Walter Daelemans (born June 3, 1960) is professor in

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at the

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. He is also a research director of the Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics Research Center (CLiPS).

Education and career

Daelemans holds a Ph.D. from the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. Founded in 1425, it is the oldest university in Belgium and the oldest university in the Low Countries. In addition to its main camp ...

. Daelemans pioneered the use of machine learning techniques, especially memory-based learning, in

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in Europe in the early 1990s. Together with

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he wrote the book Memory-Based Language Processing and developed the software package TiMBL. This was during his time as a professor at

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where he founded the research group Induction of Linguistic Knowledge (ILK).

Honors

In 2003 he was elected Fellow of

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(the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence), “for pioneering work in the field of Artificial Intelligence and outstanding service for the European Artificial Intelligence Community”. In 2014, he was named a fellow of the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Daelemans, Walter 1960 births Living people Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics Belgian computer scientists Linguists from Belgium Computational linguistics researchers Academic staff of Tilburg University Academic staff of the University of Antwerp KU Leuven alumni People from Deurne, Belgium University of Antwerp alumni