Student research

This page lists students that completed research in the Time in Translation project. If you are interested in doing your thesis or internship in our project, please do contact us.

• Tessa Vermeir (Bachelor, French) compared the French passé composé to their English and Dutch counterparts using data from the Dutch Parallel Corpus: Le Parfait Français - Etude sur le Passé Composé dans un contexte multilingue, appendix.
• Anne Verkleij and Vincent Wimmers (Bachelor, AI) applied Translation Mining on the OpenSubtitles2016 corpus: Filmperspectief op de present perfect.
• Kieke Swager (Bachelor, AI) applied Translation Mining on the first three chapters of the novel L'Étranger by Albert Camus: Camus in kaart.
• Mandy Woelk (Bachelor, French) investigated the statistics behind our Translation Mining methodology: Time in Translation: une recherche quantitative sur la sémantique du parfait anglais et du parfait français.
• Miranda 't Hoen (Bachelor, AI) applied Translation Mining on present perfect progressives from the EuroParl corpus: Translating the Present Perfect Continuous.
• Maria Broekhoff (Bachelor, French) applied Translation Mining on the full verb spectrum of L'Étranger: Les verbes de L’étranger.
• Gerlinde Orsel (Bachelor, French) applied Translation Mining on stative verbs from the EuroParl corpus: Les verbes d’état au passé composé.
• Eleni Tsouloucha (Master, Linguistics) investigated the semantics and pragmatics of the Greek perfect: The Semantics and Pragmatics of the Modern Greek Perfect.
• Morwenna Hoeks (Master, Logic (ILLC)) investigated differences between the English and Dutch simple past and present perfect tense: Towards a competition account of the Present Perfect: The case of the indefinite Simple Past.
• Konstantinos Askitidis (Master, Linguistics) applied Translation Mining to analyze the Greek Perfect: A cross-linguistic perspective on the Greek perfect.
• Dagmar de Wit (Bachelor, French) applied Translation Mining on the comic book version of L'Étranger: La BD de L’Étranger et ses temps verbaux - Une traduction de la BD en néerlandais avec une analyse des temps verbaux en français, anglais et néerlandais.
• Anne Meiberg (Bachelor, French) applied Translation Mining on the comic book version of L'Étranger: L’Étranger en version bande dessinée - L’emploi des temps verbaux dans la traduction néerlandaise et anglaise de la version bande dessinée de L’Étranger par Albert Camus..
• Lex Tavenier (Bachelor, French) applied Translation Mining on the differences between dialogue and narration in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Le PARFAIT d'Harry Potter: Une étude plurilinguistique de l'emploi du PARFAIT en dialogue et en narration.
• Marit Ridder (Bachelor, French) analyzed school grammars on their explanation of French past tenses: L'emploi des temps du passé - Une étude sur les règles des temps du passé en français.
• Marziah Bijani (Bachelor, AI) applied Translation Mining to analyze the Farsi Perfect: The Perfect in Farsi.
• Ben Bonfil (Master, Linguistics) applied Translation Mining to analyze cross-linguistic variation in the domain of locative prepositions, as a prior to predict the effects of L1 transfer: Learning Prepositions in a Second Language: A Corpus-Based Approach to Semantic Transfer.
• Bjork Westmeijer (Bachelor, AI) investigated automatically assigning verb tenses through decision tree learning in English, German, French and (especially) Spanish and Dutch: Automatische toekenning werkwoordstijden.
• Nikki Evers (Bachelor, AI) and Marthe Visser (Bachelor, AI) investigated the use of the Perfect in Swedish dialogue and narrative by adding Swedish Harry Potter data to our corpus.
  • Nikki Evers: The Perfect in Swedish Dialogue.
  • Marthe Visser: The Perfect in Swedish. The Perfect in narrative and dialogue compared in Swedish, English, German, and Dutch, for improvement of Natural Language Processing.
• Isabel Vis (Bachelor, French) investigated the use of the Perfect in dialogue in English and Dutch through the Harry Potter series: Harry Potter et le parfait.
• Helen Brokking (Bachelor, German) investigated the role of Aktionsart in the use of the Perfect in English, Dutch and German through the Harry Potter series: Zeitformen unter die Lupe genommen: die Funktion des Perfekts im Deutschen verglichen anhand des Englischen und Niederländischen.
• David Bremmers (Bachelor, French) applied Translation to analyze cross-linguistic variation in the domain of definiteness in prepositional phrases: La définitude en français, anglais, allemand et mandarin: Les références définies dans les contextes prépositionnels.
• Konstantinos Askitidis (Master, Linguistics) investigated the semantic conditions for use of the Greek perfect: Perfect markers: Exploring desiderata for the semantics of the Perfect in Greek.
• Isa Buwalda (Bachelor, AI) investigated Perfect use in dialogue: Perfect use in dialogue contexts from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
• Vera Karssies (Bachelor, AI) investigated tense use in dialogue in Harry Potter and the Switchboard corpus: Similarities in spontaneous speech and dialogue in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Sinie van der Ben (Bachelor, AI) investigated differences in tense use in two German translations of L'Étranger: Perfekt vs. Präteritum: The comparison of the use of the Perfekt and Präteritum by native German speakers in two translations of l’Étranger and the translation of verb tenses by Google Translate.
• Charlotte de Jong (Bachelor, AI) investigated tense use in the Swedish translation of L'Étranger: Werkwoordstijden in Zweedse vertalingen.
• Jade Bogaart (Bachelor, French) and Heleen Jager (Bachelor, French) investigated differences in tense use in two Dutch translations of L'Étranger.
  • Jade Bogaart: La Variation Étrange dans L’Étranger.
  • Heleen Jager: La Variation Étrange dans L'Étranger: la compétition du PARFAIT et du PASSÉ dans les traductions néerlandaises de L'Étranger .
• Lara Mutsaers (Bachelor, AI) investigated cross-linguistic variation in the domain of the temporal connective not ... until: Taalvariatie in het semantische domein NOT.UNTIL: de uitdrukking van NOT.UNTIL in het Frans, Duits, Nederlands, Engels en Zweeds.
• Sep Keuchenius (Bachelor, AI) and Koen Klomps (Bachelor, AI) worked on applying Translation Mining to study tense use in the domain of conditionals:
  • Sep Keuchenius: Machine Learning tense classification in Dutch conditional sentences.
  • Koen Klomps: A Corpus Study on Verb Tenses in Dutch and English Conditionals.