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Helena Ji Wu. Completed the Mestrado in Linguística in 2025/01/09 by Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras and Licenciatura in Ciências da Linguagem in 2022 by Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras. Attends the Doutoramento in Linguística by Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras since 2025/09. Participates and/or participated as Master Student Fellow in 1 project(s) and Researcher in 1 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Humanities with emphasis on Languages and Literatures with emphasis on Linguistics.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Helena Ji Wu

Citation names

  • Wu, Helena
  • Helena Wu

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5F17-3FF7-F7B6
ORCID iD
0009-0003-9099-049X

Email addresses

  • helenawu@edu.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Linguistics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Chinese (Mother tongue)
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Japanese Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
French Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2025/09 - 2029
Ongoing
 Linguística (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2022 - 2025/01/09
Concluded
 Linguística (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Cultural Transcreation in Asian Languages" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2019 - 2022
Concluded
 Ciências da Linguagem (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
 14
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09 - 2025/03/31 Research Trainee (Research) Unbabel, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/09 - Current Center for Responsible AI
62
Master Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Ongoing
2022/06 - 2022/07 Multilingual AI Agent Assistants (MAIA)
045909
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Wu, Helena; Silva, Beatriz; Helena Gorete Silva Moniz; Cabarrão, Vera. "Cultural Transcreation in Asian Languages with Prompt-Based LLMs". Paper presented in MT Summit 2025, Geneva, 2025.
    Published
  2. Beatriz Silva; Helena Wu; Yan Jingxuan; Vera Cabarrão; Helena Gorete Silva Moniz; Sara Guerreiro de Sousa; João Almeida; et al. "Cultural Transcreation with LLMs as a new product". Paper presented in EAMT 2024, Sheffield, 2024.
    Published
  3. Rei, Ricardo; Pombal, Jose; Guerreiro, Nuno M.; Alves, João; Martins, Pedro Henrique; Fernandes, Patrick; Wu, Helena; et al. "Tower v2: Unbabel-IST 2024 Submission for the General MT Shared Task". 2024.
    10.18653/v1/2024.wmt-1.12
  4. Treviso, Marcos V; Guerreiro, Nuno M; Agrawal, Sweta; Rei, Ricardo; Pombal, José; Vaz, Tania; Wu, Helena; et al. "xTower: A Multilingual LLM for Explaining and Correcting Translation Errors". 2024.
    10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.892
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Cultural Transcreation in Asian Languages". 2025.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/06/27 Cultural Transcreation in Asian Languages with Prompt-Based LLMs MT Summit 2025
University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland)
2024/10/14 Cultural Transcreation for East Asian Languages with LLMs Linguística Computacional
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/06/26 Cultural Transcreation with LLMs as a new product EAMT 2024
University of Sheffield (Sheffield, United Kingdom)