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Francisco M. Couto

Francisco M. Couto

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Computer Science

D-Index
32
Citations
5695
World Ranking
13002
National Ranking
46

Overview

Francisco M. Couto is affiliated with the University of Lisbon in Portugal. Their research spans multiple fields, prominently including Computer Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these disciplines, their focus encompasses various subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Molecular Biology, Information Systems, Genetics, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas, including Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies, Topic Modeling, Recommender Systems and Techniques, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Semantic Web and Ontologies, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, and Advanced Text Analysis Techniques.

Francisco M. Couto has contributed to several recent publications. Notable papers include:

  • Prediction of Prostate Cancer Disease Aggressiveness Using Bi-Parametric Mri Radiomics, 2021, published in Cancers
  • Biomedical Relation Extraction With Knowledge Graph-Based Recommendations, 2022, published in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  • Identification of biological mechanisms underlying a multidimensional ASD phenotype using machine learning, 2020, published in Translational Psychiatry
  • Linking chemical and disease entities to ontologies by integrating PageRank with extracted relations from literature, 2020, published in Journal of Cheminformatics
  • NILINKER: Attention-based approach to NIL Entity Linking, 2022, published in Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Their frequent coauthors include Pedro Ruas, André Lamúrias, Diana Sousa, M. Barros, and A. Moitinho.

Francisco M. Couto commonly publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Research Square (Research Square), arXiv (Cornell University), and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • Semantic similarity in biomedical ontologies.

    Catia Pesquita;Daniel Faria;André O. Falcão;Phillip W. Lord

  • Metrics for GO based protein semantic similarity: a systematic evaluation

    Catia Pesquita;Daniel Faria;Hugo P. Bastos;António E. N. Ferreira

  • The CHEMDNER corpus of chemicals and drugs and its annotation principles.

    Martin Krallinger;Obdulia Rabal;Florian Leitner;Miguel Vazquez

  • The AgreementMakerLight Ontology Matching System

    Daniel Faria;Catia Pesquita;Emanuel Santos;Matteo Palmonari

  • Measuring semantic similarity between Gene Ontology terms

    Francisco M. Couto;Mário J. Silva;Pedro M. Coutinho

  • Facts from text--is text mining ready to deliver?

    Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann;Harald Kirsch;Francisco Couto

  • Semantic similarity over the gene ontology: family correlation and selecting disjunctive ancestors

    Francisco M. Couto;Mário J. Silva;Pedro M. Coutinho

  • Evaluating GO-based Semantic Similarity Measures

    Cátia Pesquita;Daniel Faria;Hugo Bastos;André O. Falcão

  • Ontology Alignment Repair through Modularization and Confidence-Based Heuristics.

    Emanuel Santos;Daniel Faria;Catia Pesquita;Francisco M. Couto

  • Identifying disease genes using machine learning and gene functional similarities, assessed through Gene Ontology.

    Muhammad Asif;Muhammad Asif;Hugo F. M. C. M. Martiniano;Hugo F. M. C. M. Martiniano;Astrid M. Vicente;Astrid M. Vicente;Astrid M. Vicente;Francisco M. Couto

  • Disjunctive shared information between ontology concepts: application to Gene Ontology

    Francisco M Couto;Mário J Silva

  • Automatic concept recognition using the Human Phenotype Ontology reference and test suite corpora

    Tudor Groza;Sebastian Köhler;Sandra C. Doelken;Nigel Collier

  • Using AgreementMaker to align ontologies for OAEI 2010

    Isabel F. Cruz;Cosmin Stroe;Federico Caimi;Alessio Fabiani

  • Finding genomic ontology terms in text using evidence content

    Francisco M Couto;Mário J Silva;Pedro M Coutinho

  • GOAnnotator: linking protein GO annotations to evidence text

    Francisco M Couto;Mário J Silva;Vivian Lee;Emily Dimmer

  • The semantic web in translational medicine: current applications and future directions

    Catia M. Machado;Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann;Ana T. Freitas;Francisco M. Couto

  • To repair or not to repair: reconciling correctness and coherence in ontology reference alignments

    Catia Pesquita;Daniel Faria;Emanuel Santos;Francisco M. Couto

  • Implementation of a Functional Semantic Similarity Measure between Gene-Products

    Francisco M. Couto;Mário J. Silva;Pedro M. Coutinho

  • CESSM: collaborative evaluation of semantic similarity measures

    Catia Pesquita;Delphine Pessoa;Daniel Faria;Francisco M. Couto

  • Semantic similarity for automatic classification of chemical compounds.

    João D. Ferreira;Francisco M. Couto

Frequent Co-Authors

Mário J. Silva
Mário J. Silva Instituto Superior Técnico
Isabel F. Cruz
Isabel F. Cruz University of Illinois at Chicago
Pedro M. Coutinho
Pedro M. Coutinho Aix-Marseille University
Paulo Veríssimo
Paulo Veríssimo King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann University of Cologne
Martin Krallinger
Martin Krallinger Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Reza M. Salek
Reza M. Salek International Agency For Research On Cancer
Rolf Apweiler
Rolf Apweiler European Bioinformatics Institute
Karin Verspoor
Karin Verspoor RMIT University
Adam Jatowt
Adam Jatowt University of Innsbruck

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