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20232026
most citedAdvancing Neural Encoding of Portuguese with Transformer Albertina PT-*

36 citations · 49 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.CL2026

Progressing beyond Art Masterpieces or Touristic Clichés: how to assess your LLMs for cultural alignment?

António Branco, João Silva, Nuno Marques +10

Although the cultural (mis)alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) has attracted increasing attention -- often framed in terms of cultural bias -- until recently there has been l…

cs.CL2026

CLARIN-PT-LDB: An Open LLM Leaderboard for Portuguese to assess Language, Culture and Civility

João Silva, Luís Gomes, António Branco

This paper reports on the development of a leaderboard of Open Large Language Models (LLM) for European Portuguese (PT-PT), and on its associated benchmarks. This leaderboard comes…

cs.CL2026

Sovereign AI-based Public Services are Viable and Affordable

António Branco, Luís Gomes, Rodrigo Santos +4

The rapid expansion of AI-based remote services has intensified debates about the long-term implications of growing structural concentration in infrastructure and expertise. As AI…

cs.CL2024

Open Sentence Embeddings for Portuguese with the Serafim PT* encoders family

Luís Gomes, António Branco, João Silva +2

Sentence encoder encode the semantics of their input, enabling key downstream applications such as classification, clustering, or retrieval. In this paper, we present Serafim PT*,…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

PORTULAN ExtraGLUE Datasets and Models: Kick-starting a Benchmark for the Neural Processing of Portuguese

Tomás Osório, Bernardo Leite, Henrique Lopes Cardoso +4

Leveraging research on the neural modelling of Portuguese, we contribute a collection of datasets for an array of language processing tasks and a corresponding collection of fine-t…

cs.CL2024★ 6 cited

Fostering the Ecosystem of Open Neural Encoders for Portuguese with Albertina PT* Family

Rodrigo Santos, João Rodrigues, Luís Gomes +5

To foster the neural encoding of Portuguese, this paper contributes foundation encoder models that represent an expansion of the still very scarce ecosystem of large language model…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Advancing Generative AI for Portuguese with Open Decoder Gervásio PT*

Rodrigo Santos, João Silva, Luís Gomes +2

To advance the neural decoding of Portuguese, in this paper we present a fully open Transformer-based, instruction-tuned decoder model that sets a new state of the art in this resp…

cs.CL2023★ 36 cited

Advancing Neural Encoding of Portuguese with Transformer Albertina PT-*

João Rodrigues, Luís Gomes, João Silva +4

To advance the neural encoding of Portuguese (PT), and a fortiori the technological preparation of this language for the digital age, we developed a Transformer-based foundation mo…