Projects
Take Signing to the Child. On the Parental Use of Visual Communication Strategies, and Deaf ChildrenU+2019s Visual Communication and Early Flemish Sign Language. Ghent University
This dissertation wants to deliver an original contribution to the existing national and international Sign Language Acquisition and Assessment research, mainly in four domains:
First, the exploratory case study is the first detailed description of a moderately deaf childU+2019s Flemish Sign Language development, with native exposure to Flemish Sign Language (VGT) from birth up to the age of 24 months. Remarkable linguistic and ...
Redesigning end-of-life care for patients with congenital heart disease by scrutinizing trajectories toward death and evaluating curative and palliative care in the last year of life KU Leuven
Healthcare spending has never been higher and is expected to continue to rise in all parts of the world over the next few years. One solution to reducing healthcare costs is to reduce avoidable healthcare use, which is healthcare use that could have been avoided by proper prevention, precautions or timely referrals. Avoidable healthcare use is common, unfortunately. To gain a good understanding of this concept, a detailed review of the ...
EmpathicCare4AllThe development of an educational intervention for medical- and interpreting students on empathic communication in interpreter-mediated medical consultations.A study based on the Medical Research Council (MRC) framework phases 0-2 KU Leuven
Annual Report Characterization In Varieties of English Ghent University
Amidst financial crises, an increasingly threatened environment, and countless worker rights conflicts more visible than ever due to growing globalisation, it can come as no surprise that U+2018sustainabilityU+2019 has grown from an attractive buzzword to a core component of almost all areas of public life. Governments and business are making changes U+2013 at times even reinventing their identities U+2013 to maximise not just what they have ...
From Rhetoric to Interdiscursivity: Reception of a Cultural Paradigm Shift in German Literature After 1800 KU Leuven
Between 1500 and 1800, rhetoric held a dominant position in European culture. Not only did it serve as a set of formal rules, but it also represented a system of human virtues and a mode of cultural thinking. As such, it was closely tied to absolutist monarchies and Christianity. It played a central role in education until well into the 19th century. However, after 1800 rhetoric lost its social function as an all-encompassing cultural system. ...
Efficient Algebraic Effect Handlers KU Leuven
In programming languages, a side effect occurs whenever a computation has another
effect beside returning its result. There are many examples of side effects such as
printing or modifying mutable states. Traditionally, these effects are implicit and
built into a language. However, lately, programming using explicit effects is gaining
in popularity, since it allows for the free composition of effects. Additionally, it ...
Integration of collective knowledge and computer vision for annotation of multimedia objects Ghent University
Having a natural conversation with an artificially intelligent agent such as a computer and not being able to distinguish it from a human is one of the major goals of building artificially intelligent agents. Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms that are able to analyze,understand, and generate text play an important role in realizing this goal. These NLP algorithms are already deployed in many practical applications we use in our ...
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 ...