Helena Moniz

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Helena Moniz is the President of the European Association for Machine Translation (2021-) and President of the International Association for Machine Translation (2023-). She is a Visiting Research Fellow at the UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures (2025-). Helena 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. She is the Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Center for Responsible AI (2023-) (https://centerforresponsible.ai), and the coordinator of the project Bridge AI (https://bridge-ai.eu). Since 2025, She is an integrated researcher at the Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon and a collaborator of INESC-ID.

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 more than 20 national and international projects. She served as Vice-Coordinator of the Human Language Technologies Lab at INESC-ID, Lisbon (2020-2024).

From 2015/09 to 2024/04, she was the PI of a bilateral project between INESC-ID and Unbabel, a translation company combining AI + post-editing, working on scalable Linguistic Quality Assurance processes for crowdsourcing. She was responsible for the implementation in 2015 of the MQM metric, the creation of the Linguistic Quality Assurance processes developed at Unbabel for Linguistic Annotation and Editors' Evaluation. She also worked on research projects, involving Linguistics, Translation, and Responsible AI, and products developed by the Labs Team, mostly cultural transcreation, high risk products, and silently controlled language metrics for dialogues.

She is an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Natural Language Processing, Cambridge University Press, and Advisory Board of the New Research Methods in Translation and Interpreting Studies, Routledge. Helena is also Senior Programme Committee member of several conferences, such as IJCAI, ECAI, Interspeech for Area 12 (Spoken Language Processing).

Awards

2007

  • 2024 -- Best system in the WASSA 2024, ACL, Track 2: Empathy and Emotion Prediction in Conversations Turns (CONV-turn). Patrícia Pereira, Helena Moniz and João Paulo Carvalho.
  • 2023 -- Best system and winner of the challenge in the 11th Dialog System Technology Challenge: Simple LLM Prompting is State-of-the-Art for Robust and Multilingual Dialogue Evaluation, John Mendonça, Patrícia Pereira, Helena Moniz, Joao Paulo Carvalho, Alon Lavie, Isabel Trancoso.
  • 2007 -- M.A. thesis received the Research Prize of the Portuguese Linguistics Society (APL). http://www.apl.org.pt/premios-atribuidos.html

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).

Research interests

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

Total Publications: 111

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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: 49

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Internships

  • Generative AI for Large Language Model Personalisation: Developmemt of AI Agents with Culturally-Informed AI Personae
    Helena Wu
    Helena Moniz (advisor),
    Internship, INESC-ID Lisboa, 2025-04-15 - Ongoing
  • Domain Specific Conversational Agents using Machine Leaning and Natural Language Generation
    Stefania Budulan
    Helena Moniz (advisor), Fernando Batista (coadvisor)
    Internship, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest - Romania, 2024-05-01 - 2024-08-31
  • Phd visit
    Sofia De la Fuente Garcia
    Helena Moniz (advisor),
    Internship, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 2019-06-01 - 2019-06-01

 

Total Projects: 10

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