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I am a PhD student at the Human Computer Studies department of the University of Amsterdam. My research focuses on the diagnostic evaluation of qualitative models. It is conducted within the international DynaLearn project. In my free time I work as an editor at the experimental poetry theater Perdu, and I sometimes write small texts on my Dutch blog.

2012

• Bachelor project Kunstmatige Intelligentie

2011

Teaching:

• Proefstuderen Bachelor KI 2011/12
• Inleiding Kunstmatige Intelligentie
• Bachelor project Kunstmatige Intelligentie
• Proefstuderen Bachelor KI 2011/04

Articles:

• Diagnosis and Assessment. With: Bert Bredeweg. DynaLearn, EC FP7 STREP project 231526, Deliverable D3.4.
• 'Increasing Learners' Motivation through Pedagogical Agents: The cast of Virtual Characters in the DynaLearn ILE.' In: Agents for Education, Games and Simulations. With: Michael Wissner, Esther Lozano, Gregor Mehlmann, Floris Linnebank, Jochem Liem, Markus Häring, René Bühling, Jorge Gracia, Bert Bredeweg, and Elisabeth Andre.
• 'Knowledgeable Feedback via a Cast of Virtual Characters with Different Competences.' With: Jochem Liem, Floris Linnebank, René Bühling, Michael Wißner, Esther Lozano, Jorge Gracia del Río, Bert Bredeweg. In: G. Biswas et al. (Eds.) Artificial Intelligence and Education (AIED), p. 621.
• 'Context-Dependent Help for the DynaLearn Modelling and Simulation Workbench.' With: Bert Bredeweg, Sander Latour. In: G. Biswas et al. (Eds.) Artificial Intelligence and Education (AIED), p. 420-422.
• 'Character Roles and Interaction in the DynaLearn Intelligent Learning Environment.' With: Michael Wißner, Esther Lozano, Gregor Mehlmann, Floris Linnebank, Jochem Liem, Markus Häring, René Bühling, Jorge Gracia, Bert Bredeweg, Elisabeth André. In: G. Biswas et al. (Eds.) Artificial Intelligence and Education (AIED), p. 585-587.
• De vergeten wetenschappen en het gefantaseerde onderscheid op Filosofieblog and in Cimedart (Dutch).
• 50 jaar automatisch vertalen. In Pythagoras, Jaargang 50, Nummer 3 (Januari 2011) (Dutch).

Presentations:

• Presentation of and interactive session on automated consistency-based modeling assistance. At the 2.5 year DynaLearn meeting in Bourgas, Bulgaria. On July 25 and 26.
• Presentation of the late-breaking paper Providing Assistance for Conceptual Modeling using Consistency-Based Diagnosis at QR Workshop 2011 (Barcelona).
• Poster presentation on basic assistance in conceptual modeling and an interactive session on DynaLearn at AIED 2011, Auckland, New Zealand. June.
• Evening about procedural poetry (Dutch). At Perdu. On April 1. (See: VPRO De Avonden, essay Geen wegwerpartikel by Ton van 't Hof, De Contrabas, Literatuurplein, Miss Ivy)
• Presentation on Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Dutch). On March 29. At student union VIA.
• Presentation on procedural poetry (Dutch). At an event about beauty, in Café Scientifique, Bitterzoet. On March 28.
• Presentation on model-based diagnosis and a demo session on basic pedagogical help facilities for conceptual modeling. At the second year DynaLearn meeting, in the Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas, Brasilia, Brasil. On February 7.
• Workshop on DynaLearn, AI and Education, at the Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia, Brasil. On February 3 and 4.

2010

Teaching:

• Inleiding Kunstmatige Intelligentie (1st lecture, 2nd lecture, 3rd lecture, 4th lecture, 5th lecture, 6th lecture, 7th lecture, 8th lecture, 9th lecture)
• Conceptueel Modelleren
• Logica en de Linguistic Turn
• Proefstuderen Bachelor KI 2010

Articles:

