I am a Senior Software Engineer and Software Development Manager with a large experience in Software Development, Applied Research and Education.
M.Sc., Systems Engineering (2002), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (at COPPE Institute), with the dissertation: "Um Ambiente para Mineração de Utilização da Web" ("An Architecture for Web Usage Mining") - slides in portuguese. My tutor was Geraldo Xexéo, DSc, professor at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
M.Sc., Cognitive Science and Language (2006), Barcelona University, with a dissertation on Named Entities Recognition (NER) and Information Extraction. My tutor was Toni Badia, Ph.D., professor at Pompeu Fabra University.
Since 1990, I've been working as a consultant, project manager, software development manager, software engineer and researcher in many industrial and academic projects, in places like Petrobrás (Rio de Janeiro) and Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona).
I've been a professor in graduate and post-graduate courses in Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Universidade Católica de Salvador (UCSAL), UNIFACS (Salvador, Bahia) and Universidade Estácio de Sá (Rio de Janeiro).
From 2008 to 2012, I was the coordinator of the Advanced Development Group of Barcelona Media Foundation, developing systems and prototypes for areas like Social Media, Computational Linguistics, Advanced User Interfaces, mobile applications, etc.
Currently, I work as a Research Software Engineer in the UKP Lab at Darmstadt University.
Social Media
Computational Linguistics
Mobile Apps
Project Management
Agile Methodologies
Data Mining
Web Development
Databases
Psychology
Quixal, M., Preuß, S., García-Narbona, D., Boullosa, J. R. (2010).
AutoLearn's authoring tool: a piece of cake for teachers. In: Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Fifth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (IUNLPBEA'10). Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008.
Quixal, M., Badia, T., Benavent, F., Boullosa, J. R., Domingo, J., Grau,
B., Massó, G., Valentin, O. (2008).
User-Centred Design of language Checking Tools. In: Proceedings of the
Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08). Marrakech,
Morocco, May 2008.
Quixal, M., Badia, T., Boullosa, B., Díaz, L. and Ruggia, A. (2006).
Strategies for the Generation of Individualised Feedback in Distance
Language Learning. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Language-Enabled
Technology and Development and Evaluation of Robust Spoken Dialogue Systems
of ECAI 2006. Riva del Garda, Italy, Sept. 2006.
Boullosa, J. R. F.
An Architecture For Web Usage Mining - 2002 (unpublished)
Boullosa, J. R. F.
Um Ambiente para Mineração de Utilização da Web - MSc. Thesis.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 2002.
Boullosa, J. R. F., Cruz, F. C. A., Xexeo, G.
Incerteza em Bancos de Dados: Tipo de Dados Nebulosos no GOA++. SBBD'99
- XIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Bancos de Dados, SBBD99. Florianópolis, Brazil,
1999
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