CLTL Team
Full Professors
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
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
pi ek. vos sen@vu.nl
Assistant Professors
Assistant Professor
Research areas: Formal Syntax and Semantics, Computational Semantics, (Situated & Multimodal) Dialogue, Semantic Parsing, Ethics & NLP
Courses: Natural Language Processing
l. e.don ate lli@vu.nl
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
Assistant Professor
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Text Mining, Hate Speech Detection, Opinion Mining, Authorship Analysis
Courses: Subjectivity Mining, Forensic Linguistics 3: Methods of Authorship Analysis, Text Mining for AI
i .m ar kov@vu.nl
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
l.g. de.passos. mor gado.da.costa@vu.nl
Assistant Professor
Research areas: Distributional Semantics & Distributional Semantic Models, Model Interpretability, Concept Drift
Courses: Python for Text Analysis, Advanced NLP
pi a.s omme rauer@vu.nl
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), Advanced Linguistics (MA)
h.d .vander .vl iet@vu.nl
Postdocs and Associated Researchers
Postdoc, Scientific Programmer
Research areas: Digital Humanities, Machine Translation
s .i. arno ult@vu.nl
Postdoc
Research areas: Communicative Robotics, Affective Computing, AI & Language
tho mas.b ai er@vu.nl
PhDs
Research areas: Conversational AI, Knowledge Representation, Communicative robotics
s.ba ez santam aria@vu.nl
Research areas: Toxic language detection, Text mining, Deep learning, Explainability
b. bar barest ani@vu.nl
Research areas: Steering NLP via Reinforcement Learning, Mechanistic Interpretability of LLMs, Bias and Fairness in NLP, AI Safety
l.e s hui js@vu.nl
Research areas: Interpretability in Natural Language Processing, Robustness Testing and Evaluation, Argument Mining, Legal Argumentation
j.k a mp @vu.nl
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Deep/Machine Learning, Explainable and Generalizable AI, Generative Models, Computer Vision
u .kh ura na@vu.nl
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Generation and Evaluation, Knowledge Representation, Ethics in NLP
l. kr aus e@vu.nl
Research areas: Communicative robotics, affective computing, semantics and pragmatics
j.k ru ij t@vu.nl
Research areas: Dutch Linguistics, Frame Semantics, Historical Linguistics, Computational Semantics and Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax
l.r emij n se@vu.nl
Research areas: (Applied) Natural Language Processing, Language models, NLP in Recommender Systems, Diversity in Recommender Systems, Ethics in NLP
m. re uv er@vu.nl
Research areas: Deep / Machine Learning, Knowledge Extraction, Explainability
s. sch ou ten@vu.nl
Research areas: Digital Humanities, Evaluation Methods, & Open and FAIR Research/Data
e.l.t. sm i th@vu.nl
Research areas: Evaluation of Cross-Lingual and Contextual Language Models, Transfer Learning
w .t u fa@vu.nl
Research areas: Natural Language Processing, Event Extraction and Modelling, Ontology Engineering, Language Models, Domain Adaptation
s.v er ki jk@vu.nl
Previous staff and guests
- Enrica Troiano, Postdoc Researcher (2024)
- Michiel van der Meer, PhD candidate (2024)
- Lisa Beinborn, Assistant Professor (2020-2024)
- Angel Daza Arevalo, Postdoc Researcher (2019–2023)
- Nina Schneidermann, guest PhD candidate (2023)
- Roser Morante Vallejo, Postdoc Researcher (2012–2022)
- Lieke Gelderloos, Lecturer (2021)
- Chantal van Son, PhD candidate (2021)
- Marten Postma, PhD candidate and postdoc researcher (2014–2021)
- Minh Le, PhD candidate (2014–2021)
- Filip Ilievski, PhD candidate (2014–2019)
- Bram Kraaijeveld, Student assistant researcher (2017–2019)
- Suzana Bašić, University Research Fellow (2018–2019)
- Lenka Bajčetić, University Research Fellow (2017–2018) & assistant researcher (2017–2019)
- Johan Rebel, Researcher (2018-2019)
- Roxane Segers, Researcher (2018)
- Emiel van Miltenburg, PhD candidate (2014-2018)
- Selene Kolman, Project Manager (2014-2018)
- Paul Huygen, Scientific Programmer
- Tommaso Caselli, Senior Researcher (2014-2017)
- Marieke van Erp, Postdoc researcher (2013-2017)
- Agata Cybulska, PhD candidate (2009–2016)
- Soufyan Belkaïd, University Research Fellow (2015–2016)
- Rubén Izquierdo Beviá, Postdoc researcher (2011-2016)
- Alessandro Lopopolo, MA, PhD candidate (2014-2016)
- Anneleen Schoen MA, Researcher (2014-2015)
- Attila Görög, Researcher (2009-2013)
- Veronica Benigno, guest PhD candidate (2011)
- Egoitz Laparra, guest PhD candidate (2011)
- Francesco Ronzano, guest PhD candidate (2010)