Curriculum Vitae
Clara Niza
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Clara Nisa Caetano Pereira de Almeida e Paiva
Citation names
- Clara Niza
- Niza, Clara
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 4512-5A03-330C
- ORCID iD
- 0009-0003-8471-9329
Email addresses
- clarapaiva@edu.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
Websites
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/claraniza/ (Social media)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Languages and Literatures
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Intermediate (B1) | Proficiency (C2) | Intermediate (B1) |
| French | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2025/02/10 - 2029/01
Ongoing
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Linguística (Doutoramento)
Major in Translation
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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2024/09/11
Concluded
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Tradução (Mestrado)
Major in Tradução
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Translators and Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Reflections on Machine Translation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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19 |
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2010/07/14
Concluded
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Tradução Jurídica e Económica (Pós-Graduação)
Major in Tradução
Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração Lisboa, Portugal
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17 |
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2004
Concluded
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Marketing Farmacêutico (Pós-Graduação)
Major in Marketing
Instituto Português de Administração de Marketing de Lisboa, Portugal
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17 |
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1992/06/25
Concluded
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Línguas e Literaturas Modernas, variante de Estudos Portugueses e Ingleses (Licenciatura)
Major in Tradução
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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13 |
Affiliation
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1992/09 - Current | Self-employed | Freelance Translator, Portugal |
| 2010/09/18 - 2019/09/30 | Board Member | WWS - Wine With Spirit, S.A., Portugal |
| 2009 - 2009 | Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer | Evolution_Grupo de Educação, Portugal |
| 2004/12/13 - 2008/12/31 | Operations Manager / Executive Assistant to the Branch Manager | Genworth Financial Mortgage Insurance, Portugal |
| 1999/10/01 - 2004/04/30 | Information, Communication and Image Coordinator | Guião, S.A., Portugal |
| 1992/11/02 - 1999/09/30 | Assistant to the Finance, Administrative and Distribution Department | Pharmacia & Upjohn, Portugal |
Projects
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/08 - 2025/10 | BridgeAI | Boosting Regulatory Implementation with Data-driven insight, Global expertise
and Ethics for AI
2023.10424.S4P23
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento
em Lisboa, Portugal
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Conference abstract |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2025/10/13 | Translators and Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Reflections on Machine Translation | Tradução Assistida por Computador - Licenciatura
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2025/07/03 | Translators and Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Reflections on Machine Translation | 11th EST Congress 2025: The Changing Faces of Translation and Interpreting Studies
University of Leeds (Leeds, United Kingdom)
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| 2024/10/16 | Translators and Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Reflections on Machine Translation | Tradução Assistida por Computador - Licenciatura
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2024/04/08 | Translators and Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Reflections on Machine Translation | Seminário de Sistemas de Tradução Automática - Mestrado em Tradução
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2026/02/27 - 2026/02/27 | Language technologies are increasingly shaping how we communicate and access information
across languages. Yet these systems can reflect social and cultural biases. As public-facing
large language models become more widespread, these issues reach an ever-broader set
of users and everyday contexts. In this talk, I will share past and ongoing work on
automatic translation and large language models, exploring how (gender) bias and other
risks emerge and how to address them to enhance inclusivity.
Seminar
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Beatrice Savoldi: "Towards Inclusive and Human-Centered Multilingual Language Technologies"
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento
em Lisboa, Portugal
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| 2026/02/24 - 2026/02/24 | Right now, the technological challenge we are most likely to face in the labour market
is ‘frictional’ technological unemployment – where there is plenty of work available,
but not enough people are able to do it. This lecture explores the phenomenon and
its main causes – that people might lack the right skills for the work, not live in
the place where the work is created, or have an identity that is at odds with the
nature of the work.
Seminar
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Work, Out of Reach by Professor Daniel Susskind
Gresham College, United Kingdom
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| 2026/01/13 - 2026/01/13 | ChatGPT, the AI chatbot developed by OpenAI, was the fastest growing app in history.
But this achievement, as sudden and remarkable as it might seem, was simply the most
recent chapter in a fascinating story that has been unfolding for almost seven decades.
This lecture explores the full history of the relationship between AI and work, and
how economists have tried to make sense of it.
Seminar
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Economics and Artificial Intelligence by Professor Daniel Susskind
Gresham College, United Kingdom
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| 2025/11/25 - 2025/11/25 | The Responsible AI Forum 2025, organized by the Center for Responsible AI, returns
to the Champalimaud Foundation on November 25 for a full-day program dedicated to
Building AI for Better — exploring how technology, science, and ethics can come together
to shape a more responsible future for Artificial Intelligence.
Conference
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Responsible AI Forum 2025 | Demo Day
Center for Responsible AI, Portugal
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| 2025/11/05 - 2025/11/07 | What does quality really mean in translation? How can we achieve it – and what are
the consequences when we don’t?
The 2025 Translating Europe Forum brought together translation professionals to discuss
quality standards and the future of the industry. Participants explored how artificial
intelligence is transforming translation work, while emphasising that human expertise
remains essential for cultural sensitivity and meaningful communication.
Conference
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2025 Translating Europe Forum – Quality matters
Directorate-General for Translation, Belgium
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| 2025/11/04 - 2025/11/06 | The 2025 conference adopted a hybrid model, maintaining its hallmark focus on the
intricate intersection between law and technology. The opening day was dedicated to
Portugal’s public administration and its innovation challenges, offering participants
the opportunity to attend an on-site session at Abreu Advogados’ auditorium. The second
day of the conference turned its attention to another pressing issue in today’s legal
landscape: e-Discovery. This session examined the automation of document review and
evidence management.
