Meet our staff
Mariek
M.
Vanden Abeele
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
lcc
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Social implications of social media
My research focuses on the social implications of social media for individuals and society. My main interest goes out to how mobile media are embedded in the lives of children and youths. My research departs mainly from media-psychological and -sociological theories and combines both qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Afra
A.
Alishahi
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
cc
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Computational Models of Human Language Acquisition
My primary research interest involves the development of computational models of human language acquisition. Computational modeling is an effective tool for studying human cognition: whereas linguistic and psychological theories often give a high level explanation for the experimental data, computational models provide a detailed account of the underlying mechanisms for the cognitive task at hand. Moreover, the behaviour of a model can be directly compared to that of humans through computational simulation.
Marije
M.
van Amelsvoort
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
lcc
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Learning and information visualisation
My study aims to investigate different conditions in which learning or information processing takes place. In several projects we investigate the design of visualizations to gain knowledge on (1) how visualizations are produced and processed by learners, (2) which perceptual featuresof visualizations improve learning, and (3) how visualization strategies are taught to learners most effectively.
Marjolijn
M.L.
Antheunis
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
lcc
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Social and strategic aspects of social media
My research aims at examining both social and strategic effects of the use of several internet applications (e.g., social network sites, and online games). On the one hand, it examines social effects of the internet on social psychological well being and impression formation. For example, what are the long-term effects of social network site use on loneliness and quality of friendships? Enhance social network site and online games the users' social competence? On the other hand, we examine the strategic effects of social media marketing on several effectivity measures, such as attitude towards the brand and buying intentions. More specifically, this project aims to test how marketing campaigns on social network sites affects consumers' brand engagement, loyalty, and other marketing effects.
Anja
J.P.M.
Arts
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
lcc
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Overspecification of referential expressions
Overspecification of referential expressions has been shown to be an ever-present characteristic in language production. Natural language production can be disturbed by various factors, as is the case with many other cognitive and physical processes in humans. In this project the focus is on stress as a factor that may influence the degree of overspecification in language production, because purposely induced stress, as experienced by participants in an experiment, may have an effect on the perception processes, and with that on the planning processes that precede the natural flow of language.
Martijn
M.J.H.
Balsters
Postdoc
lcc
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Verbal and Nonverbal cues for depression in Adolescents
The goal of my research is to examine whether certain verbal and nonverbal cues could be reliable predictors for depression in adolescents, in orderto make diagnoses inlife as early aspossible. We uselinguistic, acoustic andnonverbal behavioralmethods of analysis. In addition, we aim to investigate more general attentional effects of negative emotion perception (such as fear, sadness and the influence of tears) on the basis of behavioral experiments.
Adriana
A.A.
Băltărețu
PhD student
lcc
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Human Spatial Communication
My research focuses on human spatial communication in large and small environment-scale settings. I am interested in spatial language and spatial visualizations (locative referring expressions, route descriptions and landmarks), with a particular focus on embodied cognition. My experiments are focused on the influence of space in referring expression production, as well as on the effects of shifting perspectives
Peter
P.J.
Berck
PhD student
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Memory Based Modelling of Language Tasks
My project grew out of the work I did as a programmer in Antal van den Bosch' Vici project. I originally concentrated on using a memory based word predictor as a language model, but it turned out the implementation we built is a lot more versatile than originally thought. Apart from the language modeling capabilities, it can be used as spelling corrector (used in valkuil.net), predictive editing system, and for confusible and grammar correction. My research examines the pro and cons of using memory based models in these tasks
Harry
H.C.
Bunt
FullProfessor
Prof. dr.
cc
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Modelling of Language
My research focuses on: Formal and computational semantics of natural language; Dialogue theory and computational pragmatics; Representation systems for beliefs, intentions, and actions; Constraint-based natural language description, parsing and generation; Context modelling and context-based reasoning; Intelligent, cooperative, multimodal communication; Dialogue management; Semantic annotation.
Jacintha
J.M.A.
Buysse
SupportStaff
lcc
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As a management assistant ...
... I am part of the DCI support staff. My activities consist of coordinating regular activities of the Management Team (MT), head Department of Communication & Information Sciences (DCI) and director Education of DCI as well as DCI projects which are put on the department agenda each year.
Matje
M.M.
van de Camp
PhD student
lcc
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HiTiME: Historical Timeline Mining and Extraction
My project aims at the development of a generic, reusable toolkit for historical text mining. Operating on any large heterogeneous set of documents from some arbitrary period but covering a particular historical domain, a ¿historical web of domain knowledge¿ is generated: an associative network of concepts (historically relevant entities) and their relations, linked to a timeline. This network can be browsed or searched with textually and/or visually oriented interfaces for timelines and maps, allowing for both system-internal component evaluation and system-external task-based evaluation.
Grzegorz
G.
Chrupala
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
cc
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Computational Linguistics
Discovering structure in text. With the advent of digital storage large and increasing quantities of text are being recorded every day. In order to make sense of this continuing stream of data I am working on computational methods for discovering meaningful structure in it. My main focus is on cognitively-inspired models of language learning which illuminate language acquisition in humans while at the same time being useful for real-world text understanding applications.
