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Alina Karakanta🟥

@karakanta.bsky.social

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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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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · 9d

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

LeidenTranslation🟥 @leidentranslat1.bsky.social · 9d

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.

Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · Jun 29

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

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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · Jun 25

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

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?”

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · Jun 11

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!😎

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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · Mar 26

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!

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

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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · Mar 10

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

#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #DitMoetStoppen #StakingHO #WOinActie

Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · Dec 24

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

Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · Dec 24

📢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 🤩

PhD candidate (1.0 fte, 4 years)

Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH), is looking for a PhD candidate (1.0 fte, 4 years)...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · Dec 19

M(e)T(oo)! 👋🏼

Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · Dec 3

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

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.

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Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social · Nov 25

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...

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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · Nov 22

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

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