Menno van Zaanen

Current

• Assistant professor at Tilburg University
• Coordinator HAIT at Tilburg University
• Chair at International Community in Grammatical Inference

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Past

• Researcher at Tilburg University
• Lecturer at Tilburg University
• Research Fellow at Macquarie University

• Casual Lecturer at Macquarie University
• Professeur Invité at Université de Saint-Etienne
• Data manager at HCSNet
• Postdoc Researcher at Tilburg University
• Guest researcher at University of Groningen
• Postdoc Researcher at University of Amsterdam

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Education

• Macquarie University
• University of Leeds
• Universiteit van Amsterdam

• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Albanianae

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Connections

295 connections

Industry

Research

Websites

• My Website

Menno van Zaanen’s Summary

Researcher in computational linguistics, mainly focussing on unsupervised grammatical inference and applied machine learning to sequential data (in particular natural language). Worked on multi-modal structuring of data (music) and multi-modal information retrieval, as well on proofing tools (spelling checkers for african languages).

Menno van Zaanen’s Specialties:

Research in computational linguistics and machine learning.

Menno van Zaanen’s Experience

• Assistant professor

  Tilburg University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  September 2009 — Present (3 months)

• Coordinator HAIT

  Tilburg University

  (Research industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

• Chair

  International Community in Grammatical Inference

  (Research industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

• Researcher

  Tilburg University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  January 2008 — August 2009 (1 year 8 months)

• Lecturer

  Tilburg University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  January 2008 — August 2009 (1 year 8 months)

• Research Fellow

  Macquarie University

  (Research industry)

  November 2004 — December 2007 (3 years 2 months)

• Casual Lecturer

  Macquarie University

  (Research industry)

  February 2007 — July 2007 (6 months)

• Professeur Invité

  Université de Saint-Etienne

  (Research industry)

  May 2007 — May 2007 (1 month)

• Data manager

  HCSNet

  (Research industry)

  April 2005 — March 2006 (1 year )

• Postdoc Researcher

  Tilburg University

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  November 2002 — October 2004 (2 years )

• Guest researcher

  University of Groningen

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  2001 — 2004 (3 years )

• Postdoc Researcher

  University of Amsterdam

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  November 2001 — October 2002 (1 year )

Menno van Zaanen’s Education

• Macquarie University

  post-graduate certificate , Higher Education , 2007 — 2007

• University of Leeds

  PhD , Computer Science , 1998 — 2002

• Universiteit van Amsterdam

  MA , Computational Linguistics , 1994 — 1998

• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  MSc , Computer Science , 1991 — 1997

• Albanianae

  VWO , 1985 — 1991

Additional Information

Menno van Zaanen’s Websites:

• My Website

Menno van Zaanen’s Interests:

computational linguistics, music, running, pinball