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Assistant Professor Human-Computer Interaction (translation) at Ghent University | cataloguing gender bias in MT via https://debiasbyus.ugent.be/ and https://biasshield.org/ Translation Manager at the International Quadball Association (they/them)

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๐Ÿ“ฃ2nd #CFP for #GITT2026 at @eamt2026.bsky.social (15 June 2026)
๐ŸDeadline = 20 April
๐Ÿ•ต๏ธGender bias in translation and MT, inclusive language, mitigation strategies, and more
๐Ÿ“Research papers, abstracts, communications & potluck presentations welcome!
๐Ÿ•ธ๏ธAll info on: sites.google.com/view/gitt202...

20.02.2026 07:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GITT 2026 SCOPE The "Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop'' (GITT) is the only dedicated workshop that focuses on gender-inclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The worksho...

Gender bias in #MT is not a "solved" problem. โš–๏ธ

The 4th edition of the #GITT @gitt-workshop.bsky.social is coming to #EAMT2026.

The call for papers is open, check it here ๐Ÿ‘‰: sites.google.com/view/gitt2026/

#GITT2026 #GenderBias #Inclusivity

28.01.2026 09:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If it isn't my favourite workshop of the year! Working on #gender #inclusive #translation #technology? See you there! ๐Ÿ˜œ

12.12.2025 08:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŒˆ Help with my LGBTQIA+ research! ๐ŸŒˆ

I'm building a dataset to fight harmful LGBTQIA+ stereotypes in AI. Take my quick survey:
๐Ÿ‘‰ IT: lnkd.in/dfPuyT6j
๐Ÿ‘‰ NL: lnkd.in/d-3Di7WY
๐Ÿ‘‰ FA: lnkd.in/dfvWzWCu
Everybody is welcome!

๐Ÿ“ค Share if you can!

21.07.2025 10:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

These are gorgeous, thanks for capturing this historic moment so beautifully! ๐Ÿ˜

15.07.2025 21:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Call for contributions Critical Language Awareness for Sustainability, Solidarity and Inclusion We are delighted to announce the upcoming conference on โ€˜Critical Language Awareness for Sustainability, Solidarity and Inclusi...

Are you intrigued by the impact of #language on #sustainability #solidarity and #inclusion? Then I have the conference for you!
CLADES focuses on #social and #ecological #justice and #injustice and you can submit contributions (๐Ÿ› ๏ธ๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ƒ๐ŸŽจ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿค๐Ÿค”๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽญ and more) until 1 October!

โฉ clades.ugent.be/en/call-cont...

15.07.2025 08:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We made sure to include your picture in the group photo - you were there in spirit ๐Ÿ˜‰ (although @evavnmssnhv.bsky.social still doesn't believe you're real ๐Ÿ˜‚)

24.06.2025 09:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The proud supervisor moments are piling up at #MTSUMMIT2025 ๐Ÿ˜ Now Xiaoye Li presenting (for the first time!) at #CTT2025 the work we did on revision and perceived origin of a translation (HT vs NMT) It's been great working together in Ghent these past few months ๐Ÿ”ฅ

24.06.2025 09:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Some key takeaways: we need to be careful to generalise our findings as there is a lot of individual variation across translators and texts #CTT2025

24.06.2025 09:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Full house at #CTT2025 at #MTSUMMIT2025 for the paper with Lieve Macken and @paolaruffo.bsky.social on translation difficulties in different workflows in literary translation ๐Ÿคฉ

24.06.2025 09:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Another proud supervisor moment - very first big conference presentation and killing it ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ”ฅ #GITT2025

23.06.2025 10:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Very proud supervisor at #GITT2025 ๐Ÿคฉ @jhackenbuchner.bsky.social acing the poster boaster ๐Ÿ˜ŽCome check out our poster later if you're at @mtsummit2025.bsky.social

23.06.2025 08:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Good morning @mtsummit2025.bsky.social ! ๐ŸŒž We're ready to kick off #GITT2025 in a few minutes. We'll be live skywriting (is that the tweeting equivalent of 'tweeting'? It is now) using our hashtag. Looking forward! ๐Ÿคฉ

23.06.2025 07:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The #GITT2025 ๐Ÿ•˜schedule๐Ÿ“† is now available! Fan of...
๐Ÿ“ฃ poster boasters
๐Ÿ“Š presentations
๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ keynote speakers
๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ posters
๐Ÿ€ potluck presentations?
We've got all of that and more at: sites.google.com/tilburgunive... See you there! @mtsummit2025.bsky.social

