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

👉 PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing
careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Cand...
November 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
karakanta.bsky.social
So excited to continue this collaboration! With our first outputs in the making. Keep tuned. 🌷
bissieanderson.bsky.social Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · Oct 8
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 🌷🌷
October 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
karakanta.bsky.social
Time to celebrate international translation day! Cheers to all translators!
leidentranslat1.bsky.social LeidenTranslation🟥 @leidentranslat1.bsky.social · Sep 30
We’re celebrating International Translation Day with a Song translation slam! 🥁
Join us to vote for your favourite translations, sing along or have a drink! 🎤 🥂
#ITD #t9n #L10n @leidenhumanities.bsky.social
A poster advertising a song translation slam “Mind vs Machine”, showing a head with a brain next to a robot. Tuesday 30 September. Free snacks, drinks and music. 17:00-19:00 in the common room of reuvensplaats building.
September 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM
karakanta.bsky.social
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

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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?”
June 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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agdorst.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!😎
June 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
karakanta.bsky.social
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!
leidentranslat1.bsky.social LeidenTranslation🟥 @leidentranslat1.bsky.social · Mar 26
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
Four researchers smiling on a wooden bridge in a park Eight researchers posing smiling in a university room
March 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
karakanta.bsky.social
We’re striking against budget cuts in higher education! 🟥

#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #DitMoetStoppen #StakingHO #WOinActie
March 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
karakanta.bsky.social
Interested in “unraveling” how MT systems “craft” metaphors in different languages? Or how machine-translated metaphors “shape” human perception?
Then join us!
December 24, 2024 at 2:16 PM
karakanta.bsky.social
Excited to have presented our Leiden Translation Lab today during the opening of the Humanities Hub. Cheers to the great things that lie ahead 🎉
leidentranslat1.bsky.social LeidenTranslation🟥 @leidentranslat1.bsky.social · Dec 3
The Leiden Translation Lab proudly participating in the opening of the Humanities Hub at Huizinga.
We're thrilled to be part of this community and look forward to collaborating on new projects and exploring fresh ideas.
#xl8 #subtitling #MT #EMTnet
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Alina Karakanta presenting the Translation Lab in the Digital Lab room of the Humanities Hub in front of a broad audience.
December 3, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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agdorst.bsky.social
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...
November 25, 2024 at 3:10 PM
karakanta.bsky.social
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
November 22, 2024 at 6:19 PM