Inge van Ruiten 

Management assistent

Clariah Office

Susanne Shatanawi

Programme manager

Programme management

I am one of the technology track leaders of WP3 and team leader of the CLARIAH team at Radboud University, Nijmegen. I am professor of Language and Speech Technology and Research Director at the Centre for Language Studies at Radboud University. In my research I develop machine learning and language technology. Most of my work involves the intersection of the two fields: computers that learn to understand and generate natural language. Specific interests include memory-based learning, language modelling, the relation between written and spoken language, text mining, the Dutch language, computational humanities, and cultural heritage.

Aside from my activities in CLARIAH, I participate in the NWO research infrastructure project Nederlab (

), the NWO ‘gravity’ project Language in Interaction (

), the NWO Creative Industry project Discosumo (

), and several other research projects - see my personal webpage for more information.

Antal van den Bosch

Principal Investigator

Director

Bijzonder hoogleraar Taal en Kunstmatige Intelligentie

Board - Research

Prof.Dr. Jan Odijk is full professor of language and speech technology at UIL-OTS (University of Utrecht) since 2001. He has a background in theoretical and computational linguistics and got his PhD at the University of Tilburg in 1993. He worked as an employee of the University of Utrecht on theoretical syntax (1982-1985), and on machine translation in the Rosetta project at Philips Research Labs (1985-1988). From 1988-1992 he continued his research into machine translation as an employee of Philips, and later focused on language and speech interfaces (1992-1997) at IPO, Eindhoven and the Philips Research Labs.

Since 1997 he worked at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (in Ieper, Belgium) as Senior Director Linguistic Resources, and continued this position in L&H’s successors ScanSoft and Nuance until 2008. He has been involved in a wide range of national and European projects related to language resources,. He was member of the Spoken Dutch Corpus (CGN) and IMIX steering committees. He was board member of ELRA from 2000-2006, chaired the programme committee of the Dutch/Flemish language and speech technology programme STEVIN, participated in the EU project META-NET, is the Netherlands National Anchor Point for the META network, was programme director of CLARIN-NL (2009-2015) and CLARIAH-SEED (2013-2014), and is CLARIAH-CORE director since 2015.

Jan Odijk

Professor of Language and Speech technology

Board - General

After my studies in Geophysics, Italian Language & Culture and a PhD in Phonetics, I started working for three years at two universities in Germany (Düsseldorf and Ulm). Thereafter. I moved for three years to a commercial enterprise in Brussels: the illustrious TST company Lernout & Hauspie.

By doing so, I entered the world of Language and Speech Technology (TST). A fascinating environment where "technology" is combined with "humanity" in the broadest sense of the word. In my Brussels period, it became clear that I did not want to work in a "purely" commercial environment and that the combination of research and business seemed ideal.
Once back in the Netherlands (1998), this could be achieved because two outstanding applications (University of Twente and ComSys) were both assessed positively within a few days. Since then, I have divided my working life between academia and business. Something else was added in 2009: CLARIN.NL, the Infrastructure for the Humanities Programme. The aim of CLARIN, CLARIAH and since 2019, CLARIAH-PLUS is to standardize both textual sources and tools that can do something with them.

An example is speech recognition: few researchers can simply install a speech recognition expert with an appropriate language model on the computers at work. Also, most text corpora that do not exist without technical help can be converted into a format that is suitable for the recognizer. Clarin aims to create an infrastructure that will enable researchers to make use of the available data and tools without too much technical know-how.

Arjan van Hessen

Researcher

Board - Communication, Dissemination & Education

Sebastiaan Fluitsma

Programme Manager Marketing & Communications

Communications & Press

Jauco Noordzij

WP2 Leader

Chief Product Development, Department of Digital Infrastructure

WP2 Technology

Gijsbert Rutten

WP3 Leader

Professor of Historical Sociolinguistics of Dutch

Director of Education, Centre of Linguistics

WP3 Linguïstiek

Richard L. Zijdeman obtained his PhD at the 

Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology

(ICS), Utrecht University in 2010. His main research focuses on social stratification structures and how and why people are moving across these structures (mobility / status attainment). He thereby focuses specifically on the issue of how technological changes (e.g. industrialization, internet, means of transportation) facilitate opportunities or raise barriers for such movements. Currently the focus of his research is on gender segregation and female labour force participation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In his research, Zijdeman uses quantitative sources with occupational data: mainly digitalized personal records such as marriage records, as well as digitalized register data, such as censuses. In order to understand the influence of technological change he also uses detailed regional data on technological innovations.

