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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

Field of study/sector

  • Art, Culture & Social Sciences
  • Education

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Past courses

Data-driven Approaches to Ancient Languages

27 June 2024

workshop - Ghent - LT3 (UGent), VAIA

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.

Gouden robot Doğruöz

A. Seza Doğruöz

LT3, Ghent University

Rode robot hartje Tezcan

Arda Tezcan

LT3, Ghent University

Rode robot ster Daems

Joke Daems

LT3, Ghent University

Gouden robot ster Macken

Lieve Macken

LT3, Ghent University

Cynthia Van Hee Van Hee

Cynthia Van Hee

LT3, Ghent University

Orphee De Clercq

Orphée De Clercq

LT3, Ghent University

Veronique Hoste Hoste

Veronique Hoste

LT3, Ghent University

Ellen De Geyndt

Ellen De Geyndt

Alfasent & LT3 (UGent)