Lieve Macken
Associate Professor of Translation Technology in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at Ghent University
Prof. dr. Lieve Macken is an Associate Professor of Translation Technology in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at Ghent University in Belgium. She has strong expertise in multilingual natural language processing and machine translation. Her research combines product- and process-based approaches to examine the effects of various translation methods, including human translation, machine translation, post-editing, on translators and readers. She also works on integrating of NLP and MT in educational language learning.
She teaches Machine Translation and Natural Language Processing. She was guest editor of the special issue 'Advances in Computer-Aided Translation Technology' in the journal Informatics (2019) and co-organised the EAMT2022 conference with CrossLang. She has also co-organised two Creative Text Translation and Technology (CTT) workshops, held in conjunction with the EAMT conference in Sheffield (2024) and the MT Summit in Geneva (2025).