--- title: "Afonso Simplício — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Afonso Simplício, Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/afonso-simplicio/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/afonso-simplicio/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Afonso Simplício # Afonso Simplício Afonso Simplício has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Diogo Tavares](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diogo-tavares/), [Gonçalo Vinagre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/goncalo-vinagre/), [Inês Calvo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ines-calvo/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5114847714) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5114847714) · [6 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5114847714) · [1 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5114847714&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/afonso-simplicio/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 3 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/afonso-simplicio/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10867](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/109/#star-10867) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Afonso+Simpl%C3%ADcio) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Afonso+Simpl%C3%ADcio) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Afonso+Simpl%C3%ADcio) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Afonso+Simpl%C3%ADcio) ## Affiliations [🔬**Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática** Costa da Caparica · Portugal 2024–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratorio-para-a-ciencia-da-computacao-e-informatica/) · [🎓**Universidade Nova de Lisboa** Lisbon · Portugal 2024–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidade-nova-de-lisboa/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/afonso-simplicio/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[PHEB: An European Portuguese High School-Level LLM Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tavares-2026-pheb-european-portuguese-high-school/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Evaluation of LLMs in European Portuguese (PT-PT) mostly relies on benchmarks machine-translated from English or built for Brazilian Portuguese. 2. **[AMALIA: A Fully Open Large Language Model for European Portuguese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/simplicio-2026-amalia-fully-open-large-language/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Open LLMs are trained mostly on English, and European Portuguese (pt-PT) gets little attention. Its evaluation also tends to use machine-translated benchmarks that miss the variety's linguistic and cultural traits, and models often drift toward Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR). AMALIA addresses this as a fully open model… ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Diogo Tavares](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diogo-tavares/) ×2 - [Gonçalo Vinagre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/goncalo-vinagre/) ×2 - [Inês Calvo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ines-calvo/) ×2 - [Inês Vieira](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ines-vieira/) ×2 - [Rafael Ferreira](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rafael-ferreira/) ×2 - [David Semedo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-semedo/) - [Duarte M. Alves](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/duarte-m-alves/) - [Giuseppe Attanasio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giuseppe-attanasio/) - [James Furtado](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-furtado/) - [João Magalhães](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joao-magalhaes/) - [Miguel Moura Ramos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miguel-moura-ramos/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/) - [International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/propor/): [International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/propor/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/afonso-simplicio/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026