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CLiPS welcomes visiting researcher Tommaso Fornaciari

Submitted by Kim Luyckx on Thu, 03/11/2011 - 14:18

During the entire month of November, Tommaso Fornaciari will be visiting CLiPS. Tommaso is a doctoral candidate at the University of Trento (Italy), under the supervision of Massimo Poesio. His research focuses on the detection of deception in text (a/o court testimonies) and similar forensic applications.

CLiPS-CLIF colloquium with two invited speakers in September 2011

Submitted by Kim Luyckx on Thu, 25/08/2011 - 10:36

On Friday 16 September 2011, we organize a CLiPS-CLIF colloquium with talks by two invited speakers from the Natural Language Engineering Lab of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia:

Course on computational stylometry at SSLST summer school by Walter Daelemans

Submitted by Kim Luyckx on Thu, 25/08/2011 - 10:26
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During the 2011 International Summer School in Language and Speech Technologies (SSLST) in Tarragona, Spain, Walter Daelemans will offer a course in computational stylometry.

CLiPS team participated in competition on emotion detection

Submitted by Kim Luyckx on Thu, 25/08/2011 - 10:21
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During the summer, members of the CLiPS Computational Linguistics group participated in the 2011 Medical NLP Challenge, where we submitted results in (fine-grained) emotion detection from suicide notes.

 

Rankings will be revealed during the workshop in October.

CLiPS team scored second in intrinsic plagiarism detection competition

Submitted by Kim Luyckx on Thu, 25/08/2011 - 10:11
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Members of the CLiPS Computational Linguistics group participated in the 2011 PAN (Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse) competition, more particularly in the intrinsic plagiarism detection and authorship identification tasks.

 

Lien Van Abbenyen granted Ph.D fellowship

Submitted by clips on Wed, 29/06/2011 - 09:15

We are very proud to announce that Lien Van Abbenyen has been granted a Ph.D. fellowship by the FWO (the Flemish fund for scientific research). Lien's Ph.D. will be supervised by Dominiek Sandra.

EACL 2012 organization started

Submitted by clips on Thu, 26/05/2011 - 15:25

CLiPS is involved in the organization of the 13th conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-2012) in Avignon. Check out http://www.eacl2012.org for the first call for papers.

New PhD student Janneke van de Loo

Submitted by Kim Luyckx on Mon, 02/05/2011 - 16:19
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CLiPS welcomes a new PhD student, Janneke van de Loo, who will be working on automated grammar induction in the framework of the ALADIN project (funded by IWT-SBO).

PhD defense Inge Molemans on 2 May 2011

Submitted by Kim Luyckx on Mon, 02/05/2011 - 16:15
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Public defense of Inge Molemans' PhD dissertation 

 

Sounds like Babbling. A longitudinal investigation of aspects of the prelexical speech repertoire in young children acquiring Dutch: normally hearing children and children with a cochlear implant

Promotor: Steven Gillis

Co-promotor: Paul Govaerts

 

Version 1.0 of the Pattern web mining module.

Submitted by Tom De Smedt on Mon, 03/01/2011 - 19:11

Pattern is a fast, robust, general-purpose Python library for web mining, text analysis and (upcoming in 1.1) graph visualization.

Extensive documentation can be found here:
http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern