Curriculum Vitae
Frieda Steurs
Short overview of my career:
Current Functions:
- Since 2015: Academic coordinator of international relations of the
KULeuven@Antwerpen
- Since 2015: Member of the Faculty Council of International Affairs, KU Leuven
- Since 2013: Research Fellow at University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, SA
- Since 2008: President of TermNet international, the mondial network for
terminology
- Since 2000: Guest professor, Universite Catholique de l’Ouest (UCO), Angers,
France
- Since 2000: President of the TC/37 Standardisation committee NEN, Delft, The
Netherlands in conjunction with NBN, Brussels, Belgium.
- Since 1991: Professor at the Department of Applied Language Studies (first
under the name Katholieke Vlaamse Hogeschool, then Lessius Hogeschool, now
KU Leuven)
Other functions held previously:
- 2011-2015: Dean of the faculty of language and communication, KU
Leuven@Antwerpen (part of the faculty of Arts at KU Leuven)
- From 2003-2011: Head of the Department of Applied Language Studies of
Lessius Hogeschool (associated with KU Leuven)
- 2000-2012: Member of the research council of the Associatie KU Leuven (ARO)
- 2002-2007: Chair of CoTerm, the official government commission of terminology
of the Dutch language (Nederlandse Taalunie).
- 2003-2007: Chair of the council on e-learning of the Associatie KU Leuven
- 2000-2002: President of NL-TERM, association of Dutch terminology for Flanders
and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Taalunie)
- 1997-2000: Board member of EAFT (European association for terminology)
- 1998-2003: President of the research group ‘Language and Computing’ (Lessius
Hogeschool)
- 1981-1986: Research assistant (Facultyof Arts, General Linguistics) KU Leuven
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1980-1981: Research assistant at Colruyt Engineering (company specialised in
Information Technology)
Scientific networks and responsabilities:
Current activities:
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Since 2015: Member of the Advisory Board of the SYNTHESIS project at DCU,
Dublin City University
Since 2015: Member of the editorial board of the Journal of English Linguistics
and Literature. Open Access Journal. ESCI Journals Publishing
Since 2013: Research Fellow at University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, SA
Since 2013: Member of the editorial board of Turjuman. Journal of Translation
Studies (Univ. Abdelmalek Essaadi)
2013: Co-founder of Tekom Belgium (Association for Technical Communication)
Since 2012: Delegate for TermNet in CIPL, the International Committee of
Linguists
Since 2011: member of the editorial board of JIAL, the Journal of
Internationalization and Localization (J Benjamins)
Since 2010: member of the scientific committee of TKE (Terminology and
Knowledge Engineering) (bi-annual conference organized by ISO and IITF)
Since 2008: President de TermNet International (global network founded by
UNESCO) (Vienna)
2007: Founder of UNITI, University Network of Interpreter Training Institutes: KU
Leuven/ISIT, Paris/Herriot Watt, Edinburgh/TH, Cologne
Since 2007: Member of the scientific committee of ToTh (Terminologies et
Ontologies: Théories et Applications). Société française de terminologie
Since 2003: Member of the steering committee of CETRA, the Center of
Translation Studies (KU Leuven)
Since 2000: Chair of the TC/37 Standardization committee NEN, Delft, The
Netherlands in cooperation with NBN, Belgium.
Former activities:
- 2002-2007: Chair of CoTerm, the official government commission of terminology
of the Dutch language (Nederlandse Taalunie).
- 2000-2002: President of NL-TERM, Association of Dutch terminology for Flanders
and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Taalunie)
- 2002-2007: President of the e-learning council (Associatie KU Leuven)
- 1997-2000: Board member of EAFT (European association for terminology)
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Most important research projects:
Under preparation:
Horizon2020 ETN TermNexT. Terminology: Enabling Knowledge Exchange
and Transfer
Proposal for a European Training Network in the Horizon2020 Marie SkłodowskaCurie Action Type of action: MSCA-ITN-ETN – Call ID: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017.
(promotor)
Submitted:
2016: Health care without communication? The language gap.
An interdisciplinary approach to reducing communication barriers in HIV, tuberculosis
and diabetes treatment in South Africa. VLIR-UOS Flanders (co-promotor)
Ongoing:
2013-2017: SCATE: Smart Computer Aided Translation Environment (grant provided
by IWT, the Science Foundation, Flanders)(co-promotor)
2013-2017: European Network of e-Lexicography (ENeL). ISCH COST Action IS1305.
