Some interesting webpages
- The CoNLL-X shared
task in 2006 was multilingual dependency parsing; I was one of the
organizers.
- my online demo of
the Nextens text-to-speech system for Dutch
- some other demos from
the IILK group, including my
online demo of the
Maltparser dependency parser for Dutch
- DAESO,
the project I'm curently working on
- IMOGEN,
a project about multimodal information-presentation which I worked in
- PROSIT, another project I worked
in, which is about predicting prosody using machine learning
techniques
- The Nederlandse
Vereniging voor Fonetische Wetenschappen (Dutch Society of
Phonetic Sciences). I am a former member of the board
- Ken Perlin's responsive
face demo. It really amazing how much emotion/attitude can be
expressed with a few simple lines.
- the homepage
of
Norman Spinrad, one of my favorite SF writers. See
also here.
- A recent discovery is Richard Morgan.
- Another writer whose work I like very
much is
Murakami Haruki
- De Kift, a great Dutch band.
Listen to one of
the samples.
- I'm addicted to audio books. A good source for free audio books is Podiobooks. I can recommmend
Crescent,
Shadowmagic,
Earthcore,
Singularity,
Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword