PhD Committees & Guests – Prof. Dr. Piek Th.J.M. Vossen

PhD’s of Piek Vossen:

fc. Promotor of Taewoon Kim, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (started 2020).
fc. Promotor of Jaap Kruijt, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (started 2020).
fc. Promotor of Lea Krause, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (started 2020).
fc. Promotor of Selene Báez Santamaría, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (started 2020).
fc. Co-promotor of Michiel van der Meer, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (started 2020).
fc. Promotor of Levi Remijnse, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (started 2019).
fc. Promotor of Chantal van Son, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (started 2015, switch to industry Nov. 2019).
fc. co-promoter of Philippine Waisvisz, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, the Netherlands.
fc. Promotor of Pia Sommerauer, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (started September 2017)
fc. Promotor Roxane Segers, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (started July 2009, switch to Industry in Aug. 2018).
May 28, 2021: Promotor of Minh, Lê Ngọc, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (started September 2014, switch to industry Jan. 2018).
April 15, 2021: Promotor of Agata Cybulska, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (started July 2009, switch to Industry in Oct. 2012 )
October 14, 2019: Promotor of Emiel van Miltenburg, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (started September 2014).
September 6, 2019 : Promotor of Filip Llievski, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (started September 2014).
June 24, 2019: Promotor of Marten Postma, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (started September 2014).
June 27, 2018: Promotor of Isa Maks, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (started July 2008).
March 29, 2017.: Promotor of Bertie Kaal, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (started July 2009).
Co-Promotor of Annemieke van Elfrinkhof, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (started July 2009).

PhD’s Committees of Piek Vossen:

2020: Member of the PhD Committee of Paola Vernillo: “Beeldschematische benadering van de analyse van de semantiek van Italiaanse werkwoorden, July 1, 2020.
2020: Member of the PhD Committee of Maarten van Gompel: “Constructions as Linguistic Bridges”. 2020.
2019: Member of the PhD Committee of Anja Dumitrache, October 10, 2019.
2018: Member of the PhD Committee of Dieke Oele (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands)
2018: Member of the PhD Committee of Marijn ten Thij (VU, the Netherlands)
2017: Member of the PhD Committee of Aitor Gonzalez (Basque University, Spain)
2017: Member of the PhD Committee of Jeroen Vuurens (TU Delft, the Netherlands)
2016: Member of the PhD Committee of Simon Šuster, University of Antwerp, Belgium, October 2016.
2016: Member of the PhD Committee of Francesco Corcoglioniti, FBK, Trento, Italy, April 26, 2016.
2015: Member of the PhD Committee of Alexander Hogenboom, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, November 2015.
2015: Member of the PhD Committee of Pavel Richly, September 2015.
2015: Member of the PhD Committee of Marten Teitsma, Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands, June 12, 2015.
2015: Member of the PhD Committee of Egoitz Laparra, Basque University, Spain, January 2015.
2014: Member of the PhD Committee of Irina Simanova: “In Search of Conceptual Representations in the Brain: Towards Mind-Reading”, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, May 12, 2014.
2014: Member of the PhD Committee of Ruth Wester: “A Linguistic History of Awyu-Dumut”, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 20, 2014.
2014: Member of the PhD Committee of Thomas Markus, Universiteit van Utrecht, the Netherlands, January 7, 2014.
2013: Member of the PhD Committee of Marta Vila: “Paraphrase Scope and Typology. A Data-Driven Approach from Computational Linguistics”, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
2012: Member of the PhD Committee of Anna Tordai: “On Combining Alignment Techniques”, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2012: Member of the PhD Committee of Mitesh Manmal Khapra, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, June 2012.
2012: Member of the PhD Committee of Aina Peris: “Deverbal Nominalizations: Denotation and Argument Structure”, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, May 11, 2012,
2012: Member of the PhD Committee of Arantxa Otegi: “Expansion for Information Retrieval: Contribution of Word Sense Disambiguation and Semantic Relatedness”, University of San Sebastian, Spain, March 16, 2012
2011: Member of the PhD Committee of Veronica Benign, Italy, December 2011.
2011: Member of the PhD Committee of Marcel Thelen: “TCM, Terminology and Translation”, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 14, 2011.
2011: Member of the PhD Committee of Montserrat Cuadros Oller, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, November 22, 2011.
2011: Member of the PhD Committee of Kirsten Vis: “Subjectivity in news discourse. A corpus linguistic analysis of informalization”, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 14, 2011
2011: Member of the PhD Committee of Elena Cabrio, Human Language Technologies (HLT) Research Unit Fondazione Bruno Kessler – Center for Scientific and Technological Research, Trento, Italy, April 18th, 2011
2010: Member of the PhD Committee of Marc van Assem: “Converting and Integrating Vocabularies for the Semantic Web”, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 1, 2010
2010: Member of the PhD Committee of Marieke van Erp : “Accessing Natural History – Discoveries in Data Cleaning, Structuring, and Retrieval”, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 30, 2010.
2010: Member of the PhD Committee of Tim Van de Cruys: “Mining for Meaning. The Extraction of Lexico-semantic Knowledge from Text”, Groningen, the Netherlands, June 24, 2010.
2010: Member of the PhD Committee of Antonio Toral Ruiz, Alicante, Spain.
2009: Member of the PhD Committee of Nicole Grégoire, Utrecht, the Netherlands, November 10, 2009.
2009: Member of the PhD Committee of Ismail Fahmi : “Automatic Term and Relation Extraction””, Groningen, the Netherlands, May 14, 2009.
2009: Member of the PhD Committee of Willem Robert van Hage: “Evaluating Ontology-Alignment Techniques””, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 19, 2009
2008: Member of the PhD Committee of Lonneke van der Plas,: “Automatic lexico-semantic acquisition for question answering””, Groningen, the Netherlands, October 23, 2008
2008: Member of the PhD Committee of Ales Horac: “Computer Processing of Czech Syntax and Semantics”, Masaryk, Czech Republic, September 10, 2008.
2003: Member of the PhD Committee of Frank Joosten, KU Leuven, Belgium, October, 2003.
2002: Member of the PhD Committee of Anselmo Peñas, Dpto. Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain.
1999: Member of the PhD Committee of Eneko Agirre, University of Bilbao, Spain.
1998: Member of the PhD Committee of German Rigau, University Polytecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
1998: Member of the PhD Committee of Henny van der Vliet , Faculty of Arts, Free University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Guests from abroad @ CLTL Department at VU University:

Maite María Teresa Martín Valdivia, Spain, May-July 2016.
Francis Bond, Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, July 2014
Kiril Simov and Petya Osenova, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, July 2014
Aitor Garcia Pablos, PhD of Basque University, March – June 2014
Ruben Izquierdo Bevia, PhD of University of Alicante, September 2011- September 2014
Veronica Benigno, PhD of the University of Palermo, May-November 2011
Egoitz Laparra, PhD of the Basque University, April-June 2011
Francesco Ronzano, PhD of University of Pisa, May-December 2010

Vossen’s academic career was interrupted during his work for 10 years in the software industry (September 1999 – November 2009). He has been a full-time professor since November 2009 and in this short period, he obtained funding for 12 PhD students.