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Anabela Barreiro is a senior research scientist and language technologist specializing in multilingual natural language processing, machine translation, and computational models grounded in linguistic theory, semantic precision, and human-centric AI. She holds Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in Linguistics from the Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Universidade do Porto, and conducted doctoral and post-doctoral research at New York University.
She has extensive experience across academia and industry, including collaboration with the Portuguese National Scientific Computing Foundation (FCCN) through the Linguateca project, and service as an independent expert for the European Commission (FP7, H2020, Horizon Europe). She worked in the United States for Logos Corporation, a pioneering machine translation company, and later at INESC-ID’s Human Language Technologies Lab, contributing to open-source initiatives such as the OpenLogos language model and the eSPERTo paraphrasing system. She has been actively involved in several COST Actions—enetCollect, UniDive, CLILNetLE, PhraConRep—and served as Chair of Multi3Generation.
Anabela has also contributed to education and training through teaching, workshops, and international schools, promoting interdisciplinary knowledge exchange in areas such as paraphrasing technologies, multilingual language understanding, and multimodal language generation.
At CLUNL, her research centers on scientifically grounded, non-anthropomorphic frameworks for AI and on promoting the role of Chief Language Officer (CLO) in AI governance to uphold semantic rigor, linguistic diversity, and ethical standards.