(Oct. 17, 2024 ) Two weeks ago, Jasper successfully defended his PhD titled Intelligent Vocabulary and Example Selection for Spanish (IVESS). Congratulations on this achievement, Dr. Degraeuwe! The defense was preceded by a workshop …
(Sept. 9, 2024 ) At the end of August, the 34th edition of CLIN took place at the university of Leiden. Apart from being close to home, CLIN is always a great opportunity to …
(Aug. 22, 2024 ) Last week, Els Lefever, Aaron Maladry, Pranaydeep Singh, and Alessandra T. Cignarella represented LT3 at ACL 2024 in Bangkok, contributing to two key workshops. WASSA 2024, co-organized by Orphée, took …
(July 19, 2024 ) We have one more conference recap left for July: Margot attended EuroSLA and Jasper attended TaLC2024. Let’s have a look! EuroSLA33 took place in Montpellier on 3-6 July 2024 and …
(July 11, 2024 ) Time for yet another conference recap! Not only did our Translation Technology team attend and present at EAMT 2024, all 3 workshops at the conference were co-organised by LT3 members. …
(July 8, 2024 ) The past couple of weeks have been very busy again with Orphée, Joni and Margot attending the SIG Writing Conference in Paris and Colin’s workshop on Data-Driven Approaches to Ancient …
(June 26, 2024 ) Last week we had our biannual LT3 meeting followed by a teambuilding activity. As always, it was a combination of giving updates about the latest changes, learning about each others' …
(June 19, 2024 ) On June 18, 2024, we proudly hosted the much-anticipated release of "Taaltechnologie Ontrafeld" at the stunning Belvedère of the Boekentoren in Ghent. Authored by eight members from the LT3 research group, …
(June 13, 2024 ) Conference season is in full force, with 2 more conferences where our colleagues presented their work. First, Paola presented her work at NITS in Antwerp on Friday 31 May. She talked about …
(June 4, 2024 - Véronique Hoste) We have a vacancy for a doctoral fellow in the framework of the Flanders AI project. Please visit https://www.ugent.be/en/work/scientific/doctoral-fellow-28 for more information. Interested candidates can apply until 15 July 2024! Do not …
(May 29, 2024 ) Last week LREC-COLING 2024 took place in the beautiful Italian city of Torino. Various LT3 members contributed to the entire week, and they did so in many different ways: by …
(April 8, 2024 - Els Lefever) We have a vacancy for a post-doctoral assistant in language and translation technology at the LT3 team. Interested candidates can apply until 7 May 2024 on the designated Ugent vacancy platform. Do …
(March 27, 2024 ) It looks like 2024 will once again be a promising years in terms of conferences and workshops. Various LT3 members are involved in the organization of shared tasks or workshops …
(Jan. 20, 2024 - Véronique Hoste) Veronique has been appointed by the Faculty of Letters, Translation and Communication from the Université libre de Bruxelles as their Francqui chair 2023-2024! Her inaugural lecture is on February 15th. Don't …
(Nov. 7, 2023 - Gilles-Maurice de Schryver) A new age, that of the successful application of generative AI in lexicography, has dawned. Gilles-Maurice de Schryver summarises the state of the art using ChatGPT. Noteworthy is that while …
(Oct. 25, 2023 - Lieve Macken) We need to talk about machine translation (MT)! Using science communication as a tool to improve AI/MT literacy beyond the translation community Prof. Lynne Bowker is visiting UGent at the …
(Oct. 2, 2023 ) We are very proud to announce that Veronique has been nominated for the function of VP-Elect for the ACL Executive Committee. Below you can read Veronique's statement: ACL and its …
(Sept. 29, 2023 ) The CLIN conference is the one-day event to present ongoing research and insight on Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands! This year the 33th Edition of the conference took place in …
(Sept. 4, 2023 ) Last Friday (1 September, 2023) Olha successfully defended her PhD in Computer Science! She was supervised by Professor Chris Cornelis and Professor. Véronique Hoste. For her dissertation entitled Fuzzy Rough …
(Aug. 2, 2023 ) Ghent University’s MATEO Project Improves Access to Machine Translation Evaluation
(July 14, 2023 ) From 9 to 14 July, 2023 the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2023) took place in Toronto! Various LT3 members were present in Toronto: Orphée was …
(May 29, 2023 - Els Lefever) Fully funded PhD in Computational Linguistics Apply until 29-08-2023 LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team, Faculteit Letteren & Wijsbegeerte Master’s diploma in linguistics, literature, computational linguistics, computer science or equivalent …
(May 18, 2023 ) Last week, the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics took place in the beatiful town of Dubrovnik (Croatia). Various LT3 colleagues presented new work at EACL workshops: Aaron presented work on "Too …
(May 12, 2023 ) Yesterday, the fist Call for Papers for LREC-COLING 2024 was published. The Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation will be held in Turin at the Lingotto …
(March 17, 2023 - Lieve Macken) Watch our three-minute animated explainer video on neural machine translation!