(Member of the Management Committee)
2016: IOF-mandate in cooperation with the Center for Computational Linguistics
(CCL). KU Leuven internal funding (co-promotor)
Finalised projects:
2012-2014: Qualetra : Quality in Legal translation
JUST/2011/JPEN/AG/2975 [email protected]. (co-promotor)
2012-2014: Transcert : Trans-European Voluntary Certification for Translators (LLP
project EU)(partner)
2013-2015: Qualitas : Ensuring LIT quality through testing and qualification. Project
granted by DG Justice (partner)
2009-2013: TermWise (IOF funded project) on terminology extraction tools for the
legal subdomain. (KU Leuven IOF funding) (co-promotor)
Since 2003: Coordinator of the ‘Translation Studies Bibliography’ John Benjamins
(www.benjamins.com/online)
2010: Pimlico: Good Practices concerning language strategies among small and
medium-sized companies. Semantica ltd.(promotor)
2010-2012: Lobke: localization project Flanders/The Netherlands Leuven Research
and Development / Keesing nv. (co-promotor)
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2008-2011: Building Mutual Trust : A framework Project for Implementing EU
common standards in Legal Interpreting and Translation. DG Justice. (partner)
2008-2009: Signall III (Life Long Learning programme EU) (co-promotor)
2007-2010: Eulita. European translation and interpreter association. DG Justice
(www.eulita.org)(co-promotor)
2007-2011: Termextractor : Termtreffer. (Nederlandse Taalunie) Member of the
preparatory team.
2007-2009: Project “Persoonlijk Informatiebeheer” (management of information
strategies by computer) (funded by OOF KU Leuven). (Co-promotor)
2006-2009: Dutch Parallel Corpus funded by the Nederlandse Taalunie/Stevin)
(member of the users group)
2006-2008: Lingua projet “The Language Café” (Lingua EU Socrates) (co-promotor)
2002-2004: Researchproject on the infrastructure of information for terminology in
the Netherlands and Flanders: VIPTerm, an information point for terminology
(www.nedterm.org) (promotor) (Nederlandse Taalunie)
2005-2010: Nedterm : ‘the virtual terminology information point’ . Project funded by
Nederlandse Taalunie (promotor)
2005: Research project ‘TermTrain’, funded by UNESCO, to facilitate terminology
training in South-Africa (member of the team)
2006-2008: ‘The language café ‘(European Funding : Life Long Learning)
(coordinator)
2004-2006: Taste the language’ (European Funding: Life Long Learning)
(coordinator)
2002-2004: ‘Open the door to language learning’ (European funding ; Life Long
Learning) (partner)
2001-2003: Member of the editorial committee for a new dictionary project : “neoclassical elements” (INL, Leiden, The Netherlands)
1999-2004: NL-Translex. Machine Translation for Dutch. MLIS-project funded jointly
by the European Commission, Nederlandse Taalunie, the Dutch Ministry
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of Education, Culture and Science, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and the
Flemish Institute for the Promotion of Scientific and Technological Research in
Industry (member of the evaluation committee).
1999: Microsoft Award
The award was granted for the project SCAPE: ‘student – centered approach on
education’ (projectleader)
1997-1999: Project ‘Machine-Aided Termbank construction’ funded by IWT, the
Flemish science organisation (promotor)
1997-1999: ILC (Integrated Language Courses) (Socrates project for terminology
building in the domain of speech therapy) (promotor)
1992-1994: 2nd research project with IBM (ACIS) on the use of multimedia in higher
education (promotor)
1990-1993: Chief-editor of a new digital version of the “dictionary on business
communication” (Servotte) Dutch/French/English/German
1988-1990: 1st research project with IBM (ACIS) terminology databases and the
creation of multi-media databases (promotor)
1986-1996 : member of the board of SaNT (Samenwerkingsverband
Nederlandstalige Terminologie) (network for Dutch terminology) Nederlandse
Taalunie.
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Major accomplishments:
1990-2000:
Founding member of several networks for applied linguistic research with a focus on
translation and interpreting and terminology research: The European Association for
Terminology (EAFT), NL-TERM, the Dutch-Flemish terminology association, and
UNITI, university network for interpreting and translation institutes.
