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Lieve Macken

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2026

Can you read me? Investigating textbook reading materials and the coverage–comprehension relationship in the English and French foreign language classroom

Amaury Van ParysMaribel Montero PerezVanessa De WildeLieve Macken

2025

AI verovert de vertaalwereld : maar wat blijft mensenwerk?

A4 Journal Article in NEERLANDIA

Can Peter Pan survive MT? A stylometric study of LLMs, NMTs, and HTs in children's literature translation

Delu KongLieve Macken

Decoding machine translationese in English-Chinese news : LLMs vs. NMTs

Delu KongLieve Macken

Does the perceived source of a translation (NMT vs. HT) impact student revision quality for news and literary texts?

Xiaoye LiJoke Daems

Lexical coverage and reading comprehension in adolescent L2 learners of English and French

Amaury Van ParysVanessa De WildeLieve MackenMaribel Montero Perez

Lexical coverage and reading comprehension in adolescent L2 learners of English and French

Amaury Van ParysVanessa De WildeLieve MackenMaribel Montero Perez

LexPro : a plurilingual lexical profiling tool to assist teachers and researchers in analysing vocabulary of L2 input

Amaury Van ParysVanessa De WildeLieve MackenMaribel Montero Perez

A1 Journal Article in LANGUAGE TEACHING RESEARCH

LiTransProQA : an LLM-based literary translation evaluation metric with professional question answering

Ran ZhangWei ZhaoLieve MackenSteffen Eger

Machine translation in asylum reception centres : system selection and multilingual quality evaluation

Lieve MackenMargot FonteyneArda TezcanElla van HestKatrijn MarynsJuly De Wilde

A2 Journal Article in TRADUMATICA-TRADUCCIO I TECNOLOGIES DE LA INFORMACIO I LA COMUNICACIO

Machine translation to inform asylum seekers : intermediate findings from the MaTIAS project

Lieve MackenElla van HestArda TezcanMichaël LuminguKatrijn MarynsJuly De Wilde

One tool fits all? The role of tool type and language proficiency in translation tool-assisted second language writing processes

Margot FonteyneLieve MackenJoke DaemsMaribel Montero Perez

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology (CTT)

Selecting instruments for investigating L2 Swedish writing data of L1 Dutch learners across proficiencies

Margot FonteyneMaribel Montero PerezJoke DaemsLieve Macken

A2 Journal Article in NORDAND

The role of translation workflows in overcoming translation difficulties : a comparative analysis of human and machine translation (post-editing) approaches

Lieve MackenPaola RuffoJoke Daems

2024

An investigation into the lexical and grammatical characteristics of English and French L2 textbook reading materials

Amaury Van ParysVanessa De WildeLieve MackenMaribel Montero Perez

Automatische vertaling

Lieve MackenArda Tezcan

Bookchapter in Taaltechnologie ontrafeld

Hoe leert een computer taal?

Cynthia Van HeeVeronique HosteLieve MackenOrphée De ClercqEls Lefever

Bookchapter in Taaltechnologie ontrafeld

Impact of translation workflows with and without MT on textual characteristics in literary translation

Joke DaemsPaola RuffoLieve Macken

Intelligent Vocabulary and Example Selection for Spanish vocabulary learning (IVESS): project data

Jasper DegraeuwePatrick GoethalsLieve MackenArda Tezcan

IVESS : intelligent vocabulary and example selection for Spanish vocabulary learning

Jasper DegraeuwePatrick GoethalsLieve MackenArda Tezcan

LexPro : a plurilingual lexical profiling tool for research and materials development

Amaury Van ParysVanessa De WildeLieve MackenMaribel Montero Perez

Machine translation for open scholarly communication : examining the relationship between translation quality and reading effort

Lieve MackenVanessa De WildeArda Tezcan

A2 Journal Article in INFORMATION

Machine translation meets large language models : evaluating ChatGPT’s ability to automatically post-edit literary texts

MaTIAS (Machine Translation to Inform Asylum Seekers) : een meertalig berichtensysteem voor asielopvangcentra in België

