Piek Vossen (2013)

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 *ociation.

Contents

• 1 Education
• 2 Awards
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Education

Vossen graduated from the University of Amsterdam in Dutch and general linguistics and obtained a PhD (* 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"-compe*ion 2013 with the project "Can we Handle the News".

Vossen was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.

References

External links

• Official website
• Faculty page at the VU University Amsterdam