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Adopted from China, back there as a journalist: ‘I want to break the stereotypes’Alumnus interview 17 April 2025Cindy Huijgen was adopted from China and has wanted to return all her life. This Chinese Studies and Journalism & New Media alumnus is now a correspon...
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Leiden researchers call for new guidelines for AI-generated images in journalism14 April 2025Generative AI presents journalists with new options for image use but also raises ethical questions. Leiden research shows that GenAI image use is yet...
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Lettie Dorst: ‘Translation programmes change how we interpret the world’27 March 2025Associate Professor Lettie Dorst has received a Vidi grant to research how machine translation programmes such as Google Translate and ChatGPT transla...
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Nivja de Jong listed among 2% most influential scientists14 November 2024Professor Nivja de Jong has been included in the list of most influential scientists by Elsevier Data Repository. This list of scientists with the hig...
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The language of Russian propaganda14 October 2024In 2014 Russia entered Ukraine and occupied Crimea, and about two and a half years ago it began a large-scale invasion. For Ukraine, it’s a war. But R...
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Twan Huys lecturer Journalism and New Media06 June 2024Television presenter and journalist Twan Huys will be a lecturer in Journalism and New Media at Leiden University from 1 September 2024.
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How AI helps map sign languages15 April 2024Like spoken languages, sign languages evolve organically and do not always have the same origin. This produces different ways of communication and ann...
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‘Language is part of your identity; we need to teach children this from an early age’04 March 2024Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is e...
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How the rise of AI is creating new opportunities for computational linguists20 February 2024With the rise of AI, interest in computational linguistics and language models has taken flight. But machines are far from being able to go it alone. ...
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Translating humorous children's poetry? Content matters most11 December 2023Translating poetry is notoriously difficult. Translating poetry in such a way that the humorous nature of a poem remains intact is even more difficult...
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Footballer and journalist Nikki IJzerman: 'I want to dive into the background of the news'16 November 2023Give Nikki IJzerman a football and she’s happy. The midfielder was named Player of the Year by ADO Den Haag last season, as well as obtaining her mast...
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City Photographer for a year: ‘Unfortunately, I found that I’m not really very visual’09 November 2023Julia van Alem had never held a camera before, but she and her classmates were appointed as the City Photographer. ‘This project helped me learn how t...
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What is the future of translation software within the university?06 November 2023Is there a place for machine translation engines like Google Translate within the Faculty of Humanities? Associate professor Lettie Dorst’s new educat...
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The mechanism behind a friendly chat: 'Puzzle gets unravelled bit by bit'01 September 2023A friendly chat is more complicated than you might think. As soon as the other person finishes talking, you already have an answer ready. But how do w...
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Lips pouted or not? How improved speaker recognition can help forensic investigations12 June 2023Police investigations use wiretapped phone recordings as investigative material fairly regularly. But how do they know that the voice on the recording...