Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst
@agdorst.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Translation and Human-Centred AI @LeidenHumanities (NL). Loves metaphor, stylistics and (machine) translation. PI of NWO-Vidi project "Metaphors in Machine Translation: Reactions, Responses, Repercussions" (2025-2030).
📣 new blog post! LUCL PhD candidate Tian Yang discusses the Leiden Translation Talk by Yinan Xu on Reducing or Reinforcing Gender Bias 👍👎 Read it on the Leiden Translation Blog: leidentranslation.wordpress.com/blog/ #Translation #AI #MT #GenderBias #ChatGPT
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
📣 new blog post! LUCL PhD candidate Tian Yang discusses the Leiden Translation Talk by Yinan Xu on Reducing or Reinforcing Gender Bias 👍👎 Read it on the Leiden Translation Blog: leidentranslation.wordpress.com/blog/ #Translation #AI #MT #GenderBias #ChatGPT
Proud PhD supervisor 🦚 Read Jiahui Liang's first article 🎉on using #GPT-4 for conventional #metaphor detection in news texts here: www.clinjournal.org/clinj/articl...
August 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Proud PhD supervisor 🦚 Read Jiahui Liang's first article 🎉on using #GPT-4 for conventional #metaphor detection in news texts here: www.clinjournal.org/clinj/articl...
My American Dream! What an absolute blast to be keynote at #RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Detroit 🇺🇸
August 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
My American Dream! What an absolute blast to be keynote at #RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Detroit 🇺🇸
Ready. Set. Go! Great start to #RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social in Southfield Detroit! @al-azary.bsky.social officially opening the conference and Vicky Lai kicking off with the first keynote 🚀
August 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Ready. Set. Go! Great start to #RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social in Southfield Detroit! @al-azary.bsky.social officially opening the conference and Vicky Lai kicking off with the first keynote 🚀
Just arrived in Detroit for the #RaAM17 conference! Looking forward to catching up with old friends, meeting new people, exchanging ideas, and delivering my keynote entitled "Hype, Help, Hindrance? Identifying, analyzing and translating #metaphors with #AI" 🤩 Stay tuned for updates 😎
August 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Just arrived in Detroit for the #RaAM17 conference! Looking forward to catching up with old friends, meeting new people, exchanging ideas, and delivering my keynote entitled "Hype, Help, Hindrance? Identifying, analyzing and translating #metaphors with #AI" 🤩 Stay tuned for updates 😎
Also presented my ongoing research on #metaphors in #MachineTranslation, with @karakanta.bsky.social Katinka Zeven and Mayra Nas, "Translating Metaphors in Literature with AI" 🤩 #ESTcongress was huge, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Brain has been buzzing with so many new ideas ✨ #EST2025Leeds
July 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Also presented my ongoing research on #metaphors in #MachineTranslation, with @karakanta.bsky.social Katinka Zeven and Mayra Nas, "Translating Metaphors in Literature with AI" 🤩 #ESTcongress was huge, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Brain has been buzzing with so many new ideas ✨ #EST2025Leeds
A week ago I presented our ongoing project on "Translating Metaphors in Wine Language: Challenges and Strategies for Global Engagement" with the fabulous Allison Creed at the #ESTcongress #EST2025Leeds and we got to try several Zeno nolo wines 🥂 #Translation #Metaphor #WineCommunication
July 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
A week ago I presented our ongoing project on "Translating Metaphors in Wine Language: Challenges and Strategies for Global Engagement" with the fabulous Allison Creed at the #ESTcongress #EST2025Leeds and we got to try several Zeno nolo wines 🥂 #Translation #Metaphor #WineCommunication
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
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!😎
Artikel in Trouw over mijn onderzoek naar #metaforen in #machinevertaling 🤩 www.trouw.nl/wetenschap/l...
May 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Artikel in Trouw over mijn onderzoek naar #metaforen in #machinevertaling 🤩 www.trouw.nl/wetenschap/l...
📢New publication!
🔎We investigated how students in #translation #languages #DigitalHumanities understand how #MT #AItranslation works.
💡We found they see differences but also similarities based on #misconceptions and #humanization of the technology, especially #LLMs #GenAI
🔗 see lnkd.in/eaeuMVNc
🔎We investigated how students in #translation #languages #DigitalHumanities understand how #MT #AItranslation works.
💡We found they see differences but also similarities based on #misconceptions and #humanization of the technology, especially #LLMs #GenAI
🔗 see lnkd.in/eaeuMVNc
April 7, 2025 at 11:49 AM
📢New publication!
🔎We investigated how students in #translation #languages #DigitalHumanities understand how #MT #AItranslation works.
💡We found they see differences but also similarities based on #misconceptions and #humanization of the technology, especially #LLMs #GenAI
🔗 see lnkd.in/eaeuMVNc
🔎We investigated how students in #translation #languages #DigitalHumanities understand how #MT #AItranslation works.
💡We found they see differences but also similarities based on #misconceptions and #humanization of the technology, especially #LLMs #GenAI
🔗 see lnkd.in/eaeuMVNc
Memo to me: don’t forget to breathe ☀️
March 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Memo to me: don’t forget to breathe ☀️
When I’m stressed (which is quite often) I try to be more like my cat… I think he has being “chill” down to an art 🍀 (and he has a flair for the dramatic)
February 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
When I’m stressed (which is quite often) I try to be more like my cat… I think he has being “chill” down to an art 🍀 (and he has a flair for the dramatic)
My beautiful and talented and kind sister-in-law Roos Dros singing the beautiful poems by J.C. Bloem that my father-in-law J.J. Dros set to music ❤️ with the Alkmaar Big Band 🎶🎷🎤
February 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
My beautiful and talented and kind sister-in-law Roos Dros singing the beautiful poems by J.C. Bloem that my father-in-law J.J. Dros set to music ❤️ with the Alkmaar Big Band 🎶🎷🎤
A whopping 95 (!) applications received for the PhD position on my #Metaphor in #MachineTranslation project 🤩 - I’m flabbergasted to be honest! It’s going to be a tough decision 🧐
February 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A whopping 95 (!) applications received for the PhD position on my #Metaphor in #MachineTranslation project 🤩 - I’m flabbergasted to be honest! It’s going to be a tough decision 🧐
AI will take our jobs! Yet my #NMT is so confused by the automatic hyphenation in my document... At least some of the mistranslations are hilarious. I do think we still have our work cut out for us, if you get my "ear-jumping meaning" 😉 I do like to "laugh at" conceptual metaphors 🙃
January 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
AI will take our jobs! Yet my #NMT is so confused by the automatic hyphenation in my document... At least some of the mistranslations are hilarious. I do think we still have our work cut out for us, if you get my "ear-jumping meaning" 😉 I do like to "laugh at" conceptual metaphors 🙃
Hail Riders! So much fun talking about Tolkien and stylistics. Great to listen to Thijs, Rachel and Cevdet - interdisciplinary fellowships are best 🫶 Big thank you to Albion and Floris V for the invitation 🧙♂️ Keep your voices clear, your eyes bright, and your hair flowing like a river 😉 #Tolkien
December 13, 2024 at 8:45 AM
Hail Riders! So much fun talking about Tolkien and stylistics. Great to listen to Thijs, Rachel and Cevdet - interdisciplinary fellowships are best 🫶 Big thank you to Albion and Floris V for the invitation 🧙♂️ Keep your voices clear, your eyes bright, and your hair flowing like a river 😉 #Tolkien
Professor for a day - I’ll take it 🤩 my pleasure to ask a question about metaphors for HIV/AIDS. Wonderful PhD defence by Ria Huijgen-Koolen 🙌🎓🥂
December 12, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Professor for a day - I’ll take it 🤩 my pleasure to ask a question about metaphors for HIV/AIDS. Wonderful PhD defence by Ria Huijgen-Koolen 🙌🎓🥂
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
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...
It's a wrap! Really enjoyed Translating & the Computer in Luxembourg #TC46, presenting with Leena Salmi on student conceptualizations of machine translation (with Maarit Koponen & Joke Daems -- paper out soon!), and catching up with wonderful colleagues that I do not get to see often enough!
November 20, 2024 at 4:11 PM
It's a wrap! Really enjoyed Translating & the Computer in Luxembourg #TC46, presenting with Leena Salmi on student conceptualizations of machine translation (with Maarit Koponen & Joke Daems -- paper out soon!), and catching up with wonderful colleagues that I do not get to see often enough!
First post! No pressure ;-) Happy to see so many of my friends and colleagues on this platform already. Hoping to reconnect and share thoughts and experiences, as well as interesting projects, readings, conferences, events. Let's make this a happy place! #NothingButBlueSkies
November 20, 2024 at 1:18 PM
First post! No pressure ;-) Happy to see so many of my friends and colleagues on this platform already. Hoping to reconnect and share thoughts and experiences, as well as interesting projects, readings, conferences, events. Let's make this a happy place! #NothingButBlueSkies