Rob van der Goot

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.

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)

Master Theses (2019):

Cross-domain Dialogue Act Classification for Social Media Data
A two step training approach for semi-supervised language identification in code-switched data
Kelly Dekker: Distant Supervision for Lexical Normalization: Methods to Automatically Generate Training Data.
Ian Matroos: Distant Supervision for Lexical Normalization.
Wessel Reijngoud: Automatic Classification of Normalisation Replacement Categories: Within Corpus and Cross Corpus.
Youri Schuur: Normalization for Dutch for improved POS tagging [bib | pdf]

Bachelor theses:

A picture says more than a thousand words - or does it?
Literal Japanese to English Translation (2020)
Automatic code-switching detection in Dutch-Frisian language (2018)
Objectivity in Dutch newspapers’ headlines; What is the level of objectivity and subjectivity in Dutch newspapers’ headlines? (2018)
Predicting Age using Code-switching (2018)
Semi-supervised language identification in code-switched data: K-means clustering versus a probabilistic approach (2018)
The Effectiveness of a Semi-Supervised Approach to Automatic Code Switch Detection (2018)

Other supervised projects that lead to a publication:

Below I list all presentations which were not the result of a paper.

Invited talk at the University of Groningen (26-06-2020)
Interview de Taalstaat (Dutch): link
ROBustness workshop: Analysis of Effect of Normalization Types on Dependency Parsing & 100% Independent Universal Dependencies Annotation
[slides]
CMC and Social Media Corpora, Antwerpen (2018): Lexical Normalization for Dutch Social Media Texts
[abstract | poster]
Beroependag ASCI (2018): Hoe is het om te promoveren in computationele taalkunde?
[slides]
CLIN28: Lexical Normalization for Neural Network Parsing
[abstract | slides | code]
CLS Language and Social Media day, Nijmegen (2017): Parser Adaptation for Social Media by Integrating Normalization
[abstract | poster]
Reading Group presentation 3-3-2017: Parser Adaptation for Social Media by Integrating Normalization
[slides]
CLIN27: Towards Domain Adaptation for Dutch Social Media Text Through Normalization
[abstract | paper| slides | code]
CLIN26: GroRef: Rule-Based Coreference Resolution for Dutch
[abstract | slides | code]
Kroegcollege ASCI (2015): Het parsen van tweets
[slides]
CLIN25: A New Automatic Spelling Correction Model Aimed at Improving Parsability
[abstract | slides | code]

Advanced NLP (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)