Teaching & Supervision

Ph.D. supervision

2024 – present: Gauri Bhagwat

2023 – present: Jiaqi Zhu

2022 – present: Andrea Schimmenti

2021 – present: Andrei Nesterov

2021 – 2024: Ryan Brate  Words Matter: A Computational Toolkit For Charged Terms

2021 – 2024: Andrea Peverelli Authorial Framework and the Problem of Style through a Computational Analysis of Neo-Latin Drama

2019 – 2023: Bruno Sartini Connecting works of art within the semantic web of symbolic meanings

2015 – 2019: Filip Ilievski Identity of Long-Tail Entities in Text

Summer Schools

July 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024: International Semantic Web Research Summer School (ISWS) Tutor. Bertinoro, Italy.

August 2018: Taalunie Summer Seminar. Tutor. Amsterdam, the Netherlands

June 2018: Hendrik Muller Summer Seminar. Tutor & co-organiser. Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Courses:

Feb-March 2017: Text Mining, coordinator & instructor.

Nov-Dec 2016: Taal, Media & Communicatie, co-instructor, with Charlotte van Hooijdonk & Ben Stuyvenberg

Feb-March 2016: Text Mining, coordinator and co-instructor, with Hennie van der Vliet, Isa Maks and Piek Vossen

December 2015: Taal, Media & Communicatie, co-instructor, with Charlotte van Hooijdonk en Ben Stuyvenberg

Feb-March 2015: Text Mining, coordinator and co-instructor, with Hennie van der Vliet, Piek Vossen, Isa Maks, Antske Fokkens, Ruben Izquierdo and Emiel van Miltenburg.

Feb-March 2014: Text Mining, Co-instructor, with Piek Vossen, Hennie van der Vliet and Isa Maks

Winter 2013: Computational Linguistics Tutorial 2 (Research Master Linguistics), Co-Instructor, with Antske Fokkens and Marten Postma

Autumn 2013: Computational Linguistics Tutorial 1 (Research Master Linguistics), Co-Instructor, with Antske Fokkens and Marten Postma

Feb-March 2013: The Social Web (mIS), Co-Instructor, with Lora Aroyo

Nov-Dec 2012: Knowledge & Media (mIS), Co-Instructor, with Willem van Hage

Feb-March 2012: The Social Web (mIS), Co-Instructor, with Lora Aroyo

Nov-Dec 2011: Knowledge & Media (mIS), Instructor

June 2011: Seminar, Chair Information Retrieval (IMM), with Willem van Hage

Mar-April 2011: Human-Computer Interaction (IMM), Assistant

Nov-Dec 2011: Knowledge & Media (mIS), Assistant

Student projects:

Louise Abdalla (2024) MSc Data Science, University of Amsterdam, co-supervisor.

Irene Thoma (2024) MSc Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, co-supervisor

Yusa Ece Demiral (2024) MSc Data Science, University of Amsterdam, co-supervisor.

Weiwei Jin (2024) MSc Data Science, University of Amsterdam, co-supervisor.

Patrick Spaargaren (2024) MSc Data Science, University of Amsterdam, co-supervisor.

Ali Alghamdi (2024) MSc Data Science, University of Amsterdam, co-supervisor.

Seoyeong Ahn, Nour Alassali, Nina Olenderek (2024) Minor Digital Humanities – Digital Humanities in Practice project, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Supervisor. Published and presented at DHBenelux 2024.

Valentin Glas (2023) MSc Data Science, University of Amsterdam, co-supervisor.

Bas van den Brink (2022) MSc Data Science, University of Amsterdam, co-supervisor.

Laura Hilhorst (2022) MSc Data Science, University of Amsterdam, co-supervisor.

Daphne Zindili (2022) MSc Data Science, University of Amsterdam, co-supervisor.

Rositsa Ivanova (2021) MSc Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, co-supervisor. Published and presented at LREC.

Stijn Schouten (2021) MSc Information Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, co-supervisor. Published and presented at K-CAP.

Melissa van den Bovenkamp (2021) MSc Data Science, University of Amsterdam, co-supervisor.

Rob Zwitserlood (2021) MSc Data Science. University of Amsterdam, co-supervisor.

Krasimir Kovachev (2020) Identification of ship crew members from historical data using classification models. MSc Information Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, co-supervisor.

Luuk Looijenga (2020) Extracting Information From Historical Cookbooks: A Comparison Between Machine Learning Methods and a Rule-Based Approach. MSc Data Science, University of Amsterdam, co-supervisor.

Ryan Brate (2020) A semi-supervised approach to extracting smell experiences in literature. MSc Data Science, University of Amsterdam, co-supervisor. Published and presented at LaTeCH.

Barry Hendriks (2020) Recognising and Linking Entities in Old Dutch Text: A Case Study on VOC Notary Archives. MSc Data Science, University of Amsterdam, co-supervisor. Published  & Presented at Collect & Connect.

Bram Schmidt (2020) Context-based Toponym Disambiguation regarding Historical Gazetteer. MSc Information Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, co-supervisor.

Nienke Luirink (2019) Identities of Companies and Their Followers on Twitter. MSc Information Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, supervisor.

Sanne Vrijenhoek (2016) Illuminating Dark Entities. MSc Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Supervisor.

Filip Ilievski (2015) NED with two-stage coherence optimization. MSc Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Supervisor.

Tim Loyen (2015)  Concept extraction in the medical domain, BSc Informatie, Multimedia & Management, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Supervisor.

Gleb Satyukov (2014) Semi-Informed Data Sampling. BSc Lifestyle Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Supervisor.

Guido van Oorschot (2012) Soccer match event detection using Twitter data, MSc Information Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Supervisor

Ardjan van Nuland (2012) Building a community around historical events and narratives, MSc Information Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Supervisor

Jeffrey Bruijntjes (2012) A Mobile Interface for Agora, BSc Informatie, Multimedia & Management, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Supervisor

Robert Hensel (2011) Improving geographical data in animal specimen datasets, MSc Information Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Supervisor

Youssef Ibrahimi (2011) Toward Automated Document Classification and Text Segmentation, MSc Information Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Supervisor

Vincent Osinga (2010) Fighting Pirates with Words, MSc Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Co-supervisor