Scholar
Walter Daelemans
Google Scholar ID: 21RjEWwAAAAJ
Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Antwerp
Citations & Impact
Citations
7,065
H-index
44
i10-index
146
Publications
20
Co-authors
154
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Elected Fellow of EurAI (formerly ECCAI) in 2003.
- Elected member of KANTL (Royal Academy for Dutch Language and Literature) in 2014.
- Elected ACL Fellow by the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2014.
- Co-authored 'Memory-Based Language Processing' (Cambridge University Press, 2005) with Antal van den Bosch, Steven Gillis, and others, introducing an exemplar-based approach to NLP and computational psycholinguistics.
- Pioneered early work on machine learning for language processing at the AI Lab, inspired by Goldberg’s genetic algorithms and Stanfill & Waltz’s memory-based reasoning.
Research Experience
- Moved to the Netherlands in 1984 to work as a research assistant in Gerard Kempen’s group at Radboud University, Nijmegen, which pioneered language technology in the Netherlands.
- After military service, worked at Luc Steels’ Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, leading an ESPRIT project on office automation.
- Joined Tilburg University in 1989 as a lecturer in Computational Linguistics and later founded the ILK (Induction of Linguistic Knowledge) research group with major funding from NWO.
- Served as part-time professor of 'Machine Learning and Language Technology' at Tilburg University until 2006.
- Full-time professor at the University of Antwerp since 1999, teaching Computational Linguistics and AI, and directing the Computational Linguistics group at CLiPS (formerly CNTS).
- Currently directs TEXTUA, the University of Antwerp’s core facility for text mining, supporting researchers across disciplines in applying text analysis methods.
