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Antoni Oliver is a Full Professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), where he directs the Master’s Degree in Translation and Technologies and leads the GRIAL research group. Holding a PhD in Linguistics and a background in Telecommunications Engineering, his research focuses on Machine Translation, Computational Linguistics, terminology extraction, and natural language processing. He is the Principal Investigator in major competitive research projects, including TAN-IBE, TamTAS (Terminology-Aware MT for Accessible Science). He has authored numerous open-source tools for translation and parallel corpus creation, such as LitPC and TBXTools. His research is widely published in high-impact international journals such as Language Resources and Evaluation, Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, Tradumàtica, and Linguamàtica, as well as top computational linguistics conferences like EAMT, EACL, and the Machine Translation Summit.
Contact: aoliverg@uoc.edu

Sergi Alvarez Vidal is an Assistant Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) specializing in Translation Technology, Computational Linguistics, and Machine Translation. His primary research focuses on the empirical evaluation of Machine Translation (MT) and its integration into professional workflows, with a strong emphasis on low-resource languages like Catalan and Aranese. He actively participates in competitive research projects, including TAN-IBE, TamTAS, and Generatese2LT. His work is published in journals such as Mutatis Mutandis, Linguamàtica, Ampersand, Language and Law / Linguagem E Direito, Perspectives and Revista Tradumàtica. Alongside academic publishing, he engages in industry consultancy and open-source tool development, including the PosEdiOn post-editing framework. He serves as Associate Editor for Cogent Arts & Humanities.
Contact: salvarezvidal@uab.cat