I am an Academic Associate in the Language, Technology and Accessibility and the Text Technology group. Since June 2026 I work on language technology for Romansh idioms with Jannis Vamvas and I'm also part of the Digilinguo project.
Previsouly, I was a part of the Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies (IICT) Project and also the European project EASIER on Sign Language Translation.
Until 2020, I was a Postdoc in MUTAMUR and Rich Contexts in Neural Machine Translation. I was also a member of the former projects MODERN: Modeling Discourse Entities and Relations for Coherent Machine Translation and SQUOIA.
Research interests:
- github: https://github.com/a-rios
- automatic audio description
- text simplification
- machine translation
- summarization
- multimodality
- my PhD was on NLP for Quechua
Publications:
ZORA Publication List
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Publications
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Association for Computational Linguistics. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.americasnlp-1.0
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Evaluating the Immediate Applicability of Pose Estimation for Sign Language Recognition (No. 10166v1). Article 10166v1. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, Nashville. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW53098.2021.00382
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Subword segmentation and a single bridge language affect zero-shot neural machine translation 526–535. http://www.statmt.org/wmt20/pdf/2020.wmt-1.64.pdf
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Domain robustness in neural machine translation Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 151–164. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.amta-research.14
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Why Self-Attention? A Targeted Evaluation of Neural Machine Translation Architectures Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Brussels. http://aclweb.org/anthology/D18-1458
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The Word Sense Disambiguation Test Suite at WMT18 (No. 2). 594–602. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W18-6437
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A Large-Scale Test Set for the Evaluation of Context-Aware Pronoun Translation 61–72. http://www.statmt.org/wmt18/pdf/WMT007.pdf
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Improving Word Sense Disambiguation in Neural Machine Translation with Sense Embeddings 11–19. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-4702
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Co-reference Resolution of Elided Subjects and Possessive Pronouns in Spanish-English Statistical Machine Translation 657–662. https://aclweb.org/anthology/E/E17/E17-2104.pdf
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Crossing Sentence Boundaries in Statistical Machine Translation MultiLingual, 50–52.
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A basic language technology toolkit for Quechua Procesamiento Del Lenguaje Natural, 56, 91–94. http://journal.sepln.org/sepln/ojs/ojs/index.php/pln/article/view/5291
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Machine Learning applied to Rule-Based Machine Translation In M. Costa-jussà, R. Rapp, P. Lambert, K. Eberle, R. E. Banchs, & B. Babych (Eds.), Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation (p. n/a). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21311-8
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A Basic Language Technology Toolkit for Quechua (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-119943
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Allin Qillqay! A Free Online Web Spell Checking Service for Quechua (J. E. Ugaz Burga, S. R. Gonzales Sánchez, & C. Torres Guerra, Eds.; pp. 23–30). Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. http://www.comtel.pe/documentos/MemoriaCOMTEL2014.pdf
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Morphological Disambiguation and Text Normalization for Southern Quechua Varieties online. http://corporavm.uni-koeln.de/vardial/papers/4/4_Paper.pdf
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Enhancing a Rule-Based MT System with Cross-Lingual WSD 31–36. http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil/
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Machine Learning Disambiguation of Quechua Verb Morphology 13–18. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W13-2804
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A tree is a Baum is an árbol is a sach’a: Creating a trilingual treebank (N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, T. Declerck, M. Uğur Doğan, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, J. Odijk, & S. Piperidis, Eds.; pp. 1874–1879). http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/350_Paper.pdf
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Parallel treebanking Spanish-Quechua: How and how well do they align? (7/13). online. http://elanguage.net/journals/lilt/article/view/2695
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Teaching
- HS 2019: Seminar Neural Machine Translation
- HS 2018: Seminar Textanalyse in Theorie und Praxis
- HS 2015: Seminar Sprachtechnologie für wenig beachtete Sprachen
- HS 2014: Tutorat Einführung in die Multilinguale Textanalyse
- HS 2013: Tutorat Einführung in die Multilinguale Textanalyse
- FS 2013: Bachelor Seminar: Sprachtechnologie für wenig beachtete Sprachen
- HS 2012: Tutorat Einführung in die Multilinguale Textanalyse
- FS 2012: Bachelor Seminar: Sprachtechnologie für wenig beachtete Sprachen
- HS 2011: Tutorat Einführung in die Multilinguale Textanalyse
- FS 2011: Tutorat Computergestützte Textanalyse - Methoden und Werkzeuge
Curriculum vitae
- 2003-2011: Studium der allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft, Computerlinguistik, Informatik
- 2008-2011: Mitarbeiterin CLab