Education

2015-2019 PhD, University of Groningen. Supervised by Gertjan van Noord and Malvina Nissim:
Normalization and Parsing Algorithms for Uncertain Input

2014-2015 Information Science Master, University of Groningen. Supervised by Johan Bos and Gosse Bouma:
Automatic estimation of semantic relatedness for sentences using machine learning.

2010-2014 Information Science Bachelor, University of Groningen. Supervised by Johan Bos:
Een automatisch recommender system voor Nederlandstalig nieuws op basis van Twitter.

Other academic jobs

  • 2021-2024 Assistant Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen
  • 2019-2021 Postdoc at the IT University of Copenhagen
  • 2018-2019 Part-time teacher at the University of Groningen
  • 2013-2015 Java programmer for the incpar project
  • 2014 Student assistant for a web-programming course

Real jobs

  • Aant Betsema Azn (Bookkeeper, website, programmer, IT)
  • Jumbo de Greiden (Supermarket): 4 years!
  • Friesland Campina (Cheese Factory)
  • Wieger Ketellapper (Cookies Factory)

Prizes

  • Best paper award WNUT 2022
  • Outstanding paper award EACL 2021
  • Outstanding reviewer ACL 2021
  • Participant Guinnes record of most people (361) walking 1,000 meter on ice barefoot (2013)

Talks

  • University of Gothenburg (2024).
  • Hunan Normal University (2024).
  • AAU (2024).
  • AAU (2024).
  • LMU (2024). [slides]
  • DEIC (2023). [slides | video ]
  • Multi* workshop (2023). [slides]
  • Research Seminars in Language Technology. University of Helsinki. Challenges in Achieving Robustness Through Normalization and Multi-task Learning (2023). [slides | video]
  • Overview succesful student projects (2023). [slides]
  • RAD (2023). [slides]
  • Invited talk Groningen (2023). [slides]
  • Groningen shared task course (2023). [slides]
  • ITU NLP workshop (2022). [slides]
  • Milanlp (2021). [slides]
  • SIGTYP (2021).
  • Groningen MaChAmp (2021). [slides]
  • Mentoring EACL (2021). [slides]
  • Mentoring ACL (2020). [slides]
  • ROBustness in NLP (2019). [slides]
  • PhD thesis (2019). [slides]
  • Interview de Taalstaat (2019, Dutch):

Reviewer

2025:

  • VarDial
  • NoDaLiDa
  • COLING

2024:

  • COLING
  • NEJLT
  • NoDaLiDa
  • VARDIAL
  • EACL SRW
  • LREC
  • EACL (Area Chair)
  • ARR

2023:

  • ARR
  • AACL
  • ACL SRW
  • EACL (Area Chair)
  • EACL SRW
  • LREC/COLING
  • SemEval
  • ACL
  • NoDaLiDa
  • EMNLP (Area Chair)
  • VarDial

2022:

  • AACL
  • EMNLP
  • CONLL (Area Chair)
  • ARR

2021:

  • WNUT
  • CONLL (Area Chair)
  • EMNLP
  • WNUT
  • ARR
  • ACL
  • NoDaLiDa
  • NAACL
  • EACL

2020

  • PEOPLES
  • COLING
  • WNUT
  • EMNLP
  • AACL-IJCNLP
  • ACL
  • LREC
  • Clin Journal

2019

  • NoDaLiDa
  • EMNLP
  • SemEval
  • ACL
  • NAACL

2018

  • EMNLP
  • WNUT

2015

  • SemEval 2015

Teaching

  • Advanced NLP (2023)
  • 2nd year project in NLP and deep learning (2023)
  • Guest lecture RUG: How to win a shared task (2022)
  • Advanced NLP (2022)
  • 2nd year project in NLP and deep learning (2022)
  • 2nd year project in NLP and deep learning (2021) (together with Barbara Plank)
  • Supervising research project of three students (2020)
  • Supervised one bachelor thesis (2020)
  • 2nd year project (2020) (together with Barbara Plank)
  • Computationele Grammatica (2018-2019)
  • Shared Task course (2018-2019)
  • First supervisor for 5 Bachelor theses (2018-2019)
  • First supervisor for 3 Master thesss (2018-2019)
  • Organizing the Reading Group of Informatiekunde. Includes a Ma course, which helps students prepare for their master thesis. (2015-2018)
  • Computationele Grammatica (2015-2016)
  • Natuurlijke taalverwerking 1 (2014-2015) (together with Malvina Nissim)

Organizer

Grants

  • Extension of PhD project for 8 months, at the Nuance foundation
  • Grant for hosting a visitor (Ahmet Ustun)