The ExPECT project aims to extract bilingual terminology from comparable corpora. Both translators and interpreters are assumed to possess knowledge of a very broad range of topics, in different domains ...read more
The goal of the E-CIR is to perform joint research on learning at work for older employees. Due to physical and mental changes associated with the process of aging older ...read more
The aim of this project is to study the ethical and political presuppositions of public forms of historical representation. I will do this by focusing on three important ways in ...read more
More research in palliative care is urgently needed, but research in this field remains highly sensitive as it often involves doing research on palliative and/or dying patients or their relatives. ...read more
Immigrant children’s poor school results are often linked to their linguistic background. More traditional measurements which compare groups of non-native and native speakers pose serious limitations and result in too ...read more
With its 100th anniversary the First World War has received renewed attention in Belgium at universities, research centers, cultural and heritage institutions alike. Our knowledge and understanding of the great, ...read more
In this project I study physical causation as opposed to causation in physics. Contrary tomost philosophers, I do not focus on the question whether the laws of physics can be ...read more
This research project focuses on the role of mayors in occupied and liberated Belgium and France (1914-1921). As a mediator between different social groups and other powerbrokers (notably the occupier) ...read more
This research project focusses on the changing relationship between the police and the public in Antwerp between 1840 and 1914. In the second half of the nineteenth century the port ...read more
This dissertation evaluates some noteworthy current developments in the use of international legal instruments to protect intellectual property rights, with special attention for patents and data exclusivity. In the first ...read more