ESCRIBE, Marie
Research Assistant Professor
 | escribemarie@hkbu.edu.hk |
 | (852) 3411 7366 |
| ORCID: | https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7835-6755 |
Education
| 2022-2025 | PhD in Languages, Literature and Culture and their Applications (cum laude) Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Thesis: Towards Augmented Translation: Design and Application of a Benchmarking Framework for Post-Editing Environments |
| 2020-2021 | Master of Arts in Computational Linguistics (Distinction) University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom |
| 2018-2019 | Master of Arts in Translation (Distinction) London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom |
| 2015-2018 | Bachelor of Arts in Applied Foreign Languages Université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France & Université de Haute-Alsace, France |
Employment
| 2026-present | Research Assistant Professor Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University |
| 2024-2026 | User Researcher LanguageWire, Spain |
| 2022-2024 | Linguistic Engineer LanguageWire, Spain |
| 2019-present | Freelance Translator and Language Specialist |
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Book Chapters
- Escribe, M., and Candel-Mora, M. Á. (2026). Evaluating Post-Editing User Experience in Translation Tools: A Framework Grounded in the Needs of Language Professionals. In: Vargas Sierra, C. y Monteagudo Medina, M.A. (eds.) Interfaces digitales: el futuro de la traducción y la interpretación en la era tecnológica. Peter Lang.
- Escribe, M., and Mitkov, R. (2023). Applying Incremental Learning to Post-editing Systems: Towards Online Adaptation for Automatic Post-editing Models. In: Pan, J., and Laviosa, S. (eds) Corpora and Translation Education. New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Springer, Singapore.
Conference Papers
- Escribe, M., Ranasinghe, T., Haddad Haddad, A., Hettiarachchi, H., and Premasiri, D. (2026). APEX-VW: A Document-Level English-Spanish Post-Editing Dataset in the Healthcare Domain. Proceedings of the 35th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’26), November 7-11, 2026, Rome, Italy. ACM, New York,
- Escribe, M., and Candel-Mora, M. Á. (2024). Optimising Translation Tools for Post-Editing: Results of a User Survey. Proceedings of New Trends in Translation and Technology.
- Escribe, M., and Candel-Mora, M. Á. (2023). Envisioning the Post-Editor’s Workstation: A Backward Glance and a Glimpse into the Future. Proceedings of Translating and the Computer 45.
- Escribe, M., and Mitkov, R. (2021). Interactive Models for Post-Editing. Proceedings of Translation and Interpreting Technology Online.
- Escribe, M. (2019). Human Evaluation of Neural Machine Translation: The Case of Deep Learning. Proceedings of the Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology Workshop.
Recent Conference Presentations
- Escribe, M. (2026) APE-Prop: From Manual Repetition to Human-Centred Assistance in MT Post-Editing. International Conference HuMaLa 2026 (Humans, Machines, Language).
- Escribe, M., Haddad Haddad, A., and Ranasinghe, T. (2026) False Friends and LLMs within the Scope of Language Teaching and Translation Quality Estimation: a Case Study of English, Spanish and French. Conférence internationale permanente d’instituts universitaires de traducteurs et interprètes (CUITI 2026).
- Haddad Haddad, A., and Escribe, M. (2026) Cognitive Translation: A Case Study in English, Spanish and French. 43rd International Congress of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA).
- 2026 – 2027 | APE-Prop: Developing and Deploying an Open-Source, Adaptive Post-Editing Propagation Plugin for Trados Studio
PI; Co-Is: Ranasinghe, T., Haddad Haddad, A., Hettiarachchi, H., and Premasiri, D.
Funded by the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) via teh competitive EAMT Sponsorshop of Activities
- 2025 – 2026 | Detection of False Friends through Large Language Models: A Case Study in English, French and Spanish
PI: Haddad Haddad, A.; Co-Is: Escribe, M., Ranasinghe, T.
Funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST Action) – CA21167 Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology (UniDive)
- 2022 – 2025 | Improving Smart Editor based on User Needs
Industrial PhD Collaboration Agreement with LanguageWire, Spain
- Keynote Speaker: International Conference HuMaLa (Humans, Machines, Language) – Promoting machine translation and GenAI translation literacy: an approach towards professional translation and interpreting labour market at the University Granada (2026).
Invited Talk: From Hype to Sustainable Careers: Navigating the Translation Industry in the AI Era at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (2026).
Teaching Assistant: Summer School – The Paradigm Shift: From Rules to Models in Natural Language Processing, at the University of Alicante (2026).
Invited Tutorial on Post-Editing, International Conference New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology (2026).
Invited Talk: Automatic Post-Editing: Incremental Adaptation and State of the Art at the Hong Kong Baptist University (2024).
Seminars for Professional Translators: designed and delivered over 10 specialised webinars at LanguageWire on Post-Editing, Quality Estimation, and Computer-Assisted Translation tools for a global audience of professional linguists (2022-2025).
Invited Lecture: Towards Online Adaptation for Automatic Post-Editing Models, for students of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Translation and Interpreting Technology, University of Wolverhampton (2022).
- Translation Technology (Computer-Assisted Translation tools, Translation Memory, Terminology Management, Machine Translation, Post-Editing, Quality Estimation)
- Translation & Language Quality Evaluation
- User/UX Research, Human-Computer and Human-AI Interaction
- Translation Studies (theory, history, corpus-based Translation Studies)
- Technical, scientific, legal, marketing, literary and audiovisual translation
- Applied and Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
Awards & Recognition
- Honorary Member, Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton (2022)
- Best Young Researcher Award, Master of Arts in Translation, London Metropolitan University (2019)