curriculum vitae

Tiago Timponi Torrent, Ph.D.

Professor at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF) 

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 Portuguese Language and Linguistics Department |FrameNet Brasil Lab

Campus Universitário – Juiz de Fora, MG – Brazil – 36036-900

+55 32 988035720 |  tiago.torrent@ufjf.br |  http://tiagotorrent.com

SKILLS

Design of Innovative Solutions for Socially Relevant Problems
Over ten years of experience in conceptualizing, prototyping, and implementing technology-driven solutions addressing real-world societal challenges. Demonstrated ability to translate complex ideas into practical, scalable, and user-centric applications.

Interdisciplinary Research Leadership
Fifteen years of leading an international, interdisciplinary research and innovation lab, bringing together linguists, computer scientists, data analysts, journalists, designers, and educators. Adept at coordinating cross-functional teams, securing funding, and managing large-scale collaborative research projects.

Community Building & Mentoring
A decade of fostering and sustaining scientific communities, creating collaborative platforms, and establishing governance structures to strengthen global research networks. Proven track record in mentoring early-career researchers and expanding academic partnerships.

Strategic Planning and Foresight
Excellent organizational and scenario-based forecasting skills. Skilled in developing and executing long-term visions and strategies for both research agendas and institutional growth, while adapting to rapidly evolving academic and technological landscapes.

Grant Proposal Development & Funding Acquisition
Holds the university’s record for securing the highest amount of external research funding in the Humanities, Linguistics and Arts. Demonstrated success in writing, coordinating, and winning competitive grants for large-scale, interdisciplinary projects. Skilled at crafting compelling proposals, meeting agency requirements, and building strategic partnerships to ensure sustained funding and institutional support.

Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
Recognized expertise in mediating diverse stakeholder needs, resolving conflicts constructively, and facilitating open lines of communication across various cultural and disciplinary backgrounds.

FORMAL EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Linguistics (Oct. 2009)
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with visiting researcher period at the University of California, Berkeley

Master in Linguistics (Apr. 2005)
Federal University of Juiz de Fora, UFJF, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

Bachelor in Languages (Portuguese and Latin) (Mar. 2003)
Federal University of Juiz de Fora, UFJF, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Artificial Intelligence; Natural Language Processing and Generation; Frame Semantics & Construction Grammar; Multimodality; Cognitive Foundations of Scenario Forecasting.

AWARDS

ABRALIN Prize for Technological and Innovative Research on Linguistics (Sep. 2021)
Brazilian Linguistics Association

RECENT PANELS AND INVITED KEYNOTES

AI Meets Language: International Seminar on Applied Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence 2025, Spain
Keynote: Copilots for Linguists Reloaded

Global Digital Health Forum 2025, Kenya
Panel: Leveraging Digital Health Data Systems to Transform Response to Gender-Based Violence (GBV)

The 6th International FrameNet Workshop 2025 (IFNW 2025): Frames and Cognitively Grounded Language Resources in Linguistics and AI 2025, Japan
Keynote: FrameNet for Responsible, Explainable AI

International Conference on Multimodal Communication: Disruption in Education: Multimodal Communication in Education, Research, and Learning 2024, China
Keynote: Reframing Education in the Age of Copilots: multimodal language capacities for an ever-changing AI-oriented world

21st EURALEX International Congress: Lexicography and Semantics 2024, Croatia 
Keynote: Possible Futures for Semantic Lexical Resources in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 

Internet Governance Forum - Lusophony Chapter 2024, Cape Verde 
Panel: AI in Portuguese: Why, what and how to do it? 

T20 AI Summit: Bridging Boundaries 2024, Brazil 
Panel: Challenges of Text and Data Mining (TDM), Cultural Inclusion and Information Integrity 

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) (Jun. 2010 – present)
Professor of Linguistics and Lead Researcher at the FrameNet Brasil Computational Linguistics Lab, managing large-scale, multinational research projects, and fostering multiple innovative mentoring efforts both in Brazil and at partner universities worldwide.

National Research Institute of Science and Technology on Responsible AI for Computational Linguistics and Information Treatment and Dissemination (INCT-TILDIAR) (May. 2025 – present)
Coordinator of the Repositories and Other Language Resources track, responsible for overseeing all dataset and LR-related projects.

Data to Stop Gender-Based Violence in Brazil (Fev. 2023 – present)
Head Linguist overseeing the conceptualization and deployment of AI-driven solutions for public health interventions, with a focus on early detection and prevention of gender-based violence against women.

Göteborgs Universitet (GU) (Aug. 2022 – Jan. 2023)
Guest Professor at the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism and Language Technology, hired to foster collaboration among research teams developing language technology tools in Europe, Asia and America.

Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) (Fev. 2021 – present)
Research Productivity Grantee, leading research and innovation initiatives focusing on bringing together the contributions of language resources and large language models for the development of responsible, explainable AI.  

Universidade Salgado de Oliveira (Aug. 2003 – Jun. 2010)
Assistant Professor, Languages Department, teaching Linguistics and language skills for several undergraduate programs, including Computer Sciences, Engineering, Law, Social Services, Education and Liberal Arts.

AFFILIATIONS

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (Aug. 2024 – present)
Secretary, Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLex)

International Multimodal Communication Centre, Oxford University (Jul. 2022 – present)
Key Researcher

Global FrameNet (GFN) (Aug. 2016 – present)
Founding member; President

Brazilian Linguistics Association (ABRALIN) (Jul. 2020 – Aug. 2021)
President of the Scientific Committee on Computational and Corpus Linguistics

COURSES TAUGHT AT UFJF

Graduate Division Courses: Cognitive Linguistics; Construction Grammar; Computational Linguistics; Multimodal Semantic Representation; History of Language Sciences 

Undergraduate Division Courses: Linguistics 101; Cognitive Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Technology; Natural Language Processing; AI for Education

ACADEMIC SUPERVISIONS

Post-Doc Supervisions: 6 concluded, 3 ongoing
Doctorate Supervisions: 10 concluded, 6 ongoing
Masters Supervisions: 13 concluded, 2 ongoing
BA Supervisions: 44 concluded, 4 ongoing
Google Summer of Code Supervisions: 8 concluded

MANAGEMENT STAFF POSITIONS AT UFJF

Dean of the Graduate Program in Linguistics  (Aug. 2017 – Jun. 2026)
Responsible for the promotion of the Graduate Program in Linguistics to the level of international excellence  in the Brazilian national assessment system.

Coordinator General of International Relations (Sep. 2014 – Mar. 2016)
Responsible for overseeing international exchange programs in which more than 400 undergraduate students from UFJF participated.

CURRENT RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

ReINVenTA - Research and Innovation Network for Visual and Textual Analysis of Multimodal Objects – https://www2.ufjf.br/framenetbr/reinventa/
Research and development multicentric project developing a dataset and AI model for computational processing of multimodal communication
Funding: CNPq | U$ 150,000.00, FAPEMIG | U$ 200,000.00

Leveraging data linkage and frame-based textual analysis for the identification of candidate cases prone to suffer from GBV in territories – https://datatostopgbv.org/
Bilateral FrameNet Brasil-Vital Strategies collaboration in research and solution development
Funding: Patrick J. McGovern Foundation | U$ 125,000.00, Vital Strategies Brazil | U$ 125,000.00, Google.org | U$ 25,000.00

AI from and for Linguistics: Datasets for Brazilian Portuguese
Research productivity grant awarded to Brazilian scientists whose research results, publication, as well as training of new scientists are most impactful in the country
Funding: CNPq | U$ 16,000.00

PAST RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

Comparing Languages with Frames and Constructions: Multilingual Resources and Machine Translation
Bilateral Brazil-Germany collaboration in research and graduate education focusing on the development of frame-based tools for machine translation.
Funding: CAPES/DAAD | U$ 145,000.00

Frames and Constructions in Contrast
Bilateral Brazil-Sweden collaboration in research and graduate education focusing on the alignment of grammatical resources using interlingual representations.
Funding: CAPES/STINT | U$ 117,000.00

Lutma: a Frame Maker Tool
Innovative development project for building a tutorial-based app for collaborative FrameNet expansion for multiple languages.
Funding: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | U$ 20,000.00

Reframing Language Models: towards a multilingual, multimodal and multicentric FrameNet
Research productivity grant awarded to Brazilian scientists whose research results, publication, as well as training of new scientists are most impactful in the country
Funding: CNPq | U$ 8,000.00

SELECTED PUBLICATION

Books

TORRENT, T. T.; TURNER, M. (in preparation). FutureMind: How Human Cognition Shapes the Way We Think About Our Futures. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

TORRENT, T. T.; HOFFMAN, T.; ALMEIDA, A. L.; TURNER, M. (2023). Co-Pilots for Linguists: AI, Constructions and Frames. Cambridge Elements Series in Construction Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

TORRENT, T. T.; MATOS, E. E. S.; SIGILIANO, N. S. (Eds.) (2022). Construction Grammar Across Borders. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

LYNGFELT, B.; BORIN, L.; OHARA, K.; TORRENT, T. T. (Eds.) (2018). Constructicography: Constructicon development across languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Articles in conference proceedings 

DUTRA, L. V.; LORENZI, A.; BERNO, L.; CAMPOS, F.; BISCARDI, K.; BROWN, K.; VIRIDIANO, M.; BELCAVELLO, F.; MATOS, E. E.; GUARANHA, O.; SANTOS, E.; REINACH, S.; TORRENT, T. T. (2026). Frame Semantic Patterns for Identifying Underreporting of Notifiable Events in Healthcare: The Case of Gender-Based Violence. In: The Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), 2026, Palma. Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), v. 1. p. 694-704.

DUTRA, L. V.; ALMEIDA, A. L.; BELCAVELLO, F.; MATOS, E. E.; VIRIDIANO, M.; LARRE, L. T.; GUARANHA, O.; SANTOS, E.; REINACH, S.; PAULA, P. C. B.; TORRENT, T. T. (2026). Evaluating FrameNet-Based Semantic Modeling for Gender-Based Violence Detection in Clinical Records. In: 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2026), 2026, Salvador. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2026). Kerrville: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), v. 2. p. 49-57.

