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
Izmir is a metropolitan Turkish city located at Aegean Sea connected with Mediterranean Sea. Parallel to global developments in tourism many local organisations are looking for making Izmir a brand ...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
This project focuses on the role of the novice, the expert(s) and society in dealing with scientific expertise. The relation between experts and stakeholders will be studied from three viewpoints: ...read more
This research programme, for which Ghent University collaborates with the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, aims at explaining how orientalism was introduced, perceived and propagated in the Belgian ...read more
The project was devoted to a comparative study of Fromondus’ and Descartes’ work on meteorology. It undertook a broad historiographical study of the status of meteorology in the early modern ...read more
My dissertation consists of a metaphilosophical investigation into the project of defining art. Many deem this project to be both impossible and futile. My two main objectives were: (1) to ...read more
The central questions of this research project are: i) What is the correlation between the adoption of Newtonian physics and the acceptance of determinism? ii) Should the question whether nature ...read more