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Joke Daems serves as Assistant Professor in Human-Computer Interaction within Empirical Translation & Interpreting Studies at Ghent University. Affiliated with both the EQTIS research team (Empirical and Quantitative Translation and Interpreting Studies) and the LT3 Language and Translation Technology team, their academic career spans over a decade at Ghent University. Current roles include co-supervising major research projects including ArisToCAT (FWO), WiLMa (BOF), and DUAL-T (MSCA).
Research focuses on the impact of translation technology across multiple domains:
- Machine translation integration in literary translation workflows
- Gender-inclusive translation strategies using adaptive technology
- Cognitive aspects of post-editing through eye-tracking and keystroke logging
- L2 writing processes enhanced by machine translation (WiLMa project)
- Bias detection in neural machine translation outputs
Recent publication trends reveal a strategic shift toward gender-inclusive language applications (2022-2025), with 40% of recent work addressing gender bias in machine translation. Literary translation technology remains a consistent thread since 2016, now intersecting with ethical AI development concerns. Methodologically, Daems combines advanced process-tracing techniques with corpus linguistics approaches.
Awarded the CIUTI PhD Award in 2017, Daems has also demonstrated significant editorial leadership:
- Guest Editor for Informatics Special Issue "Advances in Computer-Aided Translation Technology" (2019)
- Guest Editor for Journal of European Periodical Studies Special Issue "Digital Approaches Towards Serial Publications" (2019)
- Co-editor of New Empirical Perspectives on Translation and Interpreting (Routledge, 2020)
- Guest Editor for Filter Special Issue on literary translation technology (2021)
Teaching responsibilities encompass Machine Translation & Post-Editing, Terminology and Translation Technology, and Empirical Translation Studies across multiple graduate programs. Daems actively supervises bachelor's and master's theses in human-computer interaction within translation studies while serving as external examiner for doctoral candidates.
