About
Veronique Hoste is a Full Professor of Computational Linguistics at Ghent University's Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, where she serves as Department Head of the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication and Director of the LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team. Her work bridges machine learning with natural language processing, focusing on semantics, discourse modeling, and practical applications in emotion detection, irony recognition, and customer service dialogue analysis.
- PhD in Computational Linguistics from University of Antwerp (2005)
- 2023-2024: Francqui Chair at Université Libre de Bruxelles
- 2024: Elected to Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium (KVAB)
Research Interests: Specializes in machine learning approaches to coreference resolution, sentiment analysis, and multimodal emotion detection. Leads projects like FlandersAI (empathy in conversational agents), METRICS (emotion trajectories in service dialogues), and SENTiVENT (financial event extraction). Develops high-quality datasets (e.g., EmotioNL, ENCORE) for broader NLP community use.
Recent Publications span Dutch social media irony detection, Classical Chinese poetry sentiment analysis, and multimodal emotion datasets. Collaborates on interdisciplinary initiatives like NewsDNA (news recommendation) and SentEMO (commercial sentiment analysis).
- Scientific Awards
- Francqui Chair (2023-2024)
- KVAB Membership (2024)
Outreach includes co-founding AlfaSent (LT3 spin-off for customer feedback analysis) and authoring the first Dutch-language NLP book Taaltechnologie Ontrafeld (2024). Coordinates AI education initiatives like the AI at School project.
