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Arjan van Hessen has been a researcher of speech and language technology since 1986 when he started his PhD in Phonetics. After his PhD he got a postdoc position at the Universities of Dusseldorf and Ulm for three years. He then moved to Lernout and Hauspie, a software company in Brussels where he worked on speech recognition. Once back in the Netherlands, he decided to work partially in industry (ComSys, 1999-2002 and Telecats, since 2002) and partially at the Human Media Interaction group at the University of Twente.His main interest is speech recognition and the use of HLT in the industrial, the cultural heritage and the academic world, as can be seen in the OH-project BalkanVoices. Since 2009 he has been member of the executive board of CLARIN-NL, a 6-year NWO infrastructure programme targeted to increase the use of HLT in the humanities. Since 2012 he has worked for CLARIN-ERIC, a European Research Infrastructure Consortium started to make digital language resources available to scholars and researchers of all disciplines, in particular the humanities and social sciences.Other activities:
- Member of the board of NOTaS, an organisation of Dutch HLT-SME's and HLT-Universities, targeted to boost the use of HLT in the Netherlands (and abroad);
- Member of the board of 'Stichting Levende Herinneringen', an oral history project focussed on the preservation of the recorded memories of people who lived in 'Dutch Indonesia';
- Member of the board of CLARIAH, the proposed successor of CLARIN.
publications
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2024
An Innovative Methodology Utilizing AI-based Automatic Speech Recognition for Transcribing Dutch Patient-Provider Consultation Recordings (2024)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Tejedor-García, C., van den Heuvel, H., van Hessen, A., van Dulmen, S. & Pieters, T.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11071085
2023
Natural Language Processing Markers for Psychosis and Other Psychiatric Disorders: Emerging Themes and Research Agenda From a Cross-Linguistic Workshop (2023)Schizophrenia Bulletin, 49(Supplement 2), S86-S92. Corona Hernández, H., Corcoran, C., Achim, A. M., De Boer, J. N., Boerma, T., Brederoo, S. G., Cecchi, G. A., Ciampelli, S., Elvevåg, B., Fusaroli, R., Giordano, S., Hauglid, M., van Hessen, A., Hinzen, W., Homan, P., de Kloet, S. F., Koops, S., Kuperberg, G. R., Maheshwari, K., … Palaniyappan, L.https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbac215
2022
Towards an Open-Source Dutch Speech Recognition System for the Healthcare Domain (2022)In 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 (pp. 1032-1039). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). Tejedor-García, C., van der Molen, B., van den Heuvel, H., van Hessen, A. & Pieters, T.
2020
Speech, Voice, Text, and Meaning: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Interview Data through the use of digital tools (2020)In ICMI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 886-887). Association for Computing Machinery. Hessen, A. V., Calamai, S., Heuvel, H. V. D., Scagliola, S., Karrouche, N., Beeken, J., Corti, L. & Draxler, C.https://doi.org/10.1145/3382507.3420054A CLARIN transcription portal for interview data (2020)In LREC 2020 - 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Conference Proceedings (pp. 3353-3359). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). Draxler, C., van den Heuvel, H., van Hessen, A., Calamai, S., Corti, L. & Scagliola, S.https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.411Clearing the Transcription Hurdle in Dialect Corpus Building: The Corpus of Southern Dutch Dialects as Case Study (2020)Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 3. Article 10. Ghyselen, A. S., Breitbarth, A., Farasyn, M., Van Keymeulen, J. & van Hessen, A.https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2020.00010Recognizing hotspots in Brief Eclectic Psychotherapy for PTSD by text and audio mining (2020)European Journal of psychotraumatology, 11(1). Article 1726672. Wiegersma, S., Nijdam, M. J., van Hessen, A. J., Truong, K. P., Veldkamp, B. P. & Olff, M.https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2020.1726672
2019
The Case Of Interview Data: A multidisciplinary approach to the use of technology in research using interview methods (2019)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. van Hessen, A., Draxler, C., van den Heuvel, H., Corti, L., Beeken, J., Calamai, S., Scagliola, S. & Karrouche, N.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3521373A Transcription Portal for Oral History Research and Beyond (2019)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. DataverseNL. van den Heuvel, H., Draxler, C., van Hessen, A. J., Corti, L., Scagliola, S., Calamai, S. & Karouche, N.
2018
Speech Recognition and Scholarly Research: Usability and Sustainability (2018)In CLARIN 2018 Annual Conference (pp. 163-168). Ordelman, R. J. F. & van Hessen, A. J.https://office.clarin.eu/v/CE-2018-1292-CLARIN2018_ConferenceProceedings.pdf
2016
Sprekend Nederland: A heterogeneous speech data collection (2016)Computational linguistics in the Netherlands journal, 6, 21-38. Van Leeuwen, D. A., Hinskens, F., Martinovic, B., Van Hessen, A., Grondelaers, S. & Orr, R.
