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LeidenTranslation🟥 @leidentranslat1.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🎭 Metaphors in Literary Post-Editing: Opening Pandora’s Box? @agdorst.bsky.social @mayranas.bsky.social Katinka Zeven Post-editing literary metaphors is harder than it looks. 1/3 metaphors were changed by post-editors, who rated the effort higher than translating from scratch.

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LeidenTranslation🟥 @leidentranslat1.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

‪ Leiden Translation is heading to #EAMT2026 in Tilburg next week with 5 accepted papers! 🎉 Super excited to share our work with the MT community. See you there June 15–18! 🇳🇱 #MachineTranslation #NLP @agdorst.bsky.social @mayranas.bsky.social @susanavaldez.bsky.social @karakanta.bsky.social

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Using AI to read out graduates’ names… what is the world coming to? 😭

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

With Florence Bellemont and Marie-Aude Lefer (UCLouvain) 😎 ready for the European Master’s in Translation colloquium on “Translation, Access, and Multilingual Futures” in Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪 #EMT #EMTnet #Translation #TheFutureIsTranslated 🫶

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

De wekker op 4 uur 😱 maar een mooie gelegenheid om mensen wakker te schudden dat AI-vertalingen niet zo onschuldig zijn als ze lijken! ⚠️

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Back from another inspiring visit to Birmingham as part of our strategic collaboration 🌈 amazing workshop by Matteo Fuoli on using LLMs for metaphor analysis and lots of ideas on how to take our project on information integrity in the age of AI forward! 🌸

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

It has been a pleasure and a privilege!

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

@leidentranslat1.bsky.social HORA EST! On 14 January 2026, 2:30-3:30 pm GMT +1, Katinka Zeven will defend her PhD thesis "Brand New Translation, Same Old Story?"! Follow the livestream here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/wetenschappe... 🎓🍾🎉 #PhD #defence #translation #retranslation #stereotypes #bias

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Brand new translation, same old story: the perpetuation of female and racial stereotypes in (re)translation

Prof.dr. P.T.M.G. Liebregts dr. A.G. Dorst

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

📣 new blog post! LUCL PhD candidate Tian Yang discusses the Leiden Translation Talk by Yinan Xu on Reducing or Reinforcing Gender Bias 👍👎 Read it on the Leiden Translation Blog: leidentranslation.wordpress.com/blog/ #Translation #AI #MT #GenderBias #ChatGPT

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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

We've won an extra round of funding to extend our collaboration with @unileiden.bsky.social on the project Meaning-making and Information Integrity in the Age of AI (Co-PI @karakanta.bsky.social) Go @agdorst.bsky.social @matteofuoli.bsky.social @tomasdodds.bsky.social and #TeamTulips 🌷🌷

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Proud PhD supervisor 🦚 Read Jiahui Liang's first article 🎉on using #GPT-4 for conventional #metaphor detection in news texts here: www.clinjournal.org/clinj/articl...

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The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor @raammetaphor.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Congratulations to the new RaAM Executive Committee! 🎉👏 And a huge thank you to the outgoing members for their hard work and dedication, you’ve done an amazing job!

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The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor @raammetaphor.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Congratulations to Laura Baiocco, Aleksandra Żukowska, and Carina Rasse for winning this year’s RaAM grants! We’re excited to see your projects come to life!

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

My American Dream! What an absolute blast to be keynote at #RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Detroit 🇺🇸

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Ready. Set. Go! Great start to #RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social in Southfield Detroit! @al-azary.bsky.social officially opening the conference and Vicky Lai kicking off with the first keynote 🚀

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Just arrived in Detroit for the #RaAM17 conference! Looking forward to catching up with old friends, meeting new people, exchanging ideas, and delivering my keynote entitled "Hype, Help, Hindrance? Identifying, analyzing and translating #metaphors with #AI" 🤩 Stay tuned for updates 😎

