Faculty (Professor, MS-3.1)
University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brazil
Language Studies Institute
Department of Linguistics
General research interest
Theorizing and Computational Modeling in Language Acquisition
Specific research interests
- Computational models of language acquisition
- Learnability theory
- Grammatical theory (syntax and semantics)
- Natural language processing (especially: syntactic parsing, quality control, treebanks)
- Psycholinguistics
Research group in CNPq
Aquisição, Processamento e Sintaxe
Ongoing funded projects
Research Project (participant), from March 2023 to February 2028
Corpora anotados digitais de línguas indígenas brasileiras com traduções automáticas (DACILAT)
Grant: FAPESP No. 2022/09158-5
Research Project (leader), from August 2023 to July 2025
Desenvolvimento de um ambiente web para disponibilizar dados de aquisição da linguagem e uma ferramenta de detecção e revisão de inconsistências em corpora anotados morfossintaticamente.
Grant: FAEPEX No. 2507/23
Research Project (participant), from December 2023 to December 2026
Aquisição de dependências não adjacentes: uma abordagem integrada entre Psicolinguística, Modelagem Computacional e Teoria Gramatical.
Grant: CNPq No. 409013/2023-4
Extension Project (leader), from January 2024 to December 2024
Fomentando uma cultura restaurativa em comunidades escolares: projeto piloto de ações baseadas em reflexões sobre linguagem e na abordagem da Comunicação Não-Violenta
Grant: (not available yet)
Past funded projects
Research Project, from August 2019 to July 2021
The roles of cross-situational learning and of distributional information in language acquisition
Grant: FAPESP No. 2018/18655-7
Post-doctoral research project, from 2014 to 2016
Study and development of methods for automatic detection and correction of errors and inconsistencies in syntactically annotated corpora
Grant: FAPESP No. 2013/18090-6
Research Internships Abroad program (BEPE/FAPESP), on 2015
Study and application of explicit grammatical formalisms in the detection of inconsistency in treebanks
Supervisor: Dr. Anthony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania)
Grant: FAPESP 2014/17172-1
Contact
Departamento de Linguística – IEL/Unicamp
Rua Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, 571, Sala D.1.12
Phone: +55 19 3521-1533
CEP 13083-859 – Campinas – SP – Brazil (map)
fariap at unicamp dot br
Education
- Post-doctoral research (Unicamp/UPenn, 2014-2016)
- PhD in Linguistics, 2013 (Unicamp)
- Master’s in Linguistics, 2009 (Unicamp)
- Postgraduate studies in Information Systems, 2004, at Goiás Federal University (UFG/Brazil)
- BA in Computer Science, 2002 (UNIP/Brazil)
Curricula