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Brief Biography (English)
Menno Matthias van Zaanen is a Professor in Digital Humanities, with a background in computational linguistics.
In the past, he mainly focused on unsupervised grammatical inference and applied machine learning to sequential data (in particular natural language).
Prof Van Zaanen has worked on multi-modal structuring of data (music) and multi-modal information retrieval, as well as proofing tools (spelling checkers for African languages). More recently, he has been concentrating on applying digital techniques in the humanities.
Prof Van Zaanen's Specialties are Research in computational linguistics and machine learning.