FERRAZ, C. F.; MATOS, E. E.; BELCAVELLO, F.; GASPARETTO, J.; OLIVEIRA, J.; WILDFEURER, J.; TORRENT, T. T.  (2026). A Frame and Canvas-Based Perspective-Encoding Methodology for Multimodal Semantic Annotation of Classroom Settings. In: 22nd Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation and Representation @ LREC 2026, 2026, Palma. Proceedings of The 22nd Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation and Representation. Paris: ELRA, v. 1. p. 22-32.

BELCAVELLO, F.; MATOS, E. E.; ALMEIDA, A. L.; BONOTO, L.; RUIZ, L. P.; PEREIRA, L. F. ; HERBST, V. ; NAVARRO, Y. L. ; ABREU, H. A.; DUTRA, L. V.; TORRENT, T. T. (2026). Evaluating the Impact of LLM-Assisted Annotation in a Perspectivized Setting: The Case of FrameNet Annotation. In: 22nd Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation and Representation @ LREC, 2026, Palma. Proceedings of The 22nd Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation and Representation. Paris: ELRA, 2026. v. 1. p. 77-87.

GAMONAL, M. A.; PAGANO, A. S.; TORRENT, T. T.; MATOS, E. E. S. (2025). Frame-Based Semantic Representation and Similarity Analysis in Audio Description Scripts. In Anais do XVI Simpósio Brasileiro de Tecnologia da Informação e da Linguagem Humana, p. 534-541. Porto Alegre: SBC.

MITCHELL, M. ; ATTANASIO, G. ; BALDINI, I. ; CLINCIU, M. ; CLIVE, J. ; DELOBELLE, P. ; DEY, M. ; HAMILTON, S. ; DILL, T. ; DOUGHMAN, J. ; DUTT, R. ; GHOSH, A. ; FORDE, J. Z. ; HOLTERMANN, C. ; KAFFEE, L. ; LAUD, T. ; LAUSCHER, A. ; LOPEZ-DAVILA, R. L. ; MASOUD, M. ; TORRENT, T. T. ; et.al. (2025). SHADES: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language Models. In: Luis Chiruzzo; Alan Ritter; Lu Wang. (Org.). Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers). 1ed.Albuquerque, New Mexico: Association for Computational Linguistics, v. 1, p. 11995-12041.

VILLA-CUEVA, E.; BOLATZHANOVA, S.; TURMAKHAN, D.; ELZEKY, K.; ADEMTEW, H. B.; AJI, A. F.; ARAUJO, V.; AZIME, I. A.; BAEK, J.; BELCAVELLO, F.; CRISTOBAL, F.; CRUZ, J. C. B.; DABRE, M.; DABRE, R.; EHSAN, T.; ETORI, N. A.; FAROOQUI, F.; GENG, J.; IVETTA, G.; TORRENT, T. T.; et.al. (2025). CaMMT: Benchmarking Culturally Aware Multimodal Machine Translation. In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025, Suzhou. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025. Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 22423-22441.

GAMONAL, M. A.; TORRENT, T. T.; MATOS, E. E.; PAGANO, A. S.; BELCAVELLO, F.; MAYER, F. A.; ALMEIDA, A. L.; SIGILIANO, N. S.; ABREU, H. A.; DUTRA, L. V.; VIRIDIANO, M.; CONEGLIAN, A. V. L.; HERBST, V.; CAMPOS, F.; BROWN, K.; RUIZ, L. P.; BONOTO, L.; PEREIRA, L. F.; NAVARRO, Y. L. (2025). Audition: A Frame-Annotated Multimodal Dataset for Accessible Audiovisual Content. In: Second Workshop on Multimodal Semantic Representation (MSR II), 2025, Düsseldorf. Proceedings of the 21st Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-21) including a contribution of the Second Workshop on Multimodal Semantic Representation (MSR II). Tiburg: Tilburg University, 2025. v. 1. p. 95-104.

LARRE, L. T. ; TORRENT, T. T. (2024). Modelagem baseada em frames para identificação do léxico da Violência de Gênero. In: Simpósio Brasileiro de Tecnologia da Informação e da Linguagem Humana, 2024, Belém/PA. Anais do XV Simpósio Brasileiro de Tecnologia da Informação e da Linguagem Humana. Porto Alegre: SBC, v. 1. p. 403-412.

ROMERO, D.; LYU, C.; AKBARIANTO WIBOWO, H.; LYNN, T.; HAMED, I.; NANDA KISHORE, A.; …  TORRENT, T. T.; EHSAN, T.; ARAUJO, V.;  KEMENTCHEDJHIEVA, Y.;BURZO, Z.; WEI LIM, Z.;  YONG, Z. X.; IGNAT, O.; NWATU, J.; MIHALCEA, R.; SOLORIO, T.; FIKRI AJI, A. (2024). CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 37.

GAMONAL, M. A. ; PAGANO, A. S. ; TORRENT, T. T. ; MATOS, E. E. ; ALMEIDA, A. L. (2024). Automated Semantic Frame Annotation – An Exploratory Study in the Health Domain. In: Kristina Despot; Ana Ostroski Anić; Ivana Brač. (Org.). Lexicography and Semantics ? Proceedings of the XXI EURALEX International Congress. 1ed. Cavtat, Croatia: EURALEX, v. 1, p. 61-74.