Rein
R.
Cozijn
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
cc
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What the eyes reveal about multimodal information processing
This project is concerned with experimental research on information processing in a multimodal environment, with a focus on processes related to language comprehension, hypertext comprehension, and the integration of text and graphics. The project uses eye tracking as its main research methodology.
Emmelyn
E.A.J.
Croes
PhD student
lcc
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The role of nonverbal information in online communication and its effect on friendships
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Jacqueline
J.M.
Dake
AcademicSupportStaff
Drs.
both
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Research Laboratory
The Department of Communication and Information Sciences has an experimental laboratory which provides (ICT-)facilities to researchers and students that need these for their experimental research. Among the facilities are: sound proof booths with computers, eyetracking equipment, eyecatchers, cameras and various software packages. I take care of the daily business in and around the lab, assisting students and staff with the use of hard- and software.
Seza
A.S.
Dögruez
Postdoc
Dr.
lcc
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Computational analysis of language and more ...
My research interests include computational analysis of language variation and change, immigrant Turkish in Europe, usage-based approaches to language analyses, bilingualism, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics. Currently I am working on lexical specificity in [N N] constructions in Turkish and Dutch
Yan
Y.
Gu
PhD student
lcc
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The functions of L2 learners' gestures in conversation
My project provides a better understanding of how L2 learners¿ gestures have a communicative and cognitive function, by investigating the role of speakers¿ gesture in 1) adaptation to their addresses; 2) dealing with disfluencies and 3) facilitating addressees¿ comprehension. Particular attention is paid to what gestures can reveal about thinking for speaking when cross-linguistic differences occur in conceptualization.
Joke
J.W.
Hellemons
SupportStaff
lcc
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As Management assistent ...
... I support the board of TiCC, the TiCC Research Team and the CIW Teaching Team. My other tasks are: (1) organizing symposia, conferences and workshops; (2) the Management of the International Computer Games Association (ICGA); (3) editorial assistant of the ICGA Journal and (4) support of the BNVKI Board (BeNeLux AI Association).
Myriam
M.
Diocaretz
ProfessorBySpecialAppointment
Prof. dr.
lcc
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Martijn
M.B.
Goudbeek
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
lcc
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Referring expressions & Vocal and bodily expression of emotion
I investigate two topics: the production of referring expressions and the vocal and bodily expression of emotion. The first topic deals with the choices we make when we describe certain objects to other persons. Which properties do we include in our descriptions and why? Can these choices be influenced, for example by the descriptions of other people? The second topic studies how our voice and body change with our emotional state. I am particularly interested in the role of language and cultural differences in the expression of emotion. And, finally, in the consequences of emotionally colored utterances for several communicative situations (negotiation, collaboration).
Yu
Y.
Gu
PhD student
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Real-time prosodic speech analysis using parallel algorithms
The human voice is a rich source of information. Whereas most computer science studies focus on speech recognition, the emphasis in this project is on the prosodic information in vocal expressions. The prosody accompanying vocal utterances (pitch, rhythm, intensity) carries important information on the nature of relationships (e.g., dominance, friendship, aggression). In this project the main aim is to realize the real-time tracking of prosodic information using parallel algorithms. We will employ wavelet-based methods to study the frequency and amplitude modulations of vocal expressions. In the project, the parallel distributed processing of auditory signals in the brain will serve as a source of inspiration.
Jaap
J.
van den Herik
FullProfessor
Prof.dr.
cc
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http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=h.j.vdnherik
Intelligent Systems
Jaap van den Herik is Professor of Computer Science at Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands and Professor of Law and Computer Science at the Faculty of Law of the Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands. As former Scientific Director of TiCC (Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication) he was able to attract many talented researchers. He was supervisor of 64 Ph.D. researchers. His research interests are: Computer Games, Serious Games, Adaptive Agents, Neural Networks, Information Retrieval, e-Humanities, Intelligent Crowd Sourcing, and Intelligent Systems for Law Applications.
Marieke
M.W.
Hoetjes
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
lcc
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The relation between verbal and nonverbal aspects of communication
My PhD work is part of the Vici project "Bridging the gap between psycholinguistics and computational linguistics: The case of referring expressions". My research mainly focuses on the relationship between verbal and nonverbal aspects of communication. Specifically, I study the gestures that people produce when they speak, and how these change depending on the communicative context.
Alain
A.P.C.I.
Hong
PhD student
lcc
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http://www. tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=a.p.c.i.hong
The influence of individual differences in self-construal on challenging situations
The goal of my research project is to examine how differences in self-construa l (independent self-construal versus interdependent self-construal) affect responses of individuals in challenging situations. In a first series of studies, I will examine how individual differences in self-construal affect people¿s reactions to individual-based injustice and group-based injustice. In a second series of studies, I will examine how individual differences in self-construal are related to people¿s reactions to situations in which social norms are being challenged. In a third series of studies, I will examine how individual differences in self-construal are related to communicative challenges in everyday social interactions./p>
Anne-Marie
A.M.
van Hoof
AcademicLecturer
Drs.
lcc
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Coming Soon
Erica
H.A.
Huls
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
lcc
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Language and interaction in institutional discourse
This project studies institutional discourse with a specific interest in the power processes that take place in conversations. More specifically, it focuses on interviewers' use of verbal means of power and interviewees' evasions. Among the settings studied are media interviews and police interrogations. In data analysis, insights from Conversation Analysis and Discourse analysis are used.
Sylvia
Z.N.
Huwaë
PhD student
Drs.
lcc
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Self-construal and behaviour in challenging situation
The goal of my research project is to examine how differences in self-construal (independent self-construal versus interdependent self-construal) affect responses of individuals in challenging situations. In a first series of studies, I will examine how individual differences in self-construal affect people¿s reactions to individual-based injustice and group-based injustice. In a second series of studies, I will examine how individual differences in self-construal are related to people¿s reactions to situations in which social norms are being challenged. In a third series of studies, I will examine how individual differences in self-construal are related to communicative challenges in everyday social interactions.
Maaike
M.M.
Jongenelen
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
lcc
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http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=m.m.jongenelen
Persuasive health communication
Mass media campaigns that try to make us live more healthy only succeed to do so to a very small degree. Personal face-to-face communication is more likely to succeed, but is also much more expensive and time-consuming. My project searches for the ¿best of both worlds¿: a combination of individually tailored information and one-size-fits-all messages. For which factors is individual information necessary, and when is it better to provide information on a (sub)group level?
Bart
B.
Joosten
PhD student
lcc
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http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=b.joosten
Digital analysis of facial expression dynamics
My research is focused on the digital analysis of facial expression dynamics. We use or extend computer vision techniques to analyze video streams that display facial expressions. Focusing on the dynamic aspects of the expressions we hope to find hitherto undiscovered discriminative patterns in (spontaneous) human non-verbal behavior. My main research interests are pattern recognition and machine learning, computer vision and non-verbal communication.
Hille
H.A.J.
van der Kaa
AcademicLecturer
Drs.
lcc
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Journalism and data-journalistic research methods
Hille van der Kaa (1979) has previously worked as a journalist and publisher. Now she is program manager of the master Data Journalism at the University of Tilburg. Besides this, she works as a researcher and lecturer (transmedia journalism, journalistic datamining, data journalism practice). Her PhD research focuses on new types of journalism and data-journalistic research methods. In addition to her work for the university she runs her own business The Uitgeeffabriek (The Publishing Factory), with which she creates transmedia scripts and productions.
Constantijn
C.C.L.
Kaland
PhD student
lcc
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http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=c.c.l.kaland
Prosodic markers of information status
In the field of (cognitive) linguistics, there is a renewed interest in the question to what extent the form of linguistic expressions is a consequence of speaker-dependent or addressee-dependent factors. Basically, the underlying problem is whether speakers mainly "speak for themselves", or whether they adapt their expressions to the needs and background of their addressees. To tackle this general problem, previous research has often looked at how speakers make lexical decisions. Instead, the current project aims to focus on prosodic variables, like intonation, loudness, and durational patterns.
Naomi
N.
Kamoen
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
lcc
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http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=n.kamoen
Surveys & Voting Advice Applications
The survey is generally regarded to be the "least cumbersome method" to acquire insight into people's opinions and attitudes (Dijkstra & Van der Zouwen 1982: 2). However, all sorts of seemingly irrelevant characteristics of the question wording and the survey context influence how respondents report their attitudes (e.g. Tourangeau, Rips & Rasinski 2000). In my research, I attempt to explain these so-called wording effects by relating them to the cognitive processes underlying question answering. Since September 2012 I am involved in an NWO research project in which I investigate the effects of several wording variables in the context of a special kind of survey, a voting advice application (e.g. KiesKompas). If you want to read more about this project, please visit http://vavi.wp.hum.uu.nl/.
Ruud
R.M.F.
Koolen
AssistantProfessor
lcc
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http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=r.m.f.koolen
Visual scene perception and reference production
My research concerns the link between visual scene perception and reference production. For example, imagine that you are looking at a picture. Which objects will grab your attention? Previous research has answered this question in two ways: both perceptual, image-based cues (e.g., an object with a bright color will pop out), and conceptual cues (related to the reason why you are looking at the picture, for example: you are searching for a specific object) will play a role. I propose that these cues may also affect reference production, and the occurrence of referential overspecification in particular.
Emiel
E.J.
Krahmer
FullProfessor
Prof.dr.
lcc
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http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=e.j.krahmer
Bridging the gap between computational linguistics and psycholinguistics: The case of referring expressions
Real-life scenes contain many different objects, each of which can be referred to in many different ways. When speakers want to point out one of these objects to an addressee, they usually have no problems in quickly producing a referring expression singling out the intended object ("Do you see the man in blue clothes over there?"). How do speakers do this? More precisely, how do they go from the intention to point out an object to an addressee to the realization of this intention through spoken language, supported with appropriate gestures and facial expressions? This project studies the human production of referring expressions from both a computational and an experimental perspective, combining methodologies and insights from psycholinguistics with those of computational linguistics.
