Today, I learned about:

In my post last month, 120’2026 (2026-04-01) , I foresaw that this month of May 2026 would also bring quite a few events that would make me a very proud father.

First in chronological order is an international language congress, named LREC 2026, which was held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, during the second full week of the month. You may remember that in an earlier post, 304’2019 (2019-10-31) , I showed my daughter Karina and her colleague João presenting a project named “Linguistic improvements on the text-image aligner LinkPICS”. And this time, Karina and her colleague Aline presented a paper named Meta4XNLI-ptBR: Brazilian Portuguese Extension of Meta4XNLI Corpus. It is the first corpus that deals with NLP processing of Brazilian Portuguese metaphores. See also reference #1 below. The following photos were taken during LREC 2026 on 131’2026 and 133’2026 (2026-05-11–13).

Today’s header photo shows Lake Zurich in Switzerland. On her way back from Mallorca to Brazil, Karina stopped over in Zurich to visit friends and go on a sight-seeing. She also took the following photos. More about Zurich can be found in reference #2 below.

But wait, here comes more interesting facts from May! On 142’2026 (2026-05-22), Karina defended her master’s thesis in Data Science. Below are two photos from that event. My congratulations to her and her mentor, Helena Caseli, for eight tough but really fruitful years!

That’s what I learned in school today! 

Ref.:

1: Meta4XNLI-ptBR: Brazilian Portuguese Extension of Meta4XNLI Corpus

2: Zürich

*: What did you learn in school today?