(Dec. 12, 2022 ) Last week the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing took place in Abu Dhabi and online. Various LT3 colleagues presented new work at EMNLP workshops: Tuesday 7 …
(Dec. 8, 2022 ) Mens en machine: evoluties en uitdagingen in de literaire vertaalpraktijk van de toekomst Op zaterdag 26 november 2022 gaven Lieve Macken en Paola Ruffo op uitnodiging van de Vertalersvakschool …
(Dec. 5, 2022 ) Last Thursday, 2 December 2022, Luna De Bruyne successfully defended her PhD entitled Feeling EmotioNL: Automatically detecting emotions in Dutch texts. She was supervised by Professor Véronique Hoste and Professor …
(Nov. 4, 2022 ) Feeling EmotioNL: Automatic emotion detection in Dutch texts On Thursday December 1st 2022, LT3 is organising the workshop Feeling EmotioNL: Automatic emotion detection in Dutch texts, on the occasion of Luna De Bruyne's …
(Sept. 27, 2022 ) We have a vacancy for a post-doctoral assistant in language and translation technology at the LT3 team. Interested candidates can apply until 25 October 2022 on the designated Ugent vacancy platform. Do …
(Sept. 16, 2022 ) We have a vacancy for a tenure-track professor in language technology: machine learning for NLP at the LT3 team. Interested candidates can apply until 20 October 2022 on the designated …
(June 27, 2022 ) From June 20 till June 25 the 13th edition of the LREC conference took place in Marseille. Various colleagues from LT3 were there to present new work: On Monday there …
(June 21, 2022 ) Last Friday (17 June 2022) the 32nd edition of the Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands conference took place in Tilburg at the impressive Willem II Stadium. Many colleagues from LT3 …
(June 16, 2022 ) Vacature voor een doctoraatsbursaal Solliciteren tot 15-08-2022 LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team, Faculteit Letteren & Wijsbegeerte Vlot teksten kunnen schrijven is een fundamentele vaardigheid in de huidige kennismaatschappij, maar …
(June 13, 2022 - Bram Vanroy) Hugging Face and the Language and Translation Technology Team (LT3) of Ghent University are collaborating to bring you an exclusive hands-on class in Belgium on How can you show what …
(June 10, 2022 ) From 1-3 June, we organised the 23rd edition of the Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2022), together with our industry partner CrossLang. The LT3 team …
(June 4, 2022 ) On Friday May 20th Luca Desmet received a third award for her master dissertation! After previously being awarded a Language Industry Award (LIA) and the BAAHE award (Belgian Association for …
(May 19, 2022 ) From 1-3 June, EAMT2022, the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation will take place in Gent. Organised by the LT3 Language & Translation Technology Team and …
(Jan. 31, 2022 ) The year 2021 marked LT3 research team’s 15th anniversary. We celebrate this occasion by launching a newsletter.
(Dec. 10, 2021 ) Yesterday, Gilles Jacobs successfully defended his PhD on Extracting Fine-Grained Event and Sentiment from Economic News. He was supervised by Professor Véronique Hoste, Professor Els Lefever and professor Diane Breesch. …
(Nov. 19, 2021 - Veronique Hoste) PHD VACANCY ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS The LT3 language and translation technology team at Ghent University has a full-time vacancy for a PhD researcher in the area of …
(Oct. 26, 2021 - Gilles Jacobs) We are happy to announce two new open access publications in the SENTiVENT project. SENTiVENT: enabling supervised information extraction of company-specific events in economic and financial news” is published in …
(Oct. 20, 2021 - A.S. Doğruöz) I will be hiring a Ph.D. student around the research topics I work on (e.g. computational sociolinguistics, multilingualism, low-resource languages, language contact & variation, open-domain dialogue systems). Computational skills in …
(Sept. 2, 2021 ) Yesterday, Thierry presented his long paper on "Event prominence extraction combining a knowledge-based syntactic parser and a BERT classifier for Dutch" at the biennial RANLP conference. This work was carried …
(Aug. 17, 2021 ) In het @trendsmagazine artikel Vertaaltechnologie is pure wiskunde uit de reeks “De toekomst is dichterbij dan u denkt", geeft collega Lieve Macken meer uitleg over hoe het tegenwoordig zit met …
(July 12, 2021 ) Last Friday, 9 July 2021, LT3 team members Lieve, Orphée, Seza, Arda, Bram, Ayla and Sofie organised the first online edition of the annual Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Conference …
(July 9, 2021 ) In situaties waar informatie sneller gedateerd is dan dat ze vertaald kan worden, wordt er regelmatig gebruikgemaakt van automatische vertaalsystemen. De Europese Commissie lanceerde recent de app 'Re-open EU', waar …
(July 6, 2021 - Els Lefever) PhD Student NLP for Byzantine Greek Last application date: Aug 29, 2021 100% Dehousse Bursaal LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team - Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent University Job …
