Vitor Rocio is an Associate Professor at the Open University (UAb). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the Nova University of Lisbon (2002), and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from FCT-UNL (1993). He is the head of the Department of Sciences and Technology at UAb. He has participated in several national and european projects on Elearning and Digital Education and is the author of many papers in journals and conference proceedings. His main research interests are human language technologies, automatic processing of natural languages, evolutionary parsing systems, and e-learning technologies.