Projects
Collaborative grammar: the temporality and emergence of clause combination in Italian talk-in interaction KU Leuven
This research is part of a larger project on the topic of clause combination: Beyond the clause. Encoding and Inference in clause-combining (C14/18/034). In my thesis “Collaborative grammar: the temporality and emergence of clause combination in Italian talk-in-interaction”, I explore how collaborative practices of clause-combining relate to the sequential and temporal organization of turns and actions in talk-in-interaction. ...
Multidisciplinary European training network for development of personalized anti-infective medical devices combining printing technologies and antimicrobial functionality (PRINT-AID). University of Antwerp
Reinsurance: Optimal Combinations of Reinsurance Protections and Benchmarking of Excess of Loss Rates KU Leuven
The research is focused on reinsurance. Most simply, reinsurance can be described as insurance of insurance portfolios written by insurers. In our research, two aspects which are of importance in the daily practice of reinsurance will be considered.
The combination of two reinsurance methods will be considered, by which will be looked for, on the basis of the “main-variance” principle, how the two methods can be combined in an ...
Nonfinite supplements in the recent history of English KU Leuven
Nonfinite supplements in the recent history of English
This dissertation reports the results of a comprehensive corpus-based analysis of subjectless ing- and ed-supplements, such as (1)-(4), in LModE and PDE. Supplements are constructions in the clausal periphery that can be characterised as follows. First, they do not fulfil a core syntactic function within the matrix clause. Second, their presence (or absence) does ...
'I write my own Claus-language'. Language variation in the literary prose of Hugo Claus (1929-2008): a stylistic analysis University of Antwerp
Addressing Limitations of Language Models KU Leuven
Addressing Limitations of Language Models
Applications that automatically process language and/or speech are numerous, including, but not limited to: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Machine Translation, Speech Translation, Spelling Correction, Natural Language Understanding and Natural Language Generation. Every application typically needs a special-purpose system and datasets with task-specific labels, but there is one common ...
Designing Technology Licensing Contracts Vlerick Business School
Designing technology licensing contracts Vlerick Business School
Designing Technology Licensing Contracts KU Leuven
Intellectual capital and the property rights (IPR) they represent are fundamental to value appropriation from innovation in high-tech industries like semiconductors, chemicals, electronics and biopharma. Within these industries, in order to capitalize on their R&D efforts companies frequently engage in out-licensing on markets for technology (MFT), as an alternative to commercializing their innovations themselves. Recent studies have ...