(June 16, 2021 ) Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN2021) will take place online on 9 July 2021. The organising LT3-team is looking forward to 26 oral and 42 poster presentations, presenting work on …
(June 1, 2021 ) Last Friday (28 May 2021), Ayla successfully defended her PhD: D-TERMINE: Data-Driven Term Extraction Methodologies Investigated. She was supervised by professor Els Lefever and professor Véronique Hoste. In her dissertation …
(May 28, 2021 ) Yesterday, Bram successfully defended his PhD on Syntactic difficulties in translation. He was supervised by Professor Lieve Macken, Professor Orphée De Clercq and dr. Tezcan. His work investigated which linguistic …
(April 20, 2021 ) Yesterday, the Eleventh Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis took place online as part of EACL 2021. Orphée and Veronique were two of the workshop's …
(April 15, 2021 ) Check it out at https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6785837152455532544/
(March 5, 2021 ) Job opening: post-doctoral research assistant The LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team - Ghent University, Belgium is seeking a highly motivated post-doctoral assistant in the field on language and translation …
(Feb. 3, 2021 ) As you may have already heard we are organizing CLIN31 this year! The Call for Extended Abstracts has just been sent out: Researchers are invited to submit, in English, extended …
(Jan. 22, 2021 ) How do you annotate the emotional properties of text using the concepts Valence, Arousal and Dominance? In new work published in the leading journal Language Resources and Evaluation three different …
(Jan. 15, 2021 ) We have a new publication on text normalization of Dutch social media text in the journal Expert Systems with Applications. You can access the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.114500 Abstract: Social media …
(Dec. 14, 2020 ) Last week, the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics took place online. Various LT3 colleagues presented work at one of the workshops co-located with this conference: Gilles Jacobs and Veronique …
(Nov. 25, 2020 - Gilles Jacobs) We have two new publications on cyberbullying detection: 1. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/article/automatic-classification-of-participant-roles-in-cyberbullying-can-we-detect-victims-bullies-and-bystanders-in-social-media-text/A2079C2C738C29428E666810B8903342 In "Automatic classification of participant roles in cyberbullying" we automatically identify bullies, victims and defenders from social media text using …
(Oct. 27, 2020 - Lieve Macken) LT3 zoekt nieuwe collega op het ArisToCAT-project Hoe leesbaar zijn automatisch vertaalde teksten? Zin om dit mee uit te zoeken? We hebben een vacature voor een wetenschappelijk medewerker die interesse …
(Oct. 27, 2020 - Veronique Hoste) Solliciteren tot 01-12-2020 LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team, Faculteit Letteren & Wijsbegeerte 100% Dehousse bursaal De digitale revolutie en komst van het Web 2.0 hebben ervoor gezorgd dat …
(April 25, 2020 - Lieve Macken) We are happy to announce that the UGent-DGT study on measuring the effect of MT on the translation workflow has been published, open access publication in Informatics
(April 16, 2020 - Lieve Macken) Lieve Macken presented together with Daniel Prou, the business manager for machine translation at the Directorate-General for Translation at the European Commission, their study on measuring the effect of MT …
(March 20, 2020 ) Two positions are currently open at the LT3 team: We are looking to hire a full-time (100%) post-doctoral researcher with expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Your main task will …
(Feb. 7, 2020 ) Last Friday, Orphée presented a collaboration with EQTIS and the Université de Lille at TQ2020 in Roubaix: "Uncovering machine-translationese: an experiment on 4 MT systems for English-French translations". Together with prof. …
(Jan. 31, 2020 ) On Thursday 30 January 2020 the 30th edition of the CLIN (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands) conference took place. Various LT3 colleagues presented their work: Orphée talked about automatic event …
(Jan. 29, 2020 ) AI4Growth is the community of AI stakeholders in Flanders. Yesterday, the latest AI4Growth event took place with a focus on Retail B2C & Consumer exp. An excellent occasion for Orphée to …
(Dec. 12, 2019 - Lieve Macken) Daniel Prou, the business manager for machine translation at the Directorate-General for Translation at the European Commission, presented together with Lieve Macken and Arda Tezcan the results of their study on measuring …
(Nov. 25, 2019 ) Begin November EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 took place in Hong Kong and some LT3 members were also there. Camiel presented novel work on "Leveraging syntactic parsing to improve event annotation matching" in …
(Oct. 16, 2019 - Lieve Macken) Lieve Macken and Antonio Toral (University of Groningen) gave guest lectures today on Machine Translation and Post-editing to Master of Translation students at the University of Antwerp.
