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NWR Paper Nominated for Best Paper at ACL

The paper “Offspring from Reproduction Problems: What Replication Failure Teaches Us” which was co-authored by NewsReader team members Antske Fokkens, Marieke van Erp and Piek Vossen was runner up for the best paper award at ACL 2013 last week. In the paper, difficulties in reproducibility of prior research tools and experiments are addressed. Many researchers have come across cases where they had wanted to reuse an approach described in a research paper but found out that it was very difficult…

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Piek Vossen receives Spinoza prize

Today, the chairman of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) announced that Piek Vossen is one of the three scientists this year to receive the highest award in Dutch science: the NWO Spinoza prize. Skip to the NWO website for the  official press release.  

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