Note: the overview per supervisor is likely partially incomplete.


Year Student ThesisSupervisorsProgrammeContent
2026Abolghasemi, A. (Amin)Evaluation of Bias and Robustness in Search and Conversational SystemsVerberne, prof.dr. S., prof.dr. M. de Rijke, dr. L. AzzopardiPhD
2024‑2025Dimins, M. (Matiss)Comparison of LLM-based SotA approaches to solving data scarce intent ...Mr. I. Lin, Verberne, prof.dr. S.DSAI
2024‑2025Ionescu, T. (Teodor-Calin)Topic Modelling Applied to Storytelling Data for Better Patient CareDr. L. Han, Verberne, prof.dr. S.DSAI
2024‑2025Salim, D.K. (Dania Kadah)How does the DeepSeek-R1 model understand emotions?M. Yazan, Verberne, prof.dr. S.DSAI
2024‑2025Nastas, A. (Alexandra)Reducing Gender Bias in a Dutch Language Model through Counterfactual ...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Dijk van, dr. B.M.A.DSAI
2024‑2025Buter, J. (Joël)Prompting a Smaller-Scale LLM for Goal-Oriented Emotional Support Dial...Broekens, dr.ir. D.J., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2024‑2025Christodoulou, A. (Antonia)Enhancing Job Evaluation: A Hybrid Systematic Approach Using Generativ...Weeren van, drs. N., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2024‑2025He, X. (