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Lonneke van der Plas is an Associate Professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana, where she leads the Computation, Cognition & Language group at Idiap Research Institute since February 2021. She has held previous academic positions at the University of Malta and the University of Stuttgart, where she was a junior professor focusing on Natural Language Processing (NLP). Her research interests include multilingual natural language processing, distributional semantics, and computational creativity, specifically in the context of medical question answering and semantic role labeling. Lonneke earned her PhD in Humanities Computing from the University of Groningen and has substantial experience in various interdisciplinary projects, such as the NCCR Evolving Language and projects aimed at improving NLP technologies.
Università della Svizzera italiana • Lugano, Switzerland
Leads the Computation, Cognition & Language group.
University of Malta • Malta
University of Stuttgart • Stuttgart, Germany
Led a research group in Natural Language Processing.
University of Geneva • Geneva
Worked in cross-lingual transfer semantic role labeling.
Department of Finance - Master in Finance (MFIN).