Piek Vossen
Executive Board Member at The Network Institute
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.
13 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 (38)
human-language10
refer10
wordnet10
text-mining10
pepper10
python9
natural-language-processing9
robot9
representations9
nlp9
python-modules9
rdf8
classifier8
robotics7
phonetics7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
leolani/cltl-emotionrecognition
Jul 2022 - Oct 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes, 1 issue in 3 years 4 months
cltl/aproof-icf-classifier
Jul 2021 - Mar 2026
Classifier that can read medical reports and assign a functional level classification following the WHO ICF classification scheme.
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 4 years 8 months
classificationclassifier
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