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Experience and Appointments
Universitat Pompeu Fabra • September 2021- • Barcelona
Projects: Natural Language Processing for Sign Languages (NLP4SL), SignON
Freelance • October 2020- • Barcelona
Universitat Pompeu Fabra • March 2021-September 2021 • Barcelona
Projects: SignON
Apple (via GlobeTech, Appen) • October 2017-December 2018 & November 2019-October 2020 • Cupertino, Paris, Cork, Barcelona, and Remote
Samsung Electronics (Indepedent Contractor) • December 2018-November 2019 • London
Edinburgh University Students' Association • September 2016 - August 2017 • Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh • April 2016 - August 2016 • Edinburgh
Education
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona • September 2021-
Supervisor: Prof. Horacio Saggion
Grant funding: PIPF1 teaching scholarship 2021-2023, PIPF2 Maria de Maeztu + teaching scholarship 2023-
The University of Edinburgh • September 2016-August 2017
- Thesis: "Investigating articulatory variation in the DoubleTalk corpus: Electromagnetic Articulography evidence of phonetic and speech-style variation" • Supervisor: Dr. James Kirby, Dr. Korin Richmond • Grade: Merit
- Courses: Accelerated Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, Computer Programming for Speech and Language Processing, Introduction to Syntax, Automatic Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis, Special Topics in Sociolinguistics, The Human Factor - Working with Users, Special Topics in Phonetics, Univariate Statistics and Methodology using R
The University of Edinburgh • September 2012-June 2016
- Thesis: "The thing about [hɪŋ]: Production, perception and qualitative data from (th):[h] in Edinburgh speech" • Supervisor: Prof. Patrick Honeybone • Grade: 2:1
- Pre-Honours courses: French, Russian Studies, Linguistics and English Language
- Honours courses: Phonetics and Laboratory Phonology, Advanced Phonetics, Phonological Theory, Historical Phonology, Morphology, Current Issues in Morphology, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Origins and Evolutions of Language, Second Language Acquisition
Teaching and Mentoring
Autumn 2022-3 Intelligent Web Applications, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - seminars and labs
Autumn 2021-3 Databases, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - seminars
Summer 2022 Algorithms and Data Stuctures II, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - seminars
2023/24 Three undergraduate dissertations
2023/24 One departmental internship
Training and Further Education
2022, September Mediterranean Machine Learning summer school (M2L) @ Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca
2021, July Deep Learning for NLP (DL4NLP) @ HiTZ Zentroa, Universidad del País Vasco (remote)
2020, December Bayesian Statistics: From Concepts to Data Analysis @ University of Santa Cruz (via Coursera)
2020, June Introduction to TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning @ deeplearning.ai (via Coursera)
2023, March Catalan, level B1 @ Idiomes UPF, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
2022, November Research Ethics and Personal Data Protection, Institutional Committee for Ethical Review of Projects, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
2016, October Office Bearer Training, Edinburgh University Students' Association
Academic output
2024 Saggion, H., McGill, E., Chiruzzo, L., & Egea Gómez, S. "Linguistic Processing for Sign Language Translation". In: (eds.) Way, A., Leeson, L., & Shterionov, D. Sign Language Machine Translation Springer.
forthcoming McGill, E. & Saggion, H. "Can True Zero-shot methods with Large Language Models be Adopted for Sign Language Translation?" Manuscript under review
2024 McGill, E., Chiruzzo, L., & Saggion, H. "Bootstrapping Pre-trained Word Embeddings for Sign Language Gloss Translation". In: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2024), Sheffield, England.
2024 Vandeghinste, V., Shterionov, D., De Sisto, M., Brady, De Coster, M., Leeson, L., Blat, J., Picron, F., Scipioni, M. P., Parikh, A., ten Bosch, L., O'Flaherty, J., Dambre, J., Rijckaert, J., Vanroy, B., Ubieto Nogales, V., Egea Gómez, S., Schuurman, I., Labaka, G., Núñez Marcos, A., Murtagh, I., McGill, E., & Saggion, H. "SignON - a Co-creative Machine Translation for Sign and Spoken Languages (end-of-project results, contributions and lessons learned)". In: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2024), Sheffield, England.
2023 Vandeghinste, V., Shterionov, D., De Sisto, M., Brady, De Coster, M., Leeson, L., Blat, J., Picron, F., Scipioni, M. P., Parikh, A., ten Bosch, L., O'Flaherty, J., Dambre, J., Rijckaert, J., Vanroy, B., Ubieto Nogales, V., Egea Gómez, S., Schuurman, I., Labaka, G., Núñez Marcos, A., Murtagh, I., McGill, E., & Saggion, H. "SignON Sign Language Translation: Progress and Challenges". In: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023),501-502. Tampere, Finland
2023 McGill, E. & Saggion, H. "BSL-Hansard: A parallel, multimodal corpus of English and interpreted British Sign Language data from parliamentary proceedings". In: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL), 43-48. Tampere, Finland.
