Carlos da Silva Cardoso Teixeira is an Adjunct Professor in the Master's in Professional Translation at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), where he primarily supervises student dissertations.
He holds a PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies, jointly awarded by Universitat Rovira i Virgili and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2014). His doctoral research explored the intersection between translation and technology, focusing on translator-computer interaction and the cognitive and human aspects of using translation tools. He employed eye tracking and other real-time data collection methods to study how translators interact with digital resources in professional settings. His doctoral research was funded by a Marie Curie fellowship under the European Commission's FP7 framework (TIME project).
He later pursued this line of research as a postdoctoral researcher at Dublin City University and the ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology (2015-2018). This was followed by a role as Visiting Research Fellow at the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, Trinity College Dublin (2018-2020), where he started serving as a dissertation supervisor.
Before transitioning into academia, Carlos spent over ten years working full-time as a freelance translator, specialising in technical and localisation projects. He translated from English, French, and Spanish into Brazilian Portuguese, and remains active in the language industry today. Carlos currently works as a localisation engineer at IOTA Localisation Services (Dublin), where he applies his academic expertise to real-world challenges in software and content localisation.
Carlos holds undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Linguistics from the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, and an MA in Translation and Intercultural Studies from URV (2011). At the URV, he remains committed to mentoring the next generation of translators and contributing to the advancement of translation studies.
Doctoral thesis
Teixeira, Carlos S. C. 2014. The impact of metadata on translator performance: How translators work with translation memories and machine translation. Doctoral thesis. Tarragona: Universitat Rovira i Virgili. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.2190.2887
http://hdl.handle.net/10803/285838
Journal papers and book chapters
Teixeira, Carlos S. C. & Julián Zapata. 2024. "Technical translators". In Massey, Gary; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen & Angelone, Erik. Handbook of the Language Industry: Contexts, Resources and Profiles. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. 349-374. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110716047-016
Zapata, Julián, Tatiana Cruz & Carlos S. C. Teixeira. 2023. "Escritores que dictan: ¿y por qué no los traductores literarios?". Tradumàtica 21: 103-128.
Teixeira, Carlos S. C. 2020. "Revising Computer-Mediated Translations" In Mossop, Brian. Revising and Editing for Translators, 4th edition. Abingdon: Routledge.
Teixeira, Carlos S. C., Joss Moorkens, Daniel Turner, Joris Vreeke and Andy Way. 2019. "Creating a Multimodal Translation Tool and Testing Machine Translation Integration Using Touch and Voice". Informatics 6 (1), 13; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics6010013
Teixeira, Carlos S. C. & Sharon O'Brien. 2019. "Investigating the cognitive ergonomic aspects of translation tools in a workplace setting" In Risku, Hanna; Regina Rogl & Jelena Milosevic (eds.) Translation practice in the field: Current research on socio-cognitive processes. [BCT 105]. John Benjamins. 79-103. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.105.05tei
Teixeira, Carlos S. C. & Sharon O'Brien. 2018. "Methodological challenges of mobile eye-tracking in the translation workplace" In Federici, Federico & Callum Walker (eds.) Eye tracking and Translation: Methods, Processes and Products. Amsterdam and Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.
Cadwell, Patrick, Sharon O'Brien & Carlos S. C. Teixeira. 2017. "Resistance and Accommodation: Factors for the (Non-)Adoption of Machine Translation among Professional Translators" Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2017.1337210
Teixeira, Carlos S. C. & Sharon O'Brien. 2017. "Investigating the cognitive ergonomic aspects of translation tools in a workplace setting" In Risku, Hanna; Regina Rogl & Jelena Milosevic (eds.) Translation practice in the field: Current research on socio-cognitive processes. Translation Spaces 6 (1): 79-103. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.6.1.05tei
Teixeira, Carlos S. C. 2014. "Perceived vs. measured performance in the post-editing of suggestions from machine translation and translation memories." In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Post-Editing Technology and Practice (WPTP-3), edited by Sharon O'Brien, Michel Simard, and Lucia Specia, 45-59.