2014
Croatian Memories : speech, meaning and emotions in a collection of interviews on experiences of war and trauma (2014)In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14) (pp. -). ELRA. de Jong, F. M. G., van Hessen, A. J., Petrovic, T. & Scagliola, S.http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/summaries/1056.html
2013
"Croatian Memories": eine Interviewsammlung mit personlichen Berichten uber Krieg und Traumata (2013)In Erinnern an Zwangsarbeit: Zeitzeugen-Interviews in der digitalen Welt (pp. 217-220). Metropol Verlag. van Hessen, A. J., de Jong, F. M. G. & Scagliola, S.http://www.metropol-verlag.de/pp/neuerscheinungen/neu_1_2007.htmDer Einsatz von Sprachtechnologie in Oral-History-Sammlungen (2013)In Erinnern an Zwangsarbeit: Zeitzeugen-Interviews in der digitalen Welt (pp. 179-187). Metropol Verlag. van Hessen, A. J., de Jong, F. M. G. & Scagliola, S.http://www.metropol-verlag.de/pp/neuerscheinungen/neu_1_2007.htm
2011
Automated Metadata Extraction for Semantic Access to Spoken Word Archives (2011)In Proceedings 12th International Symposium on Social Communication (pp. 896-905). Centre for Applied Linguistics. de Jong, F. M. G., Heeren, W. F. L., van Hessen, A. J., Ordelman, R. J. F. & Nijholt, A.http://www.santiago.cu/hosting/linguistica/descargar.php?d=1713
2009
Easy Listening: Spoken Document Retrieval in CHoral (2009)Interdisciplinary science reviews, 34(2-3), 236-252. Article 10.1179/174327909X441135. Heeren, W. F. L., van der Werff, L. B., de Jong, F. M. G., Ordelman, R. J. F., Verschoor, T., van Hessen, A. J. & Langelaar, M.https://doi.org/10.1179/174327909X441135
2008
Browsing and Searching the Spoken Words of Buchenwald Survivors (2008)In BNAIC 2008: Proceedings of BNAIC 2008, the twentieth Belgian-Dutch Artificial Intelligence Conference, Enschede/Bad Boekelo, October 30-31, 2008 (pp. 403-404) (BNAIC: proceedings of the ... Belgium/Netherlands Artificial Intelligence Conference; Vol. 20). University of Twente. Ordelman, R., Heeren, W., van Hessen, A., Hiemstra, D., Hondorp, H., Huijbregts, M., de Jong, F. & Verschoor, T.
2007
Radio Oranje: Searching the Queen's speech(es) (2007)In Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGIR (pp. 903). Article 10.1145/1277741.1277971. Association for Computing Machinery. Heeren, W. F. L., van der Werff, L. B., Ordelman, R. J. F., van Hessen, A. J. & de Jong, F. M. G.https://doi.org/10.1145/1277741.1277971TwNC: a Multifaceted Dutch News Corpus (2007)ELRA Newsletter, 12(3-4). Ordelman, R. J. F., de Jong, F. M. G., van Hessen, A. J. & Hondorp, G. H. W.
2006
Het Radio Oranje Project 'Googlen' met Hare Majesteit Koningin Wilhelmina (2006)Dixit, 4(TuC2/2), 6-7. van Hessen, A. J., van der Maas, P., Hendriks, S., Heeren, W. F. L., van den Heuvel, H., Teunissen, L., Ouendag, R. & Spyns, P.Audio Indexing Technology for the Exploration of Audiovisual Heritage Collections (2006)In BNAIC’06: Proceedings of the 18th Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 413-414) (Belgium-Dutch Artificial Intelligence Conference; Vol. 2006). Namur University Press. Ordelman, R. J. F., de Jong, F. M. G., Heeren, W. F. L. & van Hessen, A. J.https://staff.info.unamur.be/~wva/BNAIC06/proceedings.phpThe role of automated speech and audio analysis in semantic multimedia annotation (2006)In International IET Conference on Visual Information Engineering (VIE 2006) (pp. 6). The Institute of Engineering and Technology, London. de Jong, F. M. G., Ordelman, R. J. F. & van Hessen, A. J.
