Leonel De Alencar
Associate Professor
Ceará, Brazil
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Top SchoolLeonel De Alencar is an associate professor and computational linguist with a PhD from Universität Konstanz, leading the CompLin research group at the Federal University of Ceará. He combines deep expertise in constraint-based generative grammar (Lexical-Functional Grammar) with practical NLP work—developing grammars, lexica, and tools for Brazilian Portuguese including the BrGram implementation and a generated treebank. His research spans deep syntactic parsing, finite-state morphology, and corpus linguistics, and he supervises graduate research bridging theoretical linguistics and applied NLP. Based in Ceará, Brazil, he has a track record of international collaboration (Stays at Universität Konstanz) and applied R&D for mobile Portuguese-language processing, showing a rare blend of formal theory and deployable language technology.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics, Magna cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics, Magna cum laude at Universität Konstanz
Github Skills (44)
reduction10
tokenizer10
dictionary10
computational-linguistics10
morphology10
tup10
pos-tagger10
relational-algebra10
romaji10
morphological-analysis10
finite-state-automata10
corpus-linguistics10
reproducible-science9
javascript9
digital-humanities9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
UniversalDependencies/UD_Nheengatu-CompLin
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:24 commits, 77 pushes in 2 months
CompLin/nheengatu
May 2022 - Feb 2023
Tools and resources for the computational processing of Nheengatú (Modern Tupí)
Contributions:252 commits, 2 PRs, 717 pushes in 9 months
pythonpos-taggercorpus-linguisticstokenizationreduction
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