Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden

People

Group members

Suzan Verberne
Full Professor
Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval
Zhaochun Ren
Associate Professor
Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems
Tessa Verhoef
Assistant Professor
Emergent Communication
Gijs Wijnholds
Assistant Professor
Computational Linguistics
Flor Plaza
Assistant Professor
Socially aware Natural Language Processing
Lifeng Han
Postdoc and lecturer
The 4D PICTURE Project: Design-based Data-Driven Decision-support Tools (WP3: Text Mining)
Michiel van der Meer
Postdoc
Hybrid Intelligence
Andreas Paraskeva
PhD student
Parsimonious architectures for Large Language Models
Elena Stringli
PhD student
Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing
Farrukh Baratov
PhD student and ICAI lab AI4Oversight. XCOM: XAI-driven Compliance Detection in Dutch Regulatory Contexts (co-supervised by Niki van Stein)
I-Fan Lin
PhD student
Domain adaptation for conversational agents
Jiawen Qi
PhD student
(co-supervised by Qinyu Chen)
Jujia Zhao
PhD student
Integrating search and recommendation with generative models
Mert Yazan
PhD student
Domain adaptation for conversational agents
David Lindevelt
PhD student
Affective text to speech generation (co-supervised by Joost Broekens)
Mingweg Zhang
PhD student
Agentic Search and AI4Science
Sabijn Perdijk
PhD student
StorytimeLM - Improving the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Language Models (LMs) with Narrative Data (co-supervised by Max van Duijn)
Yee Man Ng
PhD student
(supervised by Marco Spruit)
Yumeng Wang
PhD student
Transparency and explainability of conversational agents

PhD graduates from the group

Alex Brandsen
Digging in Documents: using text mining to access the hidden knowledge in Dutch archaeological excavation reports
Amin Abolghasemi
Improving neural retrieval models in domain-specific contexts
Anne Dirkson
Knowledge discovery from patient forums: Gaining novel medical insights from patient experiences
Juan Bascur Cifuentes
Interactive visual browsing and retrieval of scientific literature
Myrthe Reuver
(VU Amsterdam) A Puzzle of Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Language Technology for Responsible News Recommendation
Gineke Wiggers
The Relevance of Impact: bibliometric-enhanced legal information retrieval
Qianru Meng,
PhD student
Software repository mining
Xue Wang,
(joint PhD with Xi'an Jiaotong University) Multi modal representation learning and cross-modal semantic matching

External PhD students and guests

  • Ali Satvaty, PhD student at the University of Groningen (Privacy and Safety in Language Models and Conversational Agents, LESSEN project)
  • Jia-Huei (Dylan) Ju, PhD student at UvA (Hybrid Intelligence)
  • Shray Juneja, EndD candidate at TU Eindhoven