(Oct. 14, 2019 ) Last week Atila '19 took place in Antwerp. New this year was the focus on Conversational Agents, on day one a tutorial was given on this subject by Georgios Spithourakis from …
(Sept. 18, 2019 ) Yesterday, Julie successfully defended her PhD on Facilitating Cross-Disciplinarity: Joining forces of philosophy of science and computational linguistics. She was supervised by Professor Erik Weber and Professor Els Lefever. Her …
(Sept. 3, 2019 - Lieve Macken) Hoe leesbaar zijn automatisch vertaalde teksten? Zin om dit zelf uit te zoeken? Lees dan volgend vacaturebericht. Solliciteren kan tot 22 september 2019.
(Sept. 2, 2019 ) Today the 3-day conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019) kicked off in Varna, Bulgaria. On this first day, no less than three LT3 papers were already …
(Aug. 21, 2019 ) Currently the Machine Translation Summit is taking place in Dublin. An LT3 delegation has already been there for a few days presenting some of their most recent work at two …
(July 23, 2019 - Lieve Macken) Bijdrage voor de zomerreeks van Knack: Waarom vindt een automatisch vertaalsysteem soms nieuwe woorden uit?
(July 19, 2019 - Veronique Hoste) The LT3 language and translation technology team at Ghent University has a full-time vacancy for a PhD researcher in the area of Computational Linguistics (Natural Language Processing) for research on …
(July 1, 2019 ) Today, the Special Track on EMOtion and SEntiment DEtection took place at the HUSO conference in Rome. We were very lucky that Dr. Alexandra Balahur from the European Commission's Joint …
(June 26, 2019 ) The SCATE (Smart Computer-Aided Translation Environment) project aimed to improve computer-assisted translation workflows in different ways. This paper gives an overview of the highlights of the entire SCATE project and …
(June 3, 2019 ) A new paper by Ayla Rigouts Terryn, Véronique Hoste, Els Lefever and other colleagues is available online: Validating multilingual hybrid automatic term extraction for search engine optimisation: the use case of …
(May 8, 2019 - Veronique Hoste) De promocampagne voor het Burgerpraat-project is gestart. We zoeken 1000 burgerwetenschappers in Vlaanderen. Spread the word! Zie: http://burgerpraat.elis.ugent.be
(April 29, 2019 ) Two new journal publications by Arda Tezcan, Véronique Hoste and Lieve Macken have been published. Estimating word-level quality of statistical machine translation output using monolingual information alone: In this paper we …
(March 29, 2019 - Gilles Jacobs) New publication "Correlating process and product data to get an insight into translation difficulty" by Bram Vanroy, dr. Orphee De Clercq and Lieve Macken. Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2019.1594319 By correlating product and …
(March 29, 2019 - Gilles Jacobs) A new publication "In no uncertain terms: a dataset for monolingual and multilingual automatic term extraction from comparable corpora" is available by Ayla Rigouts Terreyn, Véronique Hoste and Els Lefever: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10579-019-09453-9 …
(March 20, 2019 - Gilles Jacobs) Joke Daems & Lieve Macken published new research in Machine Translation journal on comparing translator interactions with adaptive SMT and NMT versions of the Lilt system. The paper is titled: …
(March 18, 2019 ) On Friday, Lieve gave a keynote at the TeTra conference. The theme of the conference was `Is translation dead? Machine translation, post-editing and the challenges of the future'.
(March 14, 2019 - Gilles Jacobs) Prof. dr. Lieve Macken presented new work at NLP Meetup @ Foodpairing NV in Ghent. Lieve Macken (LT3, UGent): Translating in the digital age: challenges and opportunities Neural Machine Translation …
(Jan. 31, 2019 - Gilles Jacobs) LT3 presented several posters and presentations at CLIN29 in Groningen.Presentations: Predicting Syntactic Equivalence in Translation - Bram Vanroy, Arda Tezcan and Lieve Macken. Een baardjuffrouw en haar borstengeknoei. The influence …
(Jan. 9, 2019 - Lieve Macken) Binnen de afdeling Taaltechnologie van de vakgroep Vertalen, Tolken en Communicatie (Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, UGent) is er momenteel een vacature voor een deeltijdse (50%) lector voor o.a. de opleidingsonderdelen …
(Dec. 17, 2018 - Gilles Jacobs) Prof. Lieve Macken shared her machine translation expertise at KBC bank for their Machine Translation Inspiration Session, 17th December 2018.