VIRIDIANO, M.; ALMEIDA, A. L.; TORRENT, T. T.; MATOS, E. E.; PAGANO, A. S.; SIGILIANO, N. S.; GAMONAL, M. A.; ABREU, H. A.; DUTRA, L. V.; SAMAGAIO, M. M.; PINTO, M. C.; CAMPOS, F.; BRAZ, G. A.; MAZZEI, B.; OLIVEIRA, M. F.; LUZ, A. C. L.; RUIZ, L. P.; XAVIER, J. B.; PESTANA, A.; COSTA, J.; RABELO, I.; SILVA, A. B.; ROZA, R.; MOTA, M. S.; OLIVEIRA, I.; FREITAS, M. H. P. (2024). Framed Multi30K: A Frame-Based Multimodal-Multilingual Dataset. In: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). Torino: ELRA/ICCL, p.7438 - 7449

BELCAVELLO, F.; TORRENT, T. T.; MATOS, E. E.; PAGANO, A. S.; GAMONAL, M. A.; SIGILIANO, N. S.; DUTRA, L. V.; ABREU, H. A.; SAMAGAIO, M. M.; PINTO, M. C.; CAMPOS, F.; BRAZ, G. A.; MAZZEI, B.; OLIVEIRA, M. F.; LUZ, A. C. L.; RUIZ, L. P.; XAVIER, J. B.; PESTANA, A.; COSTA, J.; RABELO, I.; SILVA, A. B.; ROZA, R.; MOTA, M. S.; OLIVEIRA, I. (2024). Frame2: A FrameNet-based Multimodal Dataset for Tackling Text-image Interactions in Video. In: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). Torino: ELRA/ICCL, p.7429 - 7437.

ALMEIDA, A. L.; LJUNGLÖF, P.; LYNGFELT, B.; TORRENT, T. T.; CROFT, W.; ZIEM, A.; BOBEL, N.; BÄCKSTRÖM, L.; UHRIG, P.; MATOS, E. E. (2024). MoCCA: A Model of Comparative Concepts for Aligning Constructicons. In: Proceedings of the 20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation @LREC-COLING-2024. Torino: ELRA/ICCL, 2024. p.93 - 98

SAMAGAIO, M. M.; TORRENT, T. T.; ALMEIDA, A. L.; MATOS, E. E. (2024). Semantic Permanence in Audiovisual Translation: a FrameNet approach to subtitling. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2024. Straoudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p.168-176.

DUTRA, L. V.; ALMEIDA, A. L.; LARRE, L. T.; BELCAVELLO, F.; MATOS, E. E.; PESTANA, A.; BROWN, K.; GONCALVES, M.; HERBST, V.; REINACH, S.; TEIXEIRA, R.; PAULA, P. C. B.; PELLINI, A.; CERQUEIRA, C.; SABINO, E.; LEAL, F.; CONDE, M.; GRESPAN, R.; TORRENT, T. T. (2023). Building a Frame-Semantic Model of the Healthcare Domain: Towards the identification of gender-based violence in public health data. In: Anais do XIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Tecnologia da Informação e da Linguagem Humana (STIL). Porto Alegre: SBC, p.346 - 354.

LUZ, A. C. L.; BRAZ, G.; RUIZ, L. P.; PINTO, M. C.; BELCAVELLO, F.; SIGILIANO, N. S.; TORRENT, T. T. (2023). Anotação do Dataset Multimodal da ReINVenTA. In: Anais do XIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Tecnologia da Informação e da Linguagem Humana (STIL). Porto Alegre: SBC, p.360 - 364.

ALMEIDA, A. L.; ALMEIDA, V. G.; MATOS, E. E.; TORRENT, T. T. (2023). Modeling Construction Grammar’s Way into NLP: Insights from negative results in automatically identifying schematic clausal constructions in Brazilian Portuguese. Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 96-109.

TORRENT, T. T.; ALMEIDA, A. L.; MATOS, E. E.; BELCAVELLO, F.; VIRIDIANO, M.; GAMONAL, M. A. (2022). Lutma: a Frame-Making Tool for Collaborative FrameNet Development. In: G. ABERCROMBIE; V. BASILE; S. TONELLU; V. RIESER; A. UMA. (Org.). Proceedings of the LREC 2022 workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP (NLPerspectives). 1ed.Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 100-107. 

VIRIDIANO, M.; TORRENT, T. T.; CZULO, O.; ALMEIDA, A. L.; MATOS, E. E.; BELCAVELLO, F. (2022). The Case for Perspective in Multimodal Datasets. In: G. ABERCROMBIE; V. BASILE; S. TONELLU; V. RIESER; A. UMA. (Org.). Proceedings of the LREC 2022 workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP (NLPerspectives). 1ed.Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 108-116. 

BELCAVELLO, F.; VIRIDIANO, M.; MATOS, E. E.; TORRENT, T. T. (2022). Charon: a FrameNet Annotation Tool for Multimodal Corpora. In: S. PRADHAN; S. KÜBLER. (Org.). Proceedings of the 16th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVI 2022). 1ed.Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 91-96. 

