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Piek Vossen is a Full Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, specializing in Computational Lexicology and Linguistics. He is the head of the Computational Lexicology & Terminology Lab and a co-founder and co-president of the Global WordNet Association. Vossen earned his PhD (cum laude) in Linguistics and has been involved in multiple national and international projects, including Acquilex, EuroWordNet, and GlobalWordNetGrid. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and served numerous times as a keynote speaker at conferences. His research interests include WordNets, Computational Lexicon, Ontologies, Computational Linguistics, and Language Technology. Vossen is recognized for his substantial contributions to language technology and has been awarded prestigious honors, including the Spinoza Award and recognition by the Dutch Royal House as a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion. He is a member of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen and the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, actively contributing to the field of computational linguistics and understanding natural language processing. Vossen combines linguistics with computer science to enhance understanding of natural language texts through innovative frameworks that utilize lexicons as fundamental resources for computational applications.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam • Amsterdam, Netherlands
Teaching and researching Computational Lexicology and Computational Linguistics.
Administered under the Department of Clinical Psychology for Master's in Clinical and Developmental Psychopathology.