Piek Vossen

Piek Th.J.M.

Vossen (born 1960 in Schaesberg, the Netherlands), is professor of computational lexicology at the VU University Amsterdam,[1] head of the Computational Lexicology & Terminology Lab,[2] and founder and president of the Global WordNet Association.

[3] Vossen graduated from the University of Amsterdam in Dutch and general linguistics and obtained a PhD (cum laude) in computational lexicology in 1995 at the same university.

[4] Vossen is a recipient of the 2013 Spinoza Prize[5] and a winner of the "Enlighten Your Research"-competition 2013 with the project "Can we Handle the News".

[6] Vossen was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.