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News article in the weekly newspaper "Expresso" of March 30, 2023, on the manifest urging to suspend Generative AI development, with quotes from António Branco's position:
""Should we develop non-human minds" that can "make us obsolete?": open letter advocates suspension of Artificial Intelligence" (in Portuguese)

10 minute interview with António Branco broadcasted by the national radio RDP 2 on the program "Páginas do Português", by Miguel Roque Dias, on February 26, 2023, episode 9:
"Large Neural Language Models" (in Portuguese)

News article in the weekly newspaper "Expresso" of February 25, 2023, on legal issues related to Large Language Models and ChatGPT, with a text box highlighting the development of encoders and decoder for Portuguese at NLX:
"Bots already belong to the family, but are bringing threats" (in Portuguese)

Op-ed article in co-authorship with Ana Paula Laborinho in newspaper "Público" of February 9, 2023 on AI and a plan for the technological preparation of Portuguese:
"Portuguese Language and Technology: the future is now" (in Portuguese)

News article in the weekly newspaper "Expresso" of February 6, 2023, on Large Language Models and ChatGPT with excerpts of an interview with António Branco :
"ChatGPT is just the beginning: talking machines are getting ready to change the world" (in Portuguese)

10 minute interview with António Branco broadcasted by the national radio RDP 2 on the program "Páginas do Português", by Miguel Roque Dias, on December 5, 2021, episode 49:
"The impact of new technologies in the Portuguese language" (in Portuguese)

20 minute interview with António Branco broadcasted by the national television RTP 2 on the talk show "Muito Barulho para Nada", by José Navarro de Andrade, on September 16, 2020, season 2, episode 7:
"Artifical Intelligence and the Portuguese Language under the Digital Shock" (in Portuguese)

Press release from FCUL, January 9, 2019:
"António Branco president of ELRA"

News article in the website of magazine "Exame Informática", December 26, 2018:
"António Branco is the new president of the European association for language processing" (in Portuguese)

32 minute interview with António Branco broadcasted by the national radio RTP-Antena 1 on the science news programme "Os Dias do Futuro", by Edgar Canelas, on February 25, 2017. To listen to the full programme visit the programme site .

News article in the website "SapoTek", January 31, 2017:
"University of Lisbon and Alibaba joint to strength eCommerce betwen Portugal and China" (in Portuguese)

News article in the magazine "Exame Informática", January 31, 2017:
"Machine translation between Portuguese and Chinese" (in Portuguese)

10 minute interview with António Branco broadcasted by the national radio RTP-Antena 2 on the programme "Páginas da Língua Portuguesa", by Miguel Roque Dias, in November 29, 2015. To listen to the full programme visit the programme site (after skipping ads, after minute 19:38).

News article in the weekly newspaper "Expresso" of January 10, 2015, p.35, on science and technology of the Portuguese language, with special focus on machine translation and the European QTleap project lead by NLX:
"The Dream of the Perfect Translation" (in Portuguese)

News article in the online newspaper "Expresso Diário" of January 2, 2015, on the preparation of the Portuguese language for the digital age and its world projection:
"How to make the Portuguese Language more Influent in the World" (in Portuguese)

22 minute interview with António Branco broadcasted by the national radio RTP-Antena 1 on the science news programme "Os Dias do Futuro", by Edgar Canelas, in May 31, 2014. To listen to the full programme visit the programme site (after skipping ads, from minute 12 to minute 35).

Op-ed article in newspaper "Expresso" of December 8, 2012 on the computational processing of Portuguese:
"A Giant with Clay Feet in the Digital Age" (in Portuguese)

24 minute interview with António Branco broadcasted by the radio RDP África on the the science news programme "Científica Mente", by Ana Paula Gomes, in December 2012. To listen to the full programme visit the programme site

Op-ed article in the magazine "Exame Informática", issue nb. 211 of January, 2013, p.22, on the computational processing of Portuguese:
"The Portuguese Language in the Digital Shock"(in Portuguese)

40 minute interview with António Branco broadcasted by the national radio RTP-Antena 1 on the the sciences news programmed "Os Dias do Futuro", by Edgar Canelas, in December 2012. To listen to the full programme visit the programme site .

NLX top-rated in an overview of computational processing of portuguese by the "Exame Informática" magazine, issue of February 2006.