As of September 2015, Prof. dr. Franciska de Jong has been appointed Executive Director of CLARIN ERIC, the governing body of CLARIN, which has its statutory seat at Utrecht University. CLARIN is the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences in Europe. The main objective of CLARIN is to provide scholars in the humanities and social sciences seamless access to digital language data and processing tools all across Europe.
Franciska de Jong (1955) is professor of language technology at the Human Media Interaction Research Group at the University of Twente. She is also director of the Erasmus Studio for e-research at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (EUR) where she also holds a chair in e-research for the social sciences and the humanities. She studied Dutch language and literature at Utrecht University, did a PhD track in theoretical linguistics and made the switch to language technology in 1985 when she started working on machine translation at Philips Research.
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