Lennard
L.
van de Laar
AcademicSupportStaff
Drs.Ing.
lcc
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Video, audio, website etc support
Lennard van de Laar is currently connected to the Department of Communication and Information Sciences of the Tilburg School of Humanities at Tilburg University as an education/research assistant. In short he supports/advises students and teachers with their technical questions regarding research or teaching activities (i.e. support with video, audio, websites, online questionnaires). And he also helps them with graphical design and illustrations for their publications for web and print.
Wilma
W.
Latuny
PhD student
lcc
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Knowledge Discovery from Indonesian Data
The project aims to develop and evaluate knowledge discovery and data mining methods to support the society and economy of Indonesia. The emphasis is on knowledge discovery from visual, auditory and textual data sources in the domains of entertainment, politics, and tourism. Knowledge discovery in the entertainment domain will be investigated by performing digital (social signal processing) analyses of facial and vocal characteristics of contestants in a TV show (Indonesian Idol), in an attempt to predict their ranking in the finale.
Lauraine
L.
de Lima
SupportStaff
lcc
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Secretarial support ...
... of academic staff.
Hai
H.X.
Lin
ProfessorBySpecialAppointment
Prof.dr.ir.
cc
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http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=h.x.lin
Computational methods, grid/cloud computing and HPC technology
In collaboration with scholars in the humanities I develop new tools, methods, and approaches for gathering, stoiring, processing, representing and analyzing data (including text, numbers, images and sounds). Furthermore I apply theories of mathematical modelling and algorithms for data analysis to e-Humanities research. Within TiCC I contribute to the research and education program by introducing computational methods, grid/cloud computing and HPC technology
Caixia
C.
Liu
PhD student
cc
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Visual communication
The research project focusses on the creation of realistic Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). The automatic generation of facial expressions in ECAs and their evaluation by humans are investigated. The generation is performed by training generative machine learning methods on a corpus of human facial expressions yielding a suitable expression-space representation. The simulations will be evaluated in behavioral experiments in which participants rate the realism of the expressions. The project is a collaboration with the Human Technology Interaction group of Eindhoven University of Technology.
Janneke
J.M.
van der Loo
AcademicLecturer
lcc
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http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=j.m.vdrloo
Academic writing and e-learning
I am a lecturer in writing for academic purposes (in Dutch). At the School of Humanities we teach academic writing the 'blended' way. Academic writing is an integrated part of a (content) course. We combine online and face-to-face didactical approaches. I have a very strong interest in e-learning and in the effects of observational learning on text quality.
Max
M.
Louwerse
FullProfessor
Prof.dr.
cc
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http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=m.m.louwerse
Cognitive science
Max Louwerse is Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University. After his PhD from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, he was Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Full Professor in Psychology and the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis, and Director of the Institute for Intelligent Systems. He served as Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator or Senior Researcher on over 10 million dollar of federally funded grant projects and published over 100 articles in the cognitive sciences, including publications on symbolic and embodied cognition, language statistics, multimodal communication, embodied conversational agents, cohesion and coherence, and discourse processes.
Lieke
L.J.
van Maastricht
PhD student
lcc
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http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=l.j.vanmaastricht
The role of prosody in second language acquisition (SLA)
In recent years the interest in the role of prosody - intonation, stress and rhythm - in SLA has gained in importance. My project focuses on whether competing prosodic systems in the L1 and L2 (for now I am focusing on Dutch and Spanish ) result in prosodic interference in one of the two, or both languages. If so, we aim to determine (1) whether it is bi-directional (i.e. does the L1 prosody also influence the prosody of the L2?), (2) whether it depends on the proficiency level of the speaker and (3) if it leads to reduced intelligibility in the eyes of native speakers.
Fons
A.A.
Maes
FullProfessor
Prof.dr.
lcc
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http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=maes
Visual communication
I am interested in using experimental methods (elicitation of speech, production tasks, think aloud, online measurements, qualitative analysis) to better understand the way in which we use visual elements in human communication. My research aims at understanding how visual cues interact with language (gesture-speech; visual-linguistic salience), how visual strategies are used to create metaphoric conceptualization (e.g. in advertising, cartoons, health communication), how graphical and spatial elements are produced (e.g. in argumentative diagrams) or interpreted (e.g. the use of arrows).
John Douglas
J.D.
Mastin
PhD student
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Cultural & Social Aspects of Multimodal Interactions in Language Interaction (CASA MILA)
My research within the CASA MILA project focuses on two main topics within language acquisition analysis. First, I have provided a reanalysis of infant engagement and interaction from a component based process, which allows for a more complete and objective analysis of correlations between the frequency distributions of interaction types and vocabulary development. Second, I provide a deeper analysis into the social and caregiving structure of Mozambican infants by analyzing real-life data in regard to various types of daily communication partners. Results will be applied to future computer models of language evolution.n
Ruud
R.J.H.
