(May 20, 2026 - Lieve Macken) Have you (almost) completed your master’s degree and want to find out if AI translations are really as good as the automatic scores suggest? The LT3 research group is seeking …
(Sept. 15, 2025 ) Last Friday, the 35th edition of CLIN (Computation Linguistics in the Netherlands) took place in Leuven, and, as tradition goes, almost the entire LT3 team showed up! Our team contributed …
(July 10, 2025 ) Earlier this month, LT3 researchers traveled to Leeds for the 11th EST Congress, where the central theme was “The Changing Faces of Translation and Interpreting Studies.” LT3 was proud to …
(July 4, 2025 ) Another week of conferences is in the books! Last week, our Translation Technology team traveled to Geneva, Switzerland to attend the MT Summit. Apart from several presentations at both the …
(June 12, 2025 ) Conference season is here and we kicked it off with 4 conferences in one week! Let’s dive in! LTRC 2025 (Language Testing Research Colloquium) Joni traveled all the way to …
(May 16, 2025 ) On May 15, 2025, Lieve gave a talk titled "From CAT to Chat: How Generative AI is Changing Translation Training and MT Research" for members of the Belgian Quality Translation …
(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. …
(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, …
(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 …
(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 …
(Aug. 2, 2023 ) Ghent University’s MATEO Project Improves Access to Machine Translation Evaluation
(March 17, 2023 - Lieve Macken) Watch our three-minute animated explainer video on neural machine translation!
(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 …
(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 …
(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 …
(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 …
(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 …
(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 …
(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.
(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?
(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 …
(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 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 …
(Oct. 22, 2018 - Lieve Macken) Artikel in nrc.nl
(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 …
(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 …
(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 …
(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. …
(Oct. 6, 2017 ) Artikel over de masterproef van Rembert Hautekiet in de Krant van West-Vlaanderen.
(Sept. 6, 2017 - Lieve Macken) Zie het artikel in NRC (interview met Lieve Macken)
(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 …
(Sept. 1, 2016 ) See press release
(June 2, 2016 - Lieve Macken) Zie artikel Hoe staat het met de terminologie van de taalsector?
(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 …
(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.
(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 …
(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. 4, 2014 ) Zie Schamper # 546, p 28-29
(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 …
(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 …
(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, …
(March 23, 2012 ) David Walgrave from Larian Studios gave a guest lecture on game localisation on March 22nd.
(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 …
(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.
(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: …