--- title: "Catarina Silva — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Catarina Silva, University of Coimbra: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 23 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/catarina-silva/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/catarina-silva/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Catarina Silva # Catarina Silva Catarina Silva has 4 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Information extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/), [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hugo-goncalo-oliveira/), [Tomás Pinto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tomas-pinto/). 4 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100371897) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5656-0061) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61122618) · [**h-index 23**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100371897) · [189 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100371897) · [3,685 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100371897&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/catarina-silva/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13270](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/133/#star-13270) 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=Catarina+Silva) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Catarina+Silva) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Catarina+Silva) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Catarina+Silva) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Coimbra** Coimbra · Portugal 2000–2026 · 120 papersEmployment since 2023 · Professor Associado, Departamento de Engenharia Informática*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-coimbra/) · [🎓**Universidade de Leiria e Oeste** Leiria · Portugal 2000–2019 · 83 papers](https://ror.org/010dvvh94) · [🔬**Centro de Investigação em Informática e Comunicações** Leiria · Portugal 2011 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/03r76m759) 🏛️**Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia** Coimbra · [Portugal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/portugal/) 2019–2023Education until 2009 · PhD, Department of Informatics EngineeringEducation until 2000 · MSc, Department of Informatics EngineeringEducation until 1997 · BSc., Department of Electrotechnical EngineeringEmployment 2019–2023 · Auxiliar Professor, Informatics Engineering Department 🏛️**FCTUC** Coimbra · [Portugal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/portugal/) 2019Education until 1997Employment since 2019 🏛️**Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão** Leiria · [Portugal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/portugal/) 1997–2019Employment 1997–2001 · Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics EngineeringEmployment 2001–2019 · Adjoint Professor, Department of Informatics Engineering From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 10 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Law · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/law/) · [Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/molecular-biology/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 7 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information extraction · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Legal AI · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/catarina-silva/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Scientific Knowledge QA in European Portuguese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/matos-2026-benchmarking-retrieval-augmented-generation-scientific/)** *(2026)* The paper asks whether retrieval-augmented generation helps small open language models answer scientific multiple-choice questions in European Portuguese (pt-PT), and how much the outcome depends on retrieval design. 2. **[Evaluating Generative Large Language Models for Portuguese Scientific Information Extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pinto-2026-evaluating-generative-large-language-models/)** *(2026)* Scientific knowledge graphs (SciKGs) depend on reliable extraction of entities and relations from research papers. 3. **[Prompt Engineering for Named Entity Extraction from Portuguese Legal Documents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maffeo-2026-prompt-engineering-named-entity-extraction/)** *(2026)* Supervised NER for Portuguese legal texts is limited because annotated corpora are scarce and expensive to build. 4. **[RelEx-PT: A Portuguese Sentence-Level Relation Extraction Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pinto-2026-relex-pt-portuguese-sentence-level/)** *(2026)* Portuguese relation extraction lacks clean, controlled benchmarks. Existing resources tend to cover narrow domains, are skewed toward a few relations, target multi-sentence contexts, or depend on costly manual annotation. The authors address this with RelEx-PT, a natively Portuguese dataset in which each sentence has… ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hugo-goncalo-oliveira/) ×4 - [Tomás Pinto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tomas-pinto/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP) @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nslp/) ×2: [Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP) @ LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nslp/2026/) ×2 - [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/) Updated 1 November 2026