Supervised PhDs

1. dr. Jens Van Nooten, (The Many Faces of a Text: Applications and Enhancements of Multi-Label Text Classification Algorithms, 2025, Antwerp). Senior researcher at CLiPS, University of Antwerp.
2. dr. August De Mulder, (Feeling (un)represented: A matter of (not) being mentioned?, 2024, Antwerp). Senior researcher at political science, University of Antwerp.
3. dr. Ehsan Lotfi, (Stay Grounded: Incorporating Knowledge in Open-Domain Dialog, 2024, Antwerp). Senior researcher at CLiPS, University of Antwerp.
4. dr. Jens Lemmens, (Sweeping the Social Minefield. Detecting Online Opinions and Emotions with NLP, 2024, Antwerp). Senior researcher at CLiPS, University of Antwerp.
5. dr. Maxime De Bruyn, (Studies in Conversational AI: Multilingual Capabilities, World Knowledge, and Evaluation Strategies, 2024, Antwerp). Tribe AI at BNP Parisbas Fortis.
6. dr. Chris Emmery, (User-centered security in natural language processing, 2023, Tilburg). Assistant professor at Tilburg University.
7. dr. Nicolae Banari, (Applications of artificial intelligence for the resource-scarce cultural heritage domain. From language and image processing to multi-modality, 2022, Antwerp). Senior researcher at CLiPS, University of Antwerp.
8. dr. Tim Kreutz, (Tapping the Social Stream. Inducing Language Resources for Computational Social Science, 2022, Antwerp). Machine Learning Engineer at Dataprovider.com.
9. dr. Pieter Fivez, (More Meaning Than Meets the Eye. Robust and Scalable Applications of Pretrained Representations for Biomedical NLP, 2021, Antwerp). Senior researcher at CLiPS and TEXTUA coordinator, University of Antwerp.

10. dr. Madhumita Sushil, (Exploring and Understanding Neural Models for Clinical Tasks, 2021, Antwerp). Assistent professor at University of California, San Francisco.

11. dr. Stéphan Tulkens, (Dynamic Reading. The processing of orthographic features by dynamical systems, 2020, Antwerp). Machine Learning Engineer at Ecosia and Co-Founder Co-Founder The Minish Lab.

12. dr. Lisa Hilte, (The Social in Social Media Writing. The impact of age, gender and social class indicators on adolescents' informal online writing practices, 2019, Antwerp). VAIA Liaison, Freelance copywriter and teacher.

13. dr. Giovanni Cassani, (The Bootstrapping Toolbox. Which cues are more useful to learn lexical categories and why?, 2019, Antwerp). Assistent professor at Tilburg University.

14. dr. Robert Grimm (Computational Mechanisms for Bootstrapping in Language Development, 2018, Antwerp). Data Scientist at REWE Group.

15. dr. Ben Verhoeven (Two Authors Walk into a Bar, 2018, Antwerp). Owner at ERLNMYR, Science Communicator, Trainer & Improviser.

16. dr. Elyne Scheurwegs (Data Integration for Clinical Coding Algorithms, 2017, Antwerp). Data Engineer UZA.

17. dr. Janneke van de Loo (Machine learning approaches to modeling language use of individuals and demographic groups. Applications in societally relevant natural language processing, 2016, Antwerp). Data scientist / NLP specialist at TNO.

18. dr. Nina Verhaert (Rules or Regularities? The Homophone Dominance Effect in Spelling and Reading Regular Dutch Verb Forms, 2016, Antwerp). Online marketeer at Kingsberry.

19. dr. Frederik Vaassen (Measuring Emotion: Exploring the Feasibility of Automatically Classifying Emotional Text, 2014, Antwerp). Engineering Manager at StepStone.

20. dr. Phil Jackson (Toward Human-Level Artificial Intelligence. Representation and Computation of Meaning in Natural Language, 2014, Tilburg). Founder and Research Scientist at TalaMind LLC.

21. dr. Bram Vandekerckhove (Exemplar-based generalization at the interface between syntax and semantics, 2013, Antwerpen). Head of Engineering and AI @ sAInaptic.

22. dr. Tom De Smedt (Modeling Creativity. Case Studies in Python, 2013, Antwerpen). CTO Textgain.

23. dr. Vincent Van Asch (Domain similarity measures. On the use of distance metrics in natural language processing, 2012, Antwerpen). Data scientist at Cropland.

24. dr. Mike Kestemont (Het gewicht van de auteur. Een onderzoek naar stylometrische auteursherkenning in de Middelnederlandse epiek, 2012, Antwerpen). Full professor at University of Antwerp.

25. dr. Kim Luyckx (Scalability Issues in Authorship Attribution, 2010, Antwerpen). Team Lead of Project Management Office of healthdata.be, Sciensano.

26. dr. Lieve Macken (Sub-sentential alignment of translational correspondences, 2010, Antwerpen). Associate professor, University of Ghent.

27. dr. Stephan Raaijmakers (Multinomial Language Learning. Investigations into the geometry of language, 2009, Tilburg). Professor of Communicative AI at Leiden University (LUCL) and senior scientist AI/NLP at TNO.

28. dr. Sander Canisius (Structured prediction for natural language processing. A constraint satisfaction approach, 2009, Tilburg). Associate Scientific Staff Member at The Netherlands Cancer Institute.

29. dr. Eric Van Horenbeeck (Topical Facets. Semantic patterns between documents and the vocabulary, 2008, Antwerp). Researcher at University of Antwerp.

30. dr. Remi Van Trijp (Analogy and Multi-Level Selection in the Formation of a Case Grammar, 2008, Antwerp). Researcher at SONY Computer Science Laboratories, Paris.

31. dr. Emmanuel Keuleers (Memory-Based Learning of Inflectional Morphology, 2008, Antwerp). Associate Professor at Tilburg University.

32. dr. Martin Reynaert (Text Induced Spelling Correction, 2005, Tilburg). Postdoc researcher Tilburg University.

33. dr. Iris Hendrickx (Local classification and global estimation. Explorations of the k-nearest neighbor algorithm, 2005, Tilburg). Assistant Professor Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

34. dr. Véronique Hoste (Optimization issues in machine learning of coreference resolution, 2004, Antwerp). Full Professor of Computational Linguistics at Ghent University.

35. dr. Piroska Lendvai (Extracting information from spoken user input, 2004, Tilburg). DH and NLP R&D at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich.

36. dr. Olga van Herwijnen (Weighted error minimization in assigning prosodic structure for synthetic speech, 2004, Eindhoven). Board Secretary at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology.

37. dr. Laura Maruster (A machine learning approach to understanding business processes, 2003, Eindhoven). Assistent professor at University of Groningen.

38. dr. Guy De Pauw (An agent-based evolutionary computing approach to memory-based syntactic parsing of natural language, 2002, Antwerp). CEO Textgain.

39. dr. Sabine Buchholz (Memory-based grammatical relation finding, 2002, Tilburg). Founder, Director at SynapseWork Ltd.

40. dr. Sabine Geldof (Context-sensitivity in advisory text generation, 2000, Antwerp). French language teacher.

41. dr. Hans Paijmans (Explorations in the document vector model of information retrieval, 1999, Tilburg, co-supervisor). Senior Technical Advisor at Gcorner-glass; Tilburg University lecturer (retired).

Current PhD Supervision

Andrew Kosar; Ine Gevers; Simon Blanchart; Elif Kilik; Victor De Marez.