Prof. dr. Antske Fokkens
Full Professor
Email: antske [dot] fokkens [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Stereotyping & Perspectives, Bias & Methodology, Digital Humanities, Grammar Engineering
Courses: Machine Learning for NLP, Text Mining for Digital Humanities and Social Science, NLP Technology
Full Professor
Email: antske [dot] fokkens [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Stereotyping & Perspectives, Bias & Methodology, Digital Humanities, Grammar Engineering
Courses: Machine Learning for NLP, Text Mining for Digital Humanities and Social Science, NLP Technology
Prof. dr. Piek Vossen
Full Professor
Email: piek [dot] vossen [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: AI & Language, Computational Lexicon, Computational Semantics & Pragmatics, Event Extraction and Modelling, Linguistic Long Tail, Reference, Perspectives
Courses: Human Language Technology, (Applied) Text Mining, Communicating Robots, Computational Lexicon
Full Professor
Email: piek [dot] vossen [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: AI & Language, Computational Lexicon, Computational Semantics & Pragmatics, Event Extraction and Modelling, Linguistic Long Tail, Reference, Perspectives
Courses: Human Language Technology, (Applied) Text Mining, Communicating Robots, Computational Lexicon
Dr. Lisa Beinborn
Assistant Professor
Email: l [dot] beinborn [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Cognitively inspired language processing, multilingual models, semantic shift, NLP for educational applications
Courses: Language as Data, Introduction to NLP, Advanced NLP
Assistant Professor
Email: l [dot] beinborn [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Cognitively inspired language processing, multilingual models, semantic shift, NLP for educational applications
Courses: Language as Data, Introduction to NLP, Advanced NLP
Dr. Hennie van der Vliet
Assistant Professor
Email: h [dot] d [dot] vander [dot] vliet [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: (Lexical) Semantics, Lexicology, Terminology, Term Extraction, Corpus Linguistics
Courses: BA: Introduction in Linguistics, Working with Linguistic Data, Syntax, Semantics, Data Journalism
MA: Technical Translation, The Computational Lexicon
Assistant Professor
Email: h [dot] d [dot] vander [dot] vliet [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: (Lexical) Semantics, Lexicology, Terminology, Term Extraction, Corpus Linguistics
Courses: BA: Introduction in Linguistics, Working with Linguistic Data, Syntax, Semantics, Data Journalism
MA: Technical Translation, The Computational Lexicon
Dr. Pia Sommerauer
Assistant Professor
University Research Fellow 2016-2017
Email: pia [dot] sommerauer [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Distributional semantics & distributional semantic models, Model interpretability, Concept drift
Courses: Python for Text Analysis
Assistant Professor
University Research Fellow 2016-2017
Email: pia [dot] sommerauer [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Distributional semantics & distributional semantic models, Model interpretability, Concept drift
Courses: Python for Text Analysis
Dr. Ilia Markov
Assistant Professor
Email: i [dot] markov [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Text Mining, Hate Speech Detection, Opinion Mining, Authorship Analysis
Assistant Professor
Email: i [dot] markov [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Text Mining, Hate Speech Detection, Opinion Mining, Authorship Analysis
Dr. Sophie Arnoult
Scientific Programmer
Email: sophie [dot] arnoult [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Machine Translation
Scientific Programmer
Email: sophie [dot] arnoult [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Machine Translation
Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Lexical Resources
Courses: BA: Text mining for Digital Humanities and Social Science, Data Journalism MA: Subjectivity mining, Digital Humanities
Courses: BA: Text mining for Digital Humanities and Social Science, Data Journalism MA: Subjectivity mining, Digital Humanities
Angel Daza, PhD
Postdoc
Email: j [dot] a [dot] dazaarevalo [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Sentence Semantics, Multilingual Models
Postdoc
Email: j [dot] a [dot] dazaarevalo [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Sentence Semantics, Multilingual Models
Thomas Baier, PhD
Postdoc
Email: t [dot] baier [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Communicative Robotics, Affective Computing, AI & Language
Postdoc
Email: t [dot] baier [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Communicative Robotics, Affective Computing, AI & Language
Levi Remijnse, MSc
PhD Student
Email: l [dot] remijnse [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Dutch FrameNet, Dutch historical syntax
PhD Student
Email: l [dot] remijnse [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Dutch FrameNet, Dutch historical syntax
Chantal van Son, MA
PhD Student
University Research Fellow 2014-2015
Email: c [dot] m [dot] van [dot] son [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Text Mining, Machine Learning, Digital Humanities, Subjectivity Mining, Perspectives, Factuality, Negation, Focus, Information Structure
