Dr Lucas Nunes Vieira

Summary

My main areas of research are translation editing and technology, with a focus on the use of machine translation in human translation workflows. Generally, I am interested in the cognitive aspects that surround the use of technology in language translation and how this affects processes, products, and attitudes. I have experience with research methods such as eye tracking and keylogging, and with mixed-method research involving verbal reports qualitative data analysis.

I am a guest editor of a post-editing special issue of The Journal of Specialised Translation, to appear in 2019. The submission deadline is 31 Dec 2017. For full details, see the call for papers. 

Biography

After graduating in modern languages (Portuguese and English) and linguistics at Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil), I did an Erasmus Mundus master's degree in language technology at Universidade do Algarve (Portugal) and Université de Franche-Comté (France), with a short stint as a visiting student at the Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton (UK). I subsequently moved to the UK to do a PhD on cognitive effort in post-editing of machine translation at Newcastle University. I was appointed as Lecturer in Translation Studies with Technology at Bristol in September 2015.

Teaching

Computer-Assisted Translation (PG)

The Translation Industry (PG)

Portuguese translation (PG)

MA dissertation supervision (PG)

Introduction to Language Technology for Students of Portuguese (UG)

Translating in a Professional Context (UG)

Keywords

• Translation Studies
• Translation Editing
• Machine Translation
• Corpus Linguistics

Memberships

Organisations

Organisational groups

• Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

Links

•   Academia.edu
• MA in Chinese-English Translation
• MA in Translation
• LinkedIn

Recent publications

• Vieira, LN, 2017, ‘Cognitive effort and different task foci in post-editing of machine translation: A think-aloud study’. Across Languages and Cultures, vol 18., pp. 79-105
• Vieira, LN, 2017, ‘From process to product: links between post-editing effort and post-edited quality’. in: Arnt Lykke Jakobsen, Bartolomé Mesa-Lao (eds) Translation in Transition: Between Cognition, Computing and Technology. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 163?189
• Alonso, E & Vieira, LN, 2017, ‘The Translator's Amanuensis 2020’. Journal of Specialised Translation .
• Vieira, LN, 2016, ‘How do measures of cognitive effort relate to each other? A multivariate analysis of post-editing process data’. Machine Translation, vol 30., pp. 41-62
• Vieira, LN, 2016, ‘Cognitive Effort in Post-Editing of Machine Translation: Evidence from Eye Movements, Subjective Ratings, and Think-Aloud Protocols’. Newcastle University
• Vieira, LN, 2014, ‘Indices of cognitive effort in machine translation post-editing’. Machine Translation, vol 28., pp. 187-216
• Vieira, LN, 2013, ‘An evaluation of tools for post-editing research: the current picture and further needs’. in: Proceedings of the MT Summit XIV Workshop on Post-editing Technology and Practice (WPTP-2): Nice, September 2, 2013., pp. 93-101
• Baptista, J, Vieira, LN, Diniz, C & Mamede, N, 2012, ‘Coordination of -mente ending adverbs in Portuguese: an integrated solution’. in: Helena Caseli, Aline Villavicencio, Antonio Teixeira, Fernando Perdigão (eds) PROPOR 2012: Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. Springer LNCS, pp. 24-34
• Vieira, LN, Diniz, C, Mamede, N & Baptista, J, 2012, ‘A lexicon of verb and -mente adverb collocations in Portuguese: extraction from corpora and classification’. in: Proceedings of the Lexis and Grammar Conference 2012 (LGC 2012): Novè Hrady, Czech Republic, 19-22 September 2012.
• Vieira, LN, 2012, ‘PT-EN collocation equivalents and machine translation evaluation’. BULAG Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology, vol 37., pp. 117

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