Every 1 or 2 year in December (2017 and 2019 and 2020) we are organizing a CLTL Meet & Greet where companies and students can exchange ideas and get to know each other.

This is an excellent opportunity to introduce your company or organization to Human Language Technology and Text Mining students, and for master students to present their research topic or area of expertise to you. The one-year Master Text Mining and the two-year Research Master Human Language Technology are programs by CLTL, one of the world’s leading research institutes in Human Language technology.

This year, we are meeting each other in GatherTown, an online, virtual space. The basic idea is: you are an avatar, and walk around in a space. As soon as you get close to someone else, your webcams turns on, allowing for conversation. This allows for very natural feeling social dynamics: you see someone walking past and join them, or “run into them”, or sub-groups form. Sounds (of people speaking, of a tv playing music) get more distant as you “walk away”.

Our GatherTown is a CLTL Poster Space. We have poster boards for 13 companies, and hung their poster there. Each company representative can stand at their poster, and students standing near there will hear the presenter. This allows for students to walk from poster to poster. Near the front of the room is a microphone. When you stand on it, your webcam (and, if you are sharing a screen, your screen) is broadcast to the entire room. This will be the place for room-wide presentations. We also made several tables where students and company representatives can sit and get to know eachother. Only people sitting at the table will hear one-another, a more natural form of a “break-out room”. We also have set up a table with student portfolios, so companies can get to know students as well.

We are excited to meet everybody and see everybody mingle @ the Meet&Greet2020!

• 13.45 – 14.00 walk-in
• 14.00  Welcome by Professor Piek Vossen (head of CLTL)
• 14.10  Internship procedures and details (Hennie van der Vliet)
• 14.15  Short introduction Gather Town (Myrthe Reuvers)
• 14.20  Last year’s experiences (students András Aponyi and Klaudia Bartosiak)
• 14.30  Poster session 1: 
  • MyTomorrows
  • TextMetrics
  • AUMC
  • Amberscript / Fitsurance
  • Bolesian
  • Elsevier
• 15.15  Last year’s experiences (hosting organization: Zoltán Slávik/MyTomorrows)
• Short break & walk around and meet people
• 15.30 Poster session 2:
  • CBS
  • DNB
  • IBM
  • Prolody
  • Reddata
  • Diginova
  • Underlined
• 16.15  walk around, meet people
• 17.00  end of meeting

If you want to take on this challenge and be part of an exciting team working as a PhD on the Theory of Identity, Reference & Perspective (TIRP) on the forefront of communicating machines, please apply at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

ALANI: ALICE MEETS LEOLANI

You will build and investigate computational robot models that dynamically personalise communication to make it more efficient and to improve affective bonding of people with robots.

PHD POSITION Subproject-2:  Robot Communication evoking Affective Bonding: PhD2 investigates through quantitative tests and refining the Theory of Identity, Reference and Perspective (TIRP) with robots across various scenarios, combining Big Data models with optimization of personalized data obtained through relation-based language models.

YOUR DUTIES

• create and test adaptive communication models for robots within social contexts
• carry out your research according to international standards resulting in a PhD dissertation 
• at least one publication per year in an A or B ranked journal or conference proceedings
• make your research and experiments publicly available and reproducible.

REQUIREMENTS

• master degree in (Computational) Linguistics, Computer Science or Artificial Intelligence
• knowledge of and experience with programming in Python
• knowledge of and experience with Natural Language Processing

The research is embedded in the Computational Lexicology and Terminology Lab (http://cltl.nl), which is one of the world’s leading research groups in Human Language technology. Prof. dr. Piek Vossen, recipient of the NWO Spinoza Prize, heads the group of international researchers that are working on ground-breaking projects, among which the Spinoza project ‘Understanding Language by Machines: http://www.understandinglanguagebymachines.org. Within that framework several PhDs are working on the Leolani project, with which the PhD will also collaborate: http://makerobotstalk.nl.

Finally, CLTL and the research you are involved in is also embedded in the VU-gravity project on Hybrid Intelligence: https://www.hybrid-intelligence-centre.nl. You will collaborate with many researchers on key notions such as collaborative, explainable, adaptable and responsible AI. 

APPLICATION: 

Are you interested in this position? Please apply via the application button at the VU-site and upload your curriculum vitae and cover letter until 1 May 2020.

Location: AMSTERDAM
FTE: 0.8 – 1
JOB DESCRIPTION

MEET & GREET Human Language Technology / Text Mining / CLTL / December 13, 2019

The Computational Lexicology and Terminology Lab (CLTL) of Piek Vossen of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is organising a Meet & Greet where companies and students of our Language Technology Research Master and our Text Mining Master can exchange ideas and get to know each other.

An excellent opportunity to introduce the company or organisation to our students, and for master students to present their research topic or area of expertise to the companies.

PROGRAM

12:30 – 13:00 Walk-In / Doors open / Registration & Coffee
13:00 – 13:05 Introduction: Prof. Dr. Piek Vossen – Head CLTL
13:05 – 13:45 Company pitches I
13:45 – 14:15 Student pitches I
14:15 – 14:30 Coffee Break
14:30 – 15:15 Company pitches II
15:15 – 15:45 Student pitches II
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:45 Company pitches III
16:45 – 18:00 Networking drinks

The one-year Master Text Mining and the two-year Research Master Human Language Technology are programs by CLTL, one of the world’s leading research institutes in Human Language technology.

PROGRAM PITCHES

13:05 – 13:45 Company pitches I:

• ABN AMRO, Jeroen Das: Product Owner
• CLOUDFLIGHT (vh Catalysts), Clemens Rath: Location Manager Amsterdam
• BUNQ BANK, Art Koci: Data Scientist
• NETHERLANDS ESCIENCE CENTER, Dafne van Kuppevelt: eScience Research Engineer
• STATISTICS NETHERLANDS (CBS), Arnout van Delden: Programmacoördinator Data Science
• DELOITTE NEDERLAND, Evert Haasdijk: Senior Manager and AI Expert
• AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERS (AUMC), location VUmc, Edwin Geleijn: Health Care Innovator

13:45 – 14:15 Student pitches I:

14:30 – 16:15 Company pitches II:

• DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK (DNB): Shirley Pfeiffer: Project Coordinator AI
• PATYNA: Reinier Hakvoort: Adviseur HT / Informatiemanager
• ING GROEP NV: Flavia Barsotti: Collaboration with Academia / Model Risk Oversight
• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE NETHERLANDS(Koninklijke Bibliotheek), Martijn Kleppe: Advisor Digital Scholarship and InternationalRelations
• MEDIQUEST / TIMEFF, Daniel Kapitan: Chief Data Scientist
• MYTOMORROWS, Zoltán Szlávik: AI Research Director
• SPEAKSEE, Jari Hazelebach: CEO & Co-Founder

15:15 – 15:45 Student pitchesII:

16:00– 16.45 Company pitches III:

• UNDERLINED, Max Werkhoven: Customer Journey Analytics Consultant
• TEXTGAIN, Gijs van Beek: Societal & Business Innovator
• IBM, Benjamin Timmermans: Lead IBM Center for Advanced Studies Benelux
• TAUS, Amir Kamran: Senior Data Engineer
• ORACLE, Fabrice Nauze: Senior Manager
• REDDATA, Marcel Henriquez (Managing Director)

ALSO PRESENT

• CLTL: all staff members
• ABN AMRO: Karan Chhabra (Technical Lead) + Yassine Karimi (Data Scientist) + Loes Horselenberg (UX Designer) + Willem Don (Copywriter)
• CLOUDFLIGHT: Milly Muschitiello (Talent Manager and HR operations) + Manuel Knott (Data Science Engineer)
• BUNQ BANK: Daniela Zamora Uribe (Data Scientist) +Evgeny Mironov (Team Lead)
• NETHERLANDS ESCIENCE CENTER: Willem van Hage (Technical Lead) + Meiert Grootes (eScience Research Engineer)
• STATISTICS NETHERLANDS (CBS): Bart Bakker (Programme manager CBS Academy)
• DELOITTE NEDERLAND B.V: Wesley van Saane (Manager, Deloitte Forensic & Financial Crime)
• DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK (DNB): Wessel Reijngoud (Innovation Lab Intern)
• PATYNA: Femke de Jong (Global Head Wholesale Banking Lending & PCM)
• ING GROEP NV: Marcel van der Kuil (Collaboration with Academia / Model Risk Oversight)  + Marzieh Bakhshandeh
• MYTOMORROWS: Robert-Jan Sips (CTO) + Selene Baez Santamaria (Data Scientist/Developer)
• UNDERLINED: Theo van der Steen (Partner & Data Driven CX Expert)
• TAUS: Jaap van der Meer (Director) + Dace Dzeguze (Program Manager)
• ORACLE: Agata Cybulska (Senior Applications Engineer)
• TOTTA RESEARCH: Erick Wilts (Data Scientist)
• Tim Barenbrug (Consultant NLP)

LOCATION

Friday December 13, 2019
Main Building: conference room: HG-12A00
Vrije Universiteit
De Boelelaan 1105 
1081 HV Amsterdam 

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