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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 · 1d
So excited to continue this collaboration! With our first outputs in the making. Keep tuned. 🌷
bissieanderson.bsky.social Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social · 10d
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 🌷🌷
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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · 18d
Time to celebrate international translation day! Cheers to all translators!
leidentranslat1.bsky.social LeidenTranslation🟥 @leidentranslat1.bsky.social · 18d
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.
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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

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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?”
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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!
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
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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · Mar 10
We’re striking against budget cuts in higher education! 🟥

#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #DitMoetStoppen #StakingHO #WOinActie
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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!
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Alina Karakanta🟥 @karakanta.bsky.social · Dec 19
M(e)T(oo)! 👋🏼
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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 🎉
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.
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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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