DINIZ DA COSTA, A.; MARIM, M. C.; MATOS, E. E.; TORRENT, T. T. (2022). Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation using a Qualia-Enriched FrameNet. In: N. CALZOLARI; F. BÉCHET; P. BLACHE; K. CHOUKRI; C. CIERI; T. DECLERCK; S. GOGGI; H. ISAHARA; B. MAEGAARD; J. MARIANI; H. MAZO; J. ODIJK; S. PIPERIDIS. (Org.). LREC 2022 Conference Proceedings. 1ed.Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 1-12. 

YONG, Z.; WATSON, P. D.; TORRENT, T. T.; CZULO, O.; BAKER, C. F. (2022). Frame Shift Prediction. In: N. CALZOLARI; F. BÉCHET; P. BLACHE; K. CHOUKRI; C. CIERI; T. DECLERCK; S. GOGGI; H. ISAHARA; B. MAEGAARD; J. MARIANI; H. MAZO; J. ODIJK; S. PIPERIDIS. (Org.). LREC 2022 Conference Proceedings. 1ed.Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA),  p. 976-986.

TROTT, S.; TORRENT, T. T.; CHANG, N.; SCHNEIDER, N. (2020). (Re)construing meaning in NLP. In: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Online: ACL, p.5170-5184.

CZULO, O.; ZIEM, A.; TORRENT, T. T. (2020). Beyond lexical semantics: notes on pragmatic frames. In: Proceedings of the LREC International FrameNet Workshop 2020: Towards a Global, Multilingual FrameNet. Marseille, France: ELRA, p. 1-7.  

BELCAVELLO, F.; VIRIDIANO, M.; DINIZ DA COSTA, A.; MATOS, E. E.; TORRENT, T. T. (2020). Frame-Based Annotation of Multimodal Corpora: Tracking (A)Synchronies in Meaning Construction. In: Proceedings of the LREC International FrameNet Workshop 2020: Towards a Global, Multilingual FrameNet. Marseille, France: ELRA, p. 23-30. 

YONG, Z.; TORRENT, T. T. (2020). Semi-supervised Deep Embedded Clustering with Anomaly Detection for Semantic Frame Induction. In: LREC 2020 Conference Proceedings. Marseille, France: ELRA, p. 3502-3512.

CZULO, O.; TORRENT, T. T.; MATOS, E. E. S.; DINIZ DA COSTA, A.; KAR, D. (2019). Designing a Frame-Semantic Machine Translation Evaluation Metric. In: Proceedings of the Second Workshop Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology associated with RANLP 2019. Shoumen: Incoma Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria, 2019. p. 28-35.

DINIZ DA COSTA, A.; GAMONAL, M. A.; PAIVA, V. M. R. L.; MARÇÃO, N. D.; PERON-CORRÊA, S.; ALMEIDA, V. G.; MATOS, E. E. S.; TORRENT, T. T. (2018). FrameNet-Based Modeling of the Domains of Tourism and Sports for the Development of a Personal Travel Assistant Application. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan: ELRA, p. 6-12.

TORRENT, T. T.; ELLSWORTH, M.; BAKER, C. F.; MATOS, E. E. (2018). The Multilingual FrameNet Shared Annotation Task: a Preliminary Report. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan: ELRA, p. 62-68.

MATOS, E. E.; TORRENT, T. T.; ALMEIDA, V. G.; SILVA, A. B. L.; LAGE, L. M.; MARCAO, N. D.; TAVARES, T. S. (2017). Constructional Analysis Using Constrained Spreading Activation in a FrameNet-Based Structured Connectionist Model In: The AAAI 2017 Spring Symposium on Computational Construction Grammar and Natural Language Understanding Technical Report SS-17-02. Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Publications, v.17, p.222-229.

SILVA, A. B. L.; LAGE, L. M.; MARCAO, N. D.; TAVARES, T. S.; ALMEIDA, V. G.; MATOS, E. E.; TORRENT, T. T. (2017). The Brazilian Portuguese Constructicon: Modeling Constructional Inheritance, Frame Evocation and Constraints in FrameNet Brasil. In: The AAAI 2017 Spring Symposium on Computational Construction Grammar and Natural Language Understanding Technical Report SS-17-02. Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Publications, v.17. p.193-196, 2017.

TORRENT, T. T.; SALOMÃO, M. M. M.; CAMPOS, F. C. A.; BRAGA, R. M. M.; MATOS, E. E.; GAMONAL, M. A.; GONCALVES, J.; SOUZA, B. C. P.; GOMES, D. S.; PERON, S. R. (2014). Copa 2014 FrameNet Brasil: a frame-based trilingual electronic dictionary for the Football World Cup. In: Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Dublin, Ireland: Dublin City University and Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 10-14.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

TORRENT, T. T.; CONEGLIAN, A. V. L. (2025). Multimodalidade: abordagens cognitivas e representações computacionais. CALIGRAMA: REVISTA DE ESTUDOS ROMÂNICOS, v. 30, p. 8-23.

