{"id":38,"date":"2013-10-24T08:02:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T08:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sverberne.ruhosting.nl\/wordpress\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2022-12-19T11:56:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T11:56:55","slug":"my-dissertation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/research\/my-dissertation\/","title":{"rendered":"My PhD thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished my dissertation &#8220;In Search of the Why&#8221; in 2009 under the supervision of <a href=\"http:\/\/lands.let.ru.nl\/staff\/boves.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lou Boves<\/a> and I defended it in April 2010. These are the key publications from my PhD research project:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/\/papers\/thesis_SuzanVerberne.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/\/papers\/cover_thesis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;<b>Developing an approach for <i>why<\/i>-QA<\/b>&#8216; (<a href=\"http:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/\/papers\/Verberne_2006_Developing_an_approach_for_why-QA_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pdf<\/a>), which was published in the proceedings of EACL 2006.<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<b>Discourse-based answering of <i>why<\/i>-questions<\/b>&#8216; (<a href=\"http:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/\/papers\/Verberne_2007_Discourse-based answering of why-questions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pdf<\/a>), which was published in <i>TAL<\/i> (2007), 47(2).<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<b>What is not in the Bag of Words for <i>Why<\/i>-QA<\/b>&#8216; (<a href=\"http:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/\/papers\/Verberne_What%20is%20not%20in%20the%20Bag%20of%20Words%20for%20Why-QA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pdf<\/a>), which was published in <i>Computational Linguistics<\/i> (2011), 36(2).<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<b>Learning to Rank for Why-Question Answering<\/b>&#8216; (<a href=\"http:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/\/papers\/Verberne_IR_Learning to Rank.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pdf<\/a>), which was published in <i>Information Retrieval<\/i> (2011), 14(2):107-132.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/\/papers\/thesis_SuzanVerberne.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download my PhD thesis in pdf.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are not a researcher from the field and you want to learn what my work is about, you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennislink.nl\/web\/show?id=205673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this article<\/a> that I wrote for a general audience on Kennislink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished my dissertation &#8220;In Search of the Why&#8221; in 2009 under the supervision of Lou Boves and I defended&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/1389"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}