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Education
- Research MA in Linguistics and Communication Sciences, Radboud University, 2017-2020
- MA Honours Programme, 1-year think tank project on “Thinking Machines in Healthcare”
- Thesis: “Smoking Status Classification with a Weakly Supervised Paradigm in Sparsely Labelled Dutch Free Text in Electronic Medical Records”
- Graduated cum laude
- MSc in Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University, 2018-2020
- Thesis: “What Kind of Emergency? Providing Complaint Labels for Dutch Short Clinical Texts”
- Graduated with distinction
- B.A. in English Language and Culture, specialization Linguistics, Radboud University (2014-2017)
- BA Honours Programme, 2-year Text Mining Research project
- Graduated cum laude
Work experience
- 2020 - current: PhD Candidate “Diversity in News Recommender Systems”
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
- natural language processing methods (especially language models) to measure diversity in topics and/or viewpoints in the news.
- June - August 2023: Summer Intern
- LinkedIn (Dublin, Ireland), Content & Creator AI Linguist Team
- Short research project with generative models to improve the LinkedIn experience
- 2018-2020: Teaching Assistant (TA) Information Science
- Radboud University
- Duties included: Lecturing, preparing exercises, assisting in design of syllabus and course.
- Supervisor: Prof. dr. Martha Larson, dr. Hans van Halteren
- Dec 2019 - Sept 2020: Research Intern Clinical NLP
- IT company Topicus Healthcare, Deventer
- Company Supervisor: Jeroen Kuijpers
- Jan 2019 - Sep 2019: Research Intern
- Research project on automatic classification of Dutch urban legends
- Meertens Institute, Amsterdam
- Supervisor: prof. dr. Antal van den Bosch & prof. dr. Theo Meder
- Sep 2015 - Sep 2018: Tutor Linguistics
- Teaching other students, especially on abstract courses such as Syntax I & II
Skills
- Python (including scikit-learn, huggingface Transformers)
- Work with command line tools, unix commands & remote servers
- Academic Writing
- Natural Language Processing, Text Mining
- Public Speaking
- Teaching
Publications
Talks
First-Person Visibility: Ælfrics Pronouns in his Prefaces
Talk at StuTs Student Linguistics Conference, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Whose Gender is It? Possessive Pronoun Errors by Portuguese L2 speakers of English.
Conference proceedings talk at 13th TWIST Student Conference in Linguistics, University of Leiden, Leiden
Amputation or Accident? Classifying Dutch Urban Legends into Story Types with a Hierarchical Classifier
Talk at Digital Humanities BeNeLux 2019, University of Liege, Liege
Making the Computer Understand Urban Legend Types (And Making Humans Understand the Computer)
Talk at Moving Humanities Graduate Conference, Radboud University Nijmegen
How Similar are Poodles in the Microwave? Classification of Urban Legend Types
Talk at CLIN30 (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands), Utrecht
Finding the Smoke Signal: Smoking Status Extraction & Classification
Talk at MA Course 'Text Mining', Radboud University, Nijmegen
Teaching
Service and leadership
- Founder and editor-in-chief of RU:ts, student linguistics journal