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Also presented my ongoing research on #metaphors in #MachineTranslation, with @karakanta.bsky.social Katinka Zeven and Mayra Nas, "Translating Metaphors in Literature with AI" 🤩 #ESTcongress was huge, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Brain has been buzzing with so many new ideas ✨ #EST2025Leeds

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

A week ago I presented our ongoing project on "Translating Metaphors in Wine Language: Challenges and Strategies for Global Engagement" with the fabulous Allison Creed at the #ESTcongress #EST2025Leeds and we got to try several Zeno nolo wines 🥂 #Translation #Metaphor #WineCommunication

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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

How do SOTA MT systems translate metaphors in literary MT? Just presented our work with @agdorst.bsky.social and Mayra Nas to a lively audience at #MTSummit2025 @leidentranslat1.bsky.social

Alina Karakanta on a podium of Geneva university presenting a blue-white slide with the title “Metaphors in Literary machine translation: Close but no cigar?”

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Road trip to #NITS2025! @leidentranslat1.bsky.social represented by @agdorst.bsky.social @karakanta.bsky.social @susanavaldez.bsky.social Tian Yang, Laura de Meij van Streefkerk, Lotte van Eupen, Mayra Nas. Best MA Thesis Award won by our own Lotte! 🙌 Looking forward to seeing everyone in Brussels!😎

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LeidenGlobal @leidenglobal.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

𝙑𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙨 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙣 𝙫𝙖𝙖𝙠 𝙙𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙠𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙨 𝙫𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙣 Dit kan leiden tot miscommunicatie in belangrijke sectoren zoals journalistiek, onderwijs, zorg & rechtspraak, vertelt @agdorst.bsky.social, taalkundige @unileiden.bsky.social aan @trouw.nl ⬇️ @leidentranslat1.bsky.social @ortv.bsky.social

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Vertaalapps gaan de mist in met metaforen en dat gaat ons allemaal aan

Computers vinden het moeilijk om metaforen te vertalen. Taalkundige Lettie Dorst onderzoekt wanneer dit tot problemen leidt.

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Artikel in Trouw over mijn onderzoek naar #metaforen in #machinevertaling 🤩 www.trouw.nl/wetenschap/l...

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

📢New publication! 🔎We investigated how students in #translation #languages #DigitalHumanities understand how #MT #AItranslation works. 💡We found they see differences but also similarities based on #misconceptions and #humanization of the technology, especially #LLMs #GenAI 🔗 see lnkd.in/eaeuMVNc

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Stuk over mijn Vidi “Metaphor in Machine Translation” in de nieuwsbrief van Universiteit Leiden Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen woensdag zijn de interviews voor de PhD-kandidaat! Lees hier meer over waarom ik dit zo fascinerend vind: www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2025/...

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Lettie Dorst: ‘Vertaalprogramma’s veranderen de manier waarop we de wereld duiden’

Universitair hoofddocent Lettie Dorst heeft een Vidi-beurs ontvangen om onderzoek te doen naar machinevertaalprogramma’s. Google Translate en ChatGPT vertalen metaforische woorden en uitdrukkingen no...

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LeidenTranslation🟥 @leidentranslat1.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Building and crossing bridges with Bissie Anderson, Jeannette Littlemore, Marcus Perlman, Matteo Fuoli, Ruth Page, Merten Reglitz and Jack Grieve at University of Birmingham 🌸 Our turn in May @leidenhumanities.bsky.social with @tomasdodds.bsky.social @agdorst.bsky.social @karakanta.bsky.social

Four researchers smiling on a wooden bridge in a park

Eight researchers posing smiling in a university room

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

What a blast! 🚀Some great ideas for collaborative work 🫶

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My articles for #Metaphor and the Social World and #Perspectives are also there… guess @johnbenjamins.bsky.social gave #Meta access to all journals? 🤨

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apache/ @apache.be · 14/03/2025

AI is een buiten alle proportie opgeklopte hype. Meer nog: het is een zwendel die vooral een beperkt clubje rijk maakt. Dat is de boodschap van onderzoekers @emilymbender.bsky.social en @alexhanna.bsky.social. Maar: “Onderschat nooit de kracht van ‘neen’ zeggen”.

