(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, …
(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 …
(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 …
(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 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 …
(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. 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. 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 …
(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 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 …
(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 …
(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 …
(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 …
(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 …
(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 …
(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) 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 …
(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 …
(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 …
(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 …
(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 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 …
(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. …
(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. 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 …
(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 …
(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 …
(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 …
(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 …
(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 …
(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 …
(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. 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 …
(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 …
(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 …
(Feb. 17, 2011 - Véronique Hoste) http://www.tekstblog.nl/hoe-meetbaar-is-leesbaarheid/
(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. 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