January 2020

Overview 2019


Tags: research, projects

Following some of my favorite bloggers, I've written an overview of 2019. It was a very good year: I spent a lot of time traveling, meeting new people and learning new stuff. I've noticed I'm slowly getting better in the things that were new in the first year of my PhD, such as writing scientific papers and formulating research questions.

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What NLP researchers can learn from NaNoGenMo


Tags: research, projects

Today was the Alice & Eve 2020 symposium at the University of Twente. I sent in an abstract for the poster session about last year's paper about story generation, in which I discuss 60 projects from NaNoGenMo 2018.

The audience of Alice & Eve's poster session was "people with a technical background", so a relatively general audience. I tried to write the abstract in such a way that anyone can understand it. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, so now you can read it here. :)

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Course formats for research seminars


Tags: teaching

During my master studies in computer science at Radboud University, I followed three research seminar courses: on software science, on mathematical foundations of computer science and on privacy. Normally, students would only do the one seminar course that had to do with their specialisation (i.e. software science, formal methods or computer security), but I chose to do all three as part of my free elective courses.

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