Piek Vossen
Executive Board Member at Global WordNet Assocation
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPiek Vossen is an accomplished computational linguist and executive with over 20 years leading research-driven language technology initiatives from academia to industry. As Professor of Computational Lexicology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Executive Board Member at The Hybrid Intelligence Centre, he specializes in wordnets, cross-lingual and conceptual search, ontology and lexicon acquisition, and semantic networks. He founded the Global WordNet Association and has steered numerous high-profile EU and national projects that bridge fundamental research with product development and commercial applications. A Spinoza laureate and member of KNAW, he combines deep scholarly credentials with hands-on innovation as CEO of Vulpes Language Holding and former CTO at Irion Technologies. Less obvious is his sustained role as a convener of international communities—organizing biennial conferences and building shared lexical resources that power cross-language AI. Based in Amsterdam, he excels at translating complex linguistic theory into scalable semantic products and large, interdisciplinary collaborations.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Propedeuse, Propedeuse at University of AmsterdamPhD with honours, PhD with honours at Universiteit van Amsterdam
Chinese, Dutch, English, German, French, chinees
Github Skills (57)
human-language10
mining10
refer10
text-mining10
wordnet9
pepper9
representations9
nlp8
arxiv8
computational-linguistics8
phonetics8
acl8
assign8
triple7
python7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cltl/EventCoreference
Oct 2013 - Aug 2019
Compares descriptions of events within and across documents to decide if they refer to the same events.
Contributions:542 commits, 1 PR, 396 pushes in 5 years 11 months
descriptionseventsrefer
cltl/ma-hlt-labs
Nov 2019 - Oct 2022
Human Language Technology Notebooks for Lab sessions, Master Students
Contributions:182 commits, 231 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
nlppythonmasternotebookslanguage-technology
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