Summary
Christian Wartena is a Managing Director and professor specializing in natural language processing and text mining, with eight years of formal industry experience and a research career stretching back to machine translation and formal grammars. He focuses on practical methods for keyword extraction, tagging, and helping users navigate large text collections, bridging academic rigor with applied data science at Data|H and Hochschule Hannover. His background includes hands-on MT development, senior research roles, and contributions to language policy through the Dutch Language Union, reflecting a blend of engineering, research, and advisory impact. Based in Hanover, he combines deep linguistic training with computational expertise, often exploring how keywords can reveal meaning rather than merely index documents.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Christelijke Scholengemeenschap Aalten
Doctoraal, Computational Linguistics, Doctoraal, Computational Linguistics at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Dutch, German, English, Latin