Rate My Professor Leonardo Zilio

Zilio has made notable contributions to NLP, particularly for Portuguese and historical texts. Key publications include 'PassPort: A Dependency Parsing Model for Portuguese' (2018, with Rodrigo Wilkens and Cédrick Fairon), 'Enhancing grammatical structures in web-based texts' (2017, with Cédrick Fairon), 'SW4ALL: a CEFR-Classified and Aligned Corpus for Language Learning' (2018, with Rodrigo Wilkens and Cédrick Fairon), 'Using Neural Machine Translation for Normalising Historical Documents' (2024, with Besim Kabashi), and 'NLP for historical Portuguese: Analysing 18th-century texts' (2024). His work appears in prestigious venues such as PROPOR, ACL, and eLex, with over 396 citations on Google Scholar. At UCLouvain, he teaches courses including Revision and Post-editing (LTRAD2200), The Founding Principles of Interpretation (LINTP2000), and modules on linguistics and artificial intelligence. Zilio contributes to the academic community as Internal Communications Chair for EACL 2026, organizer of workshops on Digital Humanities and NLP, and supervisor of PhD students in computational linguistics and translation. His research influences machine translation, historical document processing, and language learning tools.