16.05.2025 14:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@bsavoldi.bsky.social @gsarti.com @apierg.bsky.social @luisabentivogli.bsky.social [trying to reach Italian speakers especially as we don't have that many here, would be great if you could spread the word (and participate, of course ๐Ÿ˜‰)]

09.05.2025 08:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ‘€ Wanted: #Italian or #Dutch native speakers to take a survey on audiovisual translation for a master thesis student: watch a short video, answer some questions, help academic research ๐Ÿ˜Ž
โฉ Sharing = nice! โค๏ธ
NL link: ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
IT link: ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

09.05.2025 08:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ’ญDreaming of attending #GITT2025 but need a little extra ๐Ÿ’ธ boost?
๐Ÿ“ฃ Bursary applications to support participation are now open at tinyurl.com/gitt25
๐Ÿ“† Deadline May 9th
๐Ÿ™Thanks to our incredible sponsors DCA at Tilburg University tinyurl.com/tudca25 and FLW at Ghent University www.ugent.be/lw/en

29.04.2025 14:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ขNew publication!
๐Ÿ”ŽWe investigated how students in #translation #languages #DigitalHumanities understand how #MT #AItranslation works.
๐Ÿ’กWe found they see differences but also similarities based on #misconceptions and #humanization of the technology, especially #LLMs #GenAI
๐Ÿ”— see lnkd.in/eaeuMVNc

07.04.2025 11:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ‘‚ What's that? You almost had a paper ready for #GITT2025 and you need one last final deadline extension? We hear you!
โฑ๏ธ Submission deadline extended to: 31 March AOE
โœ…Author notification: 7 April
๐ŸคGITT workshop 23 June @mtsummit2025.bsky.social
See you there!
sites.google.com/tilburgunive...

18.03.2025 19:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โณJust a little more time? We got you!
๐Ÿ“ฃ #GITT2025 DEADLINE EXTENSION until 16 March (AOE ๐ŸŒ)
๐Ÿ“ Join us 23 June at the @mtsummit2025.bsky.social in Geneva
๐Ÿ“Attend GITT as an independent workshop, or register for the full MT Summit
๐Ÿ’ก All info at sites.google.com/tilburgunive...
๐Ÿ‘€ See you there?

06.03.2025 10:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

All wonderful MT gender bias people in one place? Yes, please! ๐Ÿคฉ

28.02.2025 15:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ฃ3rd #CFP for #GITT2025 at @mtsummit2025.bsky.social on 23 June 2025
๐ŸDeadline = 10 March
๐Ÿ•ต๏ธGender bias in translation and MT, inclusive language, mitigation strategies, and more
๐Ÿ“Research papers, abstracts, communications & potluck presentations welcome!
๐Ÿ•ธ๏ธAll info on sites.google.com/tilburgunive...

25.02.2025 10:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

โœ๏ธ Professionele vertalers en vertaalstudenten (EN-NL) gezocht voor masterproef!

Mijn student Fleur Valette onderzoekt verschillen in vertaalstrategieรซn tussen studenten en professionele vertalers.

Alle info en deelname via qualtricsxmg25wkft8n.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

โฉ Delen is lief!

24.02.2025 14:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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As if you needed more reasons to submit to #GITT2025:
๐Ÿ”‘๐ŸŽต Cristina Anselmi, video game #localization & #AI expert with a focus on #inclusive #language will be our keynote speaker!
๐Ÿ’ธRegistration fees are on the MTSummit website and you can register just for GITT if you so choose ๐Ÿ˜Ž
๐Ÿ‘€ See you there! ๐Ÿ‘€

13.02.2025 15:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

No more excuses now! A bit more time to polish those papers and join us at MT Summit! ๐ŸŒž๐Ÿ

31.01.2025 20:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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28.01.2025 21:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Especially excited to see what people will come up with for our new Potluck Presentation format! Looking forward to the brainstorms and new ideas ๐Ÿง ๐ŸŒฉ๏ธ #gender #translation #technology #GITT2025

28.01.2025 15:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For those of you still finalising those submissions to the Research - Translators & Users track ๐Ÿ˜‰ Looking forward to receiving your work!

24.01.2025 14:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hello world! ๐Ÿ‘‹ We're coming out of hibernation to bring you this happy news:
1) We're organising the 3rd edition of GITT at #MTSummit! Working on #gender & #translation #technology? We'll see you there!
2) We're moving away from Twitter, so share the news and help us find old and new GITT friends!

22.01.2025 12:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I forgot I had Bluesky for a second (I should really do an intro here at some point, huh) but it was an absolute pleasure having you in Ghent. Really looking forward to future potential collaborations, and our students learned so much from the visit as well. Thank you again!

22.12.2023 20:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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