Projects
Emotional fit within and between cultural contexts: Analyzing natural language to describe and compare the conceptual system for emotions KU Leuven
The frequencies, intensities, and types of emotions people experience in a given situation differ systematically across cultural boundaries. This variation is inherently meaningful because it reflects differences in the conceptual system for emotions, with implications for well-being. Emotional fit between an individual and other members of their culture is a protective factor for mental and physical health, as is a well-developed conceptual ...
Communication for Children with Hearing Impairment to optimise Language Development KU Leuven
The World Health Assembly adopted a 2017 resolution recognising Hearing Impairment (HI) as a priority worldwide health issue. Children with HI present significant risks for language acquisition, educational achievement, socio-emotional development, and well-being. Current intervention plans fail to prepare those children for academic achievement and social participation in contemporary society where the diversity of their needs is increasing. ...
TLCP - Teaching Language to Caregivers - Pack. University of Antwerp
ORGANIC: Self-organized recurrent neural learing for language processing Ghent University
ORGANICE adopts principles of cortical architectures and self-organizing neurodynamics for the design of a new type of cognitive architectures. The principle inovations are deep multilevel learning based on recurrent networks using purely dynamic representations and trained both supervised and unsupervised. These techniques will be applied to large vocabulary speech recognition in noisy environments, end on handwriting recognition.
Developing an EU WEB portal for Webcam Public Service Interpreting to improve access to basic services for third-country nationals Ghent University
EU-WEBPSI aims to develop, test and disseminate an innovative EU-wide WEBportal for information exchange and online collaboration between stakeholders involved in providing and using Webcam Public Service Interpreting (WEBPSI). The project has a three-fold overall objective:
(1) harmonising minimal standards for public service interpreting in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders to guarantee high-quality language support ...
Learning with Multiple Representations KU Leuven
Machine learning methods operate on formal representations of the data at hand and the models or patterns induced from the data. They also assume a suitable formalization of the learning task itself (e.g. as a classification problem), including a specification of the objective in terms of a suitable performance metric, and sometimes other criteria the induced model is supposed to meet. Different representations or problem formalizations may ...
Cooperation in Interpreter Mediated Questioning of Minors KU Leuven
ImQM (Interpreter mediated Questioning of Minors) is a highly unexplored research area and thus the needs are overwhelming. This research gap is surprising because of the generally high degree of traumatisation in this setting. In Co-Minor-IN/QUEST II the research consortium will therefore organize focus groups with all people concerned with ImQM, professionals but also minors (in experimental settings for obvious reasons). Based on the ...
Interlingual Live Subtitling for Access (ILSA). University of Antwerp
Artificial Intelligence without Bias KU Leuven
Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based systems are widely employed nowadays to make decisions that have far-reaching impacts on individuals and society. Their decisions might affect everyone, everywhere and anytime entailing risks, such as being denied a credit, a job, a medical treatment, or specific news. Businesses might miss chances, because biases make AI-driven decisions underperform; much worse, they may contravene human rights when ...