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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Excited to present Smarter edits at #EAMT2026! Do LLM-derived error highlights and correction suggestions make PE smarter? We run a study comparing QE highlights, APE highlights and APE correction suggestions (En→NL). Want to know more? See you at oral session 2! arxiv.org/abs/2605.21135

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Smarter edits? Post-editing with error highlights and translation suggestions

As MT quality increases, interest in enhanced post-editing features such as QE-derived error highlights is growing, yet evidence for their usefulness remains limited. In this work, we explore the usef...

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Flor Plaza @florplaza.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

⏳ Only 5 days left to apply! Please note the updated application link (due to a recent university webpage update): 👉 PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Cand...

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PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing

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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

So excited to continue this collaboration! With our first outputs in the making. Keep tuned. 🌷

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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Time to celebrate international translation day! Cheers to all translators!

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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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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Got a research excitement boost at the two-day workshop on "Meaning Making and Information Integrity in the Age of AI" at University of Birmingham. Looking forward to working on our new ideas!

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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Interested in “unraveling” how MT systems “craft” metaphors in different languages? Or how machine-translated metaphors “shape” human perception? Then join us!

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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Excited to have presented our Leiden Translation Lab today during the opening of the Humanities Hub. Cheers to the great things that lie ahead 🎉

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

New paper out! "Machine Translation in the Workplace: Deciding on the Whether, Why and How", with Joop Bindels and Mark Pluymaekers, funded by de Taalunie. #MT #MTLiteracy #MTatWork Available via: commons.emich.edu/gabc/vol11/i...

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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hello world! This week in Translator’s Tools, my translation students explored MT customisation through fine-tuning, glossaries, prompting, and even RAG—topics seen as too advanced for translators. That's a myth! Their creativity and excitement proves they can be at the forefront of innovation. #MT

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