Piek Vossen
Piek Th.J.M. Vossen, is professor of computational lexicology at the VU University Amsterdam, head of the Computational Lexicology & Terminology Lab, and founder and president of the Global WordNet Association.Education
Vossen graduated from the University of Amsterdam in Dutch and general linguistics and obtained a PhD in computational lexicology in 1995 at the same university.Awards
Vossen is a recipient of the 2013 Spinoza Prize and a winner of the "Enlighten Your Research"-competition 2013 with the project "Can we Handle the News".
Vossen was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.