(Dec. 12, 2018 - Véronique Hoste) In the context of a research infrastructure project, a scholarship is offered for a PhD student in the LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team at the Ghent University Department …
(Oct. 22, 2018 - Lieve Macken) Artikel in nrc.nl
(Oct. 22, 2018 - Gilles Jacobs) Article in newscientist.com
(Oct. 9, 2018 ) Wondering how to automatically detect toxic behavior on Social Media? The open acces journal PlosOne published our paper “Automatic detection of cyberbullying in social media text”. The work presents a …
(Oct. 3, 2018 - Gilles Jacobs) Congrats to Dr. Nils Smeuninx for succesfully defending his PhD last Friday!His dissertation entitled Dear Stakeholder. Exploring the language of sustainability reporting: a closer look at readability, sentiment and perception …
(Sept. 20, 2018 - Gilles Jacobs) LT3 researcher Joke Daems co-organized the DARIAH Beyond Europe Stanford workshop at Stanford University, CA.The first DARIAH Beyond Europe workshop was held at Stanford University on the topic of “Sustainable …
(Sept. 18, 2018 - Gilles Jacobs) Friday 28 of August, Nils Smeuninx will publicly defended his PhD. His dissertation entitled Dear Stakeholder. Exploring the language of sustainability reporting: a closer look at readability, sentiment and perception …
(Sept. 17, 2018 ) On 17 and 18 September the 6th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora took place in Antwerp. Claudia was there to present her latest work on "Varying …
(July 29, 2018 ) Prof. Véronique Hoste co-organized and co-hosted the 1st workshop on Economics and NLP at ACL2018 in Melbourne, Australia.Here, Phd candidate Gilles Jacobs presented a gold-standard dataset and baseline systems for …
(June 14, 2018 ) On May 30th, during the CIUTI Conference in Edinburgh, Joke Daems was awarded the CIUTI Award for her PhD thesis, which she defended in September 2016: A Translation Robot for Each …
(June 6, 2018 ) Currently, the prestigious NAACL conference is taking place at New Orleans, Louisiana. In the framework of SemEval 2018, some of our colleagues presented their latest work. Yesterday, Cynthia presented the shared …
(May 30, 2018 ) On Tuesday 29 June, Véronique Hoste and Ayla Rigouts Terryn co-organised the second European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) workshop with Stijn Desmeytere of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. The …
(May 27, 2018 ) From 24 till 27 May, the third conference on Technological Innovation for Specialized Linguistic Domains (TISLID2018), Languages for digital lives lives and cultures took place at Ghent University. LT3 was …
(May 22, 2018 ) From 7 till 12 May the LREC 2018 conference took place in Miyazaki, Japan. Els, Ayla and Laura were there to present their latest work on: Terminology extraction. Text mining …
(April 5, 2018 ) On the occasion of Suzanne Kleijn's PhD defense a Readability Workshop takes place in Utrecht on 5 April 2018. The speakers were asked to reflect on three issues in particular, …
(March 15, 2018 ) Arda Tezcan successfully defended his PhD on March 14th, 2018. His dissertation entitled Informative Quality Estimation of Machine Translation Output was supervised by Prof. dr. Lieve Macken (Ghent University) and Prof. …
(Feb. 23, 2018 ) This year, all students that took up the course Digital Communication Management in the CALM program participated in the Digital Masters Academy (DMA). The DMA is organized every year by Google …
(Jan. 26, 2018 ) On Friday the 26th of January a large affiliation from LT3 attended the annual Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) conference. This year CLIN28 took place in Nijmegen at the …
(Dec. 6, 2017 - Lieve Macken) The LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team - Ghent University, Belgium is seeking a highly motivated post-doctoral assistant in the field on language technology. Application deadline: December 19th 2017 More …
(Nov. 29, 2017 ) Today, we presented some exciting new research projects at the LW Research Day. An excellent opportunity to discuss our interdisciplinary work with the other colleagues and students from the humanities. …
(Nov. 21, 2017 ) For a new project that will start in spring 2018, we are seeking a highly motivated PhD student for a full-time PhD scholarship at the Language and Translation Technology Team. …
(Oct. 6, 2017 ) Artikel over de masterproef van Rembert Hautekiet in de Krant van West-Vlaanderen.
