Dissertations Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication

66  Francesco Di Giacomo ‒ Metacasanova: A high-performance meta-compiler for domain-specific languages.
Promotores: P.H.M. Spronck, A. Cortesi, E.O. Postma, Tilburg, 19 November 2018.

65  Yu Gu ‒ Automatic emotion recognition from Mandarin speech.
Promotores: E.O. Postma, H.J. van den Herik, H.X. Lin. Tilburg, 28 November 2018.

64  Thiago Castro Ferreira ‒ Advances in natural language generation: Generating varied outputs from semantic inputs.
Promotor: E.J. Krahmer. Co-promotor: S. Wubben. Tilburg, 19 September 2018.

63  Yan Gu ‒ Chinese hands of time: The effects of language and culture on temporal gestures and spatio-temporal reasoning.
Promotor: M.G.J. Swerts. Co-promotores: M.W. Hoetjes, R. Cozijn. Tilburg, 5 June 2018.

62  Bart Joosten ‒ Detecting social signals with spatiotemporal Gabor filters.
Promotores: E.J. Krahmer, E.O. Postma. Tilburg, 29 June 2018.

61  Ingrid Masson Carro ‒ Handmade: On the cognitive origins of gestural representations.
Promotor: E.J. Krahmer. Co-promotor: M.B. Goudbeek. Tilburg, 25 June 2018.

60  Nanne van Noord ‒ Learning visual representations of style.
Promotores: E.O. Postma, M. Louwerse. Tilburg, 16 May 2018.

59  Lieke van Maastricht ‒ Second language prosody: Intonation and rhythm in production and perception.
Promotores: E.J. Krahmer, M.G.J. Swerts. Tilburg, 9 May 2018.

58  Emmelyn Croes ‒ Meeting face-to-face online: The effects of video-mediated communication on relationship formation.
Promotores: E.J. Krahmer, M. Antheunis. Co-promotor A.P. Schouten. Tilburg, 28 March 2018.

57  Mariana Serras Pereira ‒ A multimodal approach to children’s deceptive behavior.
Promotor: M.G.J. Swerts. Co-promotor: S. Shahid. Tilburg, 10 January, 2018.

56  Sylvia Huwaë ‒ Different cultures, different selves? Suppression of emotions and reactions to transgressions across cultures.
Promotores: E.J. Krahmer, J. Schaafsma. Tilburg, 11 October, 2017.

55  Wilma Latuny ‒ The power of facial expressions.
Promotores: E.O. Postma, H.J. van den Herik. Tilburg, 29 September 2017.

54  Adel Alhuraibi ‒ From IT-business strategic alignment to performance: A moderated mediation model of social innovation, and enterprise governance of IT.
Promotores: H.J. van den Herik, B.A. Van de Walle. Co-promotor: S. Ankolekar. Tilburg, 26 September 2017.

53  Shoshannah Tekofsky ‒ You are who you play you are: Modelling player traits from video game behavior.
Promotores: E.O. Postma, P.H.M. Spronck. Tilburg, 19 June 2017.

52  Mohamed Abbadi ‒ Casanova 2: A domain specific language for general game development.
Promotores: A.A. Maes, P.H.M. Spronck, A. Cortesi. Co-promotor: G. Maggiore. Tilburg, 10 March 2017.

51  Adriana Baltaretu ‒ Speaking of landmarks: How visual information influences reference in spatial domains.
Promotores: A.A. Maes, E.J. Krahmer. Tilburg, 22 December 2016.

50  Karin van Nispen ‒ What can people with aphasia communicate with their hands? A study of representation techniques in pantomime and co-speech gesture.
Promotor: E.J. Krahmer. Co-promotor: M. van de Sandt-Koenderman. Tilburg, 19 December 2016.

49  Yevgen Matusevych ‒ Learning constructions from bilingual exposure: Computational studies of Argument structure acquisition.
Promotor: A.M. Backus. Co-promotor: A.Alishahi. Tilburg, 19 December 2016.

48  Marten Pijl ‒ Tracking of human motion over time.
Promotores: E. H. L. Aarts, M. M. Louwerse. Co-promotor: J. H. M. Korst. Tilburg, 14 December 2016.

47  Ruud Mattheij ‒ The eyes have it.
Promoteres: E.O. Postma, H. J. Van den Herik, P.H.M. Spronck. Tilburg, 5 October 2016.

46  Rick Tillman ‒ Language matters: The influence of language and language use on cognition.
Promotores: M.M. Louwerse, E.O. Postma. Tilburg, 30 June 2016.

45  Annemarie Quispel ‒ Data for all: How professionals and non-professionals in design use and evaluate information visualizations.
Promotor: A.A. Maes. Co-promotor: J. Schilperoord. Tilburg, 15 June 2016.

