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‘Computers can give linguists a push in the right direction’ 10 November 2022
For decades, linguists have racked their brains over the question of precisely how the syntax of various languages is different. PhD candidate Martin ...
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Using online platforms for citizen participation: Not a magic cure for inclusivity 30 September 2022
You may have noticed this happening more often: your municipality sends you an online questionnaire to find out your opinion on the renovation of a ce...
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Researcher develops Google for archaeologists 04 February 2022
An incredible quantity of archaeological reports are stored in digital archives. If you want to search for information in them, you have to do this ma...
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Tom Kouwenhoven wants to develop a bridge between AI and humans 26 May 2021
It is a familiar phenomenon: you ask the assistant on your phone to call your mother, but it calls a friend instead. Tom Kouwenhoven, PhD student in t...
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Analysing diseases through interactive visual interfaces 07 December 2020
Alzheimer’s disease and cancer are two examples of diseases that are related to malfunctioning cellular patterns. The examination of cell tissue, howe...
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Detecting and comparing sign languages 28 June 2019
For his PhD project, computer scientist Manolis Fragkiadakis is developing a tool that can compare videos of sign language corpora. This would make it...
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A digital eye for archaeologists 25 June 2019
Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart is refining an artificial intelligence system that can detect and classify archaeological objects on digital images. Su...
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Building a bridge between data science and the social and behavioural sciences 25 June 2019
What is the best living environment for dementia patients? To answer this question, Daniela Gawehns is using data mining methods to search through dif...
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The patient forum as a goldmine 25 June 2019
Patients with certain diseases discuss their experiences and support one another on specialised internet forums. With the right data-science methods, ...
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Searching for 27 million patterns in 6,000 tax treaties 24 June 2019
PhD candidate Manon Wintgens is using an algorithm to trawl through thousands of international tax treaties. She hopes to detect a system in the dizzy...
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How biased information on the internet can influence research 06 March 2019
The internet is a good place to rapidly collect large amounts of data. But if you don’t watch out you’ll collect very biased, one-sided data. These we...
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Interactive models: Matthijs van Leeuwen receives NWO TOP grant 18 January 2019
Matthijs van Leeuwen of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science develops methods to make computer models interactive. With interactive model...
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Wessel Kraaij jointly wins the Mark Everingham prize for TRECVid 14 September 2018
The 2018 IEEE Computer Society PAMI Mark Everingham Prize has been awarded jointly to Wessel Kraaij, Alan Smeaton, Paul Over and George Awad for the “...
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First session of new series of grants matchmaking events well visited 05 July 2018
Over 100 participants joined the first grant matchmaking and working session on the call for the Dutch National Research Agenda, on 25 June in the PLN...