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
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
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
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
Sander Canisius defends
his Ph.D. thesis Structured prediction for natural language
processing: A constraint satisfaction approach, Tilburg University
auditorium, Friday February 13, 2009, 14:00. Earlier during the day, prof. Dan Roth (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) gives a talk on
Constrained Conditional Models: Learning and Inference in Natural
Language Understanding, Building C, room CZ113,
10:00. February 6, 2009
Marieke van Erp talks
about text mining and the MITCH project at Noorderlicht
Radio on Tuesday January 27, 2009, 15:30 (on Dutch national channel "Radio 1"). Listen to the
podcast. January 26, 2009
Dutch popular science website Kennislink mentions
TICCL, Text-Induced Corpus Cleanup, developed by ILK's Martin
Reynaert, in an in-depth article on
optical character recognition and how language technology can help
improve OCR (in Dutch). January 16, 2009
Ruud Liebregts wins second prize (1000 Euros) for his
Master's thesis, awarded by Tilburg
University for the best theses of the year 2007-2008. Press
release, university
news item (in Dutch). November 27, 2008
ILK joins CNTS (Antwerp) and LT3 (Ghent) in the 12th
ATILA meeting, on 15-16 October 2008, Antwerp, with invited speaker Khalil Sima'an. October 13, 2008
Inaugural address by Antal van
den Bosch, Het volgende woord (in Dutch), is now online. October 10, 2008
Antal van den
Bosch gives lecture on "computer common sense" at the Tilburg-Eindhoven
Children's
University (Kinderuniversiteit, site is in Dutch), targeted
at children of age 9-12, on
November 10, 2008. September 27, 2008
Ruud Liebregts graduates
cum laude on his HAIT Master's thesis Design, development and
evaluation of a university-wide expert search engine. News
coverage by Eindhovens
Dagblad and faculty news item (in Dutch). July 29, 2008
First public release of Timpute version 0.1.1 beta, a Timbl-based wrapper for data imputation. Developed within the MITCH project, programmed by Steve Hunt. June 23, 2008
More press coverage of the foundation of TiCC, Tilburg center
for Creative Computing, in Brabants
Dagblad, Z24 (in Dutch). June 20, 2008
Dutch Bright tech magazine
reports
on the Master's thesis of Peter Garama and Patrick de
Man on image search with keyword searching vs. browsing in tag
clouds (in Dutch). May 19, 2008
Tilburg University announces the
foundation of TiCC, Tilburg Centre for Creative Computing,
focusing on artificial intelligence, cognitive modelling,
human-machine interaction, games, and serious gaming. New Tilburg professors
Jaap van den Herik (director) and
Eric Postma team up with Antal
van den Bosch to head the centre. Press
release, also covered by Computable and Observant. May 8, 2008
Open Mind Commons, an online open collaboratory for gathering common sense world knowledge, opens up a Dutch portal, in a collaborative effort between site developers MIT Media Lab and ILK. May 8, 2008
The ILK research group announces an open Ph.D. position in the new MEMPHIX project. Application deadline: May 15, 2008. April 22, 2008
Parliament members Schinkelshoek
(CDA) and Kalma (PvdA) raise the issue of stilted funding from
the side of the Netherlands, of a Dutch-Flemish project for the
collection of a large corpus of current written Dutch. April 4, 2008
New versions of TiMBL and MBT released. The TiMBL software package has been
upgraded to version 6.1; in tandem, MBT has been moved to version 3.1,
assuming an installed Timbl 6.1. December 12, 2007
Problems with ILK webserver. On Friday Nov 23, 2007, our
webserver crashed. The crash has left us with a number of problems,
notably demos that are not up yet. We apologize for any inconvenience,
and are working on solving the remaining issues. December, 2007
The Implicit Linguistic project receives funding from NWO NCF for running experiments on the SGI Origin 3000 MIPS/Altix 3700 at SARA, the Dutch national academic computing centre. May 22, 2007
Martin Reynaert is one of the winners
of the BNC
XML Prize, based on a submitted bug report indicating 3,500
spelling errors in the BNC. Martin is awarded a free copy of the new BNC
corpus. April 5, 2007
We're hiring! Open
position (three year full-time) for post-doc researcher in
the NWO Vici project Implicit Linguistics. Application
deadline: April 20, 2007. March 12, 2007
Dutch popular science magazine Quest quotes Antal van den Bosch and other
Dutch AI researchers in a cover article "Mens versus Computer" (man vs
machine). February 14, 2007
Tilburg University's Faculty of Arts becomes part of bigger Faculty
of Humanities; Department of Language and Information Sciences
becomes Department of Communication and Information
Sciences. January 1, 2007
Idee
te koop, article in Univers, Tilburg University's
weekly. December 7, 2006
