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New cyberbullying publications

(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 …

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New publication on cyberbullying detection

(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 …

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Keynote on suicidality detection

(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 …

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AMiCA Symposium on Youngsters & Online Safety

(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 …

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LT3 in San Diego for NAACL, SemEval and CLPsych

(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 …

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LT3 presents new work at LREC2016

(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 …

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AMiCA nominated for the Language Industry Awards

(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 …

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AMiCA's cyberbullying use case presented at HUSO 2015

(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 …

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Work presented at International Summit on Suicide Research

(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 …

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LT3 presents new work at EMNLP2015

(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 …

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Vote for Bart at TEDxGhent

(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 …

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PhD defense Bart Desmet

(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 …

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Symposium on Text mining for public safety and well-being

(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 …

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LT3 presents new work at LREC2014

(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 …

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And the winner is ...

(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 …

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20,802 Flemish text messages received

(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 …

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Donate your text messages to science...

(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 …

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Visit to the Directorate-General for Translation

(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 …

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