PhD Student
University Research Fellow 2014-2015
Email: c [dot] m [dot] van [dot] son [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Text Mining, Machine Learning, Digital Humanities, Subjectivity Mining, Perspectives, Factuality, Negation, Focus, Information Structure
Selene Báez Santamaría, MSc
PhD Student
University Research Fellow 2017-2018
Email: s [dot] baezsantamaría [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Communicative Robotics, AI & Language, Knowledge Representation, Perspectives
PhD Student
University Research Fellow 2017-2018
Email: s [dot] baezsantamaría [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Communicative Robotics, AI & Language, Knowledge Representation, Perspectives
Lea Krause, MSc
PhD Student
Email: l [dot] krause [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Generation, Question Answering, Ethics in NLP
PhD Student
Email: l [dot] krause [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Generation, Question Answering, Ethics in NLP
Jaap Kruijt, MSc
PhD Student
Email: j [dot] m [dot] kruijt [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Communicative robotics, affective computing, semantics and pragmatics
PhD Student
Email: j [dot] m [dot] kruijt [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Communicative robotics, affective computing, semantics and pragmatics
Myrthe Reuver, MA MSc
PhD Student
Email: m [dot] e [dot] reuver [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: (Applied) Natural Language Processing, Language models, NLP in Recommender Systems, Diversity in Recommender Systems, Ethics in NLP
PhD Student
Email: m [dot] e [dot] reuver [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: (Applied) Natural Language Processing, Language models, NLP in Recommender Systems, Diversity in Recommender Systems, Ethics in NLP
Baran Barbarestani, MSc
PhD student
Email: b [dot] barbarestani [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Text Mining
PhD student
Email: b [dot] barbarestani [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Text Mining
Urja Khurana, MSc
PhD student
Email: u [dot] khurana [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Deep/Machine Learning, Explainable and Generalizable AI, Generative Models, Computer Vision
PhD student
Email: u [dot] khurana [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Deep/Machine Learning, Explainable and Generalizable AI, Generative Models, Computer Vision
Stefan Schouten, MSc
PhD Student
Email: s [dot] f [dot] schouten [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Deep / Machine Learning, Knowledge Extraction, Explainability
PhD Student
Email: s [dot] f [dot] schouten [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Deep / Machine Learning, Knowledge Extraction, Explainability
Wende Tufa, MSc
PhD student
Email: w [dot] t [dot] tufa [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Evaluation of Cross-Lingual and Contextual Language Models, Transfer Learning
PhD student
Email: w [dot] t [dot] tufa [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Evaluation of Cross-Lingual and Contextual Language Models, Transfer Learning
Jonathan Kamp, MA
PhD student
Email: j [dot] b [dot] kamp [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Interpretability in Natural Language Processing, Deep / Machine Learning, Semantics
PhD student
Email: j [dot] b [dot] kamp [at] vu [dot] nl
Research areas: Interpretability in Natural Language Processing, Deep / Machine Learning, Semantics
Previous staff and guests:
- Dr. Roser Morante Vallejo, Researcher, – May 2022
- Lieke Gelderloos, Lecturer, March 2021 – August 2021
- Marten Postma, PhD student and post-doctoral researcher, January 2014 – May 2021
- Minh Le, PhD student, 2014 – May 2021
- Filip Ilievski, PhD student, September 2014 – October 2019
- Bram Kraaijeveld, Student assistant, September 2017 – November 2019
- Suzana Bašić, University Research Fellow 2018 – 2019
- Lenka Bajčetić, University Research Fellow 2017 – 2018 & Spinoza project, September 2017 – September 2019
- Johan Rebel, Researcher, April 2018 – May 2019
- Roxane Segers, Researcher, – August 2018
- Emiel van Miltenburg, PhD student, September 2014 – July 2018
- Selene Kolman, Project Manager, April 2014 – April 2018
- Paul Huygen, Scientific Programmer
- Pia Sommerauer, University Research Fellow 2016 – 2017
- Tommaso Caselli, Senior Researcher, September 2014 – September 2017
- Marieke van Erp, Researcher, March 2013 – September 2017
- Agata Cybulska, PhD student, 2009 – December 2016
- Soufyan Belkaïd, University Research Fellow 2015 – 2016
- Dr. Rubén Izquierdo Beviá, Senior Researcher, September 2011 – September 2016
- Alessandro Lopopolo, MA, PhD student, September 2014 – February 2016
- Anneleen Schoen MA, Researcher, February 2014 – December 2015
- Attila Görög, Researcher, September 2009 – December 2013
- Veronica Benigno, PhD of the University of Palermo, Sicily, May – November 2011
- Egoitz Laparra, PhD of the Basque University, Spain, April – June 2011
- Francesco Ronzano, PhD of University of Pisa, Italy, May – December 2010