The project works on developing the capacities of central and local governance for utilization of research and data for policy-making and accountability. Specifically, perceptions of citizens on pertinent issues will ...read more
The goal of the Stylene project is to implement a robust, modular system for stylometry and readability research using existing techniques for automatic text analysis and machine learning. In order ...read more
Conventus. Problems of religious communal life in the High Middle Ages is a Scientific Research Network of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO, Belgium). Its aim is to coordinate and stimulate research on ...read more
Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (SMLC) will enable medievalists to gain integrated access to two different and completely up-to-date online data collections: (1) Diplomata Belgica, containing descriptions (and often ...read more
This project aims at studying language variation, both in terms of macrovariation (variation between languages and groups of languages) and microvariation (variation between variants of one language). For the work ...read more
www.dialectloket.be is a multimedia website about language variation in Dutch, developed at the Department of Linguistics (section Dutch) of Ghent University, by the staff of the Dictionary of the ...read more
MMS focused on the reconstruction of the political traditions that organised the interplay between powerful individuals, political institutions and social interactions in 15th-century Egypt and Syria, in the so-called Mamluk ...read more
A pragmatic theory of scientific explanation can be characterized as follows: (1) it starts from the idea that why-questions originate in different epistemic interests, (2) it answers questions about the ...read more