Organizations do not operate independently from their environment. Many companies affect the local communities surrounding them. Society increasingly pressures these corporations to give something back to their local community, for ...read more
This project examines interpreting practices in marriage fraud investigations conducted by Belgian authorities, in which a complex chain of interviews and reports results in the decision whether a transnational couple's ...read more
The primary research objective of this project is to use machine learning techniques to enable automatic writing evaluation. Various innovative methods will be researched to detect and provide feedback on writing errors ...read more
Although Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia and every 3 seconds a person in the world develops the disease, little is still known about the exact ...read more
Second language (L2) learners often resort to machine translation (MT) to help them during the writing process, which is why it is important to understand how L2 learners use MT ...read more
Increasingly, language test scores are used to make decisions that have a fundamental impact on the lives of people, but we know little about the decision-making processes underlying these practices. ...read more
This project aims at documenting the endangered BIYO language (Hani group of the Lolo-Burmese language family), spoken by ethnic minorities in scattered locations of Southwestern Yunnan Province of China. Nowadays, ...read more
This research project (National Project 2021) is situated in the domain of multilingual and intercultural (digital) communication. The project aims to evaluate the multilingual Fedasil website (https://www.fedasilinfo.be/en/landingspage) through an analysis ...read more
Adult learners of a second language (L2) who have had little or no schooling in their first language do not seem to benefit as much from L2 instruction as higher educated ...read more
In this project we will study the occurrence of default translation patterns, i.e. phases of relatively automatic cognitive processing, in the translation and interpreting processes by means of four experiments. ...read more