• Filosofie en empirie: Hoe de kunstmatige intelligentie het lichaam/geest-debat beïnvloed In Cimedart (Dutch).
• 'Learning Spaces as Representational Scaffolds for Learning Conceptual Knowledge of System Behaviour' With: Bert Bredeweg, Jochem Liem, Paulo Salles, Floris Linnebank. In: Martin Wolpers, Paul A. Kirschner, Maren Scheffel, Stefanie Lindstaedt and Vania Dimitrova (Eds.) Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice. 5th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2010).
• Basic Tutorial Tactics for Virtual Agents. With Michael Wißner, Markus Häring, Gregor Mehlmann, René Bühling, Urosh Milosevic, Jochem Liem, Floris Linnebank, Bert Bredeweg, Elisabeth André. DynaLearn, EC FP7 STREP project 231526, Deliverable D5.2.
• Basic Help and Teachable Agent. With Michael Wißner, Markus Häring, René Bühling, Floris Linnebank, Jochem Liem, Bert Bredeweg, Elisabeth André. DynaLearn, EC FP7 STREP project 231526, Deliverable D5.3.
• 'Differentiating Qualitative Representations into Learning Spaces.' With Jochem Liem and Bert Bredeweg. In: J. de Kleer and K.D. Forbus (Eds.) 24th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR2010), pp. 37-46.
• Irak als een casestudy voor burgerschap Op GeenCommentaar (Dutch).
• API for Data and Knowledge Exchange. With Jochem Liem, Floris Linnebank, and Bert Bredeweg. DynaLearn, EC FP7 STREP project 231526, Deliverable D3.2.
• 'DynaLearn: Architecture and Approach for Investigating Conceptual System Knowledge Acquisition.' With Bert Bredeweg, Jochem Liem, Floris Linnebank, René Bühling, Michael Wißner, Jorge Gracia del Río, Paulo Salles, and Asunción Gómez Pérez. In: V. Aleven, J. Kay and J. Mostow (Eds.) Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2010, Part II, pp. 272-274, LNCS 6095, Springer-Verlag.
• Multi Use Level Workbench. With Jochem Liem and Bert Bredeweg. DynaLearn, EC FP7 STREP project 231526, Deliverable D3.1.
• 'Acquiring Conceptual Knowledge about How Systems Behave.' With Jochem Liem, Bert Bredeweg, Floris Linnebank, René Bühling, Michael Wißner, Jorge Gracia del Río, and Asunción Gómez Pérez. In: V. Aleven, J. Kay and J. Mostow (Eds.) Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2010, Part II, pp. 448, LNCS 6095, Springer-Verlag.

Presentations:

• Demo session about the DynaLearn software at the 7th International Conference on Ecological Informatics (ISEI7).
• Demo session and a poster presentation about the DynaLearn project at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS2010).
• Lecture on the DynaLearn project, held at the Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning (JTEL2010).
• Short presentation for high-school students who are interested in studying AI (Dutch).

2009

Teaching:

• Inleiding KI
• Bachelor project KI
• Tweedejaarsproject KI

Articles:

• Verslag project VAARDIG Verslag van het onderwijs vernieuwingsproject BSc KI 2008/2009 (Dutch).
• Het Augustiniaanse taalbeeld Article on Augustin's philosophy of language (Dutch).
• Het ontstaan van de feminiene filosofie: De correspondentie tussen Prinses Elisabeth en Descartes Article about an important eposode in the history of philosophy, concerning the correspondence between Princes Elisabeth and René Descartes (Dutch).
• Interview over de onderzoeksmaster Wijsbegeerte (Dutch).
• Truth-Theoretic Contextualism: Resolving the Contextualism/Minimalism Debate Master of Logic thesis on the contextualism / minimalism debate. MoL-2009-08.
• Semantisch Solipsisme Article on my master thesis about the contextualism / minimalism debate.
• Wetenschapsfilosofie ter verheffing van het volk Article that is concerned with a specifc type of philosophy of science (Dutch).
• Over het geven van voorbeelden in de filosofie Article on the role of examples in philosophy (Dutch).
• The Logical Structure of Religious Belief Article on the supposed unstructured nature of religious belief.
• Compositional Semantics Syllabus Syllabus for the course on Natural Language Interfaces.
• Satisfaction Algorithm for Compositional Semantics Syllabus for the course on Natural Language Interfaces.
• Semantics for Belief Sentences Syllabus for the course on Natural Language Interfaces.

Presentations:

• Bayes Theorem & Natural Language Processing for AI students.

Other:

• Project on ICT in Education (ICTO) for the Bachelor AI at the University of Amsterdam, introducing competency-based learning into the curriculum. Some results of this project are kept online.

