2026 Piek Vossen: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	44	7592	7372	129	120	300	7832

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2013 - Spinoza Prize, Dutch Research Council

Overview

Piek Vossen is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work concentrates on several main topics, including:

Topic Modeling
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Semantic Web and Ontologies
Speech and dialogue systems
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
SSRN Electronic Journal
Computer
Annals of Medicine

Among their recent papers are:

"A Research Agenda for Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect With Collaborative, Adaptive, Responsible, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence", 2020, Computer
"EmoBERTa: Speaker-Aware Emotion Recognition in Conversation with RoBERTa", 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Generating Polarity Lexicons with WordNet Propagation in 5 Languages", 2023, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
"Automated recognition of functioning, activity and participation in COVID-19 from electronic patient records by natural language processing: a proof-of-concept", 2022, Annals of Medicine
"A Hybrid Intelligence Method for Argument Mining", 2024, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Piek Vossen include:

Antske Fokkens
Eduard Hovy
Tommaso Caselli
Martha Palmer
Ilia Markov

In addition to journal and conference papers, Piek Vossen has contributed to book publications. One example is:

"Exploring English by Means of Contrast" published in 2024 by Založba Univerze v Ljubljani (University of Ljubljana Press) eBooks

Piek Vossen has received several awards, including the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017 and the Spinoza Prize from the Dutch Research Council in 2013.

Best Publications

EuroWordNet: a multilingual database with lexical semantic networks

Piek Vossen

1255
Citations
Introduction to EuroWordNet

Piek Vossen

376
Citations
A Research Agenda for Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect With Collaborative, Adaptive, Responsible, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Zeynep Akata;Dan Balliet;Maarten de Rijke;Frank Dignum

330
Citations
EuroWordNet: general document

P.J.T.M. Vossen

278
Citations
Building event-centric knowledge graphs from news

Marco Rospocher;Marieke van Erp;Piek Vossen;Antske Fokkens

247
Citations
A lexicon model for deep sentiment analysis and opinion mining applications

Isa Maks;Piek Vossen

231
Citations
EuroWordNet: a multilingual database for information retrieval

P.J.T.M. Vossen

221
Citations
EuroWordNet : a multilingual database of autonomous and language-specific wordnets connected via Inter-Lingual-Index

P.T.J.M. Vossen

184
Citations
Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut? Lexical diversity and event coreference resolution

Agata Cybulska;Piek Vossen

173
Citations
The MEANING Multilingual Central Repository

J. Atserias;L. Villarejo;G. Rigau;E. Agirre

169
Citations
Building a WordNet for Arabic

C. Fellbaum;M. Alkhalifa;W. Black;S. Elkateb

150
Citations
The top-down strategy for building EuroWordNet: vocabulary coverage, base concepts and top ontology

Horacio Rodríguez;Salvador Climent;Piek Vossen;Laura Bloksma

132
Citations
The Event StoryLine Corpus: A new Benchmark for causal and temporal Relation Extraction

Tommaso Caselli;Piek Vossen

126
Citations
The EuroWordNet Base Concepts and Top Ontology

Piek Vossen;Laura Bloksma;Horacio Rodriguez;Salvador Climent

119
Citations
Offspring from Reproduction Problems: What Replication Failure Teaches Us

Antske Fokkens;Marieke van Erp;Marten Postma;Ted Pedersen

118
Citations
SemEval-2010 Task 17: All-Words Word Sense Disambiguation on a Specific Domain

Eneko Agirre;Oier López de Lacalle;Christiane Fellbaum;Shu-Kai Hsieh

108
Citations
The linguistic design of the EuroWordNet database

Antonietta Alonge;Nicoletta Calzolari;Piek Vossen;Laura Bloksma

106
Citations
Automatic sense clustering in EuroWordNet

Wim Peters;Ivonne Peters;Piek Vossen

100
Citations
“NewsReader: using knowledge resources in a cross-lingual reading machine to generate more knowledge from massive streams of news

Piek Vossen;Rodrigo Agerri;Itziar Aldabe;Agata Cybulska

98
Citations
WordNet: Principles, Developments and Applications

P.T.J.M. Vossen

40
Citations
Bag of Events” Approach to Event Coreference Resolution. Supervised Classification of Event Templates

A.K. Cybulska;P.T.J.M. Vossen

15
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christiane Fellbaum Princeton University

German Rigau University of the Basque Country

Eneko Agirre University of the Basque Country

Eduard Hovy Carnegie Mellon University

Lora Aroyo Google (United States)

Guus Schreiber Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Bernardo Magnini Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Chu-Ren Huang Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Teruko Mitamura Carnegie Mellon University

Luciano Serafini Fondazione Bruno Kessler

External Links

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