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# Rui Sousa-Silva

Rui Sousa-Silva has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/); often with [Colin Cherry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/colin-cherry/), [Daniel Deutsch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-deutsch/), [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/).

2 papers in our library · 2025–2026

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[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rui-sousa-silva/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 12 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rui-sousa-silva/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10857](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/109/#star-10857)

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=Rui+Sousa-Silva) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Rui+Sousa-Silva) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Rui+Sousa-Silva) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Rui+Sousa-Silva)

## 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 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Low-resource languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rui-sousa-silva/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rui-sousa-silva/year/2025/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[SSA-COMET: Do LLMs Outperform Learned Metrics in Evaluating MT for Under-Resourced African Languages?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2025-ssa-comet-do-llms-outperform/)** *(2025 · 13 citations)* Automatic MT evaluation works poorly for most African languages. The earlier AfriCOMET line of metrics had no public training data, small test sets, and only one MT system per language pair, and it was unstable on very low-resource languages such as Twi and Luo. The authors built SSA-MTE, a human-annotated evaluation…
2. **[From Detection to Attribution: Forensic Linguistics and Adversarial Red Teaming as Complementary Responses to LLM Misuse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/silva-2026-detection-attribution-forensic-linguistics-adversarial/)** *(2026)* Large language models make it cheap to produce hostile or deceptive text that imitates a specific person, and safety guardrails are often bypassed.

## Co-authors here

7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Colin Cherry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/colin-cherry/)
- [Daniel Deutsch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-deutsch/)
- [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/)
- [Eleftheria Briakou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eleftheria-briakou/)
- [Henrique Lopes Cardoso](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/henrique-lopes-cardoso/)
- [Jiayi Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiayi-wang/)
- [Pontus Stenetorp](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pontus-stenetorp/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/)
- [International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlpaics/): [International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlpaics/2026/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 12 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rui-sousa-silva/cited-by/).

Updated 1 November 2026
