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 🌷🌷

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...

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!

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!

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

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 🚀

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 😎

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

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

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

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!😎

Maandag was ik met Marielle Steinpatz op Radio 1 bij Villa vdB om te praten over machinevertalingen en ondertiteling 😎 terugluisteren kan hier: www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/v...

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

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

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/ee...

📢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

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/...

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

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

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

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”.

"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

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...

Memo to me: don’t forget to breathe ☀️

📢 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

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: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

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...

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)

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 🎶🎷🎤

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!

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 🧐

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 🙃

📢job alert📢🚨PhD vacancy🚨the #vacancy for a #PhD position (4 yrs, 1 fte) in my Vidi-project #Metaphor in #MachineTranslation is now online: www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20... Apply before 31 January 2025 🤩

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

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 🙌🎓🥂

#StopDeBezuinigingen #DoeHetNiet #StopTheCuts #JustSayNo

#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! 🤩

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 👇

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

If you want to contribute to science but are not yet quite ready to donate your body, why not putting a team together to organise the next 2026 @raammetaphor.bsky.social RaAM Specialised Seminar or 2027 RaAM International Conference? Deadline: January 31 2025! www.raam.org.uk/conferences/...

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...

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. @agdorst.bsky.social

It's a wrap! Really enjoyed Translating & the Computer in Luxembourg #TC46, presenting with Leena Salmi on student conceptualizations of machine translation (with Maarit Koponen & Joke Daems -- paper out soon!), and catching up with wonderful colleagues that I do not get to see often enough!

First post! No pressure ;-) Happy to see so many of my friends and colleagues on this platform already. Hoping to reconnect and share thoughts and experiences, as well as interesting projects, readings, conferences, events. Let's make this a happy place! #NothingButBlueSkies