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Alina Karakanta๐ŸŸฅ

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Assistant Professor in MT @LeidenHumanities | Research in automatic subtitling, accessibility, LLMs in translator workflows | MT consultant | Professional Translator

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โณ Only 5 days left to apply!

Please note the updated application link (due to a recent university webpage update):

๐Ÿ‘‰ PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing
careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Cand...

12.11.2025 10:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So excited to continue this collaboration! With our first outputs in the making. Keep tuned. ๐ŸŒท

17.10.2025 20:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

30.09.2025 06:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This was great work on a topic we know so little about!

29.06.2025 22:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Alina Karakanta on a podium of Geneva university presenting a blue-white slide with the title โ€œMetaphors in Literary machine translation: Close but no cigar?โ€

Alina Karakanta on a podium of Geneva university presenting a blue-white slide with the title โ€œMetaphors in Literary machine translation: Close but no cigar?โ€

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

25.06.2025 12:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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! ๐Ÿ™Œ Looking forward to seeing everyone in Brussels!๐Ÿ˜Ž

11.06.2025 13:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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!

26.03.2025 09:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weโ€™re striking against budget cuts in higher education! ๐ŸŸฅ

#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #DitMoetStoppen #StakingHO #WOinActie

10.03.2025 11:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Interested in โ€œunravelingโ€ how MT systems โ€œcraftโ€ metaphors in different languages? Or how machine-translated metaphors โ€œshapeโ€ human perception?
Then join us!

24.12.2024 14:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

M(e)T(oo)! ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿผ

19.12.2024 20:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Excited to have presented our Leiden Translation Lab today during the opening of the Humanities Hub. Cheers to the great things that lie ahead ๐ŸŽ‰

03.12.2024 22:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

25.11.2024 15:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Hello world! This week in Translatorโ€™s Tools, my translation students explored MT customisation through fine-tuning, glossaries, prompting, and even RAGโ€”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

22.11.2024 18:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0