F.m.g. De Jong (franciska)
Director and Programme Leader
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Franciska de Jong has a background in theoretical linguistics. She switched to the area of computational linguistics and human language technology in 1985, when she joined Philips Research to work on machine translation. At the Erasmus University Rotterdam she combines her work as chair of e-Research for the Social Sciences and the Humanities at ESHCC with her role of director of the Erasmus Studio. She also has a position as professor of e-Research for the Humanities at the University of Utrecht. As as of 1 September 2015 she is executive director of CLARIN ERIC. At the University of Twente in Enschede she has been professor of language technology since 1992 (for details see her UT homepage.) Her current research focus is on multimedia indexing, text mining, cross-language information retrieval and the disclosure of cultural heritage collections (in particular spoken word audio archives). She is active as a board member for several institutes and organisations, e.g., the General Board of the Dutch Research Council (NWO), The Netherlands Royal Library (KB), the Institute for Dutch Lexicology (INL), and Stichting Letteren en Samenleving Rotterdam.
Research Interest
human technology
Publications
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Hogenboom, A. and Heerschop, B. and Frasincar, F. and Kaymak, U. and de Jong, F.M.G.(2014) Multilingual Support for Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis Guided by Semantics.Decision support systems, 62 (1). pp. 43-53.
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Scagliola, S. and de Jong, F.M.G. (2014), Clio's talkative daughther goes digital. The interplay between technology and oral accounts as historical data. In: The Making of the Humanities, Volume III: The Modern Humanities. Edited by R. Bod, J. Maat and T. Weststeijn. Amsterdam University Press, 2014, pp. 511-526.
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de Jong, F.M.G. and van Hessen, A.J. and Petrovic, T. and Scagliola, S.I. (2014) Croatian Memories : speech, meaning and emotions in a collection of interviews on experiences of war and trauma.In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), 26-31 May 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland. ELRA.
