Until now, the study of travel writing has mostly focused on the visual ‘gazes’ on foreign people and places. Challenging the longstanding neglect of non-visual sensations, this project ...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
Employees are increasingly using social media to share information about their organization with a large network. On the one hand, they can take on the role of brand ambassadors, sharing ...read more
The English writer, art- and literature critic Walter Horatio Pater (1839 -1894) is considered as very influential in the aesthetic movement. Thanks to his aesthetics, his writings also live on ...read more
The Brussels couture house Norine was led from c. 1915 to 1952 by the charismatic couple Honorine Deschryver, dite "Norine" (1887-1977), and Paul-Gustave Van Hecke (1887-1967). Although Norine is all ...read more
The goal of the LoCKe project is to analyze and compare methodologies for transferring supervision across languages, without (or with minimal) parallel data. The primary focus is on the tasks ...read more
Despite the major advancements in the domain of sentiment analysis during the past few decades, automatically modelling implicit sentiment still remains a major hurdle in the field. While sentiment analysis ...read more
While it seems obvious that mass media play a role in nation-building, how they do so has hardly been studied. This is also true for Flanders, a federal region that ...read more
Citizens' lay expertise and experience of ethical issues in health are central to improve the healthcare system and build a societal-supported framework. The corona crisis has taught us how crucial ...read more
The research object of the project consists of the Dunhuang documents related to the planetary deities and the belief in the planetary deities in the Dunhuang area in Medieval China. ...read more