Research Projects
Research Projects
- Jirí Zamečník, Disfluency prediction in natural
spoken language
1ter Gutachter : Prof. Christian Mair, Freiburg. (JN Zweitgutachter)
- Proscovia Olango
A Document Enrichment Approach to facilitate reading comprehension
Jan 20, 2020.
Promotor: Prof. Henk Sol, Groningen (Economics & Business). JN second promotor.
- Franz Manni
Linguistic Probes into Human History
July 6, 2017.
Prof. Serge Bahuchet, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, was second promotor.
- Sandra Hansen-Morath,
Regionale und soziolinguistische Variation im alemannischen Dreiländereck. Quantitative Studien zum Dialektwandel.
Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg.
Defense date: May 13, 2016.
1ter Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Peter Auer; JN was 2ter
Gutachter.
- Jelena Golubovic
Mutual intelligibility in the Slavic language area.
May 2, 2016.
Co-promotor: Dr.Charlotte Gooskens (JN and Vincent van Heuven
were promotors).
- Femke Swarte
Predicting the mutual intelligibility of Germanic languages from
linguistic and extra-linguistic factors.
3 March 2016.
Co-promotor: Dr.Charlotte Gooskens (JN and Vincent van Heuven
were promotors).
- Oscar Strik.
Modelling Analogical Change: A History of Swedish and Frisian
Verb Inflection.
15 Oct. 2015.
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Muriel Norde (JN and Arjen Versloot were
second promotors).
- Ken Decker.
Orthography Development for Creole Languages.
20 Nov. 2014.
Co-Promotor: Dr. Charlotte Gooskens
- Jacky Benavides.
Measuring the historical city. The reliability of historical land
surveying methods and thier use in virtual urban cartography.
3 July 2014.
Second promotor: Prof. Charles van den Heuvel;
Co-Promotor: Dr. Elwin Koster
- Harm Brouwer.
The electrophysiology of language comprehension: A
neurocomputational model. 26 June 2014
Promotor:
Prof. Dr. John Hoeks (JN was second promotor)
Harm Brouwer
won the 2015
Glushko prize for outstanding dissertations in cognitive
science. It is awarded by the
Cognitive Science Society
- Fridah Katushemererwe.
Computational Morphology and Bantu Language Learning:
An Implementation for Runyakitara
25 June 2013.
Co-promotors: Dr. Rehema Baguma and Dr. Arvi Hurskainen
- Gideon Kotzé.
Complementary approaches to tree alignment: Combining
statistical and rule-based methods.
24 June 2013.
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Gertjan van Noord (JN was second promotor)
- Daniël de Kok.
Reversible stochastic attribute-value grammars.
11 Apr. 2013.
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Gertjan van Noord (JN was second promotor)
-
Marjoleine Sloos.
Phonological Grammar and Frequency: An Integrated Approach. Evidence
from German, Indonesian and Japanese.
28 Feb. 2013.
Promotors: Prof. Dr. John Nerbonne and
Prof. Dr. Jeroen van de Weijer, Shanghai
Co-promotors: Dr. Charlotte Gooskens and Dr. Dicky Gilbers.
- Kostadin Cholakov.
Lexical Acquisition for Computational Grammars. A Unified Model.
5 Nov. 2012.
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Gertjan van Noord (JN was second promotor)
- Martijn Wieling
A Quantitative Approach to Social and Geographical Dialect Variation
cum laude 28 June 2012. Prof. Dr. R. Harald Baayen was
second promotor.
- Çağrı Çöltekin
Catching Words in a Stream of Speech: Computational Simulations
of Segmenting Transcribed Child-Directed Speech
8 Dec. 2011.
- Barbara Plank
Domain Adaptation for Parsing cum laude
8 Dec. 2011.
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Gertjan van Noord (JN was second promotor)
- Peter Nabende
Applying Dynamic Bayesian Networks in Transliteration Detection
and Generation
2 Dec. 2011.
Co-promotor: Dr. Erik Tjong Kim Sang
- Anja Schüppert
Origin of Asymmetry. Mutual Intelligibility of Spoken Danish and Swedish
14 Nov. 2011.
Co-promotor: Dr. Charlotte Gooskens
- Jelena Prokić
Families and Resemblances
29 Nov. 2010.
- Therese Leinonen.
An Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Pronunciation in Swedish
Dialects.
1 July 2010. Winner of the 2010 prize of the Kungl.
Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur,
(Royal Gustav Adolph Academy for Swedish Folk Culture)
including 25,000 Swedish Kronor, awarded 6 Nov. 2010.
Co-promotor: Dr. Charlotte Gooskens
- Tim Van de Cruys.
Mining for Meaning. The Extraction of Lexico-Semantic
Knowledge from Text.
24 June 2010
Co-Promotor: Dr. Gertjan van Noord
- Robert G. Shackleton, Jr.
A Quantitative Examination of English-American
Speech Relationships.
17 June 2010
Second Promotor: Prof. William Kretzschmar, Jr.
- Geoffrey Andogah.
Geographically Constrained Information Retrieval
21 May 2010
Co-Promotor: Dr. Gosse Bouma
- Francisco Borges
Parse Selection with Support Vector Learning
18 Feb 2010
Co-Promotor: Dr. Gertjan van Noord
- Ismail Fahmi
Automatic Term and Relation Extraction for Medical
Question-Answering Systems
14 May 2009
Co-Promotor: Dr. Gosse Bouma
- Lonneke van der Plas
Automatic Lexico-Semantic Acquistion for Question Answering
23 Oct. 2008
Co-Promotor: Dr. Gosse Bouma
- Jori Mur
Off-line Answer Extraction for Question Answering 23 Oct. 2008
Co-Promotor: Dr. Gosse Bouma
- Marco René Spruit
Quantitative Perspectives on
Syntactic Variation in Dutch Dialects Amsterdam, 26 Mar. 2008
Promotors: Hans Bennis and John Nerbonne
- Tamás Bíró
Finding the
Right Words: Implementing Optimality Theory with
Simulated Annealing 7 Dec. 2006
Recipient of the AVT/Anéla prize
for the best linguistics dissertation in the Netherlands
in 2007. See prize committee's
remarks (in Dutch).
Co-Promotors: Dr. Gosse Bouma and Dr. Dicky Gilbers
- Hideotoshi Shiraishi
Topics in Nivkh Phonology 14 Sept. 2006
Co-Promotor: Dr. Tjeerd de Graaf
- Leonoor van der Beek
Topics in Corpus-Based Dutch Syntax 10 Nov. 2005
Co-Promotor: Dr. Gertjan van Noord
- Robbert Prins
Finite-State Preprocessing for Natural Language Analysis
12 May 2005
Co-Promotor: Dr. Gertjan van Noord
- Begoña Villada Moirón
Data-Driven Identification of Fixed Expressions and theri
Modifiability 24 March 2005
Co-Promotor: Dr. Gertjan van Noord
- Susanne Schoof
An HPSG Account of Nonfinite Verbal Complements in Latin
6 Dec. 2004
Co-Promotor: Dr. Gosse Bouma and Dr. Gerry Wakker
- Tanya Gaustad
Linguistic Knowledge and Word-Sense Disambiguation 1 Nov. 2004
Co-Promotor: Dr. Gertjan van Noord
- Wouter Jansen
Laryngeal Contrast and Phonetic Voicing: A Laboratory Phonology
Approach to English, Hungarian, and Dutch 27 May 2004.
Co-Promotor: Dr. Dicky Gilbers
See also his summary (in Dutch)
with online demo.
- Wilbert Heeringa
Measuring Dialect Pronunciation Difference using Levenshtein
Distance 8 Jan 2004, cum laude
See also
Related papers, etc. on exact techniques in variationist
linguistics
- Stasinos Konstantopoulos
Using ILP to Learn Local Linguistic Strcutures 28 Nov. 2003
- Tony Mullen
An Investigation into Compositional Features and Feature Merging
for Maximum Entropy-Based Parsing 22 Mar. 2002
Co-Promotors: Dr. Rob Malouf and Dr. Miles Osborne
- Rob Koeling
Dialogue-Based Disambiguation: Using Dialogue Status to
Improve Speech Understanding 25 Jan. 2002
Co-Promotor: Dr. Gertjan van Noord
- Ivilin Stoianov
Connectionist Lexical Processing 23 Mar. 2001
- Erik Tjong Kim Sang
Machine Learning of Phonotactics 19 Oct. 1998
- George Welling
The Prize of Neutrality : Trade Relations between Amsterdam and
North America 1771-1817. A Study in Computational History
25 June 1998
Second Promotor: Prof. Leo Noordegraaf
- Mettina Veenstra
Formalizing the Minimalist Program 11 June 1998
Co-Promotors: Dr. Gosse Bouma and Dr. Jan-Wouter Zwart
John Nerbonne
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