Gerrit Bloothooft
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS - Language, logic and i
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Gerrit Bloothooft (1952), as a teacher / researcher, was interested in naming science, in collaboration with the Meertens Institute of KNAW, firstly identifying the personal names in the Netherlands based on information from the Municipal Basic Administration. In addition, the human voice has traditionally been of interest, especially the singing voice. In general, his interest in pattern recognition in various domains. Historically, data-related data-sharing is part of this, and in this area he works in collaboration with the IISH (Amsterdam) based on digitized data of the old civil status (WieWasWie) for a reconstruction of the population after 1811.
Research Interest
Information Technologies in Science and Society
Publications
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Bloothooft, G., Hazan, V. & Huber, D. (1995). European Studies in Phonetics and Speech Communication . (560 p.). Utrecht: OTS publications.
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Bloothooft, G. & Groot, LFM (2008). Name Clustering on the Basis of Parental Preferences . Names , 56 (3), (pp. 111-163) (53 p.).
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Bloothooft, G. & Onland, D (2011). Socioeconomic determinants of first names. Names , 59 (1), (pp. 25-41) (17 p.).
