Ricardo Valverde Lopes
Software Dev @ Cult of Bits
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Software Dev @ Cult of Bits
2024-Now
At Cult of Bits, I support operational teams by helping design and implement client-specific solutions, streamline day-to-day work and developing more Intelligent Business Operations. (Java | Groovy | JS | Vue)
GlórIA: A European Portuguese Language Model
2022-23
As part of my Master’s dissertation, I developed and released GlórIA, a transformer-based language model focused on European Portuguese (PT-PT). Trained using data from sources like Arquivo.pt, the model aims to strengthen the foundation for advanced NLP research in Portuguese, including tasks like chain-of-thought and few-shot reasoning. Available on Hugging Face. The project was presented at PROPOR 2024.
ArquiWiz.pt – Research Grant Project on QA and Web Archives
2022-23
Awarded a research grant to develop Arquiwiz.pt, a platform built in collaboration for the 2023 Arquivo.pt Award. It features QA-based information retrieval using cutting-edge language models and dynamic temporal graph visualizations.