Projects
EXTRACT: Extracting Terminology Automatically from Comparable Texts Ghent University
Specialised, domain-specific vocabulary, i.e. terminology, has always been difficult and time-consuming to understand and translate well. Nonetheless, terms often contain essential information and a good comprehension is imperative in many contexts (e.g. medical texts, technical manuals and legal documents). Not only human translators face this problem, but machine translation (MT) as well. MT is typically based on enormous volumes of ...
Elevating Multithreading Further into the Cloud KU Leuven
Due to the surging popularity of cloud computing on one hand and the emergence of numerous novel, innately parallel workloads on the other, executing multithreaded applications in a virtualized setting has become common practice in industry. However, multithreading is known to be highly susceptible to severe performance degradation in virtualized environments. In response, virtualization technologies have evolved rapidly over the years; to ...
Contributions to formal and computational linguistics Abstract KU Leuven
Syntax and semantics have always taken center stage in linguistics. The accumulated knowledge was stored and transmitted in the form of grammars, dictionaries and specialized publications. With the advent of computational linguistics in the second half of the twentieth century there was a growing interest for the application of that knowledge in systems for automatic speech and language processing, such as machine translation, question-answer ...
The impact of mass violence and post-conflict recovery on social mobility. Exploring the nature and underlying drivers of social transformation in Rwanda and Burundi. Fieldwork in Burundi. University of Antwerp
Assessment of Cognitive Performance in Elderly Life via Meaningful Play KU Leuven
Cognitive decline is the deterioration of one or more cognitive functions such as attention, memory, or processing speed. Inherent to aging, most people will encounter some form of cognitive decline during their lifetime while retaining the ability to perform instrumental activities of daily living. However, beyond this age-related cognitive decline due to aging, some people will experience pathological cognitive decline: an abnormal rate of ...
Green Science, Technology and Innovation from the South: an interdisciplinary, ethnographic study of organic pesticide production (pyrethrum) in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania Ghent University
This project proposes an interdisciplinary, ethnographic study of organic pesticide production (pyrethrum) in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania. Pyrethrum is a pesticide component derived from the chrysanthemum plant species. The yellow heart of the so-called ‘killer daisy’ contains a natural toxin called pyrethrin that is used to produce organic pesticides and insecticides. The premise of this project is that an ethnographic exploration of the ...
A Respeaking and Collaborative Game-Based Approach to Building a Parsed Corpus of European Spanish Dialects Ghent University
The study of dialectal microvariation of Spanish spoken in Spain has until recently mainly focused on lexical and phonetic features. The morphosyntax of these dialects, on the contrary, remains largely unexplored, despite the recent surge in interest in dialect grammars. This is due to the lack of large annotated dialectal corpora. The proposed project aims to fill this lacuna and will create the first morphosyntactically annotated and ...
Optimization of the adaptability of clinical information extraction systems: deep learning and use of feedback propagation techniques. University of Antwerp
A safer internet through analysis of domain name registrations and DNS traffic KU Leuven
DNS Belgium is the registry of .be/.vlaanderen/.brussels domain names. To counter abuse of these domain names, data available to them is automatically analyzed. Specifically, data from the following three data streams are analyzed and integrated: * Data about the domain registration and registrant * Website content associated with the domain name * DNS traffic By applying machine learning techniques to this data, malicious domain names can be ...