Alina Karakanta🟥

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👉 PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing
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So excited to continue this collaboration! With our first outputs in the making. Keep tuned. 🌷

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

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

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?”

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!😎

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!

We’re striking against budget cuts in higher education! 🟥

#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #DitMoetStoppen #StakingHO #WOinActie

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

M(e)T(oo)! 👋🏼

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

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...

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