2005
InfoLink: analysis of Dutch broadcast news and cross-media browsing (2005)In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2005) (pp. 1582-1585). IEEE. Morang, J., Ordelman, R., de Jong, F. & van Hessen, A.https://doi.org/10.1109/ICME.2005.1521738
2003
Dutch Speech Recognition in Multimedia Information Retrieval (2003)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. Twente University Press (TUP). Ordelman, R. J. F.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789075296082Compound Decomposition in Dutch Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition (2003)In Eurospeech 2003 (pp. -). ISCA. Ordelman, R. J. F., van Hessen, A. J. & de Jong, F. M. G.http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/secure2/6705/01/eurospeech03.pdfThe end of categorical perception as we know it (2003)Speech communication, 41(1), 71-80. Schouten, B., Gerrits, E. & van Hessen, A. J.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-6393(02)00094-8
2001
Speech Recognition for Dutch Spoken Document Retrieval (2001)In Proceedings of CBMI'01: Content-based Multimedia Indexing (pp. 143-150). Ordelman, R. J. F., van Hessen, A. J., de Jong, F. M. G. & van Leeuwen, D. A.Lexicon Optimization for Dutch Speech Recognition in Spoken Document Retrieval (2001)[Book/Report › Report]. Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT). Ordelman, R. J. F., van Hessen, A. J. & de Jong, F. M. G.Lexicon optimization for Dutch speech recognition in spoken document retrieval (2001)In Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001 - Scandinavia (pp. 1085-1088). Ordelman, R. J. F., van Hessen, A. J. & de Jong, F. M. G.Speech Recognition Issues for Dutch Spoken Document Retrieval (2001)In Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Text Speech and Dialogue (pp. 258-266) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 2166/ 2001). Springer. Ordelman, R. J. F., van Hessen, A. J. & de Jong, F. M. G.https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44805-5_34
1999
Speech and Language Interaction in a Web Theatre Environment (1999)[Contribution to conference › Paper] Proceedings Interactive Dialogue in Multi-Modal Systems. Nijholt, A., Dalsgaard, P., Hulstijn, J., Lee, C. H., Heisterkamp, P., van Hessen, A. J. & Cole, R.http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/ids_99/ids9_129.htmlDialogues with a Talking Face for Web-based Services and Transactions (1999)In Proceedings Face to Face workshop (pp. 12-17). Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica. Hulstijn, J., Nijholt, A., Hondorp, H., van den Berk, M. & van Hessen, A.Dialogues with a Talking face for Web-based Services and Transactions (1999)[Working paper › Working paper]. Hulstijn, J., Nijholt, A., Hondorp, H., van den Berk, M. & van Hessen, A.http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/secure2/8558/01/00000013.pdfDealing with Phrase Level Co-Articulation (PLC) in speech recognition: a first approach (1999)In Proceedings of the ESCA ETRW Workshop Accessing Information in Spoken Audio (pp. 64-68). ESCA. Ordelman, R. J. F., van Hessen, A. J. & van Leeuwen, D. A.Improving Recognition Performance Using Co-articulation Rules on the Phrase Level: A First Approach (1999)In Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1641-1644). Ordelman, R. J. F., van Hessen, A. J. & van Leeuwen, D. A.Speech and Language Interaction in a Web Theatre Environment (1999)In Proceedings Interactive Dialogue in Multi-Modal Systems, ESCA/ETRW (pp. 129-132). Nijholt, A., Hulstijn, J. & van Hessen, A. J.Pre-processing input text: improving pronunciation for the fluent Dutch text-to-speech systems (1999)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 1999. Jansen, R., van Hessen, A. J. & Pols, L. C. W.
1998
Interacties in Virtuele Web-gebaseerde Omgevingen (1998)In Proceedings Conferentie Informatiewetenschap '98 (pp. 1-18). Stichting Informatiewetenschap. Nijholt, A., Hulstijn, J. & van Hessen, A. J.Utterance Generation for Transaction Dialogues (1998)In Proceedings 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998 (pp. 1143-1146). Australian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA). Hulstijn, J. & van Hessen, A. J.A natural language web-based dialogue system with a talking face (1998)In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Text, Speech, Dialogue - TSD 1998 (pp. 415-420). Masaryk University. Nijholt, A., van den Berk, M. & van Hessen, A. J.http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/secure2/9634/01/brno-TSD1998.pdfSpeech and language interaction in a (virtual) cultural theatre (1998)In Proceedings NLP and Industrial Applications (pp. 176-182). Université de Moncton. Nijholt, A., van Hessen, A. J. & Hulstijn, J.http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/secure2/9633/01/moncton1_1998.pdfInteracties in Virtuele Web-gebaseerde Omgevingen (1998)In Proceedings Conferentie Informatiewetenschap '98 (pp. 1-18). Nijholt, A., Hulstijn, J. & van Hessen, A. J.Response distribution in intensity resolution and speech discrimination (1998)The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 104(5), 2980-2990. Schouten, M. E. H. & van Hessen, A. J.https://doi.org/10.1121/1.423880