Daniël De Kok Email & Phone Number

At Explosion I work on the Thinc machine learning library and the spaCy natural language processing library. Some of the things I worked on:- Designed and implemented Curated Transformers. Curated Transformers is a Python library of building blocks to implement transformer models. Curated Transformers supports popular encoder models such as XLM-RoBERTa.

Groningen, Netherlands

- Further development of the SyntaxDot multi-task syntax annotator (in Rust), including a biaffine parser.- Customizations of SyntaxDot for customers, including a Java binding.- Developed an taught a course 'Transformers from Basic Principles'. This course took a bottom-up approach to teaching transformers, starting from basic linear algebra, finding.

- My research focused on neural network models for syntax annotation, with a strong focus on dependency parsing, topological field annotation, and multi-task learning. This work culminated in several papers, including a paper selected as Outstanding Paper at ACL 2016.- Successfully applied for a renewal of a SFB (Sonderforschungsbereich) on composition.

Worked in the CLARIN-D project on:- Improving reliability of WebLicht web services.- Improving scalability of WebLicht web services, including parallelization of heavier services such as parsers.- Rewrote core parts if the TüNDRA treebank search application for treebanks for better performance and to give incremental results while a query is executed..

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Worked on various parts of Gridline's language processing pipeline:- Implemented a new lemmatizer based on edit scripts and support vector machines (SVMs) to replace Gridline's rule-based lemmatizer.- Implemented a modular spell checking architecture.- Improvement of fuzzy lookups in various parts of Gridline's language processing pipeline using dictionary.

My PhD research project focused on natural language generation in the Alpino system for Dutch. Together with Gertjan van Noord, I implemented a chart generator that uses the Alpino grammar. I also developed a fluency ranker using maximum entropy models. The end result of the project was a truly reversible model, where the same grammar and maximum entropy.

Developed a hidden Markov model part-of-speech tagger and a decision-list based lemmatizer in Java.

Created an online course for high-school students on information retrieval and natural language processing. After five years, this course is still used as-is by the university.Co-developed a content-management system for works of art, to support a joint research project of the University of Groningen, The Groningen Museum, and the Werkman Foundation. This.

Vancouver, Canada Area (Remote)

Co-developed the graphical installer and graphical configuration tool for Libranet Linux 3.0. Libranet was a commercial distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, oriented at new Linux users. The installer and configuration tool were written in Perl using the Gtk2+ toolkit.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computational Linguistics, Graduated With Distinction

Activities and Societies: Chair PhD association (Grasp)

Master Of Arts - Ma, Information Science/Studies, Graduated With Distinction

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Information Science/Studies, Graduated With Distinction

Propaedeutic Certificate, Philosophy