Projects

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Evaluation of literature by professional and layperson critics. A digital and literary sociological analysis of evaluative talk of literature through the prism of literary prizes (2007-2017)

2019

Recently, the manager of a Dutch publishing consortium manager stated that literary quality should be measured and predicted by means of algorithms and big data-based audience research, rather than by ...read more
Language technology
Literary studies
A respeaking and collaborative game-based approach to building a parsed corpus of European Spanish dialects

2018

The study of dialectal microvariation of Spanish spoken in Spain has until recently mainly focused on lexical and phonetic features. The morphosyntax of these dialects, on the contrary, remains largely ...read more
Communication
Language technology
Linguistics
Pyramids and progress. Belgian expansionism and the making of egyptology (1830-1952)

2018

In Belgium, Egyptology emerged later than elsewhere in Europe, but once under steam, it went through a rapid growth in the course of the first half of the 20th century. ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Africa
Archaeology
Belgium
Digital humanities
Dutch
English
French
History
History of science
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Middle East
Quantitative
Western Europe
A parsed corpus of Southern Dutch dialects

2018

Many of the unique syntactic features of Dutch dialects spoken in Flanders only occur in very specific discourse contexts, and therefore cannot be researched using existing databases and linguistic atlases, as those ...read more
Language technology
Linguistics
PLATOS: Detection of topics, stance and argumentation in a social media corpus

2018

The PLATOS project aims at investigating stance and argument detection on automatically extracted topics in social media text by combining linguistic knowledge and machine learning. In the proposed research, we ...read more
Language technology
A diatopic and sociolinguistic study of verbal constructions with possessive pronouns in Spanish varieties

2017

In recent years, the study of the use of possessive complements instead of prepositional ones in the adverbial domain, as in encima mío/a vs. encima de mí ‘above me’, has ...read more
Communication
Comparative
Contemporary
Field research
Geographic and map based
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Linguistics
Portuguese
Quantitative
South America
Spanish
Surveys
Western Europe
SENTiVENT. Event extraction and sentiment analysis for financial applications

2017

In economic news, journalists and analysts give objective information on recent events while also discussing the implications of events in an implicitly subjective manner. We investigate automated text mining approaches ...read more
Contemporary
Dutch
English
Language technology
Multilingual fine-grained emotion detection for business intelligence

2017

Despite the plethora of often visually very attractive social media monitoring tools currently available on the market, none of the existing solutions provide fine-grained insights to support reputation monitoring. The ...read more
Contemporary
Language technology
Linguistics
PreDicT. Predicting difficulty in translation

2017

The major goal of this research project is to develop a ‘translatability prediction system’ for English-Dutch that not only automatically assigns a global difficulty score to a given source text, ...read more
Language technology
Translation Studies
EXTRACT. Extracting terminology automatically from comparable texts

2017

Specialised, domain-specific vocabulary, i.e. terminology, has always been difficult and time-consuming to understand and translate well. Nonetheless, terms often contain essential information and a good comprehension is imperative in many ...read more
Comparative
Dutch
English
French
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Quantitative