--- title: "Leonardo Zilio — author profile and papers · Machine translation" description: "Leonardo Zilio: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2015–2026), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leonardo-zilio/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leonardo-zilio/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Leonardo Zilio # Leonardo Zilio Leonardo Zilio has 2 papers in our library, in 2015–2026, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Christian Boitet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christian-boitet/), [Maria José Finatto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maria-jose-finatto/), [Pushpak Bhattacharyya](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pushpak-bhattacharyya/). 2 papers in our library · 2015–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5032145695) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6101-0814) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5032145695) · [60 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5032145695) · [134 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5032145695&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leonardo-zilio/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 9 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leonardo-zilio/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/131/#star-13016) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Leonardo+Zilio) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Leonardo+Zilio) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Leonardo+Zilio) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Leonardo+Zilio) ## Affiliations [🎓**Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul** Porto Alegre · Brazil 2002–2017 · 13 papersEducation 2002–2006 · Graduation, Instituto de LetrasEducation 2007–2009 · Master's (MSc), Instituto de LetrasEducation 2011–2015 · PhD, Instituto de LetrasEducation 2015–2016 · Post-doctoral Researcher, Instituto de Informática](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidade-federal-do-rio-grande-do-sul/) · [🎓**UCLouvain** Louvain-la-Neuve · Belgium 2016–2024 · 10 papersEducation 2016–2018 · Post-doctoral Researcher, Centre de Traitement Automatique du LangageEmployment since 2024 · Assistant Professor, ILC / FIAL / LSTI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/uclouvain/) · [🎓**University of Surrey** Guildford · United Kingdom 2019–2023 · 4 papersEmployment 2019–2023 · Technical Specialist, Centre for Translation Studies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-surrey/) · [🎓**Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg** Erlangen · Germany 2023–2024 · 2 papersEmployment 2023–2024 · Post-doctoral Researcher, Lehrstuhl für Korpus- und Computerlinguistik](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leonardo-zilio/year/2026/) ### 2010s [**2015** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leonardo-zilio/year/2015/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Post-editing a chapter of a specialized textbook into 7 languages: importance of terminological proximity with English for productivity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shah-2015-post-editing-chapter-specialized-textbook/)** *(2015 · 1 citation)* The paper asks whether foreign students can turn free machine translations of specialized textbooks into usable versions in their native languages by post-editing them cooperatively. 2. **[Exploring automatic terminology extraction from historical medical data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zilio-2026-exploring-automatic-terminology-extraction-historical/)** *(2026)* Most terminology extraction tools are built for modern text and often struggle with historical writing, where spelling and specialized vocabulary were not yet standardized. ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[A Lexical Simplification Tool for Promoting Health Literacy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.readi-1.11/) Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) · no summary yet**Leonardo Zilio et al.*2020 · 8 citations* 2. **[Automatic Identification of COVID-19-Related Conspiracy Narratives in German Telegram Channels and Chats ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.173/) Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yet**Philipp Heinrich et al.*2024 · 5 citations* 3. **[Post-editing a chapter of a specialized textbook into 7 languages: importance of terminological proximity with English for productivity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shah-2015-post-editing-chapter-specialized-textbook/) [International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/icon/)**Ritesh Shah, Christian Boitet, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, et al.*2015 · 1 citation* 4. **[Exploring automatic terminology extraction from historical medical data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zilio-2026-exploring-automatic-terminology-extraction-historical/) [International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/propor/)**Leonardo Zilio, Maria José Bocorny Finatto*2026* ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Christian Boitet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christian-boitet/) - [Maria José Finatto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maria-jose-finatto/) - [Pushpak Bhattacharyya](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pushpak-bhattacharyya/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/icon/): [ICON 2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/icon/2015/) - [International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/propor/): [International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/propor/2026/) - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) - Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 9 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leonardo-zilio/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026