(Sept. 25, 2017 ) Cynthia Van Hee successfully defended her PhD on September 22nd, 2017. Her dissertation entitled Can machines sense irony? Exploring automatic irony detection on social media was supervised by Prof. dr. Véronique …
(Sept. 20, 2017 ) On Friday 8 September, Orphée, Véronique and Els attended the WASSA workshop at EMNLP2017 in Copenhagen where they presented joint work with the Ghent-based company Hello Customer. The past year, …
(Sept. 6, 2017 ) This morning, Véronique gave an inspiring keynote at the RANLP2017 conference. "Can computers help prevent suicide" was the main theme of the talk in which the importance of NLP for …
(Sept. 6, 2017 - Lieve Macken) Zie het artikel in NRC (interview met Lieve Macken)
(Sept. 2, 2017 ) Today Véronique and Orphée are giving a tutorial at the RANLP conference entitled "From Easy-to-calculate Formulas to Holistic Readability Prediction". During this tutorial they will present an overview of machine learning approaches …
(June 12, 2017 - Orphée De Clercq) We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student for a full-time PhD scholarship at the Language and Translation Technology Team. The successful applicant will work on multilingual fine-grained emotion detection …
(June 1, 2017 ) On Wednesday May 31st 2017, Arda Tezcan presented his latest work on quality estimation: a Neural Network (NN) architecture for detecting grammatical errors in Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) using monolingual morpho-syntactic …
(March 25, 2017 - Cynthia Van Hee) In its latest edition (23/03/2017), the University Antwerp magazine has highlighted the AMiCA research project as an example of a succesful interuniversitary collaboration. During this 4 year research project, the universities …
(March 22, 2017 - Véronique Hoste) Veronique and colleague Marc Janse in the Ghent science cafe
(Jan. 23, 2017 - Véronique Hoste) PhD Position Applications are invited for a full-time interdisciplinary PhD scholarship in the LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team at the Ghent University Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication. The …
(Jan. 11, 2017 - Lieve Macken) We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student for a 4-year position at the LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team. The successful applicant will participate in the ArisToCAT project (Assessing …
(Dec. 20, 2016 - Cynthia Van Hee) As part of the project management course, CALM students recently attended a series of three guest lectures by Nathalie De Sutter, who manages the translation agency Untranslate. She familiarized the …
(Dec. 8, 2016 - Cynthia Van Hee) Within the inter-university research project AMiCA, technology was developed that can automatically detect threatening situations for children and youngsters online. This technology allows for a faster and more efficient intervention …
(Nov. 18, 2016 ) The second conference on Human and Social Analytics took place this week in Barcelona as part of InfoWare 2016. Els was the organizer of a special session on Emotion and …
(Oct. 28, 2016 ) Terminology, translation process management, and machine translation, those are three key elements to improve translation workflows according to CrossLang director Heidi Depraetere. On Wednesday, October 26, CALM students enjoyed a …
(Sept. 6, 2016 ) Yesterday (September 5th, 2016), Joke successfully defended her PhD dissertation: A translation robot for each translator? A comparative study of manual translation and post-editing of machine translations: process, quality and translator …
(Sept. 1, 2016 ) See press release
(June 16, 2016 ) Bart, Gilles and Orphée have been in beautiful San Diego to attend the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, aka NAACL2016! Today the workshops collocated with …
(June 2, 2016 - Lieve Macken) Zie artikel Hoe staat het met de terminologie van de taalsector?
(June 1, 2016 ) Arda presented his work on 'Detecting Grammatical Errors in Machine Translation Output Using Dependency Parsing and Treebank Querying' at the 19th Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation …
(May 25, 2016 ) LT3 is present in Slovenia for the 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference: LREC2016. On Monday Veronique, Els, Bart and Cynthia participated in the highly successful TA-COS …
(April 14, 2016 - Ayla Rigouts Terryn) In collaboration with the European Commission, LT3 organized the Belgian edition of the European Language Resource Coordination (ELRC) Workshop. A diverse audience consisting of researchers and representatives from the European …
(March 3, 2016 ) The AMiCA project on online safety for young people was nominated for a Language Industries prize. The AMiCA project, a cooperation between the University of Antwerp, Ghent University and the …
(March 1, 2016 ) The Faculty of Arts and Philosophy has a vacancy for a lectureship, starting from 1 October 2016. The post is a full-time position as lecturer in the tenure track system, …
(Nov. 5, 2015 ) Joke presented her work on 'The Impact of Machine Translation Error Types on Post-Editing Effort Indicators' at the Fourth Workshop on Post-editing Technology and Practice.
