Wietse de Vries
Scholar

Wietse de Vries

Google Scholar ID: gZkWURYAAAAJ
Postdoc, University of Groningen
Speech TechnologyNatural Language ProcessingComputational LinguisticsDeep Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
842
 
H-index
8
 
i10-index
8
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
16
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Enhancing Standard and Dialectal Frisian ASR: Multilingual Fine-tuning and Language Identification for Improved Low-resource Performance, ICASSP 2025
  • Exploring Self-Supervised Speech Representations for Cross-lingual Acoustic-to-Articulatory Inversion, Interspeech 2024
  • Developing Infrastructure for Low-Resource Language Corpus Building, SIGUL 2024
  • Extracting and classifying exceptional COVID-19 measures from multilingual legal texts: The merits and limitations of automated approaches, Regulation & Governance 18, 2024
  • DUMB: A Benchmark for Smart Evaluation of Dutch Models, EMNLP 2023
  • Make the Best of Cross-lingual Transfer: Evidence from POS Tagging with over 100 Languages, ACL 2022
  • Neural Representations for Modeling Variation in Speech, Journal of Phonetics 92, 2022
  • Adapting Monolingual Models: Data can be Scarce when Language Similarity is High, Findings of ACL 2021
  • As Good as New. How to Successfully Recycle English GPT-2 to Make Models for Other Languages, Findings of ACL 2021
  • A Multilingual Approach to Identify and Classify Exceptional Measures against COVID-19, Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021
  • What's so special about BERT's layers? A closer look at the NLP pipeline in monolingual and multilingual models, Findings of EMNLP 2020
  • BERTje: A Dutch BERT model, 2019
  • Cognitively Plausible Computational Models of Lexical Processing Can Explain Variance in Human Word Predictions and Reading Times, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (BNAIC 2019)
Background
  • Postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Linguistics group, focusing on low-resource speech technology.
Miscellany
  • Hobby beekeeper, any beekeeping stuff can be found on hunneg.nl.