44  Matje van de Camp ‒ A link to the past: Constructing historical social networks from unstructured data.
Promotores: A.P.J. van den Bosch, E.O. Postma. Tilburg, 2 March 2016.

43  Hans Westerbeek ‒ Visual realism: Exploring effects on memory, language production, comprehension, and preference.
Promotores: A.A. Maes, M.G.J. Swerts. Co-promotor: M.A.A. van Amelsvoort. Tilburg, 10 February 2016.

42  Janet Bagorogoza ‒ Knowledge management and high performance: The Uganda financial institutions models for HPO.
Promotores: H.J. van den Herik. Co-promotores: A.A. de Waal, B.A. Van de Walle. Tilburg, 24 November 2015.

41  Elisabeth Lubinga ‒ Stop HIV/AIDS. Start talking? The effects of rhetorical figures in health messages on interpersonal discussions among South African adolescents.
Promotores: A.A. Maes, C.J.M. Jansen. Tilburg, 16 October 2015.

40  Marieke Hoetjes ‒ Talking hands: Reference in speech, gesture and sign.
Promotores: E.J. Krahmer and M.G.J. Swerts. Tilburg, 7 October 2015

39  Sterling Hutchinson ‒ How symbolic and embodied representations work in concert.
Promotores: M.M. Louwerse, E.O. Postma. Tilburg, 30 June 2015.

38  Mandy Visser ‒ Better use your head: How people learn to signal emotions in social contexts.
Promotores: M.G.J. Swerts, E.J. Krahmer. Tilburg, 10 June 2015.

37  Pauline Meesters ‒ Intelligent blauw: Intelligence-gestuurde politiezorg in gebiedsgebonden eenheden.
Promotores: H.J. van den Herik, T.A. de Roos. Tilburg, 1 December 2014.

36  Jasmina Marić ‒ Web communities, immigration and social capital.
Promotor: H.J. van den Herik. Co-promotores: R. Cozijn, M. Spotti. Tilburg, 18 November 2014.

35  Constantijn Kaland ‒ Prosodic marking of semantic contrasts: Do speakers adapt to addressees?
Promotores: M.G.J. Swerts, E.J. Krahmer. Tilburg, 1 October 2014.

34  Peter de Kock ‒ Anticipating criminal behaviour: Using the narrative in crime-related data.
Promotores: H.J. van den Herik, J.C. Scholtes. Co-promotor: P. Spronck. Tilburg, 10 September 2014.

33  Jorrig Vogels ‒ Referential choices in language production: The role of accessibility.
Promotores: A.A. Maes, E.J. Krahmer. Tilburg, 23 April 2014 (cum laude).

32  Philip C. Jackson. Jr. ‒ Toward human-level artificial intelligence: Representation and computation of meaning in natural language.
Promotores: H.C. Bunt, W.P.M. Daelemans. Tilburg, 22 April 2014.

31  J. Douglas Mastin ‒ Exploring infant engagement, language socialization and vocabulary development: A study of rural and urban communities in Mozambique.
Promotor: A.A. Maes. Co-promotor: P.A. Vogt. Tilburg, 11 October 2013.

30  Ruud Koolen ‒ Need I say more? On overspecification in definite reference.
Promotores: E.J. Krahmer and M.G.J. Swerts. Tilburg, 20 September 2013.

29  Lisanne van Weelden ‒ Metaphor in good shape.
Promotor: A.A. Maes. Co-promotor: J. Schilperoord. Tilburg, 28 June 2013.

28  Martijn Balsters ‒ Expression and perception of emotions: The case of depression, sadness and fear.
Promotores: E.J. Krahmer, M.G.J. Swerts, A.J.J.M. Vingerhoets. Tilburg, 25 June 2013.

27  Jeroen Janssens ‒ Outlier selection and one-class classification.
Promotores: E.O. Postma, H.J. van den Herik. Tilburg, 11 June 2013.

26  Sander Wubben ‒ Text-to-text generation by monolingual machine translation.
Promotores: E.J. Krahmer, A.P.J. van den Bosch, H. Bunt. Tilburg, 5 June 2013.

25  Giel van Lankveld ‒ Quantifying individual player differences.
Promotores: H.J. van den Herik, A.R. Arntz. Co-promotor: P. Spronck. Tilburg, 27 February 2013.

24  Agus Gunawan ‒ Information access for SMEs in Indonesia: A study on the business performance of garment manufacturers.
Promotor: H.J. van den Herik. Co-promotores: M. Wahdan, B.A. Van de Walle. Tilburg, 19 December 2012.

