Ana Luísa Varani Leal

Formal Education PhD in Computer Science - Computational Linguistics - University of Évora, Portugal; Master Degree in Arts Applied Linguistics - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul Brazil; Specialization in Portuguese Language - Faculty Porto-Alegrense FAPA - Brazil; Graduation in Letters - Portuguese Language and Brazilian and Portuguese Literature - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. Academic and Teaching Experience: In Brazil Assistant Professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS - www.pucrs.br; - Lector Instructor Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFGRS - http://www6.ufrgs.br/letras/ - Assistant Professor - Universidade de Caxias do Sul UCShttp://www.ucs.br/portais/curso143/www.ucs.br, all of experiences on Department of Arts, related areas: Portuguese Language, Textual and Discursive Linguistics and Portuguese Foreign and second Language.Overseas Teaching Experience: In Africa - Lector Instructor - Université Cheikh Anta Diop - UCAD Dakar, Senegal, Africa.http://www.ucad.sn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=771&Itemid=357, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, related areas: Portuguese Language and Brazilian Culture and Civilization, Phonetic Laboratory of Portuguese Languge. In Portugal Invited Professor University of Evora, www.uevora.pt in Post-Graduation Master Studies in Translation.In China - Assistant Professor, University of Macau, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Portuguese Department.http://www.umac.mo/fsh/dp/staff/Ana_Luisa_Varani_Leal.html.Developed The Autema-Dis, software in PhD Studies in Computer Science - Computational Linguistics at University of Évora and actually, is the principal investigator on 03 research projects: * AuTema-Dis II - Automatic Analyses of Thematic Discursive *AuTema Syntree - Annotation and Analysis of Bilingual Syntactic Trees for Chinese/Portuguese *AuTema-PostEd - Post-editing of machine translated texts by Portuguese-Chinese Translation System (PCT). Research Areas: linguistics, automatic translation, translation studies.

bachelor's at Licenciatura em Língua Portug. e Lit. Bras. e Por from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (1992), master's at Linguistics from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (1996) and doctor in Informatics by Universidade de Évora (2009). He is currently assistant professor - full time at University of Macau. Doctor Leal have experience in Linguistics, focusing in Applied Linguistics, acting on the following subjects: NLP, Automatic Translation, Computational Linguistics, Portuguese Second Language, Syntax and Semantic of Portuguese.