Kars Iddo Maik Schouten (Kim) will defend his dissertation in the Senate Hall at Erasmus University Rotterdam on Friday 16 November, at 2:30PM. In his dissertation ‘Semantics-Driven Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis', Kim Schouten focuses on which discriminants are useful when performing aspect-based sentiment analysis. What signals for sentiment can be extracted from the text itself and what is the effect of using extra-textual discriminants? His supervisors are Professor Franciska de Jong and Professor Rommert Dekker.
About Kars Iddo Maik Schouten
Kim Schouten (1986) obtained the M.Sc. degree in Economics and Informatics, specialising in computational economics, from Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Both bachelor and master thesis subjects were already in the domain of natural language processing, which is one of his main research interests. This was followed by a Ph.D. candidacy on sentiment analysis at Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) and the Econometric Institute at Erasmus School of Economics as part of the Dutch national research program COMMIT/Infiniti. Furthermore,
Kim was affiliated to the Dutch Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS), Erasmus Center of Business Intelligence (ECBI), and Erasmus Studio. Kim's research is at the crossroads of natural language processing, text mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the Semantic Web. Over the years, he has published in several prestigious conferences and journals and actively participated in the benchmarking community.
Furthermore, Kim has been part of the program committee of a hand full of workshops and conferences but also often reviewed papers for high-quality journals. During his Ph.D. candidacy, Kim has successfully taught several IT related courses. For most of these years he has coordinated the first-year bachelor course Skills 1: IT at the International Bachelor of Business Administration.
Kim Schouten's PhD research project is conducted within the Erasmus Doctoral Programme organised by Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), the joint research institute of Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) and Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).
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More information about the dissertation can be found here.
