A reminder that Elsevier made $10.5 BILLION in 2022 from selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and make more profit than Amazon, Google, and Apple every year… And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0 And paid the reviewers of the articles $0

Shame shame shame Aston University

I said it and I will keep saying it. Training professionals to use AI effectively and ethically as a tool: yes. Substituting professionals with AI: no. Forcing professionals to fix the mess AI made: hell no.

📣 This week marks the first edition of our MA Translation Career Week event! 🚀 A unique opportunity where our MA students meet the industry. #EMTnet 📚🧠🗣LUCL LeidenTranslation

📚🧠🗣LUCL LeidenTranslation 🇪🇺Day 2 of the Career Week. Jan van Oosten, Field Officer for the Directorate-General for Translation, joined us, sharing insights from his career and discussing exciting internship and job opportunities. Thank you, Jan! ✨#EMTnet 📚🧠🗣LUCL LeidenTranslation

Day 3 of LeidenTranslation's Career Week, "staying connected, staying informed". Wonderful talks by Auteursbond NGTV @ELVertalen KTV Kennisnet & SENSE the Society 🙌so nice for our students to hear that they are not alone!🤝 #mentoring #networking #lifelonglearning #advice

First session of #TC46! Romane Bodart, Christine Pasquier and Marie-Aude Lefer on Empowering future language professionals 😎 very interesting! With #EMTnet #DGT Translating for Europe

Attending Translating and the Computer 46 in Luxembourg, representing LeidenTranslation 📚🧠🗣LUCL Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities because we believe in empowering future language professionals! 💪🫶🙌

It was a pleasure to share our findings! We feel that with GenAI it’s getting harder for students to distinguish between what is typically human and what is typically machine, perhaps because the mind is a computer is a mind… 🤔

New Project Spotlight 🤖 Metaphors in Machine Translation by Dr. Lettie Dorst, Centre for Linguistics. Translating metaphors is not a ‘piece of cake’ for machine translation systems like Google Translate. 🍰

Dear followers! I don’t want to leave this platform and the incredible network I’ve built here, but it is time to take a stand. Let’s reconnect on 🦋 [email protected]. Hope I see you there!

Meet the Plenary Speakers of 🔸 RaAM 17 🔸 Lettie Dorst is an associate professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research focuses on metaphor variation, metaphor translation, literary machine translation, and machine translation literacy.

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

#metaphors and #technology - who can resist? 😉 join me at RaAM17 Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference 😎 the deadline to submit your abstract has been extended until 15 December 👍 see you there?! 🤩

#StopDeBezuinigingen #DoeHetNiet

So much fun talking about Tolkien & stylistics, and listen to Thijs Porck Rachel & Dr. Cevdet Acarsoy - interdisciplinary fellowships are 🫶 Thank you Albion & Floris V for the invitation 🧙‍♂️ Keep your voices clear, your eyes bright, and your hair flowing like a river 😉 #Tolkien

📢job alert📢🚨PhD vacancy🚨the #vacancy for a #PhD position (4 yrs, 1 fte) in my Vidi-project #Metaphor in #MachineTranslation is now online: universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024… Apply before 31 January 2025 🤩

If you want to hear me talk about #translating #metaphor with #AI #NMT #LLMs, join me next week Monday, noon (GMT+1), in MS Teams for this SAILS webinar: universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2025…