Language
data without trees is as arid
as a desert. Linguistic grammars
without data are decorative plants.
Data is the soil on which we should
grow our trees. But if we can't see
the wood for the trees, might it not
be better to stay in the desert?
Postal
address
P.O. Box 94242
1090 GE
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Visiting address
Room F2.06
Science Park 107
Building F
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Email 
Tel
+31 20 525 6573
Fax
+31 20 525 5206 |
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I
am a Computational
Linguist. My work so far has
been on statistical learning
for natural language
processing including Machine
Translation, Syntactic Parsing,
Morphology and Semantics.
Current affiliation
I am associate professor at the Institute
for Logic, Language and
Computation
Faculty of
Science, University of Amsterdam
Recent highlights
- New
projects
- I am Programme Committee
Chair for
- MT
Summit XIV (2013)
research track together with Mikel
Forcada (Co-Chair)
- International Conference
on Parsing Technologies (2013)
together with Liang Huang
(Co-chair)
- 2012: I am co-opted member of
the EAMT
Executive Committee.
- Since 2011 I am member of the
Editorial Boards of both
Former PhD
students
Research Topics
- Statistical Machine
Translation
- Statistical Parsing and
Probabilistic Grammars
- Statistical Learning for
structured models
- Computational and Cognitive
Models of Language Processing
- Natural Language Engineering
and Technology
More than
formal linguistics and logic: The
case for Prediction and Learning
Software and Data Packages
I contributed to
creating
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