Sheila Castilho

Dr. Sheila Castilho is an Assistant Professor at the School of Applied Language & Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University (DCU). She holds a PhD from DCU (2016) and a Master's from the University of Wolverhampton and University of Algarve. Her expertise lies in machine translation (MT), post-editing, and translation technology evaluation. She co-leads the New Trends in Translation Technology (NeTTT’22) conference and chairs DCU's Master in Translation Studies and Master in Translation Technology programs.

Education:

• Licenciatura em Letras Inglês/Português (UNIOESTE University, Brazil)
• Master in Natural Language Processing (University of Wolverhampton & University of Algarve)
• PhD in Translation Technologies (Dublin City University)

Research: Focuses on document-level MT evaluation, post-editing strategies, and user-centric MT assessment. Leads the DELA project and contributed to TraMOOC/iADAATPA initiatives. Published over 40 articles and co-edited 'Translation Quality Assessment: From Principles to Practice' (Springer, 2018).

Grants & Projects:

• DCU PI for DELA (Document-level Evaluation)
• PRINCIPLE project (EU Low-resource MT)
• ELE (European Language Equality) initiative

Labs/Teams: Active in ADAPT Centre (DCU) and collaborates with international NLP/MT communities (ACL, EMNLP, WMT).