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Back from another inspiring visit to Birmingham as part of our strategic collaboration 🌈 amazing workshop by Matteo Fuoli on using LLMs for metaphor analysis and lots of ideas on how to take our project on information integrity in the age of AI forward! 🌸

It has been a pleasure and a privilege!

(Re)defining machine translation literacy: a usage-based approach, Joop Bindels , Mark Pluymaekers, Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social .

Tradumàtica Dossier - revistes.uab.cat/tradumatica/...

Brand new translation, same old story: the perpetuation of female and racial stereotypes in (re)translation Prof.dr. P.T.M.G. Liebregts dr. A.G. Dorst

@leidentranslat1.bsky.social HORA EST! On 14 January 2026, 2:30-3:30 pm GMT +1, Katinka Zeven will defend her PhD thesis "Brand New Translation, Same Old Story?"! Follow the livestream here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/wetenschappe... 🎓🍾🎉 #PhD #defence #translation #retranslation #stereotypes #bias

📣 new blog post! LUCL PhD candidate Tian Yang discusses the Leiden Translation Talk by Yinan Xu on Reducing or Reinforcing Gender Bias 👍👎 Read it on the Leiden Translation Blog: leidentranslation.wordpress.com/blog/ #Translation #AI #MT #GenderBias #ChatGPT

We've won an extra round of funding to extend our collaboration with @unileiden.bsky.social on the project Meaning-making and Information Integrity in the Age of AI (Co-PI @karakanta.bsky.social) Go @agdorst.bsky.social @matteofuoli.bsky.social @tomasdodds.bsky.social and #TeamTulips 🌷🌷

Proud PhD supervisor 🦚 Read Jiahui Liang's first article 🎉on using #GPT-4 for conventional #metaphor detection in news texts here: www.clinjournal.org/clinj/articl...

Congratulations to the new RaAM Executive Committee! 🎉👏 And a huge thank you to the outgoing members for their hard work and dedication, you’ve done an amazing job!

Congratulations to Laura Baiocco, Aleksandra Żukowska, and Carina Rasse for winning this year’s RaAM grants! We’re excited to see your projects come to life!

My American Dream! What an absolute blast to be keynote at #RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Detroit 🇺🇸

Ready. Set. Go! Great start to #RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social in Southfield Detroit! @al-azary.bsky.social officially opening the conference and Vicky Lai kicking off with the first keynote 🚀

Just arrived in Detroit for the #RaAM17 conference! Looking forward to catching up with old friends, meeting new people, exchanging ideas, and delivering my keynote entitled "Hype, Help, Hindrance? Identifying, analyzing and translating #metaphors with #AI" 🤩 Stay tuned for updates 😎

Also presented my ongoing research on #metaphors in #MachineTranslation, with @karakanta.bsky.social Katinka Zeven and Mayra Nas, "Translating Metaphors in Literature with AI" 🤩 #ESTcongress was huge, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Brain has been buzzing with so many new ideas ✨ #EST2025Leeds

A week ago I presented our ongoing project on "Translating Metaphors in Wine Language: Challenges and Strategies for Global Engagement" with the fabulous Allison Creed at the #ESTcongress #EST2025Leeds and we got to try several Zeno nolo wines 🥂 #Translation #Metaphor #WineCommunication

Alina Karakanta on a podium of Geneva university presenting a blue-white slide with the title “Metaphors in Literary machine translation: Close but no cigar?”

How do SOTA MT systems translate metaphors in literary MT? Just presented our work with @agdorst.bsky.social and Mayra Nas to a lively audience at #MTSummit2025

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Road trip to #NITS2025! @leidentranslat1.bsky.social represented by @agdorst.bsky.social @karakanta.bsky.social @susanavaldez.bsky.social Tian Yang, Laura de Meij van Streefkerk, Lotte van Eupen, Mayra Nas. Best MA Thesis Award won by our own Lotte! 🙌 Looking forward to seeing everyone in Brussels!😎

Ondertiteling door vertaalmachines: 'Er ontstaan bizarre fouten' Geen ‘praat eens wat zachter’ maar ‘houd je stem laag’. Steeds vaker wordt er ondertiteld door middel van machinevertalingen en dat zorgt voor verkeerde ondertiteling. Dat kan voor een hoop problemen ...

Maandag was ik met Marielle Steinpatz op Radio 1 bij Villa vdB om te praten over machinevertalingen en ondertiteling 😎 terugluisteren kan hier: www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/v...

Vertaalapps gaan de mist in met metaforen en dat gaat ons allemaal aan Computers vinden het moeilijk om metaforen te vertalen. Taalkundige Lettie Dorst onderzoekt wanneer dit tot problemen leidt.

𝙑𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙨 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙣 𝙫𝙖𝙖𝙠 𝙙𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙠𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙨 𝙫𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙣

Dit kan leiden tot miscommunicatie in belangrijke sectoren zoals journalistiek, onderwijs, zorg & rechtspraak, vertelt @agdorst.bsky.social, taalkundige @unileiden.bsky.social aan @trouw.nl ⬇️

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Artikel in Trouw over mijn onderzoek naar #metaforen in #machinevertaling 🤩 www.trouw.nl/wetenschap/l...

Eerlijkere loonverdeling in het hoger onderwijs Zeker nu minister Bruins van OCW de grootste bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs in decennia heeft aangekondigd is het essentieel dat de sector zich niet tegen elkaar uit laat spelen en solidair met ...

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/ee...

With the fabulous @jdaems.bsky.social @leenasalmi @mtkopon.bsky.social

📢New publication!
🔎We investigated how students in #translation #languages #DigitalHumanities understand how #MT #AItranslation works.
💡We found they see differences but also similarities based on #misconceptions and #humanization of the technology, especially #LLMs #GenAI
🔗 see lnkd.in/eaeuMVNc

Congratulations! 🥂

Lettie Dorst: ‘Vertaalprogramma’s veranderen de manier waarop we de wereld duiden’ Universitair hoofddocent Lettie Dorst heeft een Vidi-beurs ontvangen om onderzoek te doen naar machinevertaalprogramma’s. Google Translate en ChatGPT vertalen metaforische woorden en uitdrukkingen no...

Stuk over mijn Vidi “Metaphor in Machine Translation” in de nieuwsbrief van Universiteit Leiden Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen woensdag zijn de interviews voor de PhD-kandidaat! Lees hier meer over waarom ik dit zo fascinerend vind: www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2025/...

@jeannettel.bsky.social @bissieanderson.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social hope your moving house was smooth!

Four researchers smiling on a wooden bridge in a park

Eight researchers posing smiling in a university room

Building and crossing bridges with Bissie Anderson, Jeannette Littlemore, Marcus Perlman, Matteo Fuoli, Ruth Page, Merten Reglitz and Jack Grieve at University of Birmingham 🌸
Our turn in May @leidenhumanities.bsky.social with @tomasdodds.bsky.social @agdorst.bsky.social @karakanta.bsky.social

What a blast! 🚀Some great ideas for collaborative work 🫶

Sigh.

My articles for #Metaphor and the Social World and #Perspectives are also there… guess @johnbenjamins.bsky.social gave #Meta access to all journals? 🤨