Antal van den Bosch strategic advisor at the Centre for Digital Humanities

As of October 1, 2022, Antal van den Bosch has been officially appointed as strategic advisor at the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH). Based on his extensive experience, Van den Bosch will advise the CDH in the field of future vision, interdisciplinary collaboration and focal points. He will focus in particular on the use of language and speech technology, text mining and other methods from artificial intelligence, and the translation between these instruments and research questions from the full width of the humanities.

Van den Bosch has been professor of Language, Communication and Computation at Utrecht University from September 2022. He is a pioneer in the field of language technology and artificial intelligence. Before his appointment at UU, Van den Bosch was professor of Language and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam and director of the Meertens Institute.