Piek Vossen

Piek Th.J.M. Vossen (born 1960, Schaesberg, the Netherlands), is professor of computational lexicology at the VU University Amsterdam,[1] head of the Computational Lexicology & Terminology Lab,[2] and founder and president of the Global WordNet Association.[3]

Piek Vossen (2013)

Education

Vossen graduated from the University of Amsterdam in Dutch and general linguistics and obtained a PhD (cum laude) in computational lexicology in 1995 at the same university.[4]

Awards

Vossen is a recipient of the 2013 Spinoza Prize[5] and a winner of the "Enlighten Your Research"-competition 2013 with the project "Can we Handle the News".[6]

Vossen was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.[7][8]

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References
  1. "Prof. Dr. P.T. Vossen - Medewerkers t-z - Faculteit der Letteren, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam". VU University Amsterdam. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
  2. "Computational Lexicology & Terminology Lab".
  3. "The Global WordNet Association". Global WordNet Association. 2013-07-10. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
  4. Weisscher, A. "A short CV". Retrieved 2014-03-11.
  5. "Prof. P.Th.J.M. (Piek) Vossen". Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 2013-06-11. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
  6. "Winnaars Big Data wedstrijd Enlighten Your Research bekend" (in Dutch). Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 2014-02-14. Retrieved 2015-01-02.
  7. "KNAW kiest 26 nieuwe leden" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 10 May 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  8. "Piek Vossen". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 14 May 2017.
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