Unbabel

Dr. João Graça - Experienced Researcher

João Graça is the CTO at Unbabel, and an invited research at INESC-ID. He received his PhD in Natural Language Processing from University of Lisbon and University of Pennsylvania in 2010. His research interests include natural language processing, machine translation, machine learning, mostly in the areas of unsupervised learning and learning from partial information. He has published more than 25 papers on top conferences, has more than 900 citations and a h-Index of 12. João is Co-Founder, Organizer, and Steering Member of I–VI Lisbon Machine Learning Schools (LxMLS), has organized several workshops and events such as EMNLP 2016, and Machine Translation Marathon in 2017.

Dr. André Martins - Experienced Researcher

André Martins is the Head of Research at Unbabel, an invited professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, and a member of the Instituto de Telecomunicações. He received his dual-degree PhD in Language Technologies in 2012 from Carnegie Mellon University and University of Lisbon. His research interests include natural language processing, machine translation, machine learning, and deep learning. He has published 30+ papers with over 1700 citations and h-index of 21 in top-tier conferences and journals (such as Computational Linguistics, JMLR, PAMI, ACL, ICML, and EMNLP), including a best paper award at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) for his work in natural language syntax. His PhD dissertation has been awarded with a SCS Honorable Mention at CMU. He won the Portuguese IBM Scientific Prize in 2012. André is one of the co-founders and organizers of the Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS).

Dr. Helena Moniz - Experienced Researcher

Helena Moniz is the Principal Investigator in the Quality Assurance Project between Unbabel and INESC-ID, Lisbon, charged with creating scalable processes to evaluate the performance of humans and MT systems in Unbabel’s translation pipeline. She recently implemented a new system to judge Unbabel’s translation quality through a new state-of- the-art metric - the Multidimensional Quality Metric (MQM), developed in QTLaunchPad -- a European Commission-funded collaborative research initiative (2012-2014). Since 2001, Helena has been a researcher at INESC-ID Lisbon and at the Linguistic Center of the University of Lisbon, where she has been involved in 13 national and international projects, including INTERACT with Unbabel (H2020 MSCA-RISE, 230K EUR), and as an independent researcher in INSIDE (CMUP-ERI/HCI/0051/2013, 600K EUR); in SpeDial EU Project (FP7-ICT- 2013-SME-DCA); she was also the INESC-ID coordinator in the national project VOCE.

Her research interests include Speech Processing, Prosody, Paralinguistics, Natural Language Processing, Annotation criteria, and lately Human and Machine Translation, focusing on scalable Quality Assurance processes.