Chrysoula Zerva

Academic position:	Assistant Professor
Joining date:	16-02-2021
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Information and Data Sciences
Group:	Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
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http://www.cienciavitae.pt/4012-67B2-0616

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-4031-9492

17-01-2024

Project Snapshot | NextGenAI - Center for Responsible AI

Centre for Responsible AI overall mission is to revolutionize the AI landscape responsibly and to develop the next generation of AI products that are transparent, fair, and trustworthy.

06-07-2023

Center for Responsible AI presents its first outcomes in healthcare sector

The Center for Responsible AI (CRAI) aims to provide regulation for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

18-05-2023

Instituto de Telecomunicações in the consortium of the new Center for Responsible AI

The new Center for Responsible AI aims to define the working method for the development of responsible artificial intelligence in Portugal.

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, The University of Manchester, 08-01-2019

Academic Activities

2Supervision of PhD theses

As Co-supervisor

Evaluation Metrics for Vision-Language Models, PhD Student, Gonçalo Emanuel Cavaco Gomes, Expected conclusion 12-2027
Calibration and Confidence Estimation, PhD Student, Taisiya Glushkova, Expected conclusion 09-2024

1Supervision of MSc theses

As Supervisor

Exploring Context Representation for Machine Translation with Large Language Models, MSc Student, Sumire Honda, Concluded 10-2024

Publications

17Papers in Conferences

A. F. Farinhas, D. Ulmer, C Zerva, A. Martins, Non-Exchangeable Conformal Risk Control, International Conference on Learning Representations ICLR, Vienna, Austria, Vol., pp. -, May, 2024,
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D. Ulmer, C Zerva, A. Martins, Non-Exchangeable Conformal Language Generation with Nearest Neighbors, EACL: Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics EACL, Valetta, Malta, Vol., pp. -, March, 2024,
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F. Blain, C Zerva, R. Rei, N. Guerreiro, D. Kanojia, J. G. Sousa, B. Silva, T. Vaz, Y. Jinxuan, F. Azadi, C. Orasan, A. Martins, Findings of the WMT 2023 Shared Task on Quality Estimation, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Singapore, Singapore, Vol., pp. -, December, 2023,
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M. Freitag, N. Mathur, C. Lo, E. Avramidis, R. Rei, B. Thompson, T. Kocmi, F. Blain, D. Deutsch, C. Stuart, C Zerva, S. Castilho, A. Lavie, G. Foster, Results of WMT23 Metrics Shared Task: Metrics might be Guilty but References are not Innocent, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Singapore, Singapore, December, 2023 | BibTex
S. Honda, P. Fernandes, C Zerva, Context-aware Neural Machine Translation for English-Japanese Business Scene Dialogues, Machine Translation Summit MT Summit, Macau, China, Vol., pp. -, September, 2023,
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G. F. Filandrianos, E. D. Dervakos, O. Menis-Mastromichalakis, C Zerva, G. Stamou, Counterfactuals of Counterfactuals: a back-translation-inspired approach to analyse counterfactual editors, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Toronto, Canada, Vol., pp. -, July, 2023,
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T. Glushkova, C Zerva, A. Martins, BLEU Meets COMET: Combining Lexical and Neural Metrics Towards Robust Machine Translation Evaluation, Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, Tampere, Finland, June, 2023,
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C Zerva, T. Glushkova, R. Rei, A. Martins, Disentangling Uncertainty in Machine Translation Evaluation, Empirical Methods in Language Processing - EMNLP, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Vol., pp. -, December, 2022,
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R. Rei, M. V. T. Treviso, C Zerva, N. Guerreiro, A. C. Farinha, C. M. Maroti, J.M. Sousa, T. Glushkova, D. M. A. Alves, A. Lavie, L. C. Coheur, A. Martins, CometKiwi: IST-Unbabel 2022 Submission for the Quality Estimation Shared Task, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Vol., pp. -, December, 2022,
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R. Rei, J. G. Sousa, D. M. A. Alves, C Zerva, A. C. Farinha, T. Glushkova, A. Lavie, L. C. Coheur, A. Martins, COMET-22: Unbabel-IST 2022 submission for the metrics shared task, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Vol., pp. -, December, 2022,
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C Zerva, F. Blain, R. Rei, P. Lertvittayakumjorn, J. G. Sousa, S. Eger, D. Kanojia, D. A. Alves, C. Orasan, M. Fomicheva, A. Martins, L. Specia, Findings of the wmt 2022 shared task on quality estimation, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Vol., pp. -, December, 2022,
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M. Fomicheva, S. Sun, E.F. Fonseca, C Zerva, F. Blain, V. Chaudhary, F. G. Guzmán, N. L. Lopatina, L. Specia, A. Martins, MLQE-PE: A Multilingual Quality Estimation and Post-Editing Dataset, European Language Resources Association (ELRA) International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - LREC, Marseille, France, Vol., pp. -, June, 2022,
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J. V. Vasilakes, C Zerva, M. M. Miwa, S. A. Ananiadou, Learning Disentangled Representations of Negation and Uncertainty, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Dublin, Ireland, Vol., pp. -, May, 2022,
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T. Glushkova, C Zerva, R. Rei, A. Martins, Uncertainty-Aware Machine Translation Evaluation, Empirical Methods in Language Processing - EMNLP, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November, 2021,
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C Zerva, D. Stigt, R. Rei, A. C. Farinha, P. G. Ramos, J. G. de Souza, T. Glushkova, M. Vera, F. Kepler, A. Martins, IST-Unbabel 2021 Submission for the Quality Estimation Shared Task, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Conference online, November, 2021,
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R. Rei, A. C. Farinha, C Zerva, D. Stigt, C. Stuart, P. G. Ramos, T. Glushkova, A. Martins, A. Lavie, Are References Really Needed? Unbabel-IST 2021 Submission for the Metrics Shared Task, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Conference online, November, 2021,
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L. Specia, F. Blain, M. Fomicheva, C Zerva, Z. Li, V. Chaudhary, A. Martins, Findings of the WMT 2021 Shared Task on Quality Estimation, Conference on Machine Translation WMT, Conference online, November, 2021,
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Projects

Currently running projects2

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
NextGenAI	NextGenAI - Center for Responsible AI	IAPMEI	01-10-2021	31-12-2025
UTTER	Unified Transcription and Translation for Extended Reality	EU	01-10-2022	30-09-2025

Closed Projects1

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
DeepSPIN	DeepSPIN	EU/H2020	01-02-2018	01-02-2023

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