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Contact Information

4042 Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building
707 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801

Office Hours

Fall 2025: Schedule via email (mlm25@illinois.edu)
PhD Student - Linguistics
T.A. - Corpus Linguistics

Biography

Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

Research Interests

Areas of interest: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Linguistics.

Education

  • 2024  Ph.D. in Linguistics (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  • 2021 - 2023 M.A. in Applied Linguistics (UNISINOS University)
  • 2016 - 2019 B.A. in English (UNISINOS University) 

Grants

  • 2023 - CAPES/Fulbright Brazil - Full Ph.D. Fellowship
  • 2021 - CAPES Full Master's Fellowship
  • 2016 - UNIBIC Fellowship 

Awards and Honors

2023 - Approved with distinction on my final paper examination (M.A.)

2019 - Approved with distinction on my final paper examination (B.A.)

2019 - Honorary mention at Pesquisa +.

2017 - Honorary mention at XXIV Mostra de Iniciação Científica e Tecnológica.

Recent Publications

2. CORTES, E.; VIANNA, A. L. T.; MARTINS, M. L.; RIGO, S.; KUNST, R. (2023) LLMs and Translation: different approaches to localization between Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese. Available at: https://aclanthology.org/2024.propor-1.5.pdf 

1. CHISHMAN, R. L. O.; SILVA, B.; SANTOS, A. N.; VIANNA, A. L. T.; de OLIVEIRA, S.; MARTINS, M. L.; de SCHRYVER, G. M. (2021) Building a Paralympic, Frame-based Dictionary - towards an inclusive design for Dicionário Paraolímpico. EURALEX Proceedings, v. 2, p. 723-731. Available at: https://euralex.org/publications/building-a-paralympic-frame-based-dictionary-towards-an-inclusive-design-for-dicionario-paraolimpico-unisinos-brazil/