Team

His research lies at the intersection of game studies, translation studies, computer science, and computational linguistics. As a practitioner with a decade of experience in modding and reverse engineering, Simon applies techniques from these fields to build video game corpora, which underpin his broader research on the (machine) translation of creative elements within fictional worlds, conducted alongside his doctoral work.

His doctoral research focuses on training machine translation and generative AI systems tailored to video game localisation, and on comparing post-editing and raw MT outputs across specialised and generic systems, as well as human translation. Ultimately, his work seeks to highlight the essential value of human creativity in an increasingly automated landscape.

Ever curious and open to collaboration, Simon welcomes connections from both research and industry. He is always open to a conversation, so do not hesitate to reach out.

Keywords: reverse engineering and data mining – game localisation – machine translation – corpus-based translation studies – creative translation

Her areas of specialisation include sight translation, world news and international organizations. She also teaches Project management and Translation ethics, and coordinates ELLIT’s participation in the M1 Translation lab (Ateliers de traduction).

She graduated from the FTI-EII (1990), where she studied English and Spanish to French translation.

His teaching and research activities are mainly linked to translation technology, EN-FR post-editing, localisation and audiovisual translation. His PhD thesis was about post-editing quality in institutional settings, and his current research matches his teaching activities, focusing on prompting and NMT/LLM PE quality and processes in localisation practices. He also carries out research in the field of Audiovisual Translation (AVT). He often gathers product (human and automated evaluation) and process (keylogging, eye-tracking, surveys, etc.) data to aim for comprehensive studies. He is therefore greatly interested in any PhD project in PE applied to localisation or AVT using these research methods. Finally, he has recently obtained a FNRS Welchange funding for a large-scale research project on AI and creative translation.

Keywords: machine translation – post-editing – localisation – artificial intelligence – audiovisual translation

Her main interest lies in conference interpreting.

Keywords: specialised translation – terminology database management (IATE) – English linguistics – corpus-based linguistics and translation studies – degree

Lobke teaches English language classes to BA students as well as text analysis and more research oriented classes to MA students.

She is always interested in supervising MA or PhD theses on corpus-based (contrastive) linguistics or translation studies, but don’t hesitate to reach out with any idea in a related area that looks intriguing and challenging!

Keywords: English linguistics – corpus-based (contrastive) linguistics and translation studies – (inter)subjectivity – degree

Sylvie’s teaching interests are (among others) the following:

·       written, sight, literary and legal translation;

·       intercultural communication and negotiation;

·       political sciences, international relations, geopolitics and sociology;

·       philosophy;

• culture.

Her research focuses on prediction across language pairs and bilingual populations. She is particularly interested in whether a) there is an interpreting experience related advantage for prediction, b) prediction correlates with level of bilingualism and working memory skills, and c) prediction is associated with better interpreting performance. She has also worked on interdisciplinary research projects in corpus-based translation studies and machine translation.

After getting a Bachelor’s degree in translation (English – Spanish) from the Hoger Instituut voor Vertalers en Tolken at the University of Antwerp, she obtained a Master’s degree in Germanic philology from the ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles).

She taught for two years in a secondary school before joining the EII in 1990 to teach English language classes. She has had the opportunity to teach a great number of subjects ranging from English literature to translation (at BA and MA level). She currently teaches language in BAB3, specialized economic translation in MAB1, and an optional class on English theatre.

She first participated in and later took over as producer of the EII English Theatre Group, which performs a play on stage every year.

For a long time, she was the head of the English department and Secretary of the Conseil facultaire.

She teaches English language classes and classes devoted to British and American society and culture. Her main interests lie in cultural studies and intermediality.

She focuses on the cinematographic and television adaptation of literature in English and intertextuality, mainly (though not exclusively) in American pop culture. As an animation fan, her recent works have focused on animated films ranging from Disney and Pixar to Studio Ghibli and Cartoon Saloon.

Keywords: literature in English – adaptation – intertextuality – pop culture – animation

His main interests include translation, pedagogy, localisation, AI in translation, and post-editing.

Keywords: translation – pedagogy – localization – AI in translation – subtitling – post-editing

Keywords: specialized translation – cognitive linguistics – conceptual metaphor theory – statistical linguistics – AI – data visualization

After obtaining his MA degree in Multidisciplinary Translation at UMONS, with English and German as working languages, Valentin worked as a staff translator, then as a secondary school English teacher.

As part of his PhD research, he is now exploring the differences in linguistic metrics of editorials that were translated from scratch, post-edited by humans, or automatically post-edited by a large language model from English to French, and their potential impact on preference among readers.

His research interests include post-editing products and processes, the phenomena of translationese and post-editese, and the linguistic differences between AI-generated and human texts.

Keywords: post-editing – linguistic metrics – fluency – translationese – generative AI

Faye currently teaches English language to first year BA students, French to English interpretation and translation to MA students, as well as research-related classes. She also co-ordinates ELLIT’s incoming Erasmus students.

She would be happy to supervise MA or PhD theses in or related to her areas of expertise.

Keywords: Corpus-based translation and contrastive studies – English linguistics – exclamatives – exclamatory speech acts

She teaches English language classes to first-year BA students, with a particular focus on speaking and grammar.

In addition to her teaching, Marine has been involved in co-organising various activities for the Faculty and the ELLIT unit. She is especially interested in developing new projects and contributing to student life.

He currently teaches English proficiency courses, with a particular focus on speaking and listening skills, and English-French translation.

His doctoral project (2022-2028) is grounded in the field of cognitive translation and interpreting studies. Using eye-tracking technology, his study aims to examine the impact of syntactic complexity on cognitive processes during sight interpreting/translation, as well as the effect that training has on such processes.

Keywords: cognitive translation and interpreting studies – second language acquisition – process-oriented research – mixed-methods research – eye-tracking