Maria Pilar Milagros
Maria Pilar Milagros is CRL's most recent bilingual staff member working in the area of
linguistics.
Her academic interests include usage of language, especially Spanish, and translation.
She's working on the newly funded project entitled,
Interlingual Annotation of
Multilingual Text Corpora. Her central tasks in this project include learning the meaning
representation system, learning the procedure for annotating a text in a manner consistent with other
annotators at CRL and at other project sites and annotating a large number of Spanish news articles
and their English translations.
Prior to joining the CRL, Maria Pilar taught English As a Second Language at
Dona Ana Branch Community
College in Las Cruces, NM. She also taught Spanish language at numerous institutes including the
Arkansas State
University (2002-2003) and Academia Cervantes in Macedonia, Greece (1999-2000). She has also worked
as an interpreter
in Bellidio Congress Center and Aristotle University, Macedonia, Greece (1997-1998).
Maria Pilar earned her Master's degree in Spanish with a focus in Hispanic Minorities
Literature and a Minor in Women's Studies from New Mexico State University in
2001. The same year she presented her paper entitled, El uso del espaņol en obras de algunas
escritoras chicanas (The use of Spanish in a few texts by Chicana writers) at the 30th
Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the
Southwest (LASSO) at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM.
Maria Pilar comes from Spain and earned her Bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature
from the University of Lleida in Spain in 1994.
