• The ILK software stack is completely updated and uploaded to Debian. Tarball afficionados go to: TiMBL 6.4.2, TimblServer 1.4, MBT 3.2.7, MBTServer 0.4, Frog 0.12.5, Dimbl 0.11, Ucto 0.4.9, libfolia 0.5-2. January 1, 2012

• Herman Stehouwer defends his thesis, Statistical language models for alternative sequence selection, on December 7, 2011. A TiCC/SIKS Symposium on Language Modeling is held the same day. December 1, 2011

• Release of new versions of the entire ILK software stack: TiMBL 6.4.1, TimblServer 1.3, MBT 3.2.6, MBTServer 0.3, Frog 0.12.5, Dimbl 0.10, Ucto 0.4.2. August 30, 2011

• New book: Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, edited by Caroline Sporleder, Antal van den Bosch, and Kalliopi Zervanou. August, 2011

• Software voor taaltechnologie Tilburg University vrij beschikbaar -- innovatiebericht Tilburg University over onze samenwerking met ad 1810. July, 2011

• VALKUIL.net besproken: tweets, Student 2.0, Vak Finders, Seniorweb, Dutch Cowgirls. June 7, 2011

• VALKUIL.net, spellingcorrector voor het Nederlands, officieel gelanceerd op het symposium De automatische taalhulp. Berichtgeving in De Morgen, Brabants Dagblad, Het Parool, nu.nl, Powned May 31, 2011

• Symposium De automatische taalhulp (in Dutch), 31 mei 2011. In dit symposium, georganiseerd door ILK in samenwerking met de Nederlandse Taalunie, worden nieuwe innovatieve Nederlandse en Vlaamse producten en studies gepresenteerd en gedemonstreerd op het gebied van spellingcorrectie en schrijfondersteuning. Het symposium werd via een live stream uitgezonden en kan teruggekeken worden. May 30, 2011

• New book: Interactive Multi-modal Question-Answering, edited by Antal van den Bosch and Gosse Bouma, documenting the NWO IMIX project. May 2011

• Article "Nederlandse woorden gegijzeld als domeinnaam" (Dutch words hijacked as domain name), by Jaap Meijers and Antal van den Bosch, in Onze Taal. Also covered by De Volkskrant, De Telegraaf. April 23, 2011

• The AMICUS network receives the splotlight in the CLARIN Newsletter: check out pages 7-8 for Piroska Lendvai and Thierry Declerck's article The CLARIN Folk Tale Use Case at DH-2010 and Elsewhere. April, 2011

• Software release bonanza: ILK releases Ucto (tokenizer), Frog (Dutch morphosyntactic processor), Clam (computational linguistics application mediator). March 4, 2011

• Extracting mood data from music: the developers of Moody give the word to Menno van Zaanen on how to extract and use mood tags assigned by users to songs in their music libraries. March 4, 2011

• Culturomics: een nieuw vakgebied? - opinion piece (in Dutch) on the Google Books Ngram corpus and the Science article quoting Antal van den Bosch in e-data & research. March 1, 2011

• We're hiring! PhD "constructions in memory-based text-to-text generation". Apply before March 13, 2011. February 9, 2011

• Opinion article in Brabants Dagblad (in Dutch) on WikiLeaks and text analytics by Antal van den Bosch. Prezi presentation. Also online at De Nieuwe Reporter, Mediakritiek.be, and mentioned in Univers. January 26, 2010

• BNR Nieuwsradio DenkTank! radio show (in Dutch) on Wikileaks, Text Mining, and the HiTiME project, with Antal van den Bosch. December 21, 2010

• "Universiteit Tilburg herkent digitale parafrases" (in Dutch): coverage of the DAESO (Detecting And Exploiting Semantic Overlap) project. December 21, 2010

• "Hacktivist", column (in Dutch) by Antal van den Bosch on pop sci website Kennislink.nl. December 16, 2010

• New project BasiLex, a Nijmegen-Tilburg-Leiden-Amsterdam joint project to develop a corpus and lexicon of language encountered by children in primary school, is seeking a developer. December 9, 2010

  

• Article in Dutch daily newspaper De Volkskrant on do-it-yourself text mining in WikiLeaks quoting Antal van den Bosch. December 7, 2010

• First AMICUS workshop held in Vienna, Austria. Proceedings of the First International AMICUS Workshop on Automated Motif Discovery in Cultural Heritage and Scientific Communication Texts are now online. October 21, 2010

• New demo launched: constructicon demo. Either look up a word and see in which constructions it occurs, or enter a sentence (or select one from a news website) and see which constructions occur in that sentence. Discover the dark matter between lexicon, syntax, and semantics. September 25, 2010

• Martha van den Hoven, HAIT student working with the HiTiME project, defends her thesis, Strikes that never happened, on text analytics, historical texts, and counterfactual history, on Friday August 27, 2010, at 15:00, room DZ8, Dante building, Tilburg University. August 24, 2010

• Dutch media attention for Ph.D. defense of Marieke van Erp on June 30, 2010: Press release; articles in AutomatiseringsGids, BN/De Stem July 2, 2010

• ILK organizes symposium on June 30, 2010 on Text Mining in the Real World, with speakers Eduard Hovy (ISI) and Piek Vossen (Free University Amsterdam). Symposium precedes the Ph.D. defense of Marieke van Erp on June 30, 2010, 14:00. Entrance is free; please register. See webpage for more details. June 10, 2010

• New ILK software releases: TiMBL 6.3, TimblServer 1.0, MBT 3.2, Tadpole 0.6, Dimbl 0.7. June 2, 2010

