António José RODRIGUES LEAL
Education
Doctor in Linguistics, University of Porto, Portugal
Research Interests
- semantics of tense, aspect and quantification (in particular, in Portuguese)
- verbs of movement, prepositions and the expression of location (in different varieties of Portuguese and typologically distinct languages)
- discourse relations
- annotation of corpora with semantic information for various purposes
Courses Regularly Taught
Associate Professor, University of Porto, Portugal
Zhang, Zichen, Gomes, Juliana Novo & António Leal. 2025. Processing non-culminating accomplishments in European Portuguese. RLLT 26, eds. Pilar Barbosa, Cristina Flores, Esther Rinke, Eva-Maria Roessler. Special Issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 11(7)/9, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.572
Fernandes, Ana Luísa, Silvano, Purificação, Leal, António, Guimarães, Nuno & Evelin Amorim. 2025. Can ISO24617-1 go clinical? Extending a General-Domain Scheme to Medical Narratives. In Harry Bunt (ed.), Proceedings of ISA-21: The 21th Joint ACL – ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation. https://aclanthology.org/2025.isa-1.5/
Leal, António, Silvano, Purificação, Qinren, Zuo, Amorim, Evelin & Alípio Jorge. 2025. An annotation scheme for financial news in Portuguese. In Harry Bunt (ed.), Proceedings of ISA-21: The 21th Joint ACL – ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation. https://aclanthology.org/2025.isa-1.7/
Fernandes, Ana Luísa, Silvano, Purificação, Guimarães, Nuno, Rb-Silva, Rita, Munna, Tahsir Ahmed, Cunha, Filipe, Leal, António, Campos, Ricardo & Alípio Jorge. 2025. Human Experts vs. Large Language Models: Evaluating Annotation Scheme and Guidelines Development for Clinical Narratives. Text2Story– Eighth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts held in conjunction with the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval, April 10th, 2025, Lucca, Italy. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3964/paper13.pdf
Fernandes, Ana Luisa, Silvano, Purificação, Leal, António, Guimarães, Nuno, Rb-Silva, Rita, Cunha, Luís Filipe & Alípio Jorge. 2025. Enhancing an Annotation Scheme for Clinical Narratives in Portuguese through Human Variation Analysis. In Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025), pages 332–343, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2025.law-1.28/
Evelin Amorim, António Leal, Nana Yu, Purificação Moura Silvano, and Alipio Mario Jorge. 2025. Visual Representations of Temporal Relations between Events and Time Expressions in News Stories. In Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025), pages 250–263, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2025.law-1.20/