Rate My Professor Ricardo Campos

Ricardo Campos serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI). He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Porto, MSc in Computer Engineering from UBI, and BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from UBI. Since 2025, he has directed the MSc programme in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at UBI. His excellence in teaching earned him the UBI Pedagogical Award in 2025 and two Best Teacher Awards from Porto Business School (PBS), where he is an invited professor delivering courses on data science, generative AI, and programming. Previously, he spent nearly two decades at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (IPT), developing information technology programmes and directing the BSc in Information and Communication Technologies.

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.