• Dutch tabloid Spits carries short version of Kennislink article on automatic summarization (in Dutch). With quotes from Iris Hendrickx, former member of ILK, CLiPS-LTG Antwerp and LT3 Ghent. March 10, 2010

• Short film Interactive Multimodal Information Extraction highlighting NWO's IMIX programme, including the ROLAQUAD project that ran at ILK (2004-2009). March 2010

• Maarten van Gompel wins the STIL Scriptieprijs, a 1000 Euros prize awarded to the best Master's thesis in Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands and Flanders, defended in 2009, for his thesis Phrase-based mempry-based machine translation. February 5, 2010

• Pop science article Delven in het museum (in Dutch) about the MITCH project at Kennislink. January, 2010

• Short film CATCH, the future highlighting NWO's CATCH programme, featuring the MITCH project and Marieke van Erp. November, 2009

• Further Reading, a symposium on recommender systems, organized by ILK on December 8, 2009, on occasion of the Ph.D. thesis defense of Toine Bogers.
  
  November 29, 2009

• TiMBL 6.2 packages for Debian, RPM, and Fink package management systems are released. November 12, 2009

• PBMBMT, phrase-based memory-based machine translation, version 0.16, is released. Coding by Maarten van Gompel. PBMBMT is presented at EBMT-3, the 3rd Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, Dublin, Ireland, November 12-13, 2009. November 4, 2009

• TiMBL 6.2 is released. Debian package for 64-bit architecture is also available. November 4, 2009

• CiteULike, online reference management / social bookmarking system, adopts recommendation technology developed by Toine Bogers. September 17, 2009

• HAIT-student Pieter Kanters graduates on a Master's thesis on determining emotion of songs through their lyrics, using machine learning. News coverage (in Dutch): Tilburg University press release, articles on Kennislink, De Morgen, VRT Nieuws, Idealize.nl, June 6, 2009

• ILK's classic supercomputer medusa, an SGI Origin 2000 with 64 Gb of memory and 32 processors, at its inception probably among the 500 fastest computers in the world, finds a final caring home at the Centre for Computing History, Haverhill, Suffolk, UK. May 9, 2009

  

• ILK and IISG, the International Institute for Social History, are seeking a Ph.D. student, post-doc researcher, and scientific programmer for the NWO CATCH project HITIME. Application deadline: April 15, 2009. March 30, 2009

• TiCC, Tilburg centre for Creative Computing, kicks off officially, with a symposium on Computers and Art, and a double inaugural address by professors Jaap van den Herik and Eric Postma. March 27, 2009

• NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, awards funding to Piek Vossen, Maarten de Rijke, and Antal van den Bosch to develop a Dutch word-sense-annotated corpus. February 26, 2009

   

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The Tilburg centre for Creative Computing Colloquium

Bi-weekly meetings, since January 2009

Talks at 3-weekly ILK meetings

• 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-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