Sheila Castilho
Sheila Castilho is an Assistant Professor in SALIS at Dublin City University, specialising in machine translation and translation technologies. She earned her Linguistics and Education degree from UNIOESTE in Brazil, followed by a joint Master's degree in NLP from the University of Wolverhampton and the University of Algarve. She completed her PhD at Dublin City University in 2016.
She worked as an Irish Research Council Research Fellow at the Adapt Centre on the DELA Project, which involved testing sentence-level metrics for document-level machine translation evaluation and establishing best practices. She has also served on the programme committees of various MT and NLP conferences and reviewed articles for esteemed journals.
Sheila has actively contributed to various EU projects. Her research output includes over 40 publications, covering topics on translation technology, post-editing of MT, user evaluation of MT, and translators' perception of MT. She has co-edited the book 'Translation Quality Assessment: From Principles to Practice' and a special issue of the Machine Translation Journal on 'Human factors In NMT'.
Currently, she is the co-chair of the conference New Trends in Translation Technology (NeTTT'22). Her research interests revolve around context-aware MT, machine and human translation evaluation, usability, and translation technologies.