Supervision

Khalil Sima'an: Over the past years I enjoyed supervising excellent Ph.D. and M.Sc. students:

Ph.D. Students

2010-2014		Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger (UvA, NWO EW Open Competitie financed project)
2007-2011		Markos Mylonakis (UvA, NWO EW VIDI financed project)

2005-2009		Reut Tsarfaty (UvA, NWO MOSAIEK project) Defended her Ph.D. thesis at UvA March 2010
2006-2008		Hany Hassan(Dublin City University), PROSPECT project (together with Andy Way) Defended his Ph.D. Thesis at DCU on January 12, 2009!!!

Membership Ph.D Examination Committees

Maxim Khalilov                (TALP, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, July 2009)

Christof Monz        (Univ. of Amsterdam Dec. 2003)

Gabriel Infante-Lopez (Univ. of Amsterdam Jan. 2005)

Yoav Seginer                  (Univ. of Amterdam Oct. 2007)

M.Sc. Students

Name
Where and When
Subject
After graduation went to...

Jakub Zavrel U. Utrecht, 1995/6 Vector-Space Models for Parsing TextKernel (co-founder)

Jorn Veenstra U. Utrecht, 1995/6 - with Joos Kok
Head Correlation Detection for Syntactic Analysis
Consultant

Vera Hollink UvA 2002 - with Henk Zeevat   Anaphora Resolution by Probabilistic Parsers
UvA, Amsterdam (PhD student)

Luciano Buratto UvA 2002    DOP Estimation by Backoff Smoothing    MoL-2002-07 U. of Warwick, UK (PhD student)

Oren Tsur UvA 2003 - with Maarten de Rijke
QA and Learning Bibliography Classifiers MoL-2003-06 Hebrew University, Israel (PhD student)

Andreas Zollmann UvA 2004 - with Detlef Prescher A Consistent and Efficient Estimator for DOP MoL-2004-02 CMU, USA (PhD student)

Roy Bar-Haim
Technion 2004/5 - with Y.Winter+ A. Itai
Probabilistic Methods for Hebrew Morphological Analysis    U. of Bar-Ilan, Israel (PhD student)

Thuy Linh Nguyen UvA 2004 Rank-Consistency and DOP Estimation CMU, USA (PhD student)

Felix Hageloh
UvA 2006
Simulating Collins'97 model using Treebank Transforms and PCFGs
Softwar Engineer

Markos Mylonakis
UvA 2006/7
Bi-directional Noisy-Channel Estimators (Bi-EM)
UvA, ILLC (PhD student)

Barbara Plank
UvA 2007
Parsing with Domain-awareness
Groningen University (Ph.D. Student)
Received IBM Italia Best Thesis Award

Saib Mansour
Technion March 2008
co-supervision with
A. Itai and Yoad Winter
Segmentation and POS tagging for Arabic and Hebrew
(smoothing using character level models)
RWTH Aachen (Ph.D. student)

Name	Where and When	Subject	After graduation went to...
Jakub Zavrel	U. Utrecht, 1995/6	Vector-Space Models for Parsing	TextKernel (co-founder)
Jorn Veenstra	U. Utrecht, 1995/6 - with Joos Kok	Head Correlation Detection for Syntactic Analysis	Consultant
Vera Hollink	UvA 2002 - with Henk Zeevat	Anaphora Resolution by Probabilistic Parsers	UvA, Amsterdam (PhD student)
Luciano Buratto	UvA 2002	DOP Estimation by Backoff Smoothing MoL-2002-07	U. of Warwick, UK (PhD student)
Oren Tsur	UvA 2003 - with Maarten de Rijke	QA and Learning Bibliography Classifiers MoL-2003-06	Hebrew University, Israel (PhD student)
Andreas Zollmann	UvA 2004 - with Detlef Prescher	A Consistent and Efficient Estimator for DOP MoL-2004-02	CMU, USA (PhD student)
Roy Bar-Haim	Technion 2004/5 - with Y.Winter+ A. Itai	Probabilistic Methods for Hebrew Morphological Analysis	U. of Bar-Ilan, Israel (PhD student)
Thuy Linh Nguyen	UvA 2004	Rank-Consistency and DOP Estimation	CMU, USA (PhD student)
Felix Hageloh	UvA 2006	Simulating Collins'97 model using Treebank Transforms and PCFGs	Softwar Engineer
Markos Mylonakis	UvA 2006/7	Bi-directional Noisy-Channel Estimators (Bi-EM)	UvA, ILLC (PhD student)
Barbara Plank	UvA 2007	Parsing with Domain-awareness	Groningen University (Ph.D. Student) Received IBM Italia Best Thesis Award
Saib Mansour	Technion March 2008 co-supervision with A. Itai and Yoad Winter	Segmentation and POS tagging for Arabic and Hebrew (smoothing using character level models)	RWTH Aachen (Ph.D. student)