Projects
PLATOS: Detection of topics, stance and argumentation in a social media corpus Ghent University
This proposal aims at investigating stance and argument detection on automatically extracted topics in social media text by combining linguistic knowledge and machine learning. The proposed research is innovative in
two respects: (1) term extraction and hypernym detection techniques will be combined with distributional information to detect topics and (2) a model for argumentation mining in social media text will be researched.
Promoting news diversity: An interdisciplinary investigation into algorithmic design, personalization and the public interest Ghent University
Digitalization has increased the importance of algorithms in society, and in the production and consumption of news. This project is conceived as an interdisciplinary investigation to develop an algorithm that brings
personalization and privacy in balance with each other, promoting news diversity.
Managing aphids on trees with the help of natural enemies. HOGENT
Fashioning 'old and new'. Secondary markets, commodity value conventions and the dawn of consumer societies in Western Europe (18th-19th centuries) University of Antwerp
(ESF7166) Labor market participation of illiterate migrants: in search of new strategies. KU Leuven
Migrants of the first generation suffer comparatively more often with literacy problems. This means that they are not sufficiently able to understand or use written or printed information, which hinders their participation in our society. Besides they do not master the language of their new country and they still have to learn this language. The combination of these factors makes them a very vulnerable group, especially with regard to their ...
A stage for the world: towards an inclusive theatre experience. University of Antwerp
Pragmatic markers in native and non-native Englishes: A study into the use of and attitudes to pragmatic markers KU Leuven
The project is set to contribute to our understanding of the use of pragmatic markers (such as so, well, you know, like) by three different types of language users: native speakers of English, learners of English as a foreign language whose mother tongue is Dutch, and speakers who use English as a means of communication on a day-to-day basis. Its main research objective is to compare these three types of speakers of English in terms of their: ...