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Emily M. Bender en Alex Hanna: “Zeg nee tegen de AI-hype”

Met hun boek 'The AI Con' willen ze tonen hoe we ons kunnen verzetten tegen de hypemachine van Big Tech.

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AVÜ @avue.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

"According to the company’s managers [...] the output was good enough to justify cutting rates. Unsurprisingly to the translators, the output was poor, and they ended up fixing mistakes they would never have made themselves." Yup, we've all seen this. #HumansNotMachines #loveyourhumantranslator

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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

We have an opening for a PhD position in French ling in Leiden. The PhD student will investigate the phonology/phonetics of one or more French-based creoles + contribute to teaching language/linguistics in the French program. Deadline: 31-3-2025. More info www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

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PhD candidate in French linguistics

Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics has a vacancy for a PhD candidate in French linguistics, starting September 2025 (1.0 fte) Project description/ Key responsibilities Cre...

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Memo to me: don’t forget to breathe ☀️

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The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor @raammetaphor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

📢 Exciting news for metaphor researchers! RaAM 17 is happening in Lawrence, MI (USA), on 7–10 August 2025, and registration is officially OPEN! Register now in the members' area of RaAM Association website! 🔗 www.raam.org.uk

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This Friday 4pm is my professorial inaugural "From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong" (w/ BSL interpretation). There'll be a lot of iconicity in it! If you're interested, you can register for the webinar under this link: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

When I’m stressed (which is quite often) I try to be more like my cat… I think he has being “chill” down to an art 🍀 (and he has a flair for the dramatic)

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

My beautiful and talented and kind sister-in-law Roos Dros singing the beautiful poems by J.C. Bloem that my father-in-law J.J. Dros set to music ❤️ with the Alkmaar Big Band 🎶🎷🎤

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LeidenTranslation🟥 @leidentranslat1.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Tons of excitement about our MA #translation program during the humanities MA Open Day. Our students Noa and Linda are here to answer all your questions!

Two students answering questions of other students about the MA program linguistics in a big hall behind a table with information material.

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

A whopping 95 (!) applications received for the PhD position on my #Metaphor in #MachineTranslation project 🤩 - I’m flabbergasted to be honest! It’s going to be a tough decision 🧐

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

AI will take our jobs! Yet my #NMT is so confused by the automatic hyphenation in my document... At least some of the mistranslations are hilarious. I do think we still have our work cut out for us, if you get my "ear-jumping meaning" 😉 I do like to "laugh at" conceptual metaphors 🙃

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Hail Riders! So much fun talking about Tolkien and stylistics. Great to listen to Thijs, Rachel and Cevdet - interdisciplinary fellowships are best 🫶 Big thank you to Albion and Floris V for the invitation 🧙‍♂️ Keep your voices clear, your eyes bright, and your hair flowing like a river 😉 #Tolkien

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Professor for a day - I’ll take it 🤩 my pleasure to ask a question about metaphors for HIV/AIDS. Wonderful PhD defence by Ria Huijgen-Koolen 🙌🎓🥂

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

#metaphors and #technology - who can resist? 😉 join me at RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social The deadline to submit your abstract has been extended to 15 December! 🤩

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Paula P Sobrino @paulapsobrino.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Can metaphors change your expectations about the teaching methods used at your children's school? @lorenaph.bsky.social and I have some evidence about it. Long story short: YES, THEY DO. Here's the paper: journals.ispan.edu.pl/index.php/cs... but if you only have 5 mins, keep reading 👇

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two men are sitting at a table in a kitchen talking to each other . one of the men is wearing a beanie .

ALT: two men are sitting at a table in a kitchen talking to each other . one of the men is wearing a beanie .

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Dan Isbell @danielrisbell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Optimist: glass half full Pessimist: glass half empty Corpus Linguist: Which word most frequently appears in the phrase "glass half *"?

Screen shot of CoCA output showing "glass half full" (n = 123) is twice as frequent as "glass half empty" (n = 54)

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