CLiPS team at COLING2022 in South Korea
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CLiPS representatives at COLING2022 -
Jens Lemmens and Jens Van Nooten present CoNTACT, a Dutch Covid-tweet domain-adapted language model. -
Jeska Buhmann presents the Dutch VaccinChat corpus and applied task- and domain adaptation approach -
Maxime De Bruyn presents a new evaluation approach for dialogues -
CLiPS in Seoul -
Conversational Agents team in Seoul
Open academic staff position in the field of Natural Language Processing.
26.01.23 | UAntwerpen vacancies
Dubbellezing over opinies en communicatie rond covid-vaccinatie door Walter Daelemans en Karolien Poels
05.12.22 | Studium Generale - Universiteit Antwerpen
Hanne Surkyn on accomodation in young people's social media language
18.10.22 | VRT
Maxime De Bruyn at 16th Belgium NLP Meetup on 17/11/2022: What do language models know and not know?
07.10.22 | Belgium NLP Meetup
Walter Daelemans over chatbots en bewustzijn
16.06.22 | Radio 1
VAIA course on methods in language and speech technology
11.05.2022 | VAIA
TEXTUA: a new core facility for text mining
16.03.22 | UAntwerpen blog
How much medieval literature did we lose? Interdisciplinary Science publication by Mike Kestemont and colleagues
17.02.22 | VRT
Walter Daelemans at AI Inspiration Session on February 25th: Chatbot challenges
01.02.22 | Agoria
Reinhild Vandekerckhove on teenage language - "Bestie" teenage word of the year.
14.12.21 | DeMorgen
Walter Daelemans on Natural Language Processing at TEDx Antwerp 2021
27.11.21
Ehsan Lotfi wins best paper award at EMNLP's 3rd workshop on NLP for ConvAI
10.11.21
Maxime De Bruyn wins best paper award at EMNLP's 3rd MRQA workshop
08.11.21
Hoe schrijven mensen op sociale media over vaccins?
14.10.21 | UAntwerpen blog
VaccinChat beantwoordt al je vaccinatievragen
07.06.21 | UAntwerpen blog
Moeten de dt-regels op de schop?
21.04.21 | VRT
Reinhild Vandekerckhove legt uit: Schrijven Vlaamse jongeren ‘coolkast’ of ‘koelkast’?
09.04.21 | Radio 1
Mike Kestemont over wat Reynaert de Vos ons over mensen wil vertellen
25.03.21 | Radio 1
Dominiek Sandra over kinderen die tekenfilmtaal imiteren
19.03.21 | Radio Nostalgie
GPT-3, of de sterkte en zwakte van brute kracht in een taalmodel
15.03.21 | De Standaard
19.10.22 | Congratulations to our newest doctor Tim Kreutz
Our colleague Tim Kreutz successfully defended his PhD thesis Tapping the Social Stream: inducing language resources for computational social science. Congratulations dr. Kreutz!
Maxime De Bruyn received the Best Paper Award at MRQA 2021
At this year’s EMNLP, the 3rd Workshop on Machine Reading for Question Answering will be held. Maxime De Bruyn won the Best Paper Award with his paper on MFAQ, a multilingual FAQ dataset.
27.09.21 | Congratulations to our newest doctor Pieter Fivez
“More Meaning than Meets the Eye: robust and scalable applications of pre-trained representations for biomedical NLP.” This is the title of Pieter Fivez' thesis on information extraction from clinical documents, which he successfully defended. Congratulations dr. Fivez!
Baekeland mandate for Andriy Kosar
Andriy Kosar became a VLAIO Baekeland mandate holder to conduct industrial doctoral research in the field of NLP. The project aims to develop novel techniques for automatic topic detection that overcome the current limitations of traditional topic modeling and keyword extraction methods. The research will be conducted in cooperation with CLiPS (University of Antwerp) and language technology company Textgain under the supervision of Prof. Walter Daelemans and Guy De Pauw. The mandate is sponsored by Flemish Agentschap Innoveren & Ondernemen.
06.07.21 | Congratulations to our newest doctor Enrique Manjavacas Arévalo
Our colleague Enrique Manjavacas Arévalo successfully defended his PhD thesis on a stunning mix of modern computational approaches applied on the literary "intertextuality" of Medieval religious (Latin) writings. Congratulations dr. Manjavacas!
VaccinChat: a Dutch chatbot on Covid-19 vaccination
CLiPS launches VaccinChat, a Dutch chatbot that answers your questions related to Covid-19 vaccines and the Flemish vaccination campaign. Go and try it out at vaccinchat.be.
Welcome to Jens Van Nooten, our new doctoral student at CLiPS
Before joining the CLiPS research team, Jens obtained a master’s degree in computational psycholinguistics and a bachelor’s degree in linguistics & literature (German-English) at the University of Antwerp. At CLiPS, he will be investigating the application of state of the art NLP methods in the context of e-tendering and monitoring of vaccine-related messages on social media.
12.03.21 | Congratulations to our newest doctor Madhumita Sushil
Our member Madhumita Sushil successfully defended her PhD on ‘Exploring and Understanding Neural Models for Clinical Tasks’.
Welcome to Andriy Kosar, our new doctoral student at CLiPS
His research focuses on possible improvements of topic modeling with neural embeddings.
Before joining us, Andriy received a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from KU Leuven with a specialty in Speech and Language Technologies. He has over ten years of experience in commercial software development, mainly helping businesses designing software solutions. During his IT career, he also obtained an MBA.