This project examines intra- and inter-speaker variation in Arabic during interpreter-mediated encounters in Brussels, where linguistic diversity poses significant communication challenges. The study focuses on the cross-dialectal accommodation strategies employed ...read more
This project aims at offering a fresh study of public generosity and benefactors in the late Roman period in the Eastern Mediterranean as a way to advance three key debates which feature prominently ...read more
This project focuses on modeling emotional states in multimodal conversations by integrating information from text, audio, and visual modalities. The core hypothesis is that different modalities may convey the same, ...read more
This project examines strategies of marriage and succession among social elites, as well as their impact on the political structures in the counties of Flanders and Hainaut during the 11th ...read more
This project proposes a diachronic study of princely record-keeping in the Low Countries during the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. In particular, it studies how the Burgundian-Habsburg princes repurposed the pre-Burgundian comital archives ...read more
As the use of machine translation (MT) continues to grow, along with the increasing societal demand for inclusivity, research on gender bias in MT is expanding. Gender bias becomes particularly ...read more
This study will analyze how hunger and famine are thematised in Borana folktales in the context of wider practices of storytelling. Situated at the intersections of oral literature and oral ...read more
This study will explores folksongs as pivotal tools for social communication and development. It highlights their role in Indigenous Knowledge Systems, conflict resolution, gender equality, education, and interethnic ...read more
The Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties period (220-584 CE) was a politically turbulent time. The interaction and blending of new cultural elements, especially the widespread influence of the Buddhism ...read more
The Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties period (220-584 CE) was a politically turbulent time. The interaction and blending of new cultural elements, especially the widespread influence of the Buddhism ...read more