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Name: Suzan Verberne
Date of birth: April 29, 1980

Employment

I am employed as a Full Professor (tenured) at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS). I am group leader of Text Mining and Retrieval.

Inaugural lecture, 3 June 2024: Is the search engine of the future a chatbot

Employment history

• 2020 – 2023: Leiden University, Faculty of Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. Associate Professor (tenured)
• 2017 – 2020: Leiden University, Faculty of Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
• 2012 – 2017: Radboud University Nijmegen, Faculty of Science, Institute for Computing and Information Sciences. Postdoctoral researcher.
• 2009 – 2017: Radboud University Nijmegen, Faculty of Arts, Centre for Language & Speech Technology (permanent position). Researcher.
• 2011: University of Wolverhampton, Research Institute in Information and Language Processing. Visiting Lecturer in the International Masters in Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology
• 2010: University of Wolverhampton, Research Institute in Information and Language Processing. Visiting Researcher in the Research Group in Computational Linguistics. Main research topic: anaphora resolution for patent texts
• 2008: University of Amsterdam, Intelligent Systems Lab. Visiting PhD student in the Information and Language Processing Systems group (ILPS)
• 2005 – 2009: Radboud University Nijmegen, Department of Linguistics. PhD candidate in Natural Language Processing/Information Retrieval
• 2003 – 2004: Polderland Language and Speech Technology. Linguistic Engineer and Project Manager. Summary of tasks: Writing functional designs for proofing tools applications; creating and improving language resources, data conversions; planning and coordination of small (2 programmers) projects.
• 2003: Radboud University Nijmegen, Department of Language & Speech. Junior Teacher (temporal replacement)
• 2000 – 2002: Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Department of Language & Speech. Student assistant for the Spoken Dutch Corpus. Summary of tasks: Correcting PoS tagging and lemmatization in the corpus; coordinating the work of 8 fellow students and communication with other project teams.

Awards/Scholarships

• 2024: Best ‘IR for good’ paper at ECIR 2024 for the paper “Measuring Bias in a Ranked List using Term-based Representations” (Amin Abolghasemi, Leif Azzopardi, Arian Askari, Maarten de Rijke, Suzan Verberne)
• 2023: Best paper award at CONLL 2023 for the paper “ChiSCor: A Corpus of Freely-Told Fantasy Stories by Dutch Children for Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science” (Bram van Dijk, Max van Duijn, Suzan Verberne, Marco Spruit)
• 2023: Best paper honerable mention at ACII 2023 for the paper Fine-grained Affective Processing Capabilities Emerging from Large Language Models (Joost Broekens, Bernhard Hilpert, Suzan Verberne, Kim Baraka, Patrick Gebhard, Aske Plaat)
• 2017: Our paper Evaluation and analysis of term scoring methods for term extraction (Suzan Verberne, Maya Sappelli, Djoerd Hiemstra, Wessel Kraaij) was selected as one of ACM Computing Reviews’ 2016 Best of Computing.
• 2016: The paper “Evaluation and analysis of term scoring methods for term extraction ” (Suzan Verberne, Maya Sappelli, Djoerd Hiemstra, Wessel Kraaij) was selected as one of ACM Computing Reviews’ 2016 Best of Computing.
• 2016: Best paper honorable mention at CLEF 2016 for the paper “Show Me How to Tie a Tie: Evaluation of Cross-Lingual Video Retrieval“, Pavel Braslavski, Suzan Verberne, and Ruslan Talipov
• 2014: John Wiley Best JASIST Paper Award for the paper “Reliability and Validity of Query Intent Assessments”, Suzan Verberne, Maarten van der Heijden, Max Hinne, Maya Sappelli, Saskia Koldijk, Eduard Hoenkamp and Wessel Kraaij (volume 64, issue 11)
• 2011: Award from the Google Digital Humanities Europe programme ($50,000)
• 2010: Grant in the Lifelong Learning Programme (Erasmus staff training) (€1,705)

Publications

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Projects

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Teaching experience

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Academic activities

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Invited talks

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Education

• 2005 – 2009: Radboud University Nijmegen
  PhD in Natural Language Processing/Information Retrieval
  Dissertation: In Search of the Why: developing a system for answering why-questions (See this page)
• 1998 – 2002: Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen
  BA in Language and Speech Technology
  MA in Natural Language Processing
  Thesis: Context-sensitive spell checking based on word trigram probabilities (pdf)
• 1992 – 1998: De Grundel, Hengelo
  Gymnasium with science subjects and languages