23  Nancy Pascall ‒ Engendering technology empowering women.
Promotores: H.J. van den Herik, M. Diocaretz. Tilburg, 19 November 2012.

22  Thijs Vis ‒ Intelligence, politie en veiligheidsdienst: Verenigbare grootheden?
Promotores: T.A. de Roos, H.J. van den Herik, A.C.M. Spapens. Tilburg, 6 June 2012 (in collaboration with the Tilburg School of Law).

21  Suleman Shahid ‒ Fun & Face: Exploring non-verbal expressions of emotion during playful interactions.
Promotores: E.J. Krahmer, M.G.J. Swerts. Tilburg, 25 May 2012.

20  Terry Kakeeto-Aelen ‒ Relationship marketing for SMEs in Uganda.
Promotores: J. Chr. van Dalen, H.J. van den Herik. Co-promotor: B.A. Van de Walle. Tilburg, 1 February 2012.

19  Herman Stehouwer ‒ Statistical language models for alternative sequence selection.
Promotores: A.P.J. van den Bosch, H.J. van den Herik. Co-promotor: M.M. van Zaanen. Tilburg, 7 December 2011.

18  Lisette Mol ‒ Language in the hands.
Promotores: E.J. Krahmer, A.A. Maes, M.G.J. Swerts. Tilburg, 7 November 2011 (cum laude).

17  Olga Petukhova ‒ Multidimensional dialogue modelling.
Promotor: H. Bunt. Tilburg, 1 September 2011.

16  Xiaoyu Mao ‒ Airport under control: Multiagent scheduling for airport ground handling.
Promotores: H.J. van den Herik, E.O. Postma. Co-promotores: N. Roos, A. Salden. Tilburg, 25 May 2011.

15  Bart Bogaert ‒ Cloud content contention.
Promotores: H.J. van den Herik, E.O. Postma. Tilburg, 30 March 2011.

14  Edwin Commandeur ‒ Implicit causality and implicit consequentiality in language comprehension.
Promotores: L.G.M. Noordman, W. Vonk. Co-promotor: R. Cozijn. Tilburg, 30 June 2010.

13  Marieke van Erp ‒ Accessing natural history: Discoveries in data cleaning, structuring, and retrieval.
Promotor: A.P.J. van den Bosch. Co-promotor: P.K. Lendvai. Tilburg, 30 June 2010.

12  Maria Mos ‒ Complex lexical items.
Promotor: A.P.J. van den Bosch. Co-promotores: A. Vermeer, A. Backus. Tilburg, 12 May 2010 (in collaboration with the Department of Language and Culture Studies).

11  Sander Bakkes ‒ Rapid adaptation of video game AI.
Promotor: H.J. van den Herik. Co-promotor: P. Spronck. Tilburg, 3 March 2010.

10  Toine Bogers ‒ Recommender systems for social bookmarking.
Promotor: A.P.J. van den Bosch. Tilburg, 8 December 2009.

9  Igor Berezhnoy ‒ Digital analysis of paintings.
Promotores: E.O. Postma, H.J. van den Herik. Tilburg, 7 December 2009.

8  Stephan Raaijmakers ‒ Multinomial language learning: Investigations into the geometry of language.
Promotores: W. Daelemans, A.P.J. van den Bosch. Tilburg, 1 December 2009.

7  Laurens van der Maaten ‒ Feature extraction from visual data.
Promotores: E.O. Postma, H.J. van den Herik. Co-promotor: A.G. Lange. Tilburg, 23 June 2009 (cum laude).

6  Fritz Reul ‒ New architectures in computer chess.
Promotor: H.J. van den Herik. Co-promotor: J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk. Tilburg, 17 June 2009.

5  Sander Canisius ‒ Structured prediction for natural language processing: A constrained satisfaction approach.
Promotores: A.P.J. van den Bosch, W. Daelemans. Tilburg, 13 February 2009.

4  Jeroen Geertzen ‒ Dialogue act recognition and prediction: Explorations in computational dialogue modelling.
Promotor: H. Bunt. Co-promotor: J.M.B. Terken. Tilburg, 11 February 2009.

3  Hans Stol ‒ A framework for evidence-based policy making using IT: A systems approach.
Promotor: H.J. van den Herik. Tilburg, 21 January 2009.

2  Ben Torben-Nielsen ‒ Dendritic morphology: Function shapes structure.
Promotores: H.J. van den Herik, E.O. Postma. Co-promotor: K.P. Tuyls. Tilburg, 3 December 2008.

1  Pashiera Barkhuysen ‒ Audiovisual prosody in interaction.
Promotores: M.G.J. Swerts, E.J. Krahmer. Tilburg, 3 October 2008.