This paper presents a novel implementation of Translog-II. Translog-II is a Windows-oriented program to record and study reading and writing processes on a computer. In our research, it is an instrument to acquire objective, digital data of human translation processes. As their predecessors, Translog 2000, Translog 2006, also Translog-II consists of two main components: Translog-II Supervisor a...

This paper describes a phrase-based machine translation approach to normalize Dutch user-generated content (UGC). We compiled a corpus of three different social media genres (text messages, message board posts and tweets) to have a sample of this recent domain. We describe the various characteristics of this noisy text material and explain how it has been manually normalized using newly develop...

Social media now plays a pivotal role in electoral campaigns. Rapid dissemination of information through platforms such as Twitter has enabled politicians to broadcast their message to a wide audience. In this paper, we investigated the sentiment of tweets by the two main presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, along with almost 2.9 million tweets by Twitter users during the ...

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In today’s Age of Participation, co-creation, user-generated content and social networking have become part of a mass-appeal digital lifestyle. This paper discusses potential implications for contemporary and future media art in the context of the stage. It reflects on why and how interactive performances could give consideration to this Zeitgeist of empowered spectatorship and, moreover, propo...