Projects

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Assessing the impact of machine translation on L2 learners' writing process and language learning

2021

Second language (L2) learners often resort to machine translation (MT) to help them during the writing process. As writing is a crucial element of language learning, it is important to ...read more
Dutch
Eye-tracking
German
Keystroke logging
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Linguistics
Machine translation
Quantitative
Second language acquisition
Stimulated recall
Surveys
Swedish
Translation Studies
Writing
MEMOR. A database and ethical framework for human skeletons from archaeological contexts in Flanders

2020

The aim of MEMOR is to:

1. Make an open access inventory of the human remains from archaeological research in Flanders using various paramaters to give archaeologists, physical anthropologists and ...read more
15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Antiquity
Archaeology
Belgium
Contemporary
Ethics and morality
Late Antiquity
Middle Ages
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
Quantitative
Surveys
Lordship as corporative government across late medieval France

2020

The concept of collective government in the Middle Ages is associated primarily with urban contexts, while lords are usually understood as exercising sole power over their individual rural domains. However, ...read more
14th century
15th century
Comparative
France
French
History
Language and text analysis
Latin
Lordship
Middle Ages
Power
Quantitative
Western Europe
Economic inequality on the eve of the late medieval crisis. Two regions compared, Tuscany and Northern France, c.1295-c.1320

2020

Since the Great Recession of 2007, research on the causes of economic inequality has been at the centre of both societal and academic debates, also among historians. Whereas most scholars ...read more
Black Death
Comparative
Crisis of Late Middle Ages
Economic Inequality
French
History
Italian
Latin
Middle Ages
Quantitative
Western Europe
Cross-channel stylistic exchanges. A stylometric approach to the impact of mobility and multilingualism on medieval Latin literature, 1000–1150

2020

This project will apply stylometry, the computational analysis of style, to investigate how cross-channel mobility and multilingualism impacted Latin literary style in 1000–1150. Due to the many invasions and colonization ...read more
Language and text analysis
Latin
Middle Ages
Quantitative
Western Europe
Newly arrived migrants in secondary schools. Charting linguistic expectations and didactic practices, exploring new possibilities

2020

The aim of this project is to compare the linguistic reality of Dutch immersion classes for newly arrived migrants to the linguistic reality of Dutch-medium instruction in secondary education. Additionally, ...read more
Dutch
Field research
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Quantitative
Shared interest or mutual competition? The organization of voluntary jurisdiction in the Southern Low Countries during the late Middle Ages (1278-1433)

2020

The status of the present-day Belgian notariat is currently being questioned by politicians, and its prominent social position in the recording and authentication of private transactions is at stake. This ...read more
15th Century
Belgium
Comparative
comparative legal history
Counties of Flanders and Hainaut
customary legal practices
Dutch
French
High and Late Middle Ages
History
Language and text analysis
Latin
Middle Ages
Pragmatic literacy
Quantitative
Western Europe
Working the land, searching the soil. A geophysical framework for diachronic land-use studies

2020

Through an interdisciplinary approach, this project aims to redress current understanding of Neolithic land-use. Hereby, a synergy between archaeology, environmental studies and applied geophysics will provide insight into diachronic human-environment ...read more
Archaeology
Belgium
Environmental Studies
Field research
Geoarchaeology
Geographic and map based
Geophysical prospection
Neolithic
past land-use
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Quantitative
Soil Physics
Surveys
Western Europe
Connections between semantically or formally similar Dutch auxiliary constructions: the nature of horizontal links and their influence on grammar

2020

This project is aimed at the investigation of horizontal links in two clusters of constructions featuring the auxiliarized Dutch verbs komen ‘to come’ and krijgen ‘to get, receive’. Horizontal links, ...read more
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Contemporary
Dutch
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Quantitative
ArcheOs. Research laboratory for biological anthropology

2020

The ArcheOs research laboratory for biological anthropology at Ghent University was established in 2020 within the Department of Archaeology. It aims to study the health, kinship, lifestyle and mobility of ...read more
15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Africa
Anthropology
Antiquity
Archaeology
Belgium
Central Europe
Comparative
Contemporary
Field research
History
Isotopes
Late Antiquity
Middle Ages
osteoarchaeology
Osteology
Prehistory (Stone Age)
proteomics
Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
Quantitative
Western Europe

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