| Walter Daelemans | |
| Birth Place: | Deurne (Antwerp), Belgium |
| Fields: | Computational Linguistics |
| Workplaces: | Tilburg University University of Antwerp |
| Education: | University of Antwerp Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Thesis Title: | Studies in Language Technology: An Object-Oriented Computer Model of Morpho-phonological Aspects of Dutch |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.clips.uantwerpen.be/~walter/papers/198*/d87-2.pdf |
| Thesis Year: | 1987 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Flip Droste Gerard Kempen |
| Academic Advisors: | Luc Steels |
| Known For: | Memory-based learning, stylometry |
Walter Daelemans (born June 3, 1960) is professor in computational linguistics at the University of Antwerp. He is also a research director of the Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics Research Center (CLiPS).[1]
Daelemans holds a Ph.D. from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.[2]
Daelemans pioneered the use of machine learning techniques, especially memory-based learning, in natural language processing in Europe in the early 1990s. Together with Antal van den Bosch he wrote the book Memory-Based Language Processing[3] and developed the software package TiMBL.[4] This was during his time as a professor at Tilburg University where he founded the research group Induction of Linguistic Knowledge (ILK).
In 2003 he was elected Fellow of ECCAI (the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence), “for pioneeringwork in the field of Artificial Intelligence and outstanding service for the European Artificial Intelligence Community”.[5] In 2014, he was named a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics.[6]