Ella van HestJuly De WildeLieve MackenKatrijn MarynsArda TezcanMichaël Lumingu

MaTIAS : Machine Translation to Inform Asylum Seekers

Lieve MackenElla van HestArda TezcanMichaël LuminguKatrijn MarynsJuly De Wilde

Measured and perceived effort : assessing three literary translation workflows

Paola RuffoJoke DaemsLieve Macken

A2 Journal Article in TRADUMATICA-TRADUCCIO I TECNOLOGIES DE LA INFORMACIO I LA COMUNICACIO

Predicting the intended grade level of English and French L2 textbook reading materials : the role of lexical and grammatical features

Amaury Van ParysVanessa De WildeLieve MackenMaribel Montero Perez

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology

Technology for translators

Lieve MackenLynne Bowker

Bookchapter in Reference module in social sciences

Vocabulary of reading materials in English and French L2 textbooks : a cross-lingual corpus study

Amaury Van ParysVanessa De WildeLieve MackenMaribel Montero Perez

A1 Journal Article in SYSTEM

Waarom is taal zo moeilijk?

Cynthia Van HeeVeronique HosteOrphée De ClercqEls LefeverLieve Macken

Bookchapter in Taaltechnologie ontrafeld

Wat is taaltechnologie?

Cynthia Van HeeVeronique HosteOrphée De ClercqEls LefeverLieve Macken

Bookchapter in Taaltechnologie ontrafeld

Zelf aan de slag

Joke DaemsLieve MackenOrphée De ClercqCynthia Van Hee

Bookchapter in Taaltechnologie ontrafeld

2023

A process-based perspective on the effects of machine translation on L2 writing

Margot FonteyneJoke DaemsMaribel Montero PerezLieve Macken

Adapting machine translation education to the neural era : a case study of MT quality assessment

Lieve MackenBram VanroyArda Tezcan

Developing user-centred approaches to technological innovation in literary translation (DUAL-T)

Paola RuffoJoke DaemsLieve Macken

MATEO : MAchine Translation Evaluation Online

Bram VanroyArda TezcanLieve Macken

The vocabulary demands of English and French L2 textbooks : a cross-lingual corpus study

Amaury Van ParysVanessa De WildeLieve MackenMaribel Montero Perez

The vocabulary demands of English and French L2 textbooks : a cross-lingual corpus study

Amaury Van ParysVanessa De WildeLieve MackenMaribel Montero Perez

Translations and Open Science : exploring how translation technologies can support multilingualism in scholarly communication

Susanna FioriniArda TezcanTom VanallemeerschSara SzocKristin MigdisiLaurens MeeusLieve Macken

2022

DeBiasByUs : raising awareness and creating a database of MT bias

Joke DaemsJanica Hackenbuchner

Dynamic adaptation of neural machine-translation systems through translation exemplars

GECO-MT : the Ghent Eye-tracking Corpus of Machine Translation

Toon ColmanMargot FonteyneJoke DaemsNicolas DirixLieve Macken

Google Translate in foreign language education : raising teachers’ and learners’ awareness about machine translation

Margot FonteyneMaribel Montero PerezJoke DaemsLieve Macken

LeConTra : a learner corpus of English-to-Dutch news translation

Bram VanroyLieve Macken

Literary translation as a three-stage process : machine translation, post-editing and revision

Lieve MackenBram VanroyLuca DesmetArda Tezcan

Machine Translation enhanced literary translation

Lieve MackenJoke DaemsBram VanroyArda Tezcan

Measuring cross-lingual syntactic similarity

Bram VanroyOrphée De ClercqArda TezcanLieve Macken

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

Sign language translation : ongoing development, challenges and innovations in the SignON project

Dimitar ShterionovMirella De SistoVincent VandeghinsteAoife BradyMathieu De CosterLorraine LeesonJosep BlatFrankie PicronMarcello ScipioniAditya Parikh et al.

The lexical demands of English and French L2 textbooks : a cross-lingual corpus study

Amaury Van ParysVanessa De WildeLieve MackenMaribel Montero Perez

The use of machine translation in real-life professional translation scenarios

Lieve MackenArda TezcanJoke DaemsBram Vanroy

Writing in a second language with machine translation

Margot FonteyneMaribel Montero PerezJoke DaemsLieve Macken

Writing in a second Language with Machine translation (WiLMa)

Margot FonteyneMaribel Montero PerezJoke DaemsLieve Macken

2021

Building a new-generation corpus for empirical translation studies : the Dutch Parallel Corpus 2.0

Ryan ReynaertLieve MackenArda TezcanGert De Sutter

Bookchapter in New perspectives on corpus translation studies

Comparing the effect of product-based metrics on the translation process

Bram VanroyMoritz SchaefferLieve Macken

A1 Journal Article in FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY

It's all in the eyes : using eye-tracking to assess the readability of machine translated literature

Toon ColmanMargot FonteyneJoke DaemsLieve Macken

It’s all in the eyes : an eye tracking experiment to assess the readability of machine translated literature

Toon ColmanMargot FonteyneJoke DaemsLieve Macken

Metrics of syntactic equivalence to assess translation difficulty

Bram VanroyOrphée De ClercqArda TezcanJoke DaemsLieve Macken

Bookchapter in Explorations in empirical translation process research

Orphée De ClercqAyla Rigouts TerrynA. Seza DoğruözArda TezcanBram VanroySofie LabatLieve Macken

Editorial material

Syntactic difficulties in translation

Bram VanroyLieve MackenOrphée De ClercqArda Tezcan

2020

Assessing the Comprehensibility of Automatic Translations (ArisToCAT)

Lieve MackenMargot FonteyneArda TezcanJoke Daems

Estimating word-level quality of statistical machine translation output using monolingual information alone

Arda TezcanVeronique HosteLieve Macken

A1 Journal Article in NATURAL LANGUAGE ENGINEERING

Gutenberg goes neural : comparing features of Dutch human translations with raw neural machine translation outputs in a corpus of English literary classics

Rebecca WebsterMargot FonteyneArda TezcanLieve MackenJoke Daems

A2 Journal Article in INFORMATICS-BASEL

Literary machine translation under the magnifying glass : assessing the quality of an NMT-translated detective novel on document level

Margot FonteyneArda TezcanLieve Macken

Literary MT under the magnifying glass : assessing the quality of an NMT-translated Agatha Christie novel

Margot FonteyneArda TezcanLieve Macken

Post-editing human translations and revising machine translations : impact on efficiency and quality

Joke DaemsLieve Macken

Bookchapter in Translation revision and/or post-editing : industry practices and cognitive processes

Quantifying the effect of machine translation in a high-quality human translation production process

Lieve MackenDaniel ProuArda Tezcan

A2 Journal Article in INFORMATICS-BASEL

2019

Correlating process and product data to get an insight into translation difficulty

Bram VanroyOrphée De ClercqLieve Macken

A1 Journal Article in PERSPECTIVES-STUDIES IN TRANSLATION THEORY AND PRACTICE

Estimating post-editing time using a gold-standard set of machine translation errors

Arda TezcanVeronique HosteLieve Macken

A1 Journal Article in COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE

Improving the translation environment for professional translators

Vincent VandeghinsteTom VanallemeerschLiesbeth AugustinusBram BultéFrank Van EyndeJoris PelemansLyan VerwimpPatrick WambacqGeert HeymanMarie-Francine Moens et al.

A2 Journal Article in INFORMATICS-BASEL

Interactive adaptive SMT versus interactive adaptive NMT : a user experience evaluation

Joke DaemsLieve Macken

A2 Journal Article in MACHINE TRANSLATION

Modelling word translation entropy and syntactic equivalence with machine learning

Bram VanroyOrphée De ClercqLieve Macken

Mysterie van de dag : waarom vindt een automatisch vertaalsysteem soms nieuwe woorden uit?

Article in a magazine

NMT’s wonderland where people turn into rabbits : a study on the comprehensibility of newly invented words in NMT output

Lieve MackenLaura Van BrusselJoke Daems

A2 Journal Article in COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS IN THE NETHERLANDS JOURNAL

Pilot study on medical translations in lay language : post-editing by language specialists, domain specialists or both?

Ayla Rigouts TerrynLieve MackenEls LefeverRobert Vander SticheleKoen VannesteJoost Buysschaert

Predicting syntactic equivalence between source and target sentences

Bram VanroyArda TezcanLieve Macken

A2 Journal Article in COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS IN THE NETHERLANDS JOURNAL

Van CAT tot TenT : van computerondersteund vertalen tot vertaalomgevingen

Joke DaemsLieve Macken

Bookchapter in In balans : een inleiding tot vertaal- en tolkwetenschap

When a `sport' is a person and other issues for NMT of novels

Arda TezcanJoke DaemsLieve Macken

2018

A fine-grained error analysis of NMT, PBMT and RBMT output for English-to-Dutch

Laura Van BrusselArda TezcanLieve Macken

Dutch compound splitting for bilingual terminology extraction

Lieve MackenArda Tezcan

Bookchapter in Multiword units in machine translation and translation technology

How do students cope with machine translation output of Multi-Word Units? An exploratory study

Joke DaemsMichael CarlSonia VandepitteRobert HartsuikerLieve Macken

Bookchapter in Multiword units in machine translation and translation technology

Informative quality estimation of machine translation output

Arda TezcanLieve MackenVeronique Hoste

Measuring comprehension and perception of neural machine translated texts : a pilot study

Lieve MackenIris Ghyselen

Predicting difficulty in translation : a pilot study

Bram VanroyOrphée De ClercqLieve Macken

Smart computer-aided translation environment (SCATE) : highlights

Vincent VandeghinsteTom VanallemeerschBram BultéLiesbeth AugustinusFrank Van EyndeJoris PelemansLyan VerwimpPatrick WambacqGeert HeymanMarie-Francine Moens et al.

Using the Dutch Parallel Corpus to calculate English-Dutch word translation entropy

Bram VanroyOrphée De ClercqLieve Macken

2017

A neural network architecture for detecting grammatical errors in statistical machine translation

Arda TezcanVeronique HosteLieve Macken

A2 Journal Article in PRAGUE BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL LINGUISTICS

Hoe een computer zelf leert vertalen

A2 Journal Article in DIXIT, TIJDSCHRIFT OVER TAAL- EN SPRAAKTECHNOLOGIE

Identifying the machine translation error types with the greatest impact on post-editing effort

Joke DaemsSonia VandepitteRobert HartsuikerLieve Macken

A1 Journal Article in FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY

SCAP_TT : tagging and lemmatising Spanish tourism discourse, and beyond

Patrick GoethalsEls LefeverLieve Macken

A1 Journal Article in IBERICA

SCATE taxonomy and corpus of machine translation errors

Arda TezcanVeronique HosteLieve Macken

Bookchapter in Trends in E-tools and resources for translators and interpreters

Translation methods and experience : a comparative analysis of human translation and post-editing with students and professional translators

Joke DaemsSonia VandepitteRobert HartsuikerLieve Macken

A1 Journal Article in META

Translationese and post-editese : how comparable is comparable quality?

Joke DaemsOrphée De ClercqLieve Macken

A1 Journal Article in LINGUISTICA ANTVERPIENSIA NEW SERIES-THEMES IN TRANSLATION STUDIES

2016

A translation robot for each translator? : a comparative study of manual translation and post-editing of machine translations: process, quality and translator attitude

Joke DaemsLieve MackenSonia Vandepitte

Detecting grammatical errors in machine translation output using dependency parsing and treebank querying

Arda TezcanVeronique HosteLieve Macken

A2 Journal Article in BALTIC JOURNAL OF MODERN COMPUTING

Dutch hypernym detection : does decompounding help?

Ayla Rigouts TerrynLieve MackenEls Lefever

Multi-modular text normalization of Dutch user-generated content

Sarah SchulzGuy De PauwOrphée De ClercqBart DesmetVeronique HosteWalter DaelemansLieve Macken

A1 Journal Article in ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY

The effectiveness of consulting external resources during translation and postediting of general text types

Joke DaemsMichael CarlSonia VandepitteRobert HartsuikerLieve Macken

Bookchapter in New directions in empirical translation process research : exploring the CRITT TPR-DB

UGENT-LT3 SCATE Submission for WMT16 Shared Task on Quality Estimation

Arda TezcanVeronique HosteLieve Macken

2015

Comparing HT and PE using advanced research tools

Joke DaemsSonia VandepitteRobert HartsuikerLieve Macken

Technology for large-scale translation of clinical practice guidelines : a pilot study of the performance of a hybrid human and computer-assisted approach

Stijn Van de VeldeLieve MackenKoen VannesteMartine GoossensJan VanschoenbeekBert AertgeertsKlaar VanopstalRobert Vander SticheleJoost Buysschaert

A2 Journal Article in JMIR MEDICAL INFORMATICS

The impact of machine translation error types on post-editing effort indicators

Joke DaemsSonia VandepitteRobert HartsuikerLieve Macken

UGENT-LT3 SCATE system for machine translation quality estimation

Arda TezcanVeronique HosteBart DesmetLieve Macken

2014

Dutch parallel corpus en SoNaR

Lieve MackenOrphée De ClercqBart DesmetVeronique Hoste

Bookchapter in Beschouwingen uit een talenhuis : opstellen over onderwijs en onderzoek in de vakgroep Vertalen, Tolken en Communicatie aangeboden aan Rita Godyns

From input to output: the potential of parallel corpora for CALL

Maribel Montero PerezHans PaulussenLieve MackenPiet Desmet

A1 Journal Article in LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION

Lost in post-editing: Identifying the MT error types that are most problematic for student post-editors

Joke DaemsLieve MackenSonia VandepitteRobert Hartsuiker

On the origin of errors: a fine-grained analysis of MT and PE errors and their relationship

Joke DaemsLieve MackenSonia Vandepitte

Snelheid vs. kwaliteit: schuilt er wel winst in het gebruik van automatische vertaalsystemen?

Joke DaemsLieve MackenSonia Vandepitte

Bookchapter in Beschouwingen uit een talenhuis : opstellen over onderwijs en onderzoek in de vakgroep Vertalen, Tolken en Communicatie aangeboden aan Rita Godyns

Terminologie: op het snijvlak van ambacht en technologie

Klaar VanopstalLieve MackenEls LefeverMarjan Van de KauterJoost BuysschaertVeronique Hoste

Bookchapter in Beschouwingen uit een talenhuis : opstellen over onderwijs en onderzoek in de vakgroep Vertalen, Tolken en Communicatie aangeboden aan Rita Godyns

Two sides of the same coin : assessing translation quality in two steps through adequacy and acceptability error analysis

Joke DaemsLieve MackenSonia Vandepitte

Using the crowd for readability prediction

Orphée De ClercqVeronique HosteBart DesmetPhilip van OostenMartine De CockLieve Macken

A1 Journal Article in NATURAL LANGUAGE ENGINEERING

2013

Dutch parallel corpus: a balanced parallel corpus for Dutch-English and Dutch-French

Hans PaulussenLieve MackenWilly VandeweghePiet Desmet

Bookchapter in Essential speech and language technology for Dutch : results by the STEVIN-programme

Faster is not always better, but what if it’s not worse? A comparative study of human translation and post-edited machine translation quality

Joke DaemsLieve Macken

LeTs preprocess : the multilingual LT3 linguistic preprocessing toolkit

Marjan Van de KauterGeert CoormanEls LefeverBart DesmetLieve MackenVeronique Hoste

A2 Journal Article in COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS IN THE NETHERLANDS JOURNAL

LeTs Preprocess: the Multilingual LT3 Linguistic Preprocessing Toolkit

Marjan Van de KauterGeert CoormanEls LefeverBart DesmetSofie NiemegeersLubbert-Jan GringhuisLieve MackenVeronique Hoste