Mattheij
PhD student
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Persuading households to save energy through smart agents
My project addresses the interaction of users with domotic systems. At the core of this projectis the belief that intelligent systems should stimulate users to adopt energy saving behaviour by means of persuasion, rather than by taking over control. Our aim is to persuade users to change their energy-consumption behaviour by developing personalized agents in the form of displays or robotic interfaces that provide feedback and suggestions in an attractive and non-disturbing way. The agents collect information on consumptionpatternsthrough,e.g., power-consumption meters, and use that information for generating feedback and suggestions. The main challenge of the research is to combine psychological and technological knowledge as to identify and exploit successful human-agent interactions. This project is a collaboration with the Human-Technology Interaction group of Eindhoven University of Technology and Smart Homes.
Yevgen
Y.
Matusevych
PhD student
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Computational modeling of language acquisition
This project aims at studying the mechanisms involved in human second language acquisition, and developing a formal account of this process through computational modeling. The focus of the project is on the acquisition of argument structure constructions in a usage-based framework, and their patterns of use by second language learners.
Harold
H.W.J.M.
Miesen
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
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Life satisfaction in well-fare states and need-fulfilment
Taken as a whole, the past 20 years of research on materialism and life satisfaction have produced mixed and inconsistent evidence to support the widely held consumer culture notion that material possessions are a salient feature in attaining life satisfaction. The current project aims at providing from a human motivational perspective a deeper understanding of the underlying dynamics behind a selection of relevant social-psychological need-variables, different types of resources at the individual'sdisposal, materialism, and life satisfaction.
Stefania
S.
Milan
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
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1. Cloud Protesting; 2. The Politics of Code
1. This research explores the impact of digital media, and social media in particular, on contemporary collective action, with a focus on cultural aspects of collective identities and narratives. "Cloud protesting" indicates a type of social organizing for collective action which has individuals (and their needs, identities, and bodies) at its core. It is fostered by social media platforms and mobile devices. The research looks at the impact of social media on organizational forms and on collective identities. Case studies include the #Occupy mobilizations and Anonymous. 2. This research project explores how cultural and political values of socially engaged technological developers shape digital communication infrastructure and power in cyberspace. For radical techies, software development is a way of "express[ing] people's political aspirations in the form of code" (field interview). I look at code as both a cultural artifact and a form of policy intervention. Case studies include the crisis mapping community and alternatives to commercial social networking services.
Lisette
E.M.M.
Mol
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
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Gesture and Cognition
What cognitive processes influence hand gesture production and what does this tell us about how and why gestures are produced? Using an experimental approach, I test how a speaker's mental image of the addressee, computermediation, the difficulty of a (secondary) task, and low level priming (alignment) affect gesture production.
Maria
M.B.J.
Mos
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
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Local frequency in language.
Usage-based theories of language assume that our knowledge of language is a function of our earlier experience with it. Experimental evidence suggests that we use frequency both in language processing (e.g. reading times, recognition) and in our attitudes towards texts (e.g. we expect shampoo ads to promise us silky smooth hair). But how local is our (implicit) knowledge of frequency? And what happens when unexpected words and constructions are used? Does this make texts more attractive, or their writer less convincing? Combining corpus (frequency) and experimental (processing and evaluation) data I investigate these questions
Phoebe
H.C.
Mui
PhD student
lcc
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Culture and nonverbal communication
How does our cultural background affect our nonverbal communication? In particular, I am interested in the effect of cultural dimensions on actual nonverbal behavior (as opposed to self-reported beliefs). Employing a game paradigm, I am currently investigating the spontaneous nonverbal cues exhibited by participants from cultural groups with different levels of Power Distance.
Susan
S.
al-Naqshbandi
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
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Network Security
My research focuses on using methods of artificial intelligence to develop a system that will make the network infrastructure and communication over the Internet more secure. In particular, my focus is on Intrusion Detection Systems.
Karin
K.
van Nispen
PhD student
lcc
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the ability to gesture in aphasic patients
Gesturing can convey meaning in co-occurrence as well as in absence of speech. Therefore, the use of gestures would seem to be a good strategy for people with aphasia to compensate for their impaired speech production. Our study analyzes the ability to gesture in aphasic patients. We focus on different linguistic disorders, the type of gestures that are used and the comprehensibility of these gestures.
Nanne
N.
van Noord
PhD student
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REVIGO: REassessing VIncent van GOgh
Over time Vincent van Gogh's (1853-1890) works have significantly changed in appearance due to color degradation. Within TiCC, the REVIGO project aims at the development of simulation models of the ageing of the pigments within paintings. Using these models, digital reproductions can be generated of the appearances of paintings in the past (at the time of creation) and in the future. The REVIGO project is a collaboration of Tilburg University with Delft University of Technology, the Van Gogh Museum, and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands. The development of the models will be performed in collaboration with Roy Berns of the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science in Rochester, New York.
Leo
L.G.M.
Noordman
FullProfessor
Prof.dr.
