Language and Translation Technology Team (LT3)

Conference season is here! The LT3 colleagues kicked it off with a busy week: we had 4 conferences in 3 different countries! You can read all about it in our latest news item ➡ lt3.ugent.be/news/lt3-at-lt…

Collega’s Orphée en Cynthia waren te gast in de podcast “Dwars Door de Klas” van GO! Scholengroep Xpert. Het thema van de aflevering? Artificiële Intelligentie, taaltechnologie en de impact op het onderwijs. Een echte aanrader! Luisteren kan hier: shorturl.at/UFUlI

There is a new doctor in town! 🎓 Last week, Margot Fonteyne successfully defended her dissertation in the presence of friends, family and colleagues. Curious to learn more? Have a look at the news item on our website. lt3.ugent.be/news/phd-defen…

🚨#CFP for 𝗡𝗟𝗣𝗦𝗜 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: The first workshop on Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions, co-located with 𝗜𝗖𝗪𝗦𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 in Copenhagen. 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: March 21, 2025. More details: nlpsi-workshop.github.io

We are excited to share the 4th edition of our yearly newsletter! At the beginning of each year, we take some time to look back at our accomplishments of the year before. There was a lot to be proud of in 2024. 📷 You can read all about it here: lt3.ugent.be/newsletters/la…

📅 10 December 3pm GMT 🎙️Speaker: Colin Swaelens @SwaelensColin (@lt3ugent) 📚 Title: Part-of-Speech Tagging & Lemmatisation in Unedited Greek: Simple Tasks, Complex Challenges? 🔗 Register by 1 December: [forms.office.com/Pages/Response…]

On 5 July 2024, @traduzionemille organised the workshop “Literary Translators and Technology”. 💡The key takeaway from the event? We need more conversations on user-centered research in literary translation! Curious to find out more? ➡bohtranslations.com/blog/dual-t-en…

New publication in System: “Vocabulary of reading materials in English and French L2 textbooks: A cross-lingual corpus study”. Open access until August 24: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jNIM,7ttADs… @vaness_a @lievemacken @maribel_montero @MULTIPLES_ugent @lt3ugent

Last Thursday, we celebrated the end of the academic year for our postgraduate students in the CALM programme. During the final workshop, they presented what they worked on during their 3-month internships. Congrats to all our students for their hard work and achievements! 🎓

To celebrate the end of the DUAL-T project, @traduzionemille is organising the event "Literary Translators and Technology: insights from user-centred research and literary translators' perspectives" on 5 July. ➡More info and registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

#ClsInfraTna @julia_neugarten gave her final presentation on her fellowship w/us & @lt3ugent on how #fanfiction-readers evaluate stories in the #GreekMythFandom from comments of @AO3_Status experimenting w/the @CLSinfra aspect-based sentiment analysis notebooks

Conference season is in full force 🌪 Our colleagues presented their work at #NITS2024 and #Anela2024 the last two weeks. 💡Curious to learn more? Have a look at our latest news item: lt3.ugent.be/news/lt3-at-ni… @traduzionemille @AmauryVanParys

🔔 Vacancy alert 🔔 We have a new full-time vacancy for a PhD researcher, with a focus on building empathic conversational agents. Applications close on 15 July 2024. ➡ More info: ugent.be/en/work/scient…

With 10 fantastic presentations LT3 was truly there to slay @LrecColing ! Curious about our most recent work and the mailbox size of one of the PCs 😉? 👉 lt3.ugent.be/news/lt3-at-lr…

@lt3ugent closed @LrecColing in style with 3 nice presentations at #LT4HALA2024: ABSA for CLS @DejaeghereTess, authorship attribution for Latin (Loic) and emotion in Early Modern Dutch @FDebaene. Thanks @RSprugnoli and Marco for a great workshop! @GhentCDH @pranaydeeps @OrfeeDC

Another day @LrecColing means more super interesting talks by @lt3ugent colleagues, presenting research on vary diverse topics ranging from CALL for Spanish to NLP for cuneiform, and even an industry talk on inclusive and fair NLP tools @ale_t_cig @RybergSmidt @aequa_tech

Natalia kicked off the @lt3ugent presentations @LrecColing with a very interesting presentation on the importance of pathos detection for argumentation mining

Yesterday @ecovadis and @lt3ugent presented the Cross-lingual Classification of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) shared task at the EcoNLP workshop at @LrecColing. Check out the task description paper for results and insights!

The submission deadline has been extended to the 26th of April! 🗓️ 📝 Submission Types: Full Research Papers of up to 10 pages. Extended Abstracts/Industry Reports of up to 2 pages. Stay Updated: 🌐 Visit the KEMT website: kemt2024.wixsite.com/home 🐦 Follow us @kemt2024

Need a little bit more time to finish your #GITT2024 submission and join us at @EAMT_2024 ? Say no more! Here's our final call for papers: ⏰The submission deadline has been EXTENDED until 22 April ⏰ Info at: sites.google.com/tilburgunivers… #gender #inclusive #translation #technology