Projects
The Status and Functions of the Ancient Greek particle δή in the Dialogues of Plato, with an Analysis of its Translation into Dutch and Polish KU Leuven
This dissertation is divided into two main sections: a theoretical and an analytical one. The corresponding chapters of the theoretical part are focused on (1) the early approach to Greek particles: the definition and the classification of particles in Ancient Greek linguistic thought and (2) the discourse-pragmatic approach to Greek particles. The analytical part consists of corpus research, and analyses (3) the function and uses of the ...
Recasting Transformer-based Language Models as a Tool for Analysis in both Linguistics and Other Fields with Text-driven Methodologies KU Leuven
Recent machine learning methods based on neural transformer architectures have greatly improved the state of the art for a wide range of natural language processing applications, such as machine translation and general natural language understanding. There is evidence that the self-supervised language modeling objective on which such neural methods are trained results in models that implicitly encode various kinds of linguistic knowledge, ...
Space and mobility in the work of Sergio Chejfec. An analysis of four of his books KU Leuven
This dissertation offers an approach to the prose fiction of the Argentine author Sergio Chejfec (1956). Over the past few decades, literary criticists highlighted Chejfec’s particular style and identified him as an important voice in the Argentine – and international – literary field. The theme of walking and the importance of space in the work of Chejfec is mentioned very often in critical approaches. Strangely enough, most approaches have ...
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 ...
A user-centric analysis of preferences and performance of speed pedelec commuting in Flanders KU Leuven
Europe is facing challenges to transform into the fair and prosperous society it wants to become by 2050. The European Green Deal sets out the growth strategy to meet those challenges. One of the sectors in need of action is mobility. Each year, the vehicle fleet, predominantly cars, grows in numbers, size, and weight. For the near future, the European Union wants multi-modal transport that is less polluting and more sustainable. Despite the ...
Analysis of a 16th century madrigal book KU Leuven
A single book of madrigals condenses a vast number of cultural and social practices: madrigalists took poetry from eminent authors to construct their own narratives, used music as a tool to interpret and criticize the texts, and dedicated their prints to powerful patrons to maintain social relationships. In addition, editorial work and performance added further layers of meaning to such publications. Recent trends in musicology (see Leach et ...
Modeling and Analysis for Efficient Hardware Mapping of Neural Network Algorithms KU Leuven
Machine learning (ML) algorithms are gaining more and more importance nowadays in the area of data processing: data such as images, sound or texts can all be analyzed or improved using ML algorithms. This thesis focuses on the optimization and analysis of hardware design for neural networks, a very popular and efficient ML algorithm.
A first important problem to solve is the off-chip communication, which requires a lot of energy and ...
An Opaque Mirror for Trajan A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata KU Leuven
The authenticity of Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, a collection of 494 apophthegms dedicated to the Roman emperor Trajan, was rejected in the nineteenth and twentieth century, after the influential attack of Volkmann (1869) 210-234. More recent research, however, is inclined to accept Plutarch’s authorship, in line with the defence of Flacelière (1976) and especially of Beck (2002). Because of these authenticity ...
SENTiVENT: event extraction and sentiment analysis for financial applications. Ghent University
In economic news, journalists and analysts give objective information on recent events while also
discussing the implications of events in an implicitly subjective manner. We investigate text mining
approaches for extracting structured factual data alongside subjective information from Dutch and
English economic news reporting. Event extraction obtains detailed information about economic
events such as acquisitions, ...