MSc DISSERTATION OF LUCAS SILVA
Lucas Silva who serves as PIF Informatician since November 2024 has concluded his MSc with the dissertation of the thesis: “Development of an Intelligent Agent for Knowledge Extraction in the Pathogens in Foods (PIF) Database with Machine Learning”, in which he designed and developed a visualization-oriented natural language interface (V-NLI) chatbot capable of enabling domain experts to query complex pathogen data, perform meta-analyses, and generate dynamic reports and visualizations through the integration of embedding models, SLMs, vector search, and advanced prompt engineering techniques.
