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

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since January 2017. He previously was a professor at

Tilburg University Tilburg University is a Catholic research university specializing in the social and behavioral sciences, economics, law, business sciences, theology and humanities, located in Tilburg, Netherlands. Tilburg has a student population of about 19,1 ...

and

Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, , formerly ) is a public university, public research university located in Nijmegen, Netherlands. RU has seven faculties and more than 24,000 students. Established in 1923, Radboud University has consistentl ...

Career

Van den Bosch was born in

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on 5 May 1969. He studied language and literature, with a focus on linguistics and computer science, 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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bosch, Antal van den 1969 births Living people Maastricht University alumni Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Drimmelen Academic staff of Radboud University Nijmegen Tilburg University alumni Academic staff of Tilburg University