Tiago Torrent is a Professor of Linguistics at the Portuguese Language and Linguistics Department of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, in Brazil. He is the head of the FrameNet Brasil Computational Linguistics Lab, conducting research on Natural Language Understanding with Semantic Frames and Grammatical Constructions. He is also one of the founding partners of the Global FrameNet initiative and has been recently awarded the ABRALIN Language Technology and Innovation Prize by the Brazilian Linguistics Association.