We had a very nice project meeting of the Dutch FrameNet project.
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Dutch FrameNet project meeting 27-1-2020
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All presentations Meet&Greet 2019 online plus procedure internships
Project meeting Dutch FrameNet at 11-7-2019
On the 11th of July 2019, we held the second meeting of the Open Dutch FrameNet project. In attendance were Piek Vossen, Johan Bos, Antske Fokkens, Filip Ilievski, Tommaso Caselli, Malvina Nissim, and Marten Postma.
The meeting was held at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. The core item of the meeting was the pilot data, which was created before the meeting and processed by both research groups.
Interested? You can read more about the meeting at:
PhD defense Marten Postma
On Monday the 24th of June, 2019, Marten Postma defended his Ph.D. thesis “The Meaning Of Word Sense Disambiguation Research”! He will continue working as a PostDoc at the CLTL-lab on the new NWO-project “Framing Situations in the Dutch Language”
Symposium “NLP for the Vaccination Debate”
On Wednesday 27 June, the CLTL organizes the symposium “NLP for the Vaccination Debate” in collocation with the PhD defense of Isa Maks. We discuss some of the recent developments in Natural Language processing and their application to the online vaccination debate. The invited speakers are Sabine Bergler and Antal van den Bosch.
When: Wednesday 27 June 2018 (13:00 – 15:00)
Where: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, room Agora-2 (main building)
More information: http://www.cltl.nl/event/symposium-nlp-for-the-vaccination-debate
Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/2Y8Ltgz5WZaFKV803
Research Masters meet Language Industry
MEET & GREET Human Language Technology (CLTL) & Language Industry
The Computational Lexicology and Terminology Lab (CLTL) organized a MEET & GREET between companies and master students on Friday December 08, 2017 13:30 – 18:00.
Research Masters Meet Language Industry
In the afternoon of Friday December 8th, 2017m students from the Humanities Research Master meet companies and organizations interested in students in Language Technology and other disciplines for internships and theses. The meeting is organized by the Computational Lexicology and Terminology Lab at the VU, in cooperation with the VU Humanities Graduate School.
CLTL is one of the world’s leading research institutes in Human Language technology. Prof. Dr. Piek Vossen, recipient of the NWO Spinoza Prize, heads the group of international researchers that are working on interdisciplinary projects, including the Spinoza project ‘Understanding Language by Machines’. At CLTL we are training the next generation language technology experts. The two-year Research Master Human Language Technology is a program by CLTL.
The Meet & Greet is an excellent opportunity to introduce your company or organisation to Human Language Technology students, and for master students to present their research topic or area of expertise to you.
Join our afternoon program in the presence of the Reference Machine, LeoLani a Pepper robot!
Location
Lecture hall HG 10A.00 (main building at Floor 10, Wing: A), Main building , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam.
Program
13:30 – 14:00 Walk-In / Doors open / Registration & Coffee
14:00 – 14:05 Introduction: Prof. Dr. Piek Vossen
14:05 – 14:45 Company pitches I
14:45 – 15:15 Student pitches I
15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:15 Company pitches II
16:15 – 16:45 Student pitches II
16:45 – 17:00 Q&A Reference Machine
17:00 – 18:00 Networking drinks
LeoLani, a Reference Machine
9th Global WordNet Conference Jan. 8—12, 2018
GWC 2018
The 9th Global WordNet Conference
8 — 12 January, 2018
Conference venue: Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Registration is now open
Who’s Going? Please also attend the event on Facebook
The ninth Global WordNet Conference (GWC 2018) is an opportunity for researchers and developers to present and discuss their latest results on the development, enrichment and exploitation of wordnets for various languages around the world.
This conference is hosted by the Computational Linguistics Lab at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the Global WordNet Association.
Conference Chairs:
Christiane Fellbaum, fellbaum@princeton.edu
Piek Vossen, piek.Vossen@vu.nl
Local Organizing Chair:
Francis Bond, Luís Morgado da Costa, František Kratochvíl, Takayuki Kuribayashi
Controversy in Web Data — ADS Coffee & Data
ADS Coffee & Data: Controversy in Web Data
by Amsterdam Data Science
Date: Friday 09 June
Time: 0900-1100
Location: VU Amsterdam, HG-16A00 Kerkzaal, 16th floor main building VU
De Boelelaan, Amsterdam, Nederland
Overview: This edition of the ADS meetup will focus on the topic of “How to deal with controversy, bias, quality and opinions on the Web” and will be organised in the context of the COMMIT/ ControCurator project, in which VU and UvA computer scientists and humanities researchers investigate jointly the computational modeling of controversial issues on the Web, and explore its application within real use cases in existing organisational pipelines, e.g. Crowdynews and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
09:00-09:10 Coffee
Introduction & Chair by Lora Aroyo, Full Professor at the Web & Media group, VU Computer Science
09:10-9:20: Kaspar Beelen – Detecting Controversies in Online News Media (UvA, Faculty of Humanities)
09:20-09:30: Benjamin Timmermans – Understanding Controversy Using Collective Intelligence (VU, Computer Science)
09:30-09:45: Gerben van Eerten – Crowdynews deploying ControCurator
09:45-10:00: Davide Ceolin – (VU, Computer Science)
10:00-10:15: Damian Trilling – (UvA, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences)
10:15-10:30: Daan Oodijk (Blendle)
10:30-10:45: Andy Tanenbaum – “Skewing the data”
10:45-11:00: Q&A Coffee
Registration & further information: https://www.meetup.com/Amsterdam-Data-Science/events/239903981/
VU Master’s Day, Mar. 12 2016
Visit our Research Master Linguistic Engineering at VU Master’s Day Saturday 12 March 2016
Flyer Linguistic Engineering, Specialization of the Research Master Linguistics.
Overview Courses Linguistic Engineering.
On 12 March 2016 you will have the opportunity to visit the Master’s Day and obtain detailed information on our Research Master Linguistic Engineering, Specialization of the Research Master Linguistics.
| Date | Saturday, 12 March 2016 |
|---|---|
| Time | 9.30 am – 2.30 pm |
| Target Group | Higher education students and professionals |
| Location | Main Building, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105 (directions) |
| Please note | Preregistration is open until 12.00 pm on Friday 11 March |
CLIN 26 Organised by CLTL
CLIN26, Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands, Amsterdam, December 18 2015
The 26th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN26) was organized by the CLTL group of the VU University of Amsterdam, and took place at the Hotel Casa 400 in Amsterdam on December 18, 2015.
Presentations CLIN26
Pictures of CLIN26 on Facebook CLTLVU
Invited speaker Miriam Butt, Professor for General and Computational Linguistics at the University of Konstanz.
STIL Thesis Prize awarded to Nikos Voskarides
Organising Committee:
Antske Fokkens
Ruben Izquierdo
Roser Morante
Marten Postma
Piek Vossen