Helena Moniz

Helena Moniz 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. Currently, she is also the President of the European Association for Machine Translation and the Vice-president of the International Association for Machine Translation. She graduated in Modern Languages and Literature – Portuguese Studies, at Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon (FLUL), in 1998. She took a Teacher Training graduation course in 2000, also at FLUL. She received a Master’s degree in Linguistics at FLUL, in 2007 (awarded with the Portuguese Association for Linguistics prize), and a PhD in Linguistics at FLUL in cooperation with the Technical University of Lisbon (IST), in 2013 (awarded the second place in PROPOR PhD theses prize). 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 this fruitful collaborations, she participated in 16 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 the responsible for the creation of the Linguistic Quality Assurance processes developed at Unbabel for Linguistic Annotation and Editors' Evaluation, she also works on research projects involving Linguistic/Translation Research, and protocols with universities, for hosting internships and secondments. Recently, within the same bilateral project, she has been learning a lot on Product Discovery with a highly motivated young group of people, also at Unbabel. In a sentence, passionate about Language Technologies.