Lucia SpeciaLucia Specia is a Professor of Language Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on various aspects of datadriven approaches to multilingual language processing with a particular interest n multimodal context models for language grounding that has applications in machine translation, quality estimation, and text adaptation. She is the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant on multimodal machine translation (2016-2021) and has been involved in a number of other research projects on machine translation (EC FP7 QTLaunchPad and EXPERT, EC H2020 QT21 21, CRACKER) and EC H2020 text adaptation (SIMPATICO). Before joining the University of Sheffield in 2012, she was Senior Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton (2010-2011) and research engineer at the Xerox Research Centre, France (2008-2009). She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2008. Read More Read Less