David Semedo

@inproceedings{aaai2026,
  title = {{FineVAU}: A Novel Human-Aligned Benchmark for Fine-Grained Video Anomaly Understanding},
  author = {Pereira, João and Lopes, Vasco and Neves, João and Semedo, David},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year = {2026},
  address = {Singapore},
}

@inproceedings{vigia2026,
  title = {{VIGiA}: Instructional Video Guidance via Dialogue Reasoning and Retrieval},
  author = {Glória-Silva, Diogo and Semedo, David and Magalhães, João},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026},
  pages = {4003--4030},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year = {2026},
  address = {Rabat, Morocco},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-eacl.208/},
}

@inproceedings{amalia2026,
  title = {{AMALIA}: A Fully Open Large Language Model for {European} {Portuguese}},
  author = {Simplício, Afonso and Vinagre, Gonçalo and Ramos, Miguel Moura and Tavares, Diogo and Ferreira, Rafael and Attanasio, Giuseppe and Alves, Duarte M. and Calvo, Inês and Vieira, Inês and Guerra, Rui and Furtado, James and Canaverde, Beatriz and Paulo, Iago and Ramos, Vasco and Glória-Silva, Diogo and Faria, Miguel and Treviso, Marcos and Gomes, Daniel and Gomes, Pedro and Semedo, David and Martins, André and Magalhães, João},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2026)},
  pages = {380--391},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year = {2026},
  address = {Salvador, Brazil},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.propor-1.38/},
}

@inproceedings{tinyte,
  title = {Language Models Can be Efficiently Steered via Minimal Embedding Layer Transformations},
  author = {Tavares, Diogo and Semedo, David and Rudnicky, Alexander and Magalhães, João},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  pages = {22960--22978},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year = {2025},
  address = {Suzhou, China},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1170/},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1170},
}

@inproceedings{emnlp2024_showguide,
  title = {Show and Guide: Instructional-Plan Grounded Vision and Language Model},
  author = {Glória-Silva, Diogo and Semedo, David and Magalhães, João},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  pages = {21371--21389},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year = {2024},
  address = {Miami, FL, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.1191},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.1191},
}

@inproceedings{emnlp2024_multitrait,
  title = {Multi-trait User Simulation with Adaptive Decoding for Conversational Task Assistants},
  author = {Ferreira, Rafael and Semedo, David and Magalhães, João},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024},
  pages = {16105--16130},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year = {2024},
  address = {Miami, FL, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.945},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.945},
}

@inproceedings{plan_llm,
  title = {Plan-Grounded Large Language Models for Dual Goal Conversational Settings},
  author = {Glória-Silva, Diogo and Ferreira, Rafael and Tavares, Diogo and Semedo, David and Magalhães, João},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2024)},
  pages = {1271--1292},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year = {2024},
  address = {St. Julian's, Malta},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-long.77},
}

@inproceedings{gloria,
  title = {{Gl{\'o}rIA}: A Generative and Open Large Language Model for {Portuguese}},
  author = {Lopes, Ricardo and Magalhães, João and Semedo, David},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2024)},
  pages = {441--453},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year = {2024},
  address = {Santiago de Compostela, Spain},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.propor-1.45},
}

@inproceedings{news_images,
  title = {Understanding News Text and Images Connection with Context-enriched Multimodal Transformers},
  author = {Bartolomeu, Cláudio and Nóbrega, Rui and Semedo, David},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM '22)},
  pages = {5821--5832},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year = {2022},
  address = {Lisboa, Portugal},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3503161.3548430},
  doi = {10.1145/3503161.3548430},
}