Helena Moniz

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Helena Moniz is the President of the European Association for Machine Translation (2021-) and the President of the International Association for Machine Translation (2023-). She is an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon, where she teaches Computational Linguistics, Computer Assisted Translation, and Machine Translation Systems and Post-editing. Helena graduated in Modern Languages and Literature at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (FLUL), in 1998. She took a Teacher Training graduation course in 2000, a Master’s degree in Linguistics in 2007, and a PhD in Linguistics at FLUL in cooperation with the Technical University of Lisbon (IST) in 2013. She has been working at INESC-ID/CLUL since 2000, in several national and international projects involving multidisciplinary teams of linguists and speech processing engineers. Within these fruitful collaborations, she participated in 19 national and international projects. Since 2015, she is also the PI of a bilateral project with INESC-ID/Unbabel, a translation company combining AI + post-editing, working on scalable Linguistic Quality Assurance processes for crowdsourcing. She was responsible for the creation of the Linguistic Quality Assurance processes developed at Unbabel for Linguistic Annotation and Editors' Evaluation. She now is working mostly on research projects involving Linguistics, Translation, and AI. She is the Chair of the Ethics Committee for the Center for Responsible AI, within the Recovery and Resilience Plan. In a sentence, she is passionate about Language Technologies and Responsible AI!

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2007

Professional experiences abroad

  • Secondment at Dublin City University, hosted by Sharon O'Brien, within the INTERACT (INTERnAtional network on Crisis Translation). Topic: MSCA-RISW-2016, Type of Action: MSCA-RISE, Proposal number: 734211 (November, 2018).
  • Visitor at Columbia University, hosted by Professor Julia Hirschberg (February, 2011).
  • Short Term Scientific Mission (reference COST-STSM-2102-6470), granted by Cost 2102 "Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication", hosted by Professor Nick Campbell, Trinity College of Dublin (June, 2010).

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Prosody, Speech Processing, Translation, Post-editing, AI, and Human Language Technologies, Ethics and AI.

Total Publications: 102

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  • Towards Responsible Machine Translation: Ethical and Legal Considerations in Machine Translation
    Helena Moniz, Carla Parra Escartín,
    , ISBN 978-3-031-14688-6, Springer, February 2023

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Total Supervisions: 37

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Total Projects: 8

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