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PhD defense by Vincent Van Asch on 30 May 2012

We are proud to announce the public defense of Vincent Van Asch's PhD dissertation 

Domain similarity measures: On the use of distance metrics in natural language processing

Promotor: Prof. dr. Walter Daelemans

 

PhD defense by Mike Kestemont on 23 May 2012

We are proud to announce the public defense of Mike Kestemont's PhD dissertation 

Het gewicht van de auteur: Een onderzoek naar stylometrische auteursherkenning in de Middelnederlandse epiek

Promotors: Prof. dr. Frank Willaert en Prof. dr. Walter Daelemans

 

CLiPS welcomes visiting researcher Jurgita Kapočiūtė-Dzikienė

CLiPS is proud to welcome Dr. Jurgita Kapočiūtė-Dzikienė, who will be at CLiPS for a two-week research visit.

Visitor Sabine Laaha

CLiPS welcomes visiting researcher Sabine Laaha (University of Vienna, http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ling/laaha.html). Sabine is visiting CLiPS in the context of the ESF network NetWordS from March 6 - 16. Later this year she will take up a Marie Curie followship of 15 months at CLiPS. 

 

CLiPS welcomes visiting researcher Caroline Broichhagen

Caroline Broichhagen will be doing a five-month internship at CLiPS in the context of her bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science at Universität Osnabrück.

Pattern 2.3 release

 

Pattern is a fast, robust, general-purpose Python library for web mining, text analysis, classification, and graph visualization.

New in this release are SVM's, a JavaScript API for the HTML5 <canvas> element and a unit test suite.

Extensive documentation can be found here:

http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern

PhD defense by Lieve Van Severen on 7 March 2012

We are proud to announche the public defense of Lieve Van Severen's PhD dissertation 

 

A large-scale longitudinal survey of consonant development in toddler's spontaneous speech

Promotor: Steven Gillis

Special Issue on Modality and Negation of the journal Computational Linguistics

CLiPS co-edits the Special Issue on Modality and Negation of the journal Computational Linguistics. An early access version of the articles can be found at http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/coli/0/ja . The contents can be checked at http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/journal/forthcoming.jsp?journalCode.... The SI will be published as volume 38(2).

*SEM Shared Task on Resolving the Scope and Focus of Negation

CLiPS co-organises the *SEM Shared Task on Resolving the Scope and Focus of Negation. More details can be found at http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/sem2012-st-neg/.

Welcome to Nina Verhaert and Ihor Biloushchenko

CLiPS is proud to welcome two new PhD students: Nina Verhaert and Ihor Biloushchenko.