TORRENT, T. T.; TURNER, M. ; HINRICHS, N. ; BELCAVELLO, F. ; SILVA, I. A. L. ; ALMEIDA, A. L. ; VIRIDIANO, M. ; MATOS, E. E. (2025). FutureVision: A methodology for the investigation of future cognition. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, v. 47, p. 1844-1850, 2025.

TORRENT, T. T.; MATOS, E. E. S.; COSTA, A. D.; GAMONAL, M. A.; PERON-CORREA, S. R.; PAIVA, V. M. R. L. (2024). A Flexible Tool for a Qualia-Enriched FrameNet: the FrameNet Brasil WebTool. Language Resources & Evaluation, p. 1–29.

CZULO, O.; ZIEM, A.; WILLICH, A.; TORRENT, T. T. (2023). A multilingual approach to the interaction between frames and constructions: towards a joint framework and methodology. Constructions and Frames, v. 15(1), p. 59–90..

TORRENT, T. T.; MATOS, E. E. S.; BELCAVELLO, F.; VIRIDIANO, M.; GAMONAL, M. A.; COSTA, A. D.; MARIM, M. C. (2022). Representing Context in FrameNet: A Multi-Dimensional, Multimodal Approach. Frontiers in Psychology, v. 13, article 838441. 

BÓBÓ, M. L. D. R.; CAMPOS, F.; STROELE, V.; DAVID, J. M. N.; BRAGA, R.; TORRENT, T. T. (2022). Using Sentiment Analysis to Identify Student Emotional State to Avoid Dropout in E-Learning. International Journal Of Distance Education Technologies, v. 20, p. 1-24.

MARÇÃO, N. D.; TORRENT, T. T. (2021). Modelagem de construções de pretérito imperfeito. [Computational modeling of imperfective past constructions]. Cadernos de Linguística, v. 2, n.3, p. e420.

TORRENT, T. T.; MATOS, E. E.; SIGILIANO, N. S. (2020). Construction grammar across borders. Constructions and Frames, v. 12, p. 1-7.

BOAS, H. C.; LYNGFELT, B.; TORRENT, T. T. (2019). Framing constructicography. Lexicographica, v. 35, p. 41-85. 

SIGILIANO, N. S.; TORRENT, T. T. (2019). FrameNet annotation as a means to identify genre-relevant linguistic structures. ScriptUM, v. 3, p. 1-20.

DINIZ DA COSTA, A.; ALMEIDA, V.; LAGE, L.; BARBOSA, G.; MARÇÃO, N.; PAIVA, V.; MATOS, E.; TORRENT, T. T. (2018). Representação computacional das construções de sujeito-predicado do português do Brasil. [Computational representation of Brazilian Portuguese subject-predicate constructions]. LinguíStica, v. 14(1), p. 149-178.

TORRENT, T. T.; LAGE, L. M.; TAVARES, T. S.; SILVA, A. B. L. (2017). Relações de Herança entre Construções e entre Frames: desafios da extensão do modelo construcionista para o domínio computacional no âmbito da FrameNet Brasil. [Inheritance relations between constructions and frames: challenges in extending the constructionist model to the computational domain within FrameNet Brasil]. DELTA, v. 33(1), p. 45-77.

GAMONAL, M.; TORRENT, T. T. (2016). The linguistic-computational modeling of metonymy in the FrameNet Brasil lexical database: a case study. LinguíStica, v. 12(1), p. 82-94.

GAMONAL, M.; TORRENT, T. T. (2015). Diretrizes para a criação de um recurso lexical multilíngue a partir da semântica de frames: a experiência turística em foco. [Guidelines for creating a multilingual lexical resource based on frame semantics: the tourist experience in focus]. Domínios de Lingu@gem, v. 9, p. 56-75.

TORRENT, T. T. ; LAGE, L. M. ; SAMPAIO, T. F. ; TAVARES, T. S. ; MATOS, E. E. (2014). Revisiting border conflicts between FrameNet and Construction Grammar: Annotation policies for the Brazilian Portuguese Constructicon. Constructions and Frames, v. 6, p. 34-51.

TORRENT, T. T. ; SALOMÃO, M. M. M. ; MATOS, E. E. ; GAMONAL, M. A. ; GONCALVES, J. ; SOUZA, B. C. P. ; GOMES, D. S. ; PERON, S. R. (2014). Multilingual lexicographic annotation for domain-specific electronic dictionaries: The Copa 2014 FrameNet Brasil project. Constructions and Frames, v. 6, p. 73-91.

GAMONAL, M. A.; TORRENT, T. T. (2014). Frames como interlíngua na estruturação de dicionários eletrônicos multilíngues de domínios especializados. [Frames as interlingua for structuring domain-specific multilingual electronic dictionaries]. Revista da ANPOLL, v. 1, p. 247-261.

SALOMÃO, M. M. M.; TORRENT, T. T.; SAMPAIO, T. F. (2013). A Linguística Cognitiva encontra a Linguística Computacional: Notícias do Projeto FrameNet Brasil. [Cognitive Linguistics meets Computational Linguistics: news from the FrameNet Brasil project]. Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos (UNICAMP), v. 55, p. 7-34.

TORRENT, T. T.; ELLSWORTH, M. J. (2013). Behind the Labels: Criteria for Defining Analytical Categories in FrameNet Brasil. Veredas (UFJF. Online), v. 17, p. 44-65.