(Oct. 19, 2015 ) Last week, LT3 attended the yearly ATILA workshop which took place in Antwerp. We were able to present some of our latest work and pleased to meet so many new …
(Oct. 12, 2015 ) Today, Els is presenting results on the automatic detection and prevention of cyberbullying at HUSO 2015, the First International Conference on Human and Social Analytics. Cyberbullying is one of the …
(Oct. 11, 2015 ) Today, Bart is presenting his work on 'Online Suicide Risk Detection Using Automatic Text Classification' at the IASR/AFSP International Summit on Suicide Research. In his presentation Bart will discuss the …
(Sept. 29, 2015 ) During the mini symposium 'Copyediting voor het Nederlands' organized by the Nederlandse Taalunie Véronique presented the research on Dutch readability prediction performed in the framework of Orphée's PhD. The idea …
(Sept. 18, 2015 ) Today, Arda is presenting LT3's participation in the Shared Task on Quality Estimation which was organized in the framework of the Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. This year the …
(July 10, 2015 ) Orphée De Clercq successfully defended her PhD on July 9th, 2015. Her dissertation entitled Tipping the scales. Exploring the added value of deep semantic processing on readability prediction and sentiment …
(July 1, 2015 - Els Lefever) Job title: PhD Student (doctoraatsbursaal) Department: Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, University of Ghent Degree: Master’s Degree in a relevant field (Translation, Interpreting, (Computational) Linguistics, or Computer Science) Job …
(June 29, 2015 - Els Lefever) Job title: PhD Student (doctoraatsbursaal) Department: Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, University of Ghent Degree Master’s Degree in a relevant field (Translation, Interpreting, (Computational) Linguistics, or Computer Science) Job …
(June 10, 2015 ) On June 9th, doctoral researchers from the UGent faculty of Arts and Philosophy presented their ongoing research at the fourth Doctoral Colloquium. A keynote speech about Open Humanities was followed …
(June 6, 2015 - Els Lefever) LT3 participated to three SemEval-2015 shared tasks on Irony detection, Taxonomy construction and Aspect-based sentiment analysis and presented the papers at #naacl2015.
(March 24, 2015 ) This Thursday Bart is participating in the TEDxGhent PhD Contest. He was selected as one of the twelve contestants and can win a spot on the stage of the TEDxGhent …
(Jan. 29, 2015 ) Joke presents her work at Translation In Transition 2015 in Germersheim: "Comparing human translation and post-editing using advanced research tools"
(Nov. 24, 2014 ) On November 20-21 2014, the research groups from Ghent (LT3), Antwerp (CLiPS), Nijmegen (Lama) and Tilburg (TiCC) met in Ghent for the ATILA workshop. During these two days new advances …
(Nov. 4, 2014 ) Zie Schamper # 546, p 28-29
(Oct. 18, 2014 ) On October 17th 2014, Bart Desmet defended his PhD with success. In his dissertation, entitled Finding the online cry for help. Automatic text classification for suicide prevention, Bart studied the …
(Oct. 1, 2014 - Bart Desmet) On Friday October 17, 2014, LT3 organizes a symposium on Text mining for public safety and well-being on the occasion of the public PhD defense of Bart Desmet. Programme 13h30 …
(Sept. 19, 2014 ) During her research stay at the DWS team of the University of Mannheim, Orphée collaborated with Mannheim's researchers to explore new possibilities of combining NLP techniques with Linked Data/Semantic Web …
(Aug. 23, 2014 ) Last spring, the LT3 team participated in the Semantic Evaluation challenge on Sentiment Analysis in Twitter. The challenge consisted of both contextual polarity disambiguation (subtask A) and message polarity classification …
(May 28, 2014 ) Today, work of eight LT3 members is being presented at the Ninth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference at Reykjavik, Iceland. http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/ Please refer to the Publications section to learn more …
(Dec. 18, 2013 - Lieve Macken) We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student for a 4-year position at the LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team. The PhD-project focuses on automatic confidence estimation of machine translation …
(Dec. 6, 2013 ) Overzicht persaandacht AMiCA-project Hieronder vinden jullie een kort overzicht van de persaandacht voor het AMiCA-project nadat we op 26 november 2013 een persbericht uitstuurden met een oproep aan slachtoffers en …
(Nov. 26, 2013 ) Persbericht UGent en UAntwerpen (26/11/2013) Cyberpesten of iemand kwetsen met beledigende berichten via het internet of de gsm, is een groeiend probleem bij jongeren. Verscheidene studies geven aan dat één …
(Nov. 19, 2013 ) Artikel in De Standaard (6 november 2013)
(Nov. 18, 2013 ) Artikel over vertaalsoftware in De Standaard (6 november 2013) na een interview met Véronique Hoste.
