Picto in the media
RingTV: Nieuwe website pictorand.be (August 2019)
Release of the Pictorand tool, a translation technology for Dutch language learners who are living in the Brussels Periphery.
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Lanakense ontwikkelt pictogrammentaal... (January 2018)
An interview for TV Limburg in which the technologies are described and demo sentences are shown.
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Radio 1 - Nieuwe Feiten: Picto (January 2018)
An interview for Radio 1 in which famous Belgians try out the Picto translation system for themselves!
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Kom naar buiten met je onderzoek! (December 2017)
An article by Leen Sevens for KU Leuven Blogt on creative science communication.
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Text2Picto sloopt muren (December 2017)
An article by De Taalsector about the Falling Walls Lab and the Language Industry Awards.
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Lanakense vindt systeem uit dat tekst vertaalt naar pictogrammen (November 2017)
An interview with het Belang van Limburg, a Belgian newspaper.
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Computational Linguist Leen Sevens Talks to Durtti (May 2017)
An interview with Durtti, a website connected to the Artificial Intelligence community on LinkedIn.
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E-Including the Illiterate (IEEE Potentials 36(1): 29-33) (January 2017)
An article written for IEEE Potentials by Vincent Vandeghinste, Leen Sevens, and Ineke Schuurman. Abstract: In present-day society, we communicate over the Internet in several media forms. We put videos and images online, listen to music made by famous bands or by our friends, and read and write a lot of text. Never in the history of mankind have we produced more text than at this present moment, so being able to read and write is an important way of taking part in our society. We tend to forget that, even in our educated communities, not all people can read or write and there exist several degrees of literateness. People with reduced cognitive capacities and those migrating from cultures with a different language, or even a completely different writing system, are excluded from fully taking part in written online communication: they are e-excluded.
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