Language and Translation Technology Team (LT3)
Founded in 2006, LT³ is a research group at Ghent University's Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication which conducts fundamental and applied research on different aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) from a corpus-based inductive perspective.
The team has extensive expertise in the use of machine learning for a wide range of language technology problems. Throughout the years the team has heavily invested in discourse modelling, the creation of various resources and the integration of this knowledge in end-user applications.
LT³ is currently very active in the following areas:
- Language technology: text normalisation, coreference resolution, cross-lingual transfer models, detection of events, sentiment, irony, arguments and emotion in (financial) news data and social media
- Translation technology: machine translation, post-editing, human-computer interaction, translation quality, translation difficulty assessment and gender-inclusive translation
- Terminology: automatic (multilingual) terminology extraction and terminology management
- Language and translation technology for educational applications: automatic writing evaluation and readability assessment, vocabulary and example selection for second language acquisition, machine translation for language learning.
- Digital Humanities: digital text analysis tools for research in the humanities and social sciences
Past courses
Blog posts
A competitive edge in the job market, thanks to language technology
VAIA spoke to Professor Véronique Hoste and Doctor Cynthia Van Hee about the history of language technology, the importance of this discipline for employees and employers, and approachable ways to upskill.
Experts
A. Seza Doğruöz
LT3, Ghent University
Arda Tezcan
LT3, Ghent University
Joke Daems
LT3, Ghent University
Lieve Macken
LT3, Ghent University
Cynthia Van Hee
LT3, Ghent University
Orphée De Clercq
LT3, Ghent University
Veronique Hoste
LT3, Ghent University
Ellen De Geyndt
Alfasent & LT3 (UGent)