In the past few years, a lot has been published on spoken Dutch in Flanders, and especially on the use of tussentaal, a mixture of dialect and Standard Dutch. Due ...read more
During the last 20 years writing research has focused explicitly on the analysis of writing processes. More recently, logging programs (like Inputlog) enabled researchers to record process data (e.g. keystrokes ...read more
This project investigates to what extent register influences language use in Dutch translations in the same way as it influences non-translated Dutch. Building on the Dutch Parallel Corpus, we apply ...read more
The SubTLe project investigates two different methodologies for sentiment mining of online text types (blogs, chats, tweets, etc.). We contrast the traditional lexicon-based approach with a corpus-based approach based on ...read more
Prototypically, traditional approaches to the semantic description of verbal arguments assign a special participant role to each argument in relation to the verb, each of which have typical – though ...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
The present PhD project aims at refining current knowledge about the driving forces in Dutch constituent ordering of non-predicate prepositional phrases (PPs) as well as re-evaluating the common assumption in ...read more
In a society that constantly communicates through writing and conversation, clarity of documents is of crucial importance. Technical, governmental, medical and other documents must be understandable. But how clear are ...read more