TORRENT, T. T. (2011). The Construction Network Reconfiguration Hypothesis. Letras & Letras, v. 27, n. 1, p. 143-161.

REIS, A. R. G.; TORRENT, T. T. (2011). O Programa Gestar II: Características e Circunstâncias Locais. [The Gestar II Program: Characteristics and Local Circumstances]. Instrumento, v. 13, n.2, p. 145-152.

TORRENT, T. T. (2009). A Hipótese da Dupla Origem para a Construção de Dativo com Infinitivo: primeiras incursões pelo Português Medieval. [The Double-Origin Hypothesis for the Dative with Infinitive Construction: first incursions through Medieval Portuguese]. Revista da ABRALIN, v. 7, p. 65-92.

TORRENT, T. T. (2008). A construção de Dativo com Infinitivo: uma abordagem sociocognitivista e diacrônica. [The Dative with Infinitive construction: a sociocognitive, diachronic approach]. Veredas, v.12, n.1, p. 95-111.

TORRENT, T. T. (2007). A Gramaticalização das Construções Modalizadoras Herdeiras do Dativo com Infinitivo. [The Grammaticalization of Modal Constructions Inheriting the Dative with Infinitive Construction]. Domínios de Lingu@Gem, v. 1, n.2,  p. 1-22

Book chapters

GAMONAL, M. A. ; DUTRA, L. V. ; PINTO, M. C. ; TORRENT, T. T. (2026). PLN e Responsabilidade Social Aplicações da FrameNet-Br. In CASELI, H. M. C.; NUNES, M. G. V. (Org.). Processamento de Linguagem Natural Conceitos, Técnicas e Aplicações em Português. 4ed. São Carlos: BPLN, v. 3, p. 330-369.

HILPERT, M.; LYNGFELT, B.; TORRENT, T. T. (2025). The ConstructiCon: Language as a Cognitive Network of Constructions. In International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Amsterdam: Elsevier, p. 524-529.

LYNGFELT, B.; TORRENT, T. T. (2025). Constructicography. International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Amsterdam: Elsevier, p. 530-536.

FORTES, F. S.; TORRENT, T. T. (2025). Das Humanidades Digitais ao Uso de Inteligência Artificial nos Estudos Clássicos. In FORTES, F.; LEITE, L. R. (Org.). Estudos Clássicos: Questões Epistemológicas, Teóricas e Analíticas. Campinas: Odysseus, p. 303-323.

DÁNNELS, D.; TORRENT, T. T.; SIGILIANO, N. S.; DOBNIK, S. (2022). Beyond Strings of Characters: Resources meet NLP – Again. In: VOLODINA, E.; DÁNNELLS, D.; BERDICEVSKIS, A.; FORSBERG, M.; VIRK, S. (Org.). Live and Learn: Festschrift in honor of Lars Borin. Gothenburg: Institutionen för svenska, flerspråkighet och språkteknologi, Göteborgs Universitet.

LYNGFELT, B.; TORRENT, T. T.; BÄCKSTRÖM, L.; MATOS, E. E. (2022). Comparative Concepts as a Resource for Multilingual Constructicography. In: BLENSENIUS, K. (Org.). Valency and constructions. Gothenburg: Meijerbergs institut.

PAIVA, V. M. R. L.; TORRENT, T. T. (2020). Classificação de atrações turísticas através dos frames: uma análise semântica de comentários de usuários de plataformas colaborativas. [Classifying tourist attractions using frames: a semantic analysis of user's comments at online platforms]. In: DIAS, N. B.; ABRAÇADO, J. (Orgs.). Estudos sobre o Português em Uso. Uberlândia: Pangeia.

TORRENT, T. T.; MATOS, E.; LAGE, L.; LAVIOLA, A.; TAVARES, T.; ALMEIDA, V. G.; SIGILIANO, N. (2018). Towards continuity between the lexicon and the constructicon in FrameNet Brasil. In: LYNGFELT, B.; BORIN, L.; OHARA, K. H.; TORRENT, T. T. (Orgs.). Constructional Approaches to Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

LYNGFELT, B.; TORRENT, T. T.; LAVIOLA, A.; BÄCKSTRÖM, L.; HANNESDÓTTIR, A. H.; MATOS, E. (2018). Aligning constructicons across languages. In: LYNGFELT, B.; BORIN, L.; OHARA, K. H.; TORRENT, T. T. (Orgs.). Constructional Approaches to Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

PERON-CORRÊA, S. R.; DINIZ DA COSTA, A.; TAVARES, T. S.; TORRENT, T. T. (2018). Contributions of Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar in the Processes of Machine Translation. In: REY, P. V. C.; REY,  A. C.; GONZÁLEZ, P. C. (Orgs.). Nuevas tendencias en traducción: Fraseología, Interpretación, TAV y sus didácticas.[New tendencies in translation: Phraseology, Interpretation, MT and their pedagogies]. Berlin: Peter Lang, v. 128.

