Walter Daelemans

Walter Daelemans (born June 3, 1960) is professor in computational linguistics at the University of Antwerp. He is also a research director of the Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics Research Center (CLiPS).[1]

Walter Daelemans
Born(1960-06-03)June 3, 1960
Deurne (Antwerp), Belgium
NationalityBelgian
Alma materKatholieke Universiteit Leuven
Known forMemory-based learning, Stylometry
Scientific career
FieldsComputational Linguistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Antwerp, Tilburg University
ThesisStudies in Language Technology: An Object-Oriented Computer Model of Morpho-phonological Aspects of Dutch (1987)
Doctoral advisorFlip Droste, Gerard Kempen
Websitewww.clips.ua.ac.be/~walter

Daelemans pioneered the use of machine learning techniques, especially memory-based learning, in natural language processing in Europe in the early 1990s. Together with Antal van den Bosch he wrote the book Memory-Based Language Processing [2] and developed the software package TiMBL.[3] This was during his time as a professor at Tilburg University where he founded the research group Induction of Linguistic Knowledge (ILK).

In 2003 he was elected Fellow of ECCAI (the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence), “for pioneering work in the field of Artificial Intelligence and outstanding service for the European Artificial Intelligence Community”.[4] In 2014, he was named a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics.[5]

References
  1. http://www.clips.ua.ac.be
  2. Daelemans, W. & van den Bosch, A. (2005). Memory-Based Language Processing. Cambridge University Press. http://ilk.uvt.nl/mblp/
    Book reviews:
    • Nicolas Stroppa (2006). "Walter Daelemans and Antal van den Bosch, Memory-Based Language Processing". Machine Translation. 20 (2): 143–145. doi:10.1007/s10590-006-9006-6.
    • Sandra Kuebler (2006). "Memory-Based Language Processing Walter Daelemans and Antal van den Bosch (University of Antwerp and Tilburg University), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, vii+189 pp; hardbound, ISBN 0-521-80890-1, $75.00". Computational Linguistics. 32 (4): 559–561. doi:10.1162/coli.2006.32.4.559.
    • Francois Yvon (2005). Traitement Automatique des Langues. 46 (2). Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. Daelemans, W., Zavrel, J., Van der Sloot, K., & Van den Bosch, A. (2010). "TiMBL: Tilburg Memory Based Learner, version 6.3, Reference Guide". ILK Research Group Technical Report Series. 10-01.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. http://www.eccai.org/fellow.php?sort=year
  5. "ACL Fellows". ACL Wiki. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
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