CLTL

CLTL Team


Full Professors


Antske Fokkens
Antske Fokkens
Full Professor
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
ant ske. f okkens@vu.nl


Piek Vossen
Piek Vossen
Full Professor
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, Communicative Robots, Computational Lexicon
homepage pi ek. vos sen@vu.nl


Assistant Professors


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Lucia Donatelli
Assistant Professor
Research areas: Formal Syntax and Semantics, Computational Semantics, (Situated & Multimodal) Dialogue, Semantic Parsing, Ethics & NLP
Courses: Natural Language Processing
homepage l. e.don ate lli@vu.nl


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Isa Maks
Assistant Professor
Research areas: Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Lexical Resources
Courses: Text mining for Digital Humanities and Social Science (BA), Data Journalism (BA), Subjectivity mining (MA), Digital Humanities (MA)
is a. m aks@vu.nl


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Ilia Markov
Assistant Professor
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Text Mining, Hate Speech Detection, Opinion Mining, Authorship Analysis
Courses:
homepage i .m ar kov@vu.nl


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Luís Morgado da Costa
Assistant Professor
Research areas: Natural Language Processing and AI; Educational Technology; Grammatical Error Detection; Computational Lexical Semantics; Syntactic and Semantic Parsing; Digital Humanities; Chinese NLP
Courses: Advanced NLP, Experiments in NLP, Python for Text Analysis, Applied Text Mining Methods
homepage l.g. de.passos. mor gado.da.costa@vu.nl


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Pia Sommerauer
Assistant Professor
Research areas: Distributional Semantics & Distributional Semantic Models, Model Interpretability, Concept Drift
Courses: Python for Text Analysis, Advanced NLP
homepage pi a.s omme rauer@vu.nl


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Hennie van der Vliet
Assistant Professor
Research areas: (Lexical) Semantics, Lexicology, Terminology, Term Extraction, Corpus Linguistics
Courses: Introduction in Linguistics (BA), Morphology (BA), Semantics (BA), Data Journalism (BA), Linguistic Research (MA), Technical Translation (MA), Advanced Linguistics (MA)
h.d .vander .vl iet@vu.nl


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Postdocs and Associated Researchers


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Sophie Arnoult
Postdoc, Scientific Programmer
Research areas: Digital Humanities, Machine Translation
s .i. arno ult@vu.nl




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Thomas Baier
Postdoc
Research areas: Communicative Robotics, Affective Computing, AI & Language
homepage tho mas.b ai er@vu.nl




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Ellie Smith
Associate Researcher
Research areas: Digital Humanities, Evaluation Methods, & Open and FAIR Research/Data
e. sm i th@vu.nl




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PhDs


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Selene Báez Santamaría
Thesis working title:
Research areas: Conversational AI, Knowledge Representation, Communicative robotics
homepage s.ba ez santam aria@vu.nl




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Baran Barbarestani
Thesis working title:
Research areas: Toxic language detection, Text mining, Deep learning, Explainability
homepage b. bar barest ani@vu.nl




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Leon Eshuijs
Thesis working title:
Research areas: Steering NLP via Reinforcement Learning, Mechanistic Interpretability of LLMs, Bias and Fairness in NLP, AI Safety
https://watermeleon.github.io l.e s hui js@vu.nl




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Jonathan Kamp
Thesis working title:
Research areas: Interpretability in Natural Language Processing, Robustness Testing and Evaluation, Argument Mining, Legal Argumentation
homepage j.k a mp @vu.nl




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Urja Khurana
Thesis working title:
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Deep/Machine Learning, Explainable and Generalizable AI, Generative Models, Computer Vision
homepage u .kh ura na@vu.nl




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Lea Krause
Thesis working title:
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Generation and Evaluation, Knowledge Representation, Ethics in NLP
homepage l. kr aus e@vu.nl




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Jaap Kruijt
Thesis working title:
Research areas: Communicative robotics, affective computing, semantics and pragmatics
homepage j.k ru ij t@vu.nl




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Levi Remijnse
Thesis working title:
Research areas: Dutch Linguistics, Frame Semantics, Historical Linguistics, Computational Semantics and Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax
homepage l.r emij n se@vu.nl




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Myrthe Reuver
Thesis working title:
Research areas: (Applied) Natural Language Processing, Language models, NLP in Recommender Systems, Diversity in Recommender Systems, Ethics in NLP
homepage m. re uv er@vu.nl




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Stefan Schouten
Thesis working title:
Research areas: Deep / Machine Learning, Knowledge Extraction, Explainability
homepage s. sch ou ten@vu.nl




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Wende Tufa
Thesis working title:
Research areas: Evaluation of Cross-Lingual and Contextual Language Models, Transfer Learning
w .t u fa@vu.nl





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Stella Verkijk
Thesis working title:
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Event Extraction and Modelling, Ontology Engineering, Language Models, Domain Adaptation
homepage s.v er ki jk@vu.nl


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