Annette Rios

Annette Rios is a Researcher at the University of Zurich within the Language, Technology and Accessibility group. Her work focuses on machine translation, text simplification, and sign language translation, particularly for multilingual and indigenous language contexts.

Research highlights include contributions to the European EASIER project on sign language translation, the ZurichNLP consortium, and the development of tools for emotion detection and gender bias reduction in NLP systems. She has published extensively in top-tier venues like ACL and WMT, with a focus on multimodal translation and German language processing.

• Developed emotion_detection GitHub repository for German emotion analysis
• Contributed to ContraPro and ContraWSD projects on translation evaluation
• Created datasets for German text simplification and emotion detection

Her publications reveal a strong emphasis on machine translation (7/15 recent works), sign language technology (3/15), and text simplification (2/15). While no formal advising is documented in the provided text, she has mentored GitHub contributors to her repositories. Current research directions include improving multimodal translation systems and expanding emotion detection capabilities beyond English.