Machine Translation: Friend or Foe? Translator Attitude, Process, Productivity and Quality in Human Translation and Post-editing Machine Translation

Joke DaemsLennart TondeleirLieve Macken

Quality as the sum of its parts: a two-step approach for the identification of translation problems and translation quality assessment for HT and MT+PE

Joke DaemsLieve MackenSonia Vandepitte

TExSIS: bilingual terminology extraction from parallel corpora using chunk-based alignment

Lieve MackenEls LefeverVeronique Hoste

A1 Journal Article in TERMINOLOGY

2012

From character to word level: enabling the linguistic analyses of Inputlog process data

Mariëlle LeijtenLieve MackenVeronique HosteEric Van HorenbeeckLuuk Van Waes

From keystrokes to annotated process data: enriching the output of Inputlog with linguistic information

Lieve MackenVeronique HosteMariëlle LeijtenLuuk Van Waes

2011

Dutch parallel corpus: a balanced copyright-cleared parallel corpus

Lieve MackenOrphée De ClercqHans Paulussen

A1 Journal Article in META

Taal- en spraaktechnologie: een stand van zaken

Els LefeverLieve MackenVeronique Hoste

A4 Journal Article in OVER TAAL (KORTRIJK-HEULE)

2010

A chunk-driven bootstrapping approach to extracting translation patterns

Lieve MackenWalter Daelemans

A resource-light approach to morpho-syntactic tagging

An annotation scheme and gold standard for Dutch-English word alignment

Annotating the Dutch parallel corpus

Hans PaulussenLieve Macken

DPC-corpus: Dutch Parallel Corpus

Hans PaulussenJulia TrushkinaLidia RuraLieve MackenMaribel Montero PerezOrphée De ClercqPiet De SmetWilly Vandeweghe

Sub-sentential alignment of translational correspondences

Lieve MackenDaelemans WalterJoost Buysschaert

2009

Aligning linguistically motivated phrases

Lieve MackenWalter Daelemans

In search of the recurrent units of translation

A1 Journal Article in LINGUISTICA ANTVERPIENSIA NEW SERIES-THEMES IN TRANSLATION STUDIES

Language-independent bilingual terminology extraction from a multilingual parallel corpus

Els LefeverLieve MackenVeronique Hoste

Larsa: un outil d'extraction de relations sémantiques

Kathelijne DenturckPeter VelaertsHeidi VerplaetseSonia VandepitteLieve MackenRita Godyns

Bookchapter in Annotations automatiques et recherche d'informations

2008

Automatisch vertalen

Lieve MackenWilly Vandeweghe

Linguistically-based sub-sentential alignment for terminology extraction from a bilingual automotive corpus

Lieve MackenEls LefeverVeronique Hoste

Sentence alignment in DPC: maximizing precision, minimizing human effort

Julia TrushkinaLieve MackenHans Paulussen

Translational equivalence in statistical machine translation or meaning as co-occurrence

Lieve MackenEls Lefever

A2 Journal Article in LINGUISTICA ANTVERPIENSIA

2007

Analysis of translational correspondence in view of sub-sentential alignment

Dutch parallel corpus : a multilingual annotated corpus

Lieve MackenJulia TrushkinaHans PaulussenLidia RuraPiet DesmetWilly Vandeweghe

Dutch parallel corpus: MT corpus and translator's aid

Lieve MackenJulia TrushkinaLidia Rura

The referential versus non-referential use of the neuter pronoun in Dutch and English

Veronique HosteIris HendrickxLieve Macken

2006

Dutch parallel corpus: a multifunctional and multilingual corpus

Hans PaulussenLieve MackenJulia TrushkinaPiet DesmetWilly Vandeweghe

A3 Journal Article in CAHIERS DE L'INSTITUT DE LINGUISTIQUE DE LOUVAIN

2002

Intonation modelling for the synthesis of structured documents

Jeska BuhmannJean-Pierre MartensLieve MackenBert Van Coile

1995

Technological evaluation of a controlled language application: precision, recall, and convergence tests for SECC

Geert AdriaensLieve Macken