Piek Vossen

Prof. Piek Vossen is Full Professor of Computational Lexicology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, heading the Computational Lexicology & Terminology Lab (CLTL). A Spinoza Laureate (2013) and Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion (2015), his research integrates computational linguistics, WordNets, and conversational AI. He co-founded the Global WordNet Association and leads projects including 'Make Robots Talk', 'Dutch FrameNet', and the Hybrid Intelligence Centre.

Key research areas:

• Multilingual semantic networks and ontologies
• Cross-lingual language modeling
• Conversational agents and social robots
• Event extraction and perspective analysis
• Computational analysis of discourse and argumentation

His recent work focuses on toxicity analysis in online discourse, medical language models, and hybrid intelligence systems that combine human and machine capabilities.