Graduation in Brazilian Portuguese, English and Linguistics at UNESP (1984), Brazil. Graduation in Math at USP (1977), Brazil, MS in Linguistics at UNESP (1989), Brazil. Specialisation in Computational Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, (1992). PhD in Linguistics, UNESP (1995), Brazil. Expertise in Brazilian Portuguese, English, Linguistics, and Natural Language Processing, focusing on Linguistic Analysis. Subjects: Portuguese and English analysis, lexicon, lexical-grammar, ontology, and wordnet.