About Me

I am a Lecturer (~Assistant Professor) at the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University. My research focuses on technologies that apply Artificial Intelligence for education and information accessibility. In particular, my work employs Natural Language Processing approaches to facilitate reading and understanding. I am especially interested in studying the real capabilities of systems for several Natural Language Generation tasks, such as Text Simplification, Summarisation and Machine Translation. In order to do that, my collaborators and I create language resources, design evaluation methodologies or metrics, and implement models using machine learning techniques.

Previously, I was a Research Associate at SheffieldNLP (2020-2021), working with Prof. Lucia Specia for the APE-QUEST and Bergamot projects on Quality Estimation for Machine Translation. Before that, I worked as Adjunct Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (2013-2016), where I was a member of the Artificial Intelligence Group IA-PUCP. During my Masters, I was also a member of the Interinstitutional Center for Computational Linguistics at the University of São Paulo.

Interests
  • Text-to-Text Generation (e.g. Text Simplification, Summarisation, Machine Translation, etc.)
  • Evaluation of Natural Language Generation
  • Writing Assistance
  • Natural Language Processing for Education
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science

    University of Sheffield

  • MSc in Computer Science

    University of Sao Paulo

  • BSc in Informatics Engineering

    Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

Featured Publications
Recent & Upcoming Talks

Automatic Evaluation of Simplified Texts

I provide an overview of how automatically-simplified texts are currently evaluated, highlighting issues with resources and metrics for automatic evaluation, and proposing solutions based on recent work.