Conference
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Lisbon, Law & Tech 2025
Instituto de Conhecimento da Abreu Advogados, Portugal
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| 2025/10/27 - 2025/10/27 | Why has automation anxiety – the fear that new technologies cause mass unemployment
– proven wrong over the centuries? This lecture explores how technology affects the
labour market. While new technologies can substitute for workers, reducing demand
for their efforts at certain activities, they can also complement them, increasing
demand for them to do activities that haven’t been automated. Historically, people
have focused on the former, harmful force and underestimated – or ignored – the latter
helpful force.
Seminar
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The Economics of Work and Technology by Professor Daniel Susskind
Gresham College, United Kingdom
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| 2025/09/25 - 2025/09/25 | The event focused on advances in technologies and processes that leverage generative
AI, agentic AI, Large Language Models, reasoning LLMs, Machine Translation, and any
combination of them, that address challenges in multilingual communication and the
provisioning of high-quality translation or interpretation.
Conference
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AMTA 2025 Virtual
AMTA, United States
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| 2025/09/09 - 2025/09/09 | Ever since modern economic growth began three centuries ago, people have suffered
from periodic bursts of anxiety about the technologies of the time taking on the work
that they do. This opening lecture explores the history of ‘automation anxiety’ –
from the Luddites who smashed framing machines at the start of the Industrial Revolution
in Britain to the protestors who set driverless cars on fire on the streets of San
Francisco today. Time and again, their main worry – that there would not be enough
work for people to do – turned out to be wrong.
Seminar
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Automation Anxiety by Professor Daniel Susskind
Gresham College, United Kingdom
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| 2025/05/22 - 2025/05/23 | The Lisbon Language Summit 2025 is a transformative event designed to challenge the
status quo of the language industry, bringing together visionary minds and innovative
thinkers to reshape the future of global communication. From translation and interpreting
services to cutting-edge technologies and customized language services, the LLS 2025
will address key industry challenges: new business models; emerging skill sets; evolving
client expectations; AI risk management; the intersection of language services with
marketing, citizenship, and HR.
Conference
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Lisbon Language Summit 2025
Associação Portuguesa de Empresas de Tradução, Portugal
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| 2025/05/09 - 2025/05/09 | This Translating Europe Workshop, the second in Ireland, brought invited experts from
around Europe - including Ireland - together to focus on the challenges to contemporary
translation, both positive and negative. These include the opportunities for innovation,
growth, and hope in multilingual (digital) communication.
Workshop
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Translating Europe Workshop Dublin
Dublin City University School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Ireland
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| 2025/03/19 - 2025/03/19 | Online lecture by Professor Lawrence Venuti, moderated by Dr. Helena Moniz, entitled
"The Human Translator and AI: Algorithms of Interpretation". It was rganised by the
UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic
Studies (KFCRIS), with the support of the Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission.
The lecture explores the challenges posed to human translators by the advancment of
Machine Translation, generating various debates in translation studies.
Conference
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The Human Translator and AI: Algorithms of Interpretation
King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia
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| 2025/03/18 - 2025/03/18 | Translating Europe Workshop when the results of the 2025 edition of the European Language
Industry Survey (ELIS) were unveiled, analysed and discussed.
Conference
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ELIS 2025
European Union of Associations of Translation Companies, Belgium
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| 2024/11/19 - 2024/11/19 | The Center for Responsible AI forum is opening the doors to AI innovation and showing
how startups, research centers, and industry leaders are tackling challenges with
Responsible AI solutions.
Step into our ecosystem and gain a comprehensive view of the Center for Responsible
AI. From keynotes on critical AI topics to live demonstrations of our latest innovations,
see firsthand how our work is driving positive change in businesses and in our society.
Conference
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Demo Day - Open the doors to AI innovation
Center for Responsible AI, Portugal
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| 2024/10/19 - 2024/10/19 | The Bridge AI project, coordinated by INESC-ID in collaboration with the Champalimaud
Foundation and Unbabel, aims to foster connections and build synergies between academia,
industry, and the public sector to reflect on the implications of the AI Act and support
policymakers in its implementation.
At the conference, the preliminary results of each working group were presented and
there was a debate with international experts and decision-makers. It was a unique
opportunity to interact with experts and listen to prominent voices in AI regulation.
Conference
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Bridge AI - Portugal at the Forefront of Artificial Intelligence Regulation
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento
em Lisboa, Portugal
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| 2024/10/08 - 2024/10/08 | This TEW will attempt an in-depth exploration of the complex field of AI and its profound
implications for professional translation and translator training. The workshop will
delve into the theoretical and practical challenges that AI poses for the professional
translator, promoting a nuanced understanding of the evolving landscape. Through interactive
discussions, the aim is to explore and address key issues that arise when navigating
the transformative intersection of technology and language in the AI era.
Conference
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AI Translation vs Human Translation: Training Perspectives and the Impact on the Translation
Profession
Directorate-General for Translation, Belgium
Ionian University - Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Greece |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/03/21 - 2025/09/05 | Member of the scientific committee at the 12th edition of DiSS workshop 2025 – Disfluency
in Spontaneous Speech, with the theme is “Disfluencies in the Age of AI: A Multidisciplinary
View“.
Member
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Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento
em Lisboa, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |