Projects
Prosody and emotion in (colloquial) Greek: its analysis, synthesis and its apllication in Text-To-Speech KU Leuven
This project studies the functional pitch contours in Modern Greek in neutral speech and for two types of
emotion (happy, sad).
First, we describe the pitch movements found in three different speech corpora of spontaneous speech (for emotion-free,happy and sad speech) considering the alignment with syllable structure.
The stylization method introduced by P. Mertens and C. d'Alessandro (1995) is used. It is based on a model of ...
Telling Lists: A Dynamic Study of the Nature and Function of Lists in Dutch Literature KU Leuven
This project has a two-fold objective. First, it wants to come up with a hermeneutic tool to interpret lists found in modern novels, i.e. is novels written from the second half of the nineteenth century up till now. Second, it wants to use this tool to trace the development of literary listing from the first modern Dutch novel (Multatuli’s Max Havelaar 1860) to the present day (Grunberg 2010).
Though the first objective is practical and ...
Provoking Diversity in Media using the Diversity Checker KU Leuven
This thesis describes the genesis of the Diversity Checker, a tool meant to provoke journalists into producing more diverse content in an intelligent fashion. Diversity in media is a very broad topic, and the project that this thesis is a part of is similarly broad in its scope. The multidisciplinary nature of the project enables the various disciplines to influence each other positively, and in particular it gives the work presented here a ...
Towards Story Understanding and Search - Web Mining Methods and Tools for Exploration, Search and Discovery KU Leuven
Elite Strategy vs Popular Characterization: Double Names in Roman Egypt. KU Leuven
Trismegistos</> gathers information about all published textual source material from Egypt ...
Exploring the dialectic relation between narrative and context from an interactional sociolinguistic perspective: The case of World War II-testimonies KU Leuven
This project scrutinizes the relation between the way narrators construct their stories and identities in relation to the dominant discourses circulating in the global context. Only recently have interactional sociolinguists increasingly examined this dialectic relation between the local interactional level of narrative and the surrounding socio-cultural context and its ‘big D’-discourses (Gee 1999). This is also thanks to positioning ...
Solving Systems of Polynomial Equations KU Leuven
Systems of polynomial equations arise naturally from many problems in applied mathematics and engineering. Examples of such problems come from robotics, chemical engineering, computer vision, dynamical systems theory, signal processing and geometric modeling, among others. The numerical solution of systems of polynomial equations is considered a challenging problem in computational mathematics. Important classes of existing methods are ...
The intercultural Dynamics troughout the ancient Mediterranean. A comparative Study of the Goddesses Athena and 'Anath KU Leuven
THE INTERCULTURAL DYNAMICS THROUGHOUT THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE GODDESSES ATHENA AND 'ANATH.
This PhD research project aims to contribute to the intercultural and religious transfer throughout the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age (1400[1]-1200[2])[3]. By means of an extensive comparison of the profiles of ‘Anath from Ugarit and the Ancient Greek Athena, this study examines all possible ...
Latent Variable Models for Language and Image Understanding in Social Media and E-Commerce Data KU Leuven
More content has been created in the past few years than in the entire history of humankind. With the exponential growth of user-contributed content, it becomes increasingly important to develop systems capable to intelligently process both language and images.
While understanding language appears effortless for humans from a young age, for computers, this is quite a challenging task. Inherently, languages are ambiguous and rich. Many ...