Zijdeman is a (part-time) postdoctoral fellow at the 

at the International Institute of Social History. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Applied Social Science of the University of Stirling and co-founder of the international academic collaboratory 

. He is involved in several research projects, e.g. the project "

" at Utrecht University to work on issues of household formation and marriage patterns.

Richard Zijdeman

WP4 Leader

Chief Innovation Officer and Senior Researcher

WP4 Socio-economic History 

Operational Workpackage Leader CLARIAH WP5 "Media Studies and Audiovisual Data", 

Coordinator intensive course package "Television and Media Culture", BA Media and Culture

I obtained a PhD in Social Sciences (University of Antwerp, 2008) with a dissertation on Post-Soviet Russian Film Policy, for which I conducted research at the 

 in Moscow. One of the main results of this research was a framework for national cinema analysis, published 

In 2009, I started working as a postdoctoral researcher on media and migration, and conducted a visual methods study on photography, as part of the media and diaspora research line of Utrecht University. The methodological framework for photograph analysis is published 

From 2010 onwards, I work within the field of 

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

 a tool for mapping historical film distribution and programming (NWO-KIEM). In 2014, I also worked within the 

 at the media studies department of UvA. Since 2015, I am part of the Core Team WP5 Audiovisual Data and Media Studies of the national infrastructural project CLARIAH (NWO), aimed at developing the national research infrastructure for audiovisual data 

, and as from January 2019 I am its Operational Workpackage Leader.

In addition, I was visiting scholar at the 

 and member of the first cohort of fellows of MIT's digital humanities lab 

SCMS SIG "Digital Humanities and Videographic Criticism"

 that links the international community of film and television scholars working within the dynamic field of video essays and digital humanities. Currently, I am co-editing with Lauren Tilton, Taylor Arnold and Stef Scagliola a special issue on 

Audiovisual Data in Digital Humanities Quarterly

, planned to be published in Winter 2020.

In the area of teaching, my research interests involve 

. Central to this is the development of a model for 

 in a joint venture with Marijn Koolen (KNAW Humanities Cluster) and Jacco van Ossenbruggen (VU Amsterdam), published 

. I am developing new courses in the area of audiovisual data and interactive storytelling, such as 

 (from 2018 onwards). Currently, I am working with Christian Olesen (UU/UvA) on the educational platform CLARIAH 

, and with Willemien Sanders and Mari Wigham (NISV) on the CLARIAH 

As part of practice-as-research, I have done internships for 

 in Tallinn. During my Phd and postdoctoral research, I co-produced two 

 (shot in Ukraine). Currently, I am working on a small analogue photography project, see 

Jasmijn van Gorp

WP5 Co-leader

Assistant professor of Audiovisual Data Studies

WP5 Media Studies

Karina van Dalen-Oskam studied Dutch Linguistics and Literary studies at the University of Utrecht and in 1997 gained her PhD from Leiden University with the thesis 

Studies over Jacob van Maerlants Rijmbijbel

. From 1988 to 2001 she worked at the Institute for Dutch Lexicology in Leiden. In 2002, she started at the Nederlands Instituut voor Wetenschappelijke Informatiediensten (NIWI-KNAW, Netherlands Institute for Scientiﬁc Information Services) as head of the department of Dutch Linguistics and Literary Studies and as senior researcher.
Since June 2005 she has been working at Huygens ING, where she started as research leader of the department of ICT & Texts. Since 1 July 2011 she is head of the department of Literary Studies.

From March 2012 onward she is also professor of Computational Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam, where she delivered her inaugural lecture on 1 February 2013, 

. She was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) from 2011-2014 and president of EADH from 2014-2015. In November 2015 she became chair of the international digital humanities organization ADHO (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations).

Her research focuses on computational literary studies and she is engaged in the development of methods and techniques for the stylistic analysis of modern Dutch (and English) novels. Her aim is to develop comparative methods that can be applied to analyze stylistic differences in texts, oeuvres, genres, time periods, and cultures or languages.

 and currently leads, among other things, the 

project: Textual scholarship and the challenge of digital literary writing and (at the University of Wolverhamptom with Bas Groes) 

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