http://www.amtaweb.org/AMTA2014Proceedings/AMTA2014Proceedings_PEWorkshop_final.pdf https://www.academia.edu/9029650/Perceived_vs._measured_performance_in_the_post-editing_of_suggestions_from_machine_translation_and_translation_memories
Pym, Anthony, Gabriel González Núñez, Marta Miquel-Iriarte, Sara Ramos Pinto, Carlos Teixeira, and Wine Tesseur. 2014. "Work placements in doctoral research training in the humanities: Eight cases from translation studies." Across Languages and Cultures 15 (1): 1-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/Acr.15.2014.1.1
Teixeira, Carlos S. C. 2014. "Data collection methods for researching the interaction between translators and translation tools-An 'ecological' approach." In: Schwieter, John & Ferreira, Aline (eds.) The development of translation competence: Theories and methodologies from psycholinguistics and cognitive science. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 269-286 https://www.academia.edu/6011925/Data_collection_methods_for_researching_the_interaction_between_translators_and_translation_tools_An_ecological_approach
Teixeira, Carlos S. C. 2014. "The handling of translation metadata in translation tools." In: O'Brien, Sharon; Balling, Laura; Carl, Michael; Simard, Michel & Specia, Lucia (eds.). Post-editing of Machine Translation: Processes and Applications. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 109-125. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/post-editing-of-machine-translation-6
https://www.academia.edu/6011728/The_handling_of_translation_metadata_in_translation_tools
Teixeira, Carlos S. C. 2013. "Multilingual systems, translation technology and their impact on the translator's profession." In: Neustein, Amy & Markowitz, Judith A. (eds.) Where Humans Meet Machines: Innovative Solutions to Knotty Natural Language Problems. Heidelberg and New York: Springer Verlag. 299-314.
https://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/book/978-1-4614-6933-9
https://www.academia.edu/3457358/Multilingual_Systems_Translation_Technology_and_Their_Impact_on_the_Translator_s_Profession
Teixeira, Carlos S. C. 2011. "Knowledge of provenance and its effects on translation performance in an integrated TM/MT environment." In: Proceedings of the 8th International NLPCS Workshop - Special theme: Human-Machine Interaction in Translation. Copenhagen Studies in Language 41. Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur. 107-118.
http://www.mt-archive.info/NLPCS-2011-Teixeira.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7757461/TPR/CSL_41complete.pdf
Teixeira, Carlos S. C. 2007. "Tradução de contos contemporâneos franceses de Vincent Ravalec: a busca de uma linguagem e a descoberta de várias línguas". Trabalhos em Lingüística Aplicada. Edição especial. Campinas: Editora da Unicamp. 109-122.
Editorial work
do Carmo, Felix; José Ramos and Carlos S. C. Teixeira (Eds.). 2024. "Human-computer interaction in translation and interpreting: software and applications". Tradumàtica 22. Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Hadley, James Luke; Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov; Carlos S. C. Teixeira and Antonio Toral (Eds.). 2023. Using Technologies for Creative-Text Translation. New York: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003094159
Book reviews
Teixeira, Carlos S. C. 2017. Book review: "New directions in empirical translation process research: Exploring the CRITT TPR-DB", by Michael Carl et al. JoSTrans - The Journal of Specialised Translation 28. 402-407. English [HTML] [PDF] and Portuguese [HTML] [PDF]
Teixeira, Carlos S. C. 2017. Book review: "Translation in the Digital Age", by Michael Cronin (2013). Target 29 (1): 162-167. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/target.29.1.09tei https://www.academia.edu/11943377/Book_review_Translation_in_the_Digital_Age_Michael_Cronin_2013_
Teixeira, Carlos S. C. 2016. Book review: "Is the glass half empty or half full? Reflections on translation theory and practice in Brazil", by Alice Leal (2014). Scientia Traductionis 16. 209-213. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5007/1980-4237.2014n16p209
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