Sheila Castilho
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sheila Castilho is involved.
2026 Exploring machine translation use by precarious migrant workers in Thailand Digital Translation: Online-First Articles | Article
The growing use of machine translation (MT) among migrants highlights a crucial area for investigation. This article explores findings from focus groups with precarious migrant workers in Thailand to assess their use of MT and evaluate the impact of this technology on their employment… read more
2018 Translators’ perceptions of literary post-editing using statistical and neural machine translation Translation Spaces 7:2, pp. 240–262 | Article
In the context of recent improvements in the quality of machine translation (MT) output and new use cases being found for that output, this article reports on an experiment using statistical and neural MT systems to translate literature. Six professional translators with experience of literary… read more
2016 Human factors in machine translation and post-editing among institutional translators Culture and Society, pp. 222–243 | Article
In September 2015, the ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology carried out a focus group study of 70 translators at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation (DGT). The aim was to better understand the factors involved in the translators’ adoption and non-adoption of… read more
2016 Content profiling and translation scenarios The Journal of Internationalization and Localization 3:1, pp. 18–37 | Article
Today’s companies are overwhelmed with the need to create a huge amount of content, faster, customized, and for numerous media platforms, in order to support their products. Struggling with managing this amount of information, companies have now realised that the strategic management of… read more