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Language comprehension and reader's characteristics
Language comprehension is an interaction between c haracteristics of the text and properties of the language processor. I am particularly interested in how reader's knowledge affects comprehension processes such as inferences; how the human propensity for causal interpretation and reluctance to accept coincidences affects language comprehension and how language affects thought.
G.
G.
van Oortmerssen
ProfessorBySpecialAppointment
Prof.dr.ir.
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Leonoor
E.
Oversteegen
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
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How to put it to words?
My reseach focuses on the way the linguistic form of a certain message (be it an expression or a text) varies as a function of properties of the sender and/or receiver of the message, such as gender, (mutual) knowledge and convictions. The form variations investigated include semantic precision, explicitness (of inferrable relations), prosodic features and metaphorical images employed.
Hans
J.J.
Paijmans
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
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Aske
A.
van der Plaat
ProfessorBySpecialAppointment
Prof.Dr.
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Information and complex decision-making
The research efforts of Computational Intelligence have yielded many of the technologies that our modern society takes for granted: from voice controlled navigation systems, data mining techniques for big data, and computers that play chess at a level far beyond human comprehension. In the Tilburg Gaming group we work on optimization algorithms for data mining and organizational decision making. With NLR we cooperate on creating realistic training scenarios for pilots. With NIKHEF we have recently won a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant to work on stochastic algorithms for equation solvers for particle physics experiments.
Monique
M.M.H.
Pollman
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
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Self-control in negotiation
My research focuses on different factors that influence interpersonal communication. I am interested in circumstances that influence how well people communicate and understand each other. For example, if people are exhausted, can they still interact successfully in negotiations? Or if the social situations forces people to use white lies (like when receiving a bad gift), does the communication partner pick up on those white lies and how? There are many circumstances in which communication is not as successful as we might think, and I try to find out what are the predictors and consequences of this.
Eric
E.O.
Postma
FullProfessor
Dr.
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Automatic analysis of visual and vocal expressions and behaviors
My main research focuses on the automatic analysis of visual and vocal expressions and behaviors by means of methods from the domains of Social Signal Processing and Affective Computing. Human perceptual and cognitive mechanisms serve as an inspiration for the development of these methods. In addition, I study the automatic classification and analysis of visual texture and color to determine the authorship of paintings.
Marie
M.
Postma
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
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Effects of dominant listening modus
As shown in a number of psychoacoustic and neurological studies, human listeners differ in what aspects of a complex sound signal they perceive to be dominant. In particular, they can be roughly divided between F0 listeners, who focus on the information encoded in the fundamental frequency and its change in time, and spectral listeners, who are primarily affected by the overall spectral information in the signal, such as its timbre. Given that discriminating the individual components of the sound signal is the core skill behind human speech processing, it is of importance that we gain insight into individual differences in speech perception and their possible impact on interpretation, as well as on production and language learning.
Annemarie
A.
Quispel
PhD student
Drs.
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Information visualization
As a linguist and graphic designer, I am much interested in visual communication. My research focuses on the way people produce and interpret visual information. I am especially interested in the ways professionally trained visualizers (such as graphic designers) visualize certain kinds of information (e.g. data visualizations), and the way laymen in the field of visualization interpret them. Is there a difference in understanding and appreciation between professional designers and larger audiences? What factors play a role in aesthetic appeal? And what is the relationship between perceived aesthetics, usability, and appreciation?
Jan
J.
Renkema
FullProfessor
Prof.Dr.
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Digital analyses of discourse quality
My research focuses on the digital application and improvement of a model for discussing discourse quality; the CCC-model (Renkema, 2000). In particular, my research aims to implement the results of research projects for the Dutch Internal Revenue Service and the Dutch municipalities The Hague and Almere. We also aim to improve the quality of obtaining language advice on the internet, as well as the usability.
Martin
M.
Reynaert
Postdoc
Dr.
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SoNaR
My research is part of the SoNaR project, a trans-national collaboration funded by the STEVIN programme between the universities of Nijmegen, Leuven, Ghent, Utrecht, Twente, and Tilburg, aims at the creation of a large corpus of minimally 500 million words of contemporary written Dutch, to serve as a generic reference for future research on linguistics and language use, for the development of dictionaries and grammars, and for research in language and speech technology. For all these purposes it is vital that large amounts of text are available, in a digital format that facilitates exploitation by different types of users. The corpus is based on a design made in the predecessor STEVIN D-CoI project. The role of Tilburg University in this trans-national research project is to be the node where all incoming texts are normalized (cleaned, corrected, and tokenized), and converted to a standard XML format, using automatic means wherever possible.
Henk
H.
van Riemsdijk
FullProfessor
Prof.Dr.
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Theory of grammar of Germanic languages
My fields of expertise are: the theory of grammar, in particular syntax and its interfaces with logical form and phonology, formal similarities and differences between syntax and phonology, and my work specializes empirically on the Germanic languages.
Juliette
J.
Schaafsma
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
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Reactions to being excluded or rejected
The aim of my research is to examine how people respond to threats to their inclusionary status (i.e., being ignored, excluded, or rejected), and to examine howsuch responses vary as a function of situational characteristics (e.g., group status).This research also aims to gain more insight into the types of interventions that might make people less vulnerable to different types of inclusionary threats.