PERON-CORRÊA, S.; DINIZ, A.; LARA, M.; MATOS, E.; TORRENT, T. T. (2016). FrameNet-Based Automatic Suggestion of Translation Equivalents. In: SILVA, J.; RIBEIRO, R.; QUARESMA, P.; ADAMI, A.; BRANCO, A. (Orgs.). Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences - Computational Processing of Portuguese. Berlin: Springer.

TORRENT, T. T. (2015). On the relation between inheritance and change. In: BARÐDAL, J.; SMIRNOVA, E.; SOMMERER, L.; GILDEA, S. (Orgs.). Diachronic Construction Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

REIS, A. R. G.; TORRENT, T. T. (2012). Ensino de Língua Portuguesa: formação de professores e reflexões sobre a prática em sala de aula. [Portuguese Language Teaching: teacher education and discussions on classroom practice]. In: OLIVEIRA, D. M. (Org.). Formação continuada de professores: contribuições para o debate. Juiz de Fora: UFJF. 

TORRENT, T. T.. A Construção de Dativo com Infinitivo. [The Dative with Infinitive Construction]. In: MIRANDA, N. S.; SALOMÃO, M. M. M. (Orgs.). Construções do Português do Brasil. Belo Horizonte: UFMG.

Patents & Software

TORRENT, T. T.; MATOS, E. E.; GAMONAL, M. A.; BELCAVELLO, F.; VIRIDIANO, M.; ALMEIDA, A. L. (2021). Lutma: a frame maker tool. Software under registration.

TORRENT, T. T.; MATOS, E. E.; DINIZ DA COSTA, A.; MARIM, M. C. (2021). Scylla: an Automatic Post-Editing System for Terminology Substitution using Frames and Qualia. Software Registration Number: BR512021001259-3.

TORRENT, T. T.; MATOS, E. E.; DINIZ DA COSTA, A.; MARIM, M. C. (2020). Computationally implemented method for semantically oriented terminology injection during the pre-processing phase in machine translation pipelines. Patent Registration Number: BR102020022689-4.

TORRENT, T. T.; MATOS, E. E.; DINIZ DA COSTA, A.; MARIM, M. C. (2020). Computationally implemented method for semantically oriented terminology injection during the post-editing phase in machine translation pipelines. Patent Registration Number: BR102020024362-4.

MATOS, E. E.; TORRENT, T. T. (2018). FrameNet Brasil Web Annotation Tool. Software Registration Number: BR512018051603-3

TORRENT, T. T.; SALOMÃO, M. M. M.; CAMPOS, F. C. A.; BRAGA, R. M. M.; MATOS, E. E.; GAMONAL, M. A.; PERON, S. R.; GOMES, D. S.; SOUZA, B. C. P.; GONCALVES, J.; ALCANTARA, A. C. R.; SILVEIRA, C. B.; COSTA, E. R.; MACHADO, F.; COSTA, I. C. S.; CARMO, J. C.; MIGUEL, L. F.; MONTEIRO, M. S.; MARCAO, N. D.; SOUZA, P. L. C. (2015). Dicionário FrameNet Brasil da Copa do Mundo. Software Registration Number: BR512014001030-9

School Textbooks

MIRANDA, C. ; COSTA, C. L. ; MUNCK JR., E. ; DIAS, J. ; SIGILIANO, N. S. ; TORRENT, T. T. (2024). Laboratório de Redação [Writing Lab]. 1. ed. São Paulo: Editora do Brasil, 2024. v. 1. 256p .

MIRANDA, C.; REIS, A. R. G.; BARBOSA, L.; TIMPONI, M.; BRANDÃO, M ; TORRENT, T. T. (2010). Mais Português: Língua e Literatura, 1. [More Portuguese: Language and Literature, 1st year of High School]. São Paulo: Escala Educacional. 

MIRANDA, C.; REIS, A. R. G.; BARBOSA, L.; TIMPONI, M.; BRANDÃO, M ; TORRENT, T. T. (2010). Mais Português: Língua e Literatura, 2. [More Portuguese: Language and Literature, 2nd year of High School]. São Paulo: Escala Educacional.

MIRANDA, C.; REIS, A. R. G.; BARBOSA, L.; TIMPONI, M.; BRANDÃO, M ; TORRENT, T. T. (2010). Mais Português: Língua e Literatura, 3. [More Portuguese: Language and Literature, 3rd year of High School]. São Paulo: Escala Educacional.

MIRANDA, C.; SIGILIANO, N. S.; TORRENT, T. T. (2009). Português em Cena 6º Ano. [Portuguese on Stage, 6th grade]. São Paulo: Escala Educacional. 

MIRANDA, C.; SIGILIANO, N. S.; TORRENT, T. T. (2009). Português em Cena 7º Ano. [Portuguese on Stage, 7th grade]. São Paulo: Escala Educacional. 

MIRANDA, C.; SIGILIANO, N. S.; TORRENT, T. T.; REIS, A. R. G. (2009). Português em Cena 8º Ano. [Portuguese on Stage, 8th grade]. São Paulo: Escala Educacional. 

MIRANDA, C.; SIGILIANO, N. S.; TORRENT, T. T.; REIS, A. R. G. (2009). Português em Cena 9º Ano. [Portuguese on Stage, 9th grade]. São Paulo: Escala Educacional.