Piek Vossen
Dutch academic
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| Intro | Dutch academic | |
| Places | Netherlands | |
| is | Computer scientist Educator | |
| Work field | Academia Technology Science | |
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Biography
Piek Th.J.M. Vossen (born 1960, Schaesberg, the Netherlands), is professor of computational lexicology at the VU University Amsterdam, head of the Computational Lexicology & Terminology Lab, and founder and president of the Global WordNet Association.
Education
Vossen graduated from the University of Amsterdam in Dutch and general linguistics and obtained a PhD (cum laude) in computational lexicology in 1995 at the same university.
Awards
Vossen is a recipient of the 2013 Spinoza Prize and a winner of the "Enlighten Your Research"-competition 2013 with the project "Can we Handle the News".