Since1990:
Active member of the TC/37 Terminology committee for the Netherlands and
Flanders,
Active member of the committee of ISO TC/37 on terminology and other resources.
Under my responsability, our department got international recognition through the
CIUTI-label (conférence internationale de traducteurs et interprètes) (www.ciuti.org)
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Microsoftaward (1999) for the project SCAPE: student – centered approach on
education
2000- 2013:
Reorganising our department of applied language studies to become an integral part
of the faculty of Arts of KU Leuven. This reorganization included major cuts in the
budget; The reorganization was finalized in a successful way.
Introduction of 2 new language sections in the department : Arabic language and
Sign Language (both of them are unique in Flanders).
Reorganisation of the curriculum in to a bachelor of applied language studies and 4
masters : translation, interpreting, multilingual communication and journalism.
These 5 curricula were fully accredited by the national authorities (NVAO).
Creation of a Postgraduate Programme on Specialised Translation with a focus on
translation technology and localisation.
Creation of a Postgraduate Programme on Literary Translation in cooperation with
University of Utrecht and the Nederlandse Taalunie.
Receiving the international quality label “European Master In Translation” (EMT) for
the master in translation.
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International network:
invited professor at:
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Institut Libre Marie Haps (now UCL) : lecturing at the postgraduate course on
terminology management
2010: DG TermCoordination Unit (Luxemburg) ‘Terminology in the Changing
World of Translation’
http://termcoord.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/termcoord_annual_report_2010.p
df
Since 2002: invited professor at the ‘Terminology Summer Academy’, Vienna and
Cologne
Specialised Postgraduate Programme in Translation Studies (Inter-University
degree in Flanders) (1996-2000): classes on electronic datamanagement for
translators
Since 2002: professeur associé à l’UCO, Angers : ‘graduate classes on
terminology and computer assisted translation and terminology management’
2003: Johannesburg (SA): intensive training week in terminology management
for PANSALB, the government agency on South African languages.
2003: Université de Brest : training in a new master: ‘Rédacteur- Traducteur’
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2003-2005: Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, scientific and technical translation
and language technology
Budapest Technical University: terminology management
Svent Istvan University, Budapest: terminology management
Swansea University, Swansea, UK: terminology management, legal translation,
terminology and specialized translation
Since 2013: Research fellow at University of the Freestate, Bloemfontein , SA
2013: Organiser of a special workshop ‘Terminology, Endangered languages &
Language Policy’. Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, SA (TermNet in
cooperation with CIPL)
2015: University of Belgrado. Seminar on legal translation. Train the trainer.
Funded by the Nederlandse Taalunie
2016: University of Zagreb. Seminar on terminology and specialized translation.
Train the trainer. Funded by the Nederlandse Taalunie
PdD’s: member of the jury and/or copromotor:
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Co-promotor PhD Cornelia Wermuth (2005) A Frame-based Approach to
Classification Rubrics: Cardiovascular Rubrics as a Case Study (Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam)
Member of the Jury PhD Paul Sambre (2005) Emergence et conceptualization de
la definition en langue naturelle. (KU Leuven)
Member of the Jury PhD Marcel Thelen (2011) The Structure of the lexicon. (VU
Amsterdam)
Copromotor PhD Lahoussine Id-Youss (2016) : Legal translation and
terminology. The case of Moroccan and Belgian Law. (KU Leuven)
Co-promotor Alayyaf, Saleh PhD (2016) A corpus- based study of diplomatic
terms in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: criteria and reality (KU Leuven)
Studies:
Secondary school : Latin-Mathematics. Lyceum H. Familie, Mechelen
Bachelor and master : Linguistics and Literature (Dutch-English), KU Leuven
(1980) summa cum laude
Major topics : English, general linguistics, syntax and semantics, computational
linguistics
Teacher Training (1980) KU Leuven
Additional courses:
Computational linguistics and programming languages KU Leuven (1980)
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Neurolinguistics (Vrije Universiteit Brussel/VUB) (1980)
PhD in General Linguistics, University of Leuven (KU Leuven) 1990:
“En….? Een pragmatisch onderzoek naar coördinatie en connectoren”
Supervisor : Prof dr F.G Droste
Cum Laude
Languages :
Dutch (mother tongue)
English (excellent)
French (excellent)
German (good)
Afrikaans (passive knowledge, good understanding)
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