(Oct. 27, 2013 ) Last Friday Orphée presented her readability work on the 3rd Translation Studies Day. This research can be especially useful for the European Commission's Directorate-General for Translation. In the framework of …
(Oct. 1, 2013 ) As of today the LT3 research team is an official member of UGent, one of the biggest universities in the Dutch-speaking region of Europe. Following the 'integration' of all academic …
(Aug. 28, 2013 ) Klaar Vanopstal successfully defended her PhD on August 27th, 2013. Her dissertation entitled Impact of language skills and system experience on medical information retrieval was supervised by Prof. dr. Godelieve …
(June 6, 2013 - Lieve Macken) Joke gave her first presentation on the ROBOT project at the OPTIMALE symposium in Rennes: Faster is not always better, but what if it’s not worse? A comparative study of …
(March 21, 2013 ) We just received the news that Els has won the Third Best Paper Award on this year's International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing) for her paper: …
(Feb. 11, 2013 - Véronique Hoste) On December 13, we presented the results of the IWT TExSIS project. During this final workshop, we presented the prototype system for monolingual and multilingual terminology extraction. We showcased the …
(Oct. 16, 2012 - Véronique Hoste) We have two job openings on a 4-year research project on automatic sentiment analysis of online content. More information can be found at http://www.hogent.be/vacatures. For any questions, you can contact …
(Oct. 4, 2012 - Véronique Hoste) You are cordially invited to a attend the following LT3 seminar on "Get Richer or Die Tryin': Knowledge-Rich Natural Language Processing for the Semantic Web" by Simone Ponzetto, University of …
(Sept. 25, 2012 ) Els Lefever defended her PhD with success on September 24rd, 2012. Her dissertation entitled ParaSense: Parallel Corpora for Word Sense Disambiguation was supervised by Martine De Cock (Ghent University) and …
(Sept. 1, 2012 - Véronique Hoste) On Monday 24 September 2012, the Ghent Association Research Group on Language Technology and Computational Intelligence organizes a PhD symposium on "Exploiting parallel corpora for lexical disambiguation" with talks by …
(Aug. 7, 2012 ) There is a new job opening at our team! More information about the job and its requirements can be found on the HOGENT website (in Dutch). Application deadline: 20 August, …
(June 28, 2012 - Véronique Hoste) Veronique, Anita Prinzie (Solutions-2) and Dirk De Muynck (Volvo) shared their views on social media mining at the "get inspired day" of Solutions-2. Have a look at: http://www.solutions2.be/getinspired2012/Default.aspx Also check …
(March 23, 2012 ) David Walgrave from Larian Studios gave a guest lecture on game localisation on March 22nd.
(Dec. 23, 2011 - Orphée De Clercq) We have all been waiting anxiously to know who is the lucky winner of our iPad2 prize draw! As can be expected from a language technology team we let our …
(Dec. 6, 2011 - Orphée De Clercq) Over a period of two months we received no less than 20,802 Flemish text messages from contributors all over Belgium. A big 'thank you' goes out to everyone who donated …
(Sept. 27, 2011 - Orphée De Clercq) ... and win an iPad 2! Language is a complicated matter. Remember how long it took you to know when to use which words, and how? Language is not something …
(Sept. 7, 2011 ) Lieve presents the work done in the Inputlog++ project ''Enriching the analysis data of Inputlog with linguistic information''
(March 20, 2011 - Lieve Macken) Students of the courses Computer-aided Translation and Localization will visit the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission in Brussels on Wednesday March 23rd. The DGT visit programme is as …
(Feb. 17, 2011 - Véronique Hoste) http://www.tekstblog.nl/hoe-meetbaar-is-leesbaarheid/
(Dec. 1, 2010 ) Lieve will present LT3's bilingual terminology extraction system at the TiNT Terminology Day in Amsterdam on December 3rd. The full program is available here.
(Nov. 20, 2010 ) The 21st CLIN meeting will be hosted by the Language and Translation Technology Team (LT3) of the Faculty of Translation studies at the University College Ghent. More information can be …
(Nov. 19, 2010 - Dries Tanghe) Dries presented the Hendi project at "Het Schoolvak Nederlands 24", the annual conference on teaching Dutch. See the conference website for more details. The conference proceedings are available here.
(Nov. 17, 2010 - Dries Tanghe) Dries presented the Hendi project at the "Research Forum" in the Department home.
(Nov. 4, 2010 - Véronique Hoste) Invitation to the lecture (in Dutch)
(Oct. 31, 2010 - Véronique Hoste) http://www.kennislink.nl/publicaties/lezen-op-je-eigen-niveau
(Sept. 26, 2010 - Dries Tanghe) LT3 hosted this year's ATILA workshop. ATILA is the annual research meeting of the NLP research teams CLiPS of the university of Antwerp, ILK of the university of Tilburg, and …
(May 29, 2010 ) Lieve Macken defended her PhD on May 28th 2010. Her doctoral dissertation entitled Sub-sentential alignment of translational correspondences was supervised by Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp) and Joost Buysschaert. The …
(March 22, 2010 ) We just received the news that Lieve has won the Third Best Paper Award on this year's International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing) for her paper: …