Piek Vossen
Dutch academic working with computational lexicology
About Piek Vossen
Born 1960. Piek Vossen is a Dutch university teacher, computer scientist and linguist.
Piek Th.J.M. Vossen (born 1960 in Schaesberg, the Netherlands), is professor of computational lexicology at the VU University Amsterdam, head of the Computational Lexicology & Terminology Lab, and founder and president of the Global WordNet Association.
Education Vossen graduated from the University of Amsterdam in Dutch and general linguistics and obtained a PhD (cum laude) in computational lexicology in 1995 at the same university.
Awards Vossen is a recipient of the 2013 Spinoza Prize and a winner of the "Enlighten Your Research"-competition 2013 with the project "Can we Handle the News".
Vossen was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.
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Dutch academic working with computational lexicology
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Piek Vossen was born in 1960 in Schaesberg.
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