2023 McGill, E., Chiruzzo, L., Egea Gómez, S., & Saggion, H. "Part-of-Speech tagging Spanish Sign Language data and its applications in Sign Language machine translation". In: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Resources and Representations for Under-Resourced Languages and Domains (RESOURCEFUL-2023),70-76. Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.
2022 Chiruzzo, L., McGill, E., Egea Gómez, S., & Saggion, H. "Translating Spanish into Spanish Sign Language: Combining Rules and Data-driven Approaches". In: Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2022), 75-83. Gyeongju, Republic of Korea.
2022 Egea Gómez, S., Chiruzzo, L., McGill, E., & Saggion, H. "Linguistically Enhanced Text to Sign Gloss Machine Translation". In: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems (NLDB 2022), 172-183. València, Spain.
2021 McGill, E. "Tailoring Automatic Text Simplification Output for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Adults". In: Proceedings of the Doctoral Symposium on Natural Language Processing from the PLN.net network 2021, 50-59. Jaén, Spain.
2021 Egea Gómez, McGill, E., & Saggion, H. "Syntax-aware Transformers for Neural Machine Translation: The case of text to sign gloss translation". In: Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC 2021),18-27. Online.
2016 Purse, R. & McGill, E. "An intraspeaker variation study of Scottish /r/ pharyngealisation". Lifespans & Styles, 2(2), 36-44.
2024, May 16 McGill, E. Is data augmentation a viable alternative to data collection for Sign Language machine translation? [Poster Presentation] 12th DTIC PhD Workshop - Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona, Spain.
2023, June 26-27 McGill, E., Saggion, H., Egea Gómez, S., & Chiruzzo, L. Improving Sign Language machine translation results by using linguistic features and other data augmentation methods: A series of studies on Spanish Sign Language (LSE) and German Sign Language (DGS) [Poster Presentation] 2nd Cardiff NLP Summer Workshop. Cardiff, Wales.
2023, May 15-19 McGill, E. Increasing access to language technology for d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing individuals: Exploring data augmentation strategies for Sign Language gloss data [Video Presentation] 11th DTIC PhD Workshop - Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona, Spain.
2017, January 25 McGill, E. The thing about [hɪŋ]: Production, perception and qualitative data from (th):[h] in Edinburgh speech [Poster Presentation] Scots@ed. Edinburgh, Scotland.
2017 McGill, E. Investigating articulatory variation in the DoubleTalk corpus: Electromagnetic Articulography evidence of phonetic and speech-style variation [Master's thesis, The University of Edinburgh]
2016 McGill, E. The thing about [hɪŋ]: Production, perception and qualitative data from (th):[h] in Edinburgh speech [Dissertation, The University of Edinburgh]
2023 Vermeerbergen, M., De Sisto, M., Leeson, L., Murtagh, I., Mohammed, Z., Schuurman, I., McGill, E., & Vanroy, B. Linguistic description for ISL, BSL, VGT, NGT and LSE (Deliverable 3.3) SignON: Sign Language Translation Mobile Application and Open Communications Framework.
2023 Egea Gómez, S., McGill, E., Vanroy, B., & Saggion, H. Second Natural Language Processing pipeline (Deliverable 3.6). SignON: Sign Language Translation Mobile Application and Open Communications Framework.
2023 Egea Gómez, S., McGill, E., & Saggion, H. Final Routines for transformation of text from and to InterL (Deliverable 4.8). SignON: Sign Language Translation Mobile Application and Open Communications Framework.
2022 Egea Gómez, S., Saggion, H., & McGill, E. Second routines for transformation of text from and to InterL (Deliverable 4.7). SignON: Sign Language Translation Mobile Application and Open Communications Framework.
2022 Van de Cruys, T., Goddefroy, M., Schuurman, I., & McGill, E. First symbolic intermediate representation - InterL-S (Deliverable 4.1). SignON: Sign Language Translation Mobile Application and Open Communications Framework.
2022 McGill, E., Goddefroy, M., & Saggion, H. First Natural Language Processing Pipelines (Deliverable 3.5). SignON: Sign Language Translation Mobile Application and Open Communications Framework.
2021 Egea Gómez, S., Saggion, H., & McGill, E. First Routines for transformation of text from and to InterL (Deliverable 4.6). SignON: Sign Language Translation Mobile Application and Open Communications Framework.
2021 Labaka, G., Egea Gómez, S., McGill, E., & Saggion, H. First distributional intermediate representation based on embeddings - InterL-E (Deliverable 4.3). SignON: Sign Language Translation Mobile Application and Open Communications Framework.
References
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