   

• news and press clippings archive

The Tilburg centre for Cognition and Communication Colloquium

Bi-weekly meetings, since January 2009

Talks at 3-weekly ILK meetings

• 14 Dec 2010, 13:00
  • Sicco Verwer on Efficient identification of timed automata
• 24 Nov 2009, 13:00
  • Benjamin Hollinger (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) on Using Alignment-Based Learning and Abstract Interpretation to automatically construct context-free grammars from anotated corpora
• 8 Jun 2009, 14:00
  • Kris Heylen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) on Dutch Word Space Models: Context Selection and Evaluation Methods
  • Bram Vandekerckhove (CLiPS, University of Antwerp) on Towards an exemplar-based model of human sentence comprehension
• 26 May 2009, 13:00
  • Sulene Pilon (North-West University, South Africa) on Machine Translation Between Closely Related, Resource Scarce Languages: Dutch and Afrikaans
• 2 Dec 2008, 13:00
  • Sander Wubben on Clustering headlines for automatic paraphrase acquisition
• 9 Sep 2008, 13:00
  • Toine Bogers on Using language models for spam detection in social bookmarking
• 20 May 2008, 15:30
  • Martin Reynaert on All, and only, the errors: More complete and consistent spelling and OCR-error correction evaluation
  • Invited talk by Svitlana Zinger (University of Groningen) on Script analysis tools for the cultural heritage
• 25 March 2008, 13:00
  • Toine Bogers on Using citation analysis for finding experts in workgroups
  • Antal van den Bosch on Memory-based word completion
• 7 Feb 2008, 11:00
  • Piroska Lendvai on Alignment-based expansion of textual database fields
• 9 Oct 2007, 10:30
  • Invited talk by Suzan Verberne (Radboud University) on Paragraph retrieval for why-question answering
  • Martin Reynaert on Automatic post-correction of OCR'ed Cultural Heritage corpora
• 18 Sep 2007, 10:30
  • Antal van den Bosch on Implicit versus explicit computational linguistics
• 28 Aug 2007, 10:30
  • Piroska Lendvai on Token-based chunking of turn-internal dialogue act sequences
  • Herman Stehouwer on Ongoing work on the Dutch d-dt problem
• 11 July 2007, 14:00
  • Martin Reynaert on TICCL
  • Antal van den Bosch on Homophones and whitespace
• 22 May 2007, 14:00
  • Sander Wubben on Memory Based Learning and the Interpretation of Numbers in Archaeological Reports
• 24 April 2007, 10:30
  • Sander Canisius on Learning to Segment and Label Semi-Structured Documents with Little or No Supervision
• 3 April 2007, 14:00
  • Steve Hunt on the timpute software
  • Antal van den Bosch on Parallelizing k-NN and Re-engineering Alpino
• 27 February 2007, 13:00
  • Invited talk by Louis ten Bosch, LandS, Radboud University Nijmegen, The ACORNS project: The emergence of words
  • Invited talk by Martijn Spitters (Textkernel), Learning to compose effective strategies from a library of dialogue components.
• 19 January 2007, 15:30
  • Test talks for CLIN-2006:
    • Iris Hendrickx
    • Antal van den Bosch
• 15 December 2006
  • Invited talk by prof. Arie Verhagen (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) on Recursion and language evolution,
• 19 September 2006, 13:00
  • Invited talk by Sander Spek (Universiteit Maastricht): Wikipedia: organisation from a bottom-up approach
  • Sander Canisius: Improved morpho-phonological sequence processing with constraint satisfaction inference
• previous group meetings

Previous events

• ATILA-2010, 23-24 September 2010, Oostende, Belgium
• ATILA-2009, 9-10 November 2009, Corsendonck Priory, Belgium
• ATILA-2008, 15-16 October 2008, Het Elzenveld, Antwerp, Belgium
• Workshop on Parsing and Semantic Role Labeling, Tuesday February 26, 2008, Tilburg University
• ATILA-2007, 14 November 2007, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
• LaTeCH-2007
  Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data, ACL-2007 Workshop, June 28, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic
• ATILA-2006, 14-15 November 2006, Corsendonck Priory, Belgium
• ATILA-2005, 28-29 November 2005, Corsendonck Priory, Belgium
• Machine Learning Mini-Symposium - 21 November 2005, Tilburg University
• PROSIT Workshop on analysis and generation of prosody - 21 December 2004, Tilburg University
• ATILA-2004, 6 October 2004, Textielmuseum, Tilburg (photos)
• ATILA-2003, 3 September 2003, Middelheim Castle, Antwerp
• CoNLL-2002, Sixth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, August 31 - September 1, 2002, Taipei, Taiwan
• ATILA-2002, 19 June 2002, De Vier Jaargetijden, Tilburg
• CoNLL-2001, Fifth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, July 6-7, 2002, Toulouse, France
• ATILA-2000, 12 December 2000, MUHKA, Antwerp
• CoNLL-2000, Fourth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, September 14, 2000, Lisbon, Portugal
• CLIN-2000, the Eleventh Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands Meeting, Tilburg University
• BNAIC-2000, the Twelfth Belgian-Dutch Artificial Intelligence Conference, De Efteling, Kaatsheuvel
• ATILA-1999, November 29, 1999, Scryption, Tilburg
• ATILA-1998, May 11, 1999, De Notelaer, Hingene
• ATILA-1997, October 15, 1997, Tilburg University, Tilburg
• ATILAMA, February 2, 1995, University of Limburg, Maastricht