Her areas of interest include computational semantics and corpus linguistics. She was a visiting scholar within the German FrameNet Project at UT Austin from March 2009 to June 2009, when she developed her post-doctoral research. Being advised by Hans Boas, she applied Talmy's theory and FrameNet paradigm to describe motion verbs in Portuguese. In Brazil, she coordinates the FrameCorp Project, whose objective is to construct a Brazilian Portuguese corpus with Frame Semantics annotation. She also coordinates the Kicktionary_Br, a Brazilian Portuguese version of the Kicktionary Project, a multilingual electronic dictionary of soccer language being developed by Thomas Schmidt.