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- Visit the CLiPS website for upcoming colloqui organized by CLiPSa.
- From January 2012 on, I work as a project leader in Text Mining for the University Hospital Antwerp (Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen (UZA)), as a member of the biomina research center. I remain connected to CLiPS and the University of Antwerp as an associate researcher.
- December 12, 2011. A review of my PhD dissertation, written by Shlomo Argamon (Illinois Institute of Technology) was published in Literary and Linguistic Computing. You can read it here.
- December 1-2, 2011. I will present recent work at the 15th ATILA Research Meeting, Antwerp, Belgium.
- November 29, 2011. I will attend Taal in Bedrijf in Rotterdam.
- November - December, 2011. I teach the 'Semantics and Discourse' part of a MA/AMA course in Computational Linguistics, both at University of Antwerp (UA) and at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
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- September 19-22, 2011. Participation in CLEF 2011 and in the co-located PAN Lab, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- September 7, 2011. Participant in the Flemish STEVIN roadmap workshop on the future of language and speech technology.
- June-August, 2011. We participated in the 2011 Medical NLP Challenge, where we submitted results in (fine-grained) emotion detection from suicide notes (with Frederik Vaassen, Walter Daelemans and Claudia Peersman).
- July, 2011. Our intrinsic plagiarism detection system scored 2nd in the PAN competition! The authorship identification system scored a 7th position (out of 18 competitors)
- June, 2011. We participated in the PAN competition, for intrinsic plagiarism detection as well as authorship identification.
- May 26-27, 2011. Participation in FLaReNet Forum 2011, Venice, Italy.
- May 20, 2011. Keynote speaker at BeneLearn 2011 (20th Annual Belgian Dutch Conference on Machine Learning), The Hague, The Netherlands.
- March-June, 2011. Participation in competition on Plagiarism Detection and Authorship Identification in the framework of the PAN 2011 Lab (Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse) (with Walter Daelemans and Mike Kestemont).
- March, 2011. Supervision of students' practicum in Digital Humanities course at the University of Antwerp.
- March, 2011. I teach part of the new Digital Humanities course (3rd year BA) at the University of Antwerp.
- March 3, 2011. Participation in VRWI (Flemish Council for Science and Innovation) workshop on Valorisation in Humanities and Social Sciences, Leuven, Belgium.
- February 18, 2011. Participation in Galathea II workshop (supported by CLARIN-Vlaanderen), Antwerp, Belgium.
- February 11, 2011. Presentation at CLIN 21, the annual meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands.
- December 7, 2010. Public defense of my PhD dissertation in Antwerp, Belgium. For more information, see here
- December 6, 2010. Invited talks by Harald Baayen and Efstathios Stamatatos in Antwerp, Belgium.
Past news and events
Conference visits, organization, awards
- December 1, 2010. My PhD dissertation books have arrived! If you want a copy, send me an e-mail
- October 1, 2010. Start of the AMiCA project. I am in charge of coordination
- September 23-24, 2010. Participation in ATILA 2010, Ostend, Belgium. ATILA was fun!
- September, 2010. Finished writing my PhD dissertation
- February-August, 2010. Writing my PhD dissertation
- August 16, 2010. Journal article on The Effect of Author Set Size and Data Size in Authorship Attribution has been published by Literary and Linguistic Computing
- July 28, 2010. CLiPS has a brand new, Drupal-powered website!
- June, 2010. Journal paper accepted for publication! See publications
- May 28, 2010. PhD defense by Lieve Macken Sub-Sentential Alignment of Translational Correspondences, University of Antwerp.
- May 27, 2010. Organisation of and participation in CLiPS-CLIF Colloquium by Pierre Isabelle [more info]
- March 9, 2010. Taal&TechnologieBlog moved from BreinLogs to TechLogs. Update your bookmarks to http://techlogs.scilogs.be/index.php?blogId=1.
- March 4, 2010. Participation in AUHA Research Day.
- February 5, 2010. Participation in the 20th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 20), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- January 25, 2010. Participation in Python Hack Day organized by Thomas Crombez, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
- November, 2009 - January, 2010. Writing a journal paper
- December 10, 2009. Participation in CLIF Workshop, Antwerp, Belgium.
- December 9, 2009. Participation in "Further Reading" Symposium, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands. After this symposium, the PhD defense of Toine Bogers takes place.
- November 9-10, 2009. Participation in ATILA 2009, Corsendonck Priory, Belgium.
- May 13, 2009. Poster presentation at University of Antwerp and Artesis research day, Antwerp, Belgium.
- April 24, 2009. Invited talk at Textkernel on Computational Stylometry: Predicting Author Characteristics from Text, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- April 1, 2009. Presentation during the Graduate Conference in Linguistics about Computational Stylometry: Predicting Author Identity and Personality from Text, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
- January 22, 2009. At the 19th meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN), Groningen, The Netherlands, I presented TACTiCS, a Tool for Analyzing and Categorizing Texts using Characteristics of Style.
- January, 2009. Launch of the online TACTiCS demo
- November 7, 2008. Organization of and poster during CNTS Research Assembly, a poster session on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the CNTS research group
- October, 2008. Launch of the University of Antwerp 'Digital Humanities' website (in Dutch)
- October 30-31, 2008. Presentation at BNAIC 2008, Enschede, The Netherlands
- October 15-16, 2008. Organization of and presentation at ATILA 2008, Antwerp
- September 15-19, 2008. Local organization of ECML-PKDD 2008, Antwerp
- September 19, 2008. Poster at Computer Intelligence and Learning (CIL) PhD student day during ECML-PKDD 2008 in Antwerp
- August 19, 2008. Presentation at COLING 2008 in Manchester, UK
- June 28, 2008. I won the ALLC Young Scholar Award (500 GBP)
- June 26, 2008. Presentation at Digital Humanities 2008 in Oulu, Finland
- June 15, 2008. Personae Corpus download: free use for non-commercial research purposes
- May 28, 2008. Presentation at LREC 2008 in Marrakech, Morocco
- May 22, 2008. Launch of my Taal&TechnologieBlog (scientific blog in Dutch; for Eos, a popularizing scientific magazine on science and technology)
- April-May, 2008. Participation in REG Challenge 2008
- February 7, 2008. Presentation at 3rd Computational Linguistics in Flanders Symposium on Language and Speech Technology in Leuven, Belgium
- December 7, 2007. Presentation at CLIN 2007 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- November 14, 2007. Presentation at ATILA 2007 in Gent, Belgium
