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):

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