Piek Th.J.M. Vossen (born 1960, Schaesberg, the Netherlands), is professor of computational lexicology at the VU University Amsterdam, [1] head of the Computational Lexicology & Terminology Lab, [2] and founder and president of the Global WordNet Association. [3]
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. [4]
Vossen is a recipient of the 2013 Spinoza Prize [5] and a winner of the "Enlighten Your Research"-competition 2013 with the project "Can we Handle the News". [6]
Vossen was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. [7] [8]
WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words in more than 200 languages. WordNet links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples. WordNet can thus be seen as a combination and extension of a dictionary and thesaurus. While it is accessible to human users via a web browser, its primary use is in automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications. WordNet was first created in the English language and the English WordNet database and software tools have been released under a BSD style license and are freely available for download from that WordNet website.
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