Rate My Professor Ricardo Campos

As a senior researcher at LIAAD-INESC TEC and collaborator at Ci2.ipt, Campos specializes in Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), focusing on extracting, structuring, and analyzing information from large text collections, including narrative extraction and entity-event relationships. He is the lead author of YAKE!, a widely adopted open-source keyword extraction method used in research and industry. He has led FCT-funded projects like CitiLink for AI-structured municipal minutes and Tell Me Stories. His influential publications include "Survey of temporal information retrieval and related applications" (ACM Computing Surveys, 2015), "YAKE! Collection-Independent Automatic Keyword Extractor" (ECIR 2018), "Contrastive text summarization: a survey" (2024), and "ACE-2005-PT: Corpus for Event Extraction in Portuguese" (2024). Campos' research has garnered over 3,000 citations and multiple awards, such as Best Demo at ECIR 2025, Prémio Arquivo.pt 2025 First Place, and best paper distinctions at international conferences. He contributes editorially to the Journal of Data Science and Analytics (Springer) and formerly Information Processing & Management (Elsevier), serves on programme committees, and is a member of Portulan Clarin's Scientific Advisory Forum.