Lieve Macken

Lieve Macken is Associate Professor at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication of Ghent University with 28 years of experience in language technology. She started her career at the Center for Computational Linguistics of the University of Leuven, developing a Simplified English Grammar Checker and Corrector (SECC), which was used as a front-end for machine translation systems helping to improve translation quality and reduce post-editing work by simplifying the input.

She is coordinator of the postgraduate program Computer-Assisted Language Mediation, co-coordinator of the European Master's in Technology for Translation and Interpreting (EM-TTI). She teaches Computer-Assisted Translation, Machine Translation, and Dissertation (parts I and II).