Talks and presentations

Finding the Smoke Signal: Smoking Status Extraction & Classification

November 25, 2020

Talk, MA Course 'Text Mining', Radboud University, Nijmegen

I was invited by course instructors (prof. dr. Martha Larson & dr. Iris Hendrickx) to talk in the MA/MSc “Text Mining” course in the MSc Data Science and the ResMA Linguistics. My talk was about my ResMA thesis on smoking status classification in EMRs (done at IT company Topicus). Note: I have given very similar talks at both my thesis company (Topicus) and during my (online) thesis defense. Slides can be found here.

How Similar are Poodles in the Microwave? Classification of Urban Legend Types

January 30, 2020

Talk, CLIN30 (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands), Utrecht University, Utrecht

This was a poster presentation at CLIN (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands) 30 in Utrecht on my urban legends internship project at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam. Poster can be seen here

Making the Computer Understand Urban Legend Types (And Making Humans Understand the Computer)

October 24, 2019

Talk, Moving Humanities Graduate Conference, Radboud University Nijmegen

A presentation for other graduate students (ReMA and PhD) in the faculty of Arts. My talk focussed on the demo for the urban legend project (my research internship) and was also an explanation of machine learning, especially text classification, to non-experts.

Amputation or Accident? Classifying Dutch Urban Legends into Story Types with a Hierarchical Classifier

September 13, 2019

Talk, Digital Humanities BeNeLux 2019, University of Liege, Liege

This was my first peer-reviewed abstract, which I wrote on my internship project at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam on the classification of urban legends. The Digital Humanities conference in Liège was a nice conclusion to my research internship. The published extended abstract of my research project can be read here.

Whose Gender is It? Possessive Pronoun Errors by Portuguese L2 speakers of English.

April 13, 2019

Conference proceedings talk, 13th TWIST Student Conference in Linguistics, University of Leiden, Leiden

I presented my work on an error elicitation experiment in L2 English by native speakers of Portuguese, which was a project I did for the “Syntax-Semantics Interface” course in my ResMA.

First-Person Visibility: Ælfrics Pronouns in his Prefaces

November 24, 2017

Talk, StuTs Student Linguistics Conference, Radboud University, Nijmegen

A talk on my project for the BA Honours programme, a Text Mining project on the works by 10th century Old English author Ælfric, presented at student conference StuTs.