On June 11, 2026, LT3’s Aaron Maladry presented “Connecting Automatic Irony Detection to Implicit Meaning and World Knowledge” (www.sdjt.si/wp/) as part of his research stay at the University of Ljubljana. Thank you for the warm welcome; we look forward to future collaborations!

Great news from the 5th edition of the Network of Interdisciplinary Translation Studies 2026! LT3's @elenigkove.bsky.social was awarded the Best Master's Thesis Award for her work on Gender Bias in English-to-Greek Machine Translation: aclanthology.org/2025.gitt-1.... 🔗 Congratulations, Eleni! 👏

🎓👏 Congratulations to LT3 researcher Dr. Quanqi Du, who successfully defended his PhD thesis, “When Modalities Disagree: A Perspective-Aware Framework for Multimodal Emotion Recognition”, on May 29. 🎉🤖🧠

From @jhackenbuchner.bsky.social, a PhD candidate at @lt3-ugent.bsky.social on 📄 "Contextual Cues and Gender Ambiguity in MT: From Human Perception to Model Interpretability"

‪LT3‬ ‪@lt3-ugent.bsky.social‬ · 3h A fantastic week for LT3 at #LREC2026! ☀️🌴📚 ✨ Keynote by Els Lefever 👏 12 conference papers 📄 3 workshop papers 🗣️ Workshop co-organised by Veronique Hoste and Sofie Labat Proud of everyone who represented LT3! 💙

On 21 March, LT3 Lieve Macken, Janiça Hackenbuchner, Thomas Moerman, Florian Debaene, Aaron Maladry, and Sadegh Jafari took part in the Planet Group Ekiden Gent relay race 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ Together, they completed the marathon distance of 42.195 km 💪 💪 💪 Very proud of our sportive colleagues 👏👏👏🎉

✍️Are you working on gender-inclusive language in translation or cross-lingual contexts? Then this workshop might be for you! The 4th edition of the #GITT @gitt-workshop.bsky.social at #EAMT2026. 🗓️ Submission deadline: 20 April 2026.

❗Language is not a 'problem' that needs to be 'solved'. Last Wednesday, our colleague Orphee De Clercq participated in a Public Event on UGent's view on AI and shared some particularly interesting insights on Language and AI. Great to see these valuable discussions taking place!👏

Last week in Bari @cerveza-inglesa.bsky.social presented "StereoBusters at GSI:detect: LLM-Based Detection and Human Qualitative Analysis of Gender Stereotypes in Italian Short Text", co-authored with Salvatore Greco, Moreno La Quatra, Marta Marchiori Manerba and Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez. #EVALITA. 👏👏

Did you know LLMs can inherit gender bias, affecting translations and even diagnostic predictions for women? 🤖⚖️ On Feb 25, Joke Daems presented “Bias & Binaries” at CLADES, exploring how gender bias arises in language tech and how research is driving more inclusive, fair AI. 👏

🎉 Exciting news! LT3 projects have been nominated for this year’s Language Industry Awards (LIA)! 📚 Taaltechnologie Ontrafeld — nominated in the category Beste Taalpublicatie 🚀 MATIAS — nominated in the category Beste Taalproject Voting is open until 22/03 (23.59 u.)

LT3’s Orphée De Clercq and Pranaydeep Singh are part of the organizing committee of WASSA 2026, collocated with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. ❗Is your research related to the analysis of subjectivity, sentiment, emotions, and their NLP applications? Submit your work by December 17, 2025! 👇

Hi there! 👋 We’re the Language and Translation Technology Team (LT³) at Ghent University, Belgium. We conduct research on a wide range of topics in Natural Language Processing. Here, we’ll be sharing our news, achievements, insights, and ideas. Feel free to connect and say hi! 💬