2008

Teaching:

• Inleiding filosofie: historische en metafysische verkenningen 2
• Taaltheorie en en Taalverwerking
• Natuurlijke Taal Interfaces
• Encyclopedie van de Kunstmatige Intelligentie

Articles:

• Pantheism and Sin in a Tractarian World Paper on the ethical aspect of Wittgenstein's Tractatus.
• The Weakness of Strong AI In Proceedings of the 2008 NSVKI Conference (June 2008). Article assessing the traditional distinction between weak and strong AI.
• Primitiviteit en religie Article on the supposed primitive nature of religion (Dutch).
• The linguistic embedding of scientific experimentation
• Drie gedachten over transhumanisme Article on transhumanism for De Connectie (Dutch).
• Interview met Ad Verbrugge Interview with Ad Verbrugge for Babel (Dutch).
• Mens 2.0 Article on transhumanism for Babel (Dutch).
• Hoe voelt het internet zich met de feestdagen? Artivle about flock emotion assessment based on popular internet terms, for Babel (Ducth).

Presentations:

• Een Turing-test voor transhumanisme A presentation on the Turing test and transhumanism, held before the HCC AI-group (Dutch).
• The Weakness of Strong AI: Reconsidering the Weak/Strong Distinction A presentation about the traditional distinction between strong and weak AI, held on the Second NSVKI Student Conference at Utrecht University.

Other:

• Project on ICT in Education (ICTO) for the Bachelor AI at the University of Amsterdam, introducing competency-based learning into the curriculum. Some results of this project are kept online.

2007

Teaching:

• Leren
• Inleiding filosofie: historische en metafysische verkenningen 1
• Taaltheorie en en Taalverwerking
• Natuurlijke Taal Interfaces
• Taalmodellen

Articles:

• Extreem-rechts op bezoek in Amsterdam In Babel, Nummer 3, Jaargang 16, November 2007. Article about a right extremist protest in Amsterdam (Dutch).
• P...P...Paranoia: Waarom technologie de katalysator van onvrijheid is In De Connectie, Nummer 2, Jaargang 3 (Oktober 2007).
• Een PR-laag tussen hemel en aarde: in gesprek met Antoine Bodar Interview with Antoine Bodar for Babel (Dutch).
• De gevolgen van pragmatische inferentie: in gesprek met Maria Aloni Interview with Maria Aloni about het research into pragmatic inference, for Babel and De Connectie (Dutch).
• Interview over de Bachelor Kunstmatige Intelligentie
• Nieuwe studenten In Babel, Nummer 1, Jaargang 16 (September 2007).
• A Very Short Sketch of a Blended Theory of Theories of Meaning Note on an integrated theory of meaning.
• Rule-Following and the Cognitive Contiguity Bachelor's thesis on rule-following and the normativity of language.
• De Onmogelijkheid van het Linguistisch Relativisme In De Connectie, Nummer 1, Jaargang 3 (Juni 2007). Article about linguistic relativism (Dutch).
• Het Ware Gezicht van Jezus Christus In Babel, Nummer 10, Jaargang 15 (Juli 2007). Review of Pope Ratzinger's book (Dutch).
• Verbetert de Wereld met AI? (PDF) In De Connectie, Nummer 4, Jaargang 2 (April 2007). Article about whether and how AI is able to make the world a better place (Dutch).
• Openingswoord bij het symposium 'Verbetert de Wereld met AI?' Introduction to the symposium (Dutch).
• Verslag symposium 'Verbeter de wereld met AI' (PDF)) Impressions of the symposium (Dutch).
• De verandering van de notie van het experiment in de wetenschappelijke traditie Paper on philosophy of science (Dutch).
• On the Very Idea of a Complete Translation Paper about Davidson, Kuhn and linguïstic relativism.

2006

Teaching:

• Statistiek
• Basiswiskunde en Logica
• Taaltheorie en Taalverwerking
• Taalverwerking en Informatieontsluiting Blok A
• Taalverwerking en Informatieontsluiting Blok B

Articles:

• Linguistic Relativism: Variants and Misconceptions Bachelor thesis about linguistic relativism.
• Wetenschapsfilosofie volgens Kuhn Short overview of Thomas Kuhn's philosophy of science (Dutch).
• Evolutie, Intelligent Design en de Kerk van het Vliegende Spaghettimonster (PDF) In De Connectie, Nummer 3, Jaargang 2 (November 2006). Article on the tension between intelligent design and evolution (Dutch).
• De Wildersbot In De Connectie, Nummer 1, Jaargang 2 (April 2006). Article on the Turing Test, using a Dutch politician as an example (Dutch).
• Verslag Symposium Lanuguage & The Mind Report on the symposium on language and mind (Dutch).
• Fluidiom: Lopende computermodelled, dankzij evolutie Article on a software simulation of evolution (Dutch).
• Digital Cities and Their Possible Renewal of Democratic Participation (paper Computer Mediated Communication)