Piek Th.J.M. Vossen (born 1960 in Schaesberg, the

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), is

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of computational lexicology at the VU University Amsterdam, head of the Computational Lexicology & Terminology Lab, and founder and president of the Global WordNet Association.

Education

Vossen graduated from the

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in Dutch and general linguistics and obtained a

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(

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) in computational lexicology in 1995 at the same university.

Awards

Vossen is a recipient of the 2013 Spinoza Prize and a winner of the "Enlighten Your Research"-competition 2013 with the project "Can we Handle the News". Vossen was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.

References

External links

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Faculty page at the VU University Amsterdam
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vossen, Piek 1960 births Living people Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Landgraaf Spinoza Prize winners University of Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam