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
In modern languages, polite formulaic phrases often trace back to performative verbs (e.g. performative verbs of asking such as parakaló in Modern Greek, bitte in German or prego in Italian). ...read more
By exploring the ways in which ´being’ and ´being made´ are legitimized by the state and produced through the experiences in the on/off line nexus of those seeking asylum in ...read more
Ancient Greek dialects exhibit a great deal of geographic, diachronic, and sociolinguistic variation in their usage, both as spoken and as literary varieties. The Hellenistic age (4th – 1st cc. ...read more
This project examines political communication in the popular assemblies of the Greek cities of the Hellenistic and Roman periods to offer new insights into the debate concerning the extent of ...read more
This project aims to research and develop technology for Dutch automated writing evaluation for adult non-academic writing. The starting point is the detection and correction of sentence-level errors such as ...read more
The aim of the project is to contribute to a novel model of turn-taking in dialogue interpreting (DI) by offering an analysis in terms of ‘cognition for interaction’ ...read more
Due to current political and demographic developments, multilingual psychotherapy for refugees and migrants is becoming increasingly relevant. Interpreters are often indispensable in bridging the language barrier between patient and therapist. ...read more
This project aims to improve machine translation (MT) accuracy and efficiency by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with retrieval-based MT techniques and synthetic data augmentation. The approach involves generating synthetic ...read more
This project focuses on the modal markers used in the Vinaya texts translated into Chinese in the early 5th century: Four-Part Vinaya, Sarvâstivāda Vinaya, Mahīśāsaka Vinaya and Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya. Vinaya ...read more