Welcome

Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden (TMRL) is the research group of Suzan Verberne at Leiden University. The group was founded as one of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of the Data Science research programme and is now part of the Data Science cluster at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS).

The research focus of the group is on domain-specific Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR). Current projects implement and evaluate methods in the legal, the archaeological, the policy-making, and the health domain. We work with a large diversity of textual data: grey literature reports, scientific and legal publications, EU law texts, health records, user-generated content in online patient communities (discussion forums), and posts on social media. We engage in interdisciplinary collaborations.

Social values of our group are: diversity (in background, working style, and personal interests) & inclusivity; teamwork (a PhD project can feel as a lonely job, but not if you have peers that support you); and work-life balance (yes, we take time off during weekends and vacations).

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