Citadel

dr. A.J. van Hessen (Arjan)

Researcher
EEMCS-CS-HMI
Citadel H200
a.j.vanhessen@utwente.nl
+31534893782
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Arjan van Hessen received a master in Geophysics, a PhD in Phonetics and is working in the field of Human Language Technology since '91.

His main interest is in applying the various HLT techniques in both the academic/research and the real world.

Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • Speech Recognition
    • Textual Information
    • Emotion Detection
    • Keyword Search
    • Multimedia
    • Search Functionality
    • Speaker Diarization
    • Sustainability

Organisations

Publications

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

Research profiles

Courses academic year 2024/2025

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Courses academic year 2023/2024

Finished projects

STEVIN

ECHO

European CHronicle Online

Europees project dat met spraakherkenning de radio/TV uitzendingen (1920-1960) wilde herkennen.

DRUIDE

Ducth Speech Recognition

PhD-project (Roeland Ordelman) to develop a LVSR-engine

Anne Frank

Forced Alignment of the spoken diarries of Anne Frank

Het oplijnen van het dakboek van Anne Frank (tekst) met de voorgelezen spraak (Carice van Houten)

Buchenwald

ASR on the Buchenwald interviews

Het ontsluiten van 39 interviews met oud-gevangenen van concentratiekamp Buchenwald mbv spraakherkenning.

Aletta

Oplijnen van 11 interviews met feministen over de vrouwelijke hulpverlening begin jaren 70.

CHoral

Recognition of the radio-archives of Radio Rijnmond

RechtSpraakHerkenning

Opnemen, herkennen, en ontsluiten van opgenomen rechtszittingen.

NEON

Nederlandse Ondertiteling

Using ASR for the subtitling of Dutch spoken RTV-programs

0900-8844

ASR for calls to the Dutch Police

Call Routing for non-urgent calls for information of the Dutch Police

Radio Oranje

Forced Alignment of the radio-speeches of Queen Wilhelmina in London (1940-1945)

Forced Alignment of the radio-speeches of Queen Wilhelmina in London (1940-1945)

1835+1

By speaking out loud in the caisson of the Watersnoodmuseum in Zeeland the name of a person who died during the 1953 flood, the computer reads out a short spoken biography.

TwNC

Twente News Corpus

Collecting text material for training the language model for the Twente Speech Recognizer

For quite some time I have been active as a researcher in the world of Human Language Technology. Initially as a post-doc in Düsseldorf and Ulm, then at the illustrious Flemish company Lernout and Hauspie, and since 1998 with great pleasure as a researcher HLT at the University of Twente.

The first projects focused on human-machine (telephony) dialogues. Later on, the focus shifted to Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition: the recognition of spontaneous spoken speech in meetings, interviews, over the phone and more.

A neatly pronounced CV (in Dutch) with almost perfect recognition can be found here on my own website.

In the press

In recent years I have occasionally "performed" in the media. This means that there have been a few short TV and Radio interviews with me. I tried to collect all these broadcasts and got them through the speech recognizer: baker eats your own bread :-).

There is also 2x a piece in the newspaper appeared. Finally I wrote quite a few pieces for all kinds of magazines and websites. If I have written it all by myself, I call it a blog and it is under the Blogs, if I was interviewed (and then I could rewrite the whole piece myself anyway), then it comes under Web.

The overview of these "press moments" can be found here.

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