Walter Daelemans
Walter Daelemans completed his Leuven doctorate in 1987 on a computer model of Dutch morphology and phonology. He moved from manually built language systems toward machine learning. Daelemans joined Tilburg in 1989 and founded its ILK language-learning group. His work includes Memory-Based Language Processing, published in 2005, and shared work with Antal van den Bosch, Steven Gillis and colleagues. Daelemans became a full-time Antwerp professor in 1999. His research covers authorship attribution, author profiling, clinical text, hate-speech detection and conversational agents, alongside the TEXTUA text-mining facility.
- Now at
- University of Antwerp
- Works
- 616
- Citations
- 11,211
- h-index
- 55
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Timeline
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1987
Language model doctorate
Walter Daelemans completed his Leuven doctorate in 1987 on a computer model of Dutch morphology and phonology. He moved from manually built language systems toward machine learning.
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1989–2005
Memory-based processing
Daelemans joined Tilburg in 1989 and founded its ILK language-learning group. His work includes Memory-Based Language Processing, published in 2005, and shared work with Antal van den Bosch, Steven Gillis and colleagues.
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1999 onward
Antwerp language research
Daelemans became a full-time Antwerp professor in 1999. His research covers authorship attribution, author profiling, clinical text, hate-speech detection and conversational agents, alongside the TEXTUA text-mining facility.
Sources and credits
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