Dr N.H.J. Oostdijk (Nelleke)

Associate professor - Centre for Language Studies
Associate professor - Department of Language and Communication
Teacher Ambassador - Radboud Teaching and Learning Centre

Contact

nelleke.oostdijk@ru.nl
024-3612765

Visiting address

Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN

Working days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

As a computational linguist, Nelleke Oostdijk’s main research interests are centred around language use and variation, the role of expert (linguistic) knowledge in approaches to text mining and information retrieval, and the creation and curation of language resources.

Nelleke Oostdijk is coordinator of the research master programme in Language and Communication, programme coordinator for the Bachelor Linguistics, and chair of the board of the Centre for Language and Speech Technology.

Research group

Language and Speech Technology

Tags: Computational Linguistics, Text Mining, Corpus Linguistics, Deep Syntactic Parsing, Language Resources

Publications

Key publications

D’hondt, E., Verberne, S., Oostdijk, N.H.J. & Boves, L.W.J. (2017). Patent Classification on Subgroup Level Using Balanced Winnow. In M. Lupu, K. Mayer, N. Kando & A.J. Trippe (Eds.), Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval (The Information Retrieval Series, 37) (pp. 299-324). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Full text
Oostdijk, N.H.J. & Halteren, H. van (2016) Twitter tribal language(s). In C. Levallois (Ed.), Twitter for Research. Handbook 2015-2016 (pp. 63-87). Lyon: EMLYON Full text
Halteren, H. van & Oostdijk, N.H.J. (2014). Variability in Dutch Tweets. An estimate of the proportion of deviant word tokens. Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, 29 (2), 97-123. Full text
Oostdijk, N.H.J., Reynaert, R., Schuurman, I. & Hoste, V. (2013). The construction of a 500-million-word reference corpus of contemporary written Dutch. In P. Spyns & J. Odijk (Eds.), Essential Speech and Language Technology for Dutch (Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing) (pp. 219-247). Berlin: Springer. Full text
Oostdijk, N.H.J. (1991). Corpus Linguistics and the Automatic Analysis of English. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

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Nelleke Oostdijk researches how predefined linguistic patterns can be used to automatically extract information from large amounts of text. For example, with this method, an investigative authority can detect only those tweets that contain threatening language among millions of tweets.