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dr. A.J. van Hessen (Arjan)

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About Me

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. Through his work as director-user-involvement at CLARIAH and as Head of Imaganation at Telecats, he is in the middle of the world of public-private collaboration.

Expertise

Arts & Humanities
# Buchenwald
# Speech Recognition
# Spoken Word
# Survivors
Medicine & Life Sciences
# Brief Psychotherapy
# Data Mining
Engineering & Materials Science
# Audiovisual
# Speech Recognition

Organisations

Publications

Recent
Hessen, A. V., Calamai, S., Heuvel, H. V. D., Scagliola, S., Karrouche, N., Beeken, J., Corti, L., & Draxler, C. (2020). Speech, Voice, Text, and Meaning: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Interview Data through the use of digital tools. In ICMI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 886-887). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3382507.3420054

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Courses Academic Year  2023/2024

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Courses Academic Year  2022/2023

Finished Projects

  • STEVIN

  • ECHO

    European CHronicle Online

  • DRUIDE

    Ducth Speech Recognition

  • Anne Frank

    Forced Alignment of the spoken diarries of Anne Frank

  • Radio Oranje

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

  • Buchenwald

    ASR on the Buchenwald interviews

  • Aletta

  • CHoral

  • RechtSpraakHerkenning

  • NEON

    Nederlandse Ondertiteling

  • 0900-8844

    ASR for calls to the Dutch Police

  • 1835+1

  • TwNC

    Twente News Corpus

Media

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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Contact Details

+31621888146  (mobile)
+31534893740  (if no answer)
 
 

Visiting Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Zilverling (building no. 11), room 2039
Hallenweg 19
7522NH  Enschede
The Netherlands

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Mailing Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Zilverling  2039
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

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Additional Contact Information

https://www.uu.nl/staff/ajvanhessen

https://www.telecats.nl/en/cases-news/

https://brs85.nl/

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