Antal P.J. van den Bosch (born 5 May 1969) is a Dutch-language researcher. He has been director of the

Meertens Institute The Meertens Institute (Dutch ''Meertens Instituut'') in Amsterdam is a research institute for Dutch language and culture within the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (''Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen'' or KNAW). ...

since January 2017. He previously was a professor at

Tilburg University Tilburg University is a public research university specializing in the social and behavioral sciences, economics, law, business sciences, theology and humanities, located in Tilburg in the southern part of the Netherlands. Tilburg University has ...

and

Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century ...

Career

Van den Bosch was born in

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on 5 May 1969. He studied language and literature, with a focus on language and informatica, at

. Van den Bosch obtained his master's degree in 1992. In 1997 he obtained his title of

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cum laude at

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with a dissertation titled: ''Learning to pronounce written words. A study in inductive language learning''. Van den Bosch then returned to Tilburg University, where from 1997 to 2001 he was a postdoc. Between 2001 and 2008 he was university lecturer. In 2008 he was named professor of memory, language and meaning. Van den Bosch moved to the

in 2011, where he became professor of Example-based language modelling. He became director of the

on 1 January 2017, succeeding Hans Bennis. The research of van den Bosch has amongst other topics focused on memory-based learning,

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and language variations. He has also developed computer programs which work on the interpretation of language, such as a self-learning spelling corrector. Van den Bosch was elected a member of the

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in 2012.

References

External links

Profile at Radboud University Nijmegen
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