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.