Joost
J.
Schilperoord
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
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Visual metaphors: referring, qualifying, evaluating and arguing
Visual imagery is assumed to be capable of bringing about conceptual effects, such as analogy, causality, negation, that have long seen the exclusive domain of language. This project aims at exploring the potential of visual imagery to evoke points of view and special types of causality like argumentation. Adapting the theory of Conceptual Blending, the project's guiding hypothesis is that the nature of the blending process (simplex blending, mirror blending, single or double scope blending), i.e. the type of metaphorical domains that are selected and the way they are expressed and merged visually, ultimately determines whether an image merely qualifies its topic, whether it expresses a certain point of view with regard to it, or whether it even invites viewers to reconstruct a full blown argumentation.
Alexander
A.P.
Schouten
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
lcc
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Group vs. individual effects in online collaboration
This research topic concerns the effects of group vs. individual identity on online collaboration. Effective communication and collaboration for a large part depends on how well people can get along and their willingness to cooperate. There are generally two ways in which people may be attracted towards each other, based on an assessment of other person¿s individual skills and characteristics and based on common group membership. Nowadays information about individual and group identities is often simultaneously available online, for example by viewing one¿s Facebook profile. In this project, we investigate the specific cues people rely on to form impressions of each other and to what extent this is based on social or individual cues. Moreover, the goal is to see which of these most affect team collaboration by manipulating group and individual identity in synchronous online communication.
Mariana
M.
Serras Pereira
PhD student
lcc
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Suleman
C.S.
Shahid
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
lcc
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Emotions in human-computer interactions
My research investigates how different emotional and affective states of humans effect (positively or negatively) their interaction with a computer/digital media. The research focuses on two dimensions of emotions across cultures: natural emotion induction and emotion recognition. Forinducing emotionsnaturally, new techniques are developed e.g. using simple games or changing the rules of complex games for this purpose. For perceiving emotions, the mang emotions, the main focus of this research will be on the non-verbal cues derived from facial expressions and body gestures.
Ko
K.
van der Sloot
AcademicSupportStaff
Dr.
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Scientific Programmer
My job is to design and implement software for our research staff. The main focus is on implementing algorithms for Memory Based Learning which culmulated in the Timbl package and its descendants. But I also build tools for handling gigabytes of XML data as used in our large Corpora. This implies indexing, augmenting and various forms of cleansing. Another topic is my work for the LIN project, which works on providing a "Leesbaarheids Index voor het Nederlands" (also a readability index).
Pieter
P.
Spronck
AssociateProfessor
Dr.
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Intelligent games
The importance of games in our society is growing rapidly: in entertainment, education, training, and social interaction. My research focuses on the use and implementation of intelligent computational techniques in games, to enable games to have an "understanding" of who the human player is, and to provide the player with an appropriate experience. The general goal is to make games better able to achieve their purpose with respect to the player, whether it is to entertain, to educate, or to facilitate communication.
Marc
M.G.J.
Swerts
FullProfessor
Prof.Dr.
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Developmental and diagnostic aspects of audiovisual prosody
My research focuses on how speakers and addressees use auditory and visual forms of nonverbal communication (audiovisual prosody). In particular, the project aims to test how the use of audiovisual prosody develops in growing children, and to what extent it is being exploited by people with communicative problems, such as people with autism.
Kiek
K.
Tates
AssociateProfessor
Dr.
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Information exchange and informed consent in medical contexts
This project uses primarily qualitative research methodology to explore the processes of information exchange, shared decision-making and patient participation in various medical contexts. A special research focus is on the conflicting demands of adequate information exchange during diagnostic consultations in pediatric oncology, and the demands of obtaining valid informed consent for participation in clinical trials.
Shoshanna
S.
Tekofsky
PhD student
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Player Modeling in Video Games
My project is about creating a computational framework to predict certain qualities of the player. The focus lies on the collection of large datasets from players of major commercial titles. Data mining and machine learning techniques are employed to uncover the link between player identity and experience, and his game behavior.
Anne
A.R.
Vermeer
AssociateProfessor
Dr.
lcc
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Vocabulary development in early first and second language proficiency
In a longitudinal design, the project describes the quantitative and qualitative development of Dutch vocabulary in monolingual native Dutch and bilingual ethnic minority children from their fourth to ninth year. The main focus is development in growth (`breadth') and the relation with morphological complex units and pre-packaged constructions, with cognitive abilities, and with textual abilities with respect to cohesion and coherence.
Eva
A.H.
Verschoor
SupportStaff
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Jette
H.A.E.
Viethen
Postdoc
Dr.
lcc
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Computational Modelling of Reference in Visual Domains
I investigate how humans refer to objects in their visual environment. In particular, I am interested in the factors that influence whether attributes such as colour, size or shape get used in object descriptions. I use empirical methods as well as computational modelling with the two-fold aim of (a) gaining a better understanding of the cognitive processes governing how humans refer, and (b) advancing referring expression generation algorithms that can be used in AI systems, such as direction-giving agents or companion robots.
Mandy
H.
Visser
PhD student
lcc
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Children's development of nonverbal behavior
My research aims to get a better understanding of how children learn to use and interpret nonverbal behavior, during their social development. As children grow older, their social awareness increases and they learn what type of nonverbal behavior is appropriate and affective in specific social contexts. My studies examine different aspects of the social use of nonverbal behavior, like showing uncertainty.
Jorrig
J.
Vogels
PhD student
lcc
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The production of referring expressions
The production of referring expressionsis affected by cognitive constraints on the part of the speaker. This project investigates the influence of factors intrinsic to the speaker's cognitive state and how these interact with factors dependenton the communicative situation. More specifically, it looks at the effects of different properties of referents on the production of referring expressions,such as animacy, givenness and visual salience. We distinguish factors that contribute to inherent accessibility from those that contribute to derived accessibility, as well as linguistic properties from physical properties, and examine whether such effects result from the speaker's mental model independent from the needs of the adressee, or whether they can (partly) be ascribed to efforts from the speaker to adapt to the supposed mental model of the addressee and to increase the chances ofsuccessful communication.
Paul
P.
Vogt
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
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CASA MILA
My research currently aims at analyzing the first data sets containing videos of interactions between infants and their caregivers, which we acquired during months of fieldwork in Mozambique in 2010. The research is part of my NWO VIDI project called CASA MILA, which focuses on the relation between the use of multimodal gestures and vocabulary development among infants. My colleague Douglas J. Mastin will collect additional data in Mozambique. We will also start to collect similar data in the Netherlands for cross-cultural comparisons.
Jan
J.
de Vuijst
FullProfessor
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Lisanne
L.
van Weelden
PhD student
lcc
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Visual Metaphor, a psycholinguistic Perspective
This project of the 'Visual Metaphor; A psycholinguistic Perspective' addresses how metaphor type affects the comprehension and understanding of visual metaphors. The project seeks to find out if and when attribute mapping takes placeduring processing visual metaphors and how it affects relation mapping.
Hans
H.
Westerbeek
PhD student
lcc
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The psychology of information design: the case of visual realism
Pictures can be used to communicate messages. While linguistic and psychological research has yielded considerable insight in the interpretation of text, communication through pictures has not attracted the same degree of scholarly attention. This project aims to conduct an experimental approach towards the communicative impact of pictures, focusing on stylistic differences in depiction (e.g. detailed vs. coarse pictures), and especially on pictorial realism.
Carel
C.H.
van Wijk
AssociateProfessor
Dr
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Persuasive effects of stylistic choices in document design
For genres ranging from news reports to public information and advertisements, stylistic choices are evaluated for their effects on the persuasiveness of adocument. Theseeffects arestudied in relation with one or more characteristics of receiver (involvement), content (relevance), source (reputation), situation (depth of processing) and context (medium).
Per
P.J.
van der Wijst
AssistantProfessor
Dr
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Friendship and Deception in Negotiation Processes
My project studies theeffect of communicative and social variables on the process of decision taking in negotiations.Moreprecisely, in a series of negotiation experiments the question is addressed whether a relation of friendship helps or hinders a negotiation and to what extent friendship protects against inappropriate negotiation strategies, such as deceiving and retaliation.
Sander
S.
Wubben
AssistantProfessor
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Monolingual text-to-text generation
My research focuses on automatic monolingual text-to-text generation. Examples of monolingual text-to-text generation are paraphrase generation, sentence simplification, sentence compression and language transformation. The ability to paraphrase can serve to explain something or to provide feedback in dialogue. Sentence compression is useful for generating summaries, subtitles or tweets. Language trans formation can be used to make text written in for example Middle Dutch accessible by transforming it to modern day language. Text-to-text generation may also help to increase performance of other natural language processing tasks such as question answering, dialogue systems and machine translation. In my research I regard text-to-text generation as a monolingual machine translation task and I investigate how machine translation methods can be applied to monolingual text-to-text generation.
Menno
M.M.
van Zaanen
AssistantProfessor
Dr.
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Identifying and using implicit structures in sequences
Many sources of data, such as natural language or music, have an inherent internal structure. This structure describes the regularities and restrictions of the data. This research aims at making the structure explicit, which leads to a description of the underlying (formal) language of the data. This information can then be used, for instance, to group similar elements in the data together. The research is divided into two parts. The first part aims at learning language models that describe the data and can be used to introduce explicit structure on top of the unstructured data. The second part aims at using the identified structure in specific applications. For instance, in the context of mood classification of (music) lyrics, language models for each of the different moods can be used to identify the underlying mood of a particular lyric. Similarly, language models can be applied within spelling correction systems that require sentential context to identify and correct errors.
Kalliopi
K.
Zervanou
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Dr.
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Textual information management
My principal area of expertise lies in the broad field of textual information management. In particular, I'm interested in text mining and information extraction research and applications, in knowledge representation techniques and in the acquisition of linguistic knowledge resources (ontologies and/or semantic analysis rules).