dr. Kim Luyckx Computational linguistics, authorship attribution, digital humanities
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About me

Kim Luyckx (born in 1982), passionate computational linguist.

In 2004, I joined the CNTS Language Technology Group as a PhD student in computational stylometry under the supervision of Walter Daelemans. From 2007 to 2010, I was part of the Stylometry project team. Currently I am the coordinator of the AMiCA (Automatic Monitoring for Cyberspace Applications) project.

In 2010, I defended my PhD dissertation in Computational Linguistics at the University of Antwerp. Read more about the dissertation here.

CV [online version] -- [pdf version]

Research

My research is about the automatic extraction of linguistic aspects of text that give information about the author or characteristics of the author - like gender, personality, etc. A system for computational stylometry can be applied to tasks like authorship attribution, personality prediction, gender prediction, or plagiarism detection on any type of text (be it literary, newspaper or blog).

If you want to know more on my line of research, there is an article about it (in Dutch) on Kennislink [read]

Currently, I am involved in a large-scale social media analysis project as a coordinator and postdoc researcher. I continue to do research in stylometry, more specifically in large-scale authorship analysis, authorship attribution, and intrinsic plagiarism detection.

Research interests

Computational stylometry | Authorship attribution & verification | Personality prediction | Digital Humanities | Text Mining | Machine Learning | Artificial Intelligence

News

See the News page for a full list of research activities and involvements

• From January 2012 on, I will be working on biomedical text mining for the University Hospital Antwerp (Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen (UZA)). I remain connected to CLiPS and the University of Antwerp as an associate researcher.
• December 12, 2011. A review of my PhD dissertation, written by Shlomo Argamon (Illinois Institute of Technology) was published in Literary and Linguistic Computing. You can read it here.
• December 1-2, 2011. I will present recent work at the 15th ATILA Research Meeting, Antwerp, Belgium.
• November 29, 2011. I will attend Taal in Bedrijf in Rotterdam.
• November - December, 2011. I teach the 'Semantics and Discourse' part of a MA/AMA course in Computational Linguistics, both at University of Antwerp (UA) and at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

Other interests

Organisation: Since 2006, I have been organizing the CNTS/CLiPS colloquia. For a list of events in the near feature, check the group's website.

PR: I have a keen interest in communication and PR between academia and public/business.

Blog: I am the author of the Taal&TechnologieBlog (in Dutch) powered by EOS, a popular science magazine.

Links

Links to research groups, colleagues, and people in authorship attribution and stylometry