophy (University of Caxias do Sul). He holds a Specialization in the Science of Religion, a Master’s in Languages and Literature (Linguistics), and a PhD in Linguistics from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), with a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy at the same institution. He is a member of the Circle for Studies on Antiquity at UFJF (CirceA) and vice-leader of the research group “CRASES: Linguistics and Philosophy,” working in the area of “Argumentation, Discourse, and Power.” His research focuses on the interface between Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, and Classical Studies, with an emphasis on Argumentation Theory and Critical Thinking.

Denise Barros Weiss

denise.weiss@ufjf.br

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (1988), a Master’s degree in Linguistics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1994), and a PhD in Language and Literature from the Fluminense Federal University (2007). He is currently an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. He has experience in the field of Linguistics, with an emphasis on Portuguese as a Foreign Language, and a particular interest in the following areas: teaching, text genres, Portuguese as a foreign language and as a native language, and the development of teaching materials.

Ely Edison da Silva Matos

ely.matos@ufjf.br

He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2014), with a thesis in the field of Computational Linguistics, specializing in the research area of Language and Cognition. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2019). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (1990), a specialization in Software Development Project Management from COPPE/UFRJ (1994), and a Master’s degree in Computational Modeling from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2008). He is an Information Technology Analyst at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. He has taught various undergraduate courses in Computer Science. His expertise includes Conceptual Modeling, Software Engineering, Databases, Computer Networks, Systems Development, and Ontologies. He participates in the FrameNet Brazil research group and develops, at the eponymous lab, applications using lexical, syntactic, and semantic resources for Brazilian Portuguese based on Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics.

Fábio da Silva Fortes

fabio.fortes@ufjf.br

He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), as well as a PhD and Master’s degree in Linguistics (Classical Studies) from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). He has a Bachelor’s degree in Classical Languages from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Classical Greek and Latin. He is also a permanent faculty member in the Graduate Programs in Linguistics and Philosophy. He has expertise in the fields of Literature and Philosophy, with an emphasis on Classical Studies, primarily focusing on the following topics: history and philosophy of the language sciences, Greek and Latin grammatical discourse, Plato, and the teaching of classical languages. In 2020, he completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in Classical Philology, supported by the Junior Visiting Professor Program (CAPES), at the Department of Ancient Sciences of the University of Liège, Belgium.

Fernando Adão de Sá Freitas

fernando.freitas@visitante.ufjf.br

He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Young Doctor Retention Program in Brazil (2023–2025, FAPEMIG). He holds a PhD (2016–2021, CAPES) and a Master’s degree (2014–2016, CAPES) in Linguistics from the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature – Portuguese and its Literatures (2014–2019) and a Bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature – Latin (2013) from the same institution. He is a member of CirceA – Circle of Studies on Antiquity (UFJF). He served as a Substitute Professor of Greek Language, Greek Literature, Latin Language, Latin Literature, and Literary Theory at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2021–2022). Under the title “Language before Language: Saint Augustine and the World of Words,” his research focuses on the relationship between grammar, dialectic, and syntax, the reflections of ancient grammatical terminology and metalanguage, as well as aspects of bilingualism and multilingualism in Antiquity. His research, therefore, concentrates on Greek and Roman dialectical and grammatical discourses, the History and Historiography of Linguistics, and the Christian context of Late Antiquity.

Frederico Belcavello Guedes

Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, with doctoral and postdoctoral research internships as a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. He works as a professor at UniAcademia – Centro Universitário Academia (formerly Centro de Ensino Superior de Juiz de Fora) and as a researcher at the FrameNet Brasil Computational Linguistics Lab at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, where he also serves as a journalist. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Communication (2001), a specialization in Arts, Visual Culture, and Communication (2006), and a master’s degree in Communication (2010), all from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. He has experience in the field of Communication, with an emphasis on Broadcasting, and in Linguistics, with a focus on Computational Linguistics, Frame Semantics, and Multimodality.

Hadassa Rodrigues Santos

hadassa.rodrigues@ufjf.br

PhD in Linguistics and Portuguese Language from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC-MG/CNPq), with a Master’s degree in the same field and from the same institution. She is a Permanent Professor in the Graduate Program in Linguistics and an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). She coordinates the Specialization Program in Deaf Education and Teaching of Libras (UFJF/UAB). She holds postgraduate degrees in Teaching, as well as in Translation and Interpretation of Libras, with proficiency certifications in Libras Teaching and in Libras–Portuguese Translation and Interpretation (Prolibras/MEC). She holds a licentiate degree in Portuguese Language.

She serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Scias Língua de Sinais (UEMG Press) and is the author of the book Que sinal é esse? Neologismos em Libras no ambiente acadêmico (“What Sign Is This? Neologisms in Libras in the Academic Environment”). Her academic background is in Linguistics, with a focus on the description and analysis of phonological aspects of sign languages and their interfaces with other levels of linguistic analysis. Her research also addresses lexical variation and expansion in connection with sociolinguistic factors, as well as the impact of the visual-spatial modality on linguistic theory.

Lauriê Ferreira Martins Dall’Orto

martins.laurie@ufjf.br

Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Graduate Program at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2014–2018). Master’s degree in Linguistics, also from the Graduate Program at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2012–2013). Specialist in Portuguese Language Teaching (2011–2012) and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Languages and Literatures, with qualifications in Portuguese Language and its Literatures (2007–2010), and in Italian Language and its Literatures (2011–2015), from the Faculty of Letters at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). Held a postdoctoral research position funded by the National Postdoctoral Program (PNPD) of CAPES/MEC, through the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the Faculty of Letters of UFJF (2018–2023). Currently serves as a Portuguese Language EBTT Professor at Colégio de Aplicação João XXIII, part of the Department of Letters and Arts at UFJF. Permanent faculty member of the Graduate Program in Linguistics at UFJF. Has experience in teaching Portuguese and Italian at both basic and higher education levels, as well as in education assessment. Conducts research from a constructional grammar perspective, in both Portuguese and Italian, with an interface with language teaching. Researcher at the Discourse & Grammar Group (D&G), affiliated with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), and the interinstitutional network “Literacies across Languages and Cultures in School” (LELCE). Also serves as the deputy coordinator of the Research Center on Constructional Approach and Translation (NUPACT/UFJF). Research areas and interests: Functional Linguistics; Usage-Based Functional Linguistics; Construction Grammar; Constructional Approach to Grammar; Socioconstructionist Approach; Constructionalization and Constructional Change; Linguistic Variation and Change; Interface between Functionalism and Language Teaching; Portuguese and Italian Languages.

Luiz Fernando Matos Rocha

luiz.rocha@ufjf.br

He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, 2004), a Master’s degree in Linguistics from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF, 2000), a Bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature (Portuguese and Latin, UFJF, 1998), and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Communication (Journalism, UFJF, 1991). He completed his postdoctoral research at the Portuguese Catholic University (2011, Braga – Portugal). He is a faculty member and researcher at the Faculty of Letters of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (FALE/UFJF) and has experience in the field of Linguistics, with an emphasis on Cognitive Linguistics, primarily focusing on the following topics: cognition, reported speech, fictivity, fictive interaction, and grammar.

Maria Cristina Lobo Name

cristina.name@ufjf.br

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Portuguese/French from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1996) and a PhD in Language and Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2002). She is a Full Professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, where she works in the Graduate Program in Linguistics and the Department of Classical and Vernacular Languages. She has experience in Linguistics, with an emphasis on Psycholinguistics, focusing primarily on the following topics: language acquisition, lexical acquisition, lexical and functional categories, prosodic acquisition and processing in L1 and L2, and multimodal prosodic acquisition. She coordinates the NEALP – Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics Study Group. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Langage at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM, Montreal, Canada) with Rushen Shi (Aug 2009 – Jul 2010), and at LAFE (Speech and Writing Acquisition Laboratory) at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB, João Pessoa) with Marianne Cavalcante (Feb 2024 – Jan 2025).

Marta Cristina da Silva

marta.silva@ufjf.br

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature (Portuguese and English, 1986), a Master’s degree in Language and Literature from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (1995), and a PhD in Language and Literature/Linguistics Studies from the Fluminense Federal University (2004). She is a professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, working in the Graduate Program in Linguistics, focusing on the research line of Language and Humanities, and in the undergraduate Language and Literature program (specializing in English). Her main areas of interest include: gender theories, language teaching, multiliteracies, academic literacies, and teacher education.

Maucha Andrade Gamonal

maucha.andrade@estudante.ufjf.br

She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2017). She earned a Master’s degree in Linguistics from the same institution (2013) and a Bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature (with a focus on Portuguese Language and its Literatures) (2007–2010). She has experience and interest in topics related to Linguistic Studies, with an emphasis on Cognitive Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Semantics, and Natural Language Understanding. She was a recipient of a sandwich doctoral fellowship through the Science Without Borders Program, conducting research as a visiting scholar at the International Computer Science Institute and the University of California, Berkeley. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Leipzig, Germany (2019–2020), as part of the PROBRAL Brazil-Germany international cooperation program, and at UFMG, through the CAPES/PRINT program and the CNPq Pró-Humanidades call. She has been affiliated with the FrameNet Brazil Project since 2009. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (PIPD) at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF).

Mercedes Marcilese

mercedes.marcilese@ufjf.br

She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Literature (DLET) at the Faculty of Letters of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. She holds a PhD in Language and Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2011), with a concentration in Language Studies. She earned a Master’s degree in Language and Literature (2007) also from PUC-Rio, a Bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature (2005), and a Bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature (2004) from the National University of the Littoral, Santa Fe – Argentina. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Laboratory of Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition at PUC-Rio (LAPAL). She has experience in Linguistics, with an emphasis on Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition. She is a researcher at the Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics Study Group (NEALP) at UFJF, investigating: (i) linguistic topics at the interface between language and other cognitive domains (social cognition, musical cognition, among others); (ii) the cognitive dimension of linguistic variation; and (iii) the processing of non-literal meaning.

Patrícia Fabiane Amaral da Cunha Lacerda

patricia.cunha@ufjf.br

She is a postdoctoral researcher in Linguistics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2009), holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2007), a Master’s degree in Linguistics from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2003), and a Bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2002). She is a professor at the Faculty of Letters of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, working in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and the Graduate Program in Linguistics. She is a researcher in the Discourse & Grammar Study Group and the coordinator of the NUPACT UFJF – Research Group on Constructional Approaches and Translation. She has experience in Linguistics, conducting research and supervising work on the following topics: Usage-Based Functional Linguistics applied to teaching, Usage-Based Functional Linguistics applied to Translation Studies, constructional approaches to linguistic change, and Corpus Linguistics.

Patrícia Nora de Souza Ribeiro

patricia.souza@ufjf.br

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (1990), a Master’s degree in Language and Literature from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (1996), and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the State University of Campinas (2004). She is currently a Full Professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. She has experience in the field of Language and Literature, with an emphasis on Modern Foreign Languages, focusing mainly on the following topics: digital technologies in foreign language teaching and learning, lexical acquisition, foreign language reading instruction, digital multiliteracies, and virtual and augmented reality.

Paula Roberta Gabbai Armelin

armelin.paula@ufjf.br

She has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Language and Literature at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora since 2015. She holds a PhD in Language and Literature, with a concentration in General Linguistics (2011-2015) from the University of São Paulo, where she investigated the morphosyntactic structure of diminutives and augmentatives in Brazilian Portuguese, as well as their formal relationships with grammatical gender. During her PhD, she completed a Sandwich Research Fellowship at Queen Mary University of London (Sep/2013-Aug/2014) under the supervision of Professor Hagit Borer. She holds a Master’s degree in Language and Literature, with a concentration in General Linguistics (2009-2011) from the University of São Paulo, where she studied the argument structure of ditransitive sentences. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature, with a focus on Portuguese and French (2005-2009) from the University of São Paulo. Since 2018, she has coordinated the Research Group on Grammar Theory (INTEGRA-UFJF) at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, a research group focused on the study of the human language faculty from a generativist perspective. She is also a member of the Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics Study Group at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (NEALP-UFJF). Her research focuses on the description and analysis of morphological, syntactic, and morphosyntactic aspects of natural languages from a formalist grammatical perspective. She is also interested in the relationships between Linguistic Theory and Psycholinguistics.

Sandra Aparecida Faria de Almeida

sandrafaria.almeida@ufjf.br

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature (Portuguese, English, Italian, and their respective literatures) from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (1988), a Bachelor’s degree in Translation (Portuguese/English) from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (1991), a Master’s degree in Language and Literature from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (1998), and a PhD in Linguistics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2010). She has worked as an Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Uberlândia in the area of Translation/English Language. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in the area of Language and Translation/English. She has experience in the fields of Language, Linguistics, and Translation, with an emphasis on English Language Teaching and Translation, as well as studies on the grammar of English centered on usage. She works in all three segments – teaching, research, and extension – primarily focusing on the following topics: translation studies, English/Portuguese translation, reading strategies, cognitive models, conditional constructions, Construction Grammar, epistemic complementation constructions, subjectivity, and intersubjectivity.

Thais Fernandes Sampaio

thais.fernandes@ufjf.br

She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2010). She has a Bachelor’s degree in Portuguese Language and Literature from the University of Brasília (2003) and a Master’s degree in Language and Linguistics from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2007). She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Language and Literature at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. She is a permanent member of the Graduate Programs in Linguistics and the Professional Master’s in Language at this institution. She is part of the Research Group on Language and Society (GRUPELS). With a background in Cognitive Linguistics, she develops projects in the area of Portuguese Language Teaching, focusing particularly on the following themes: pedagogical use of New Technologies, Linguistic Analysis practices, and teacher training.

Tiago Timponi Torrent

tiago.torrent@ufjf.br | tiagotorrent.com

He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, having completed his doctoral research as a Visiting Student Researcher at the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature (Portuguese and Latin) from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2003) and a Master’s degree in Language and Linguistics from the same university (2005). He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Literature and the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. He leads the FrameNet Brazil Laboratory, where he coordinates the development of multimodal datasets, lexical and syntactic resources, as well as Artificial Intelligence models for Brazilian Portuguese. He has expertise in Cognitive Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, with a focus on Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics. He leads ReINVenTA – the Research and Innovation Network for Vision and Text Analysis – a research network that includes UFJF, UFMG, UFU, PUC-MG, UFPE, Case Western Reserve University, and Universität Leipzig. He has served as a professor and visiting researcher in a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, and Linguistic Technology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.