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Rui Manuel Sousa Silva

CLUP, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto · Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto

https://researchid.co/rsousasilva
@sigarra.up.pt
24Scopus Publications

Biography

Rui Sousa-Silva is assistant professor of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and researcher and Scientific Coordinator of the Centre for Linguistics (CLUP) of the University of Porto, where he conducts his research into Forensic Linguistics, notably authorship analysis, plagiarism detection and analysis and cybercrime. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the Master's in Translation and Language Services and Coordinator of the Specialisation Course in Forensic Linguistics. He has a first degree in Translation and a Masters in Terminology and Translation, both awared by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Aston University (Birmingham, UK), where he submitted his thesis on Forensic Linguistics. He is co-editor of the journal Language and Law and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics. He was LITHME WG1-Computational Linguistics Chair (2020-2024).

Education

PhD in Applied Linguistics - Forensic Linguistics, Aston University, Birningham, UK

Recent Scopus Publications

  1. "The facts speak for themselves": dismantling conspiracy theories as disinformation
    Linguistics Vanguard, 2026
  2. Function words as possible style markers: an application to the forensic authorship analysis of Getúlio Vargas’ suicide note (carta-testamento)
    Delta Documentacao De Estudos Em Linguistica Teorica E Aplicada, 2025
  3. Leveraging Loanword Constraints for Improving Machine Translation in a Low-Resource Multilingual Context
    Emnlp 2025 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Proceedings of the Conference, 2025
  4. Evaluating WMT 2025 Metrics Shared Task Submissions on the SSA-MTE African Challenge Set
    Conference on Machine Translation Proceedings, 2025
  5. SSA-COMET: Do LLMs Outperform Learned Metrics in Evaluating MT for Under-Resourced African Languages?
    Emnlp 2025 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Proceedings of the Conference, 2025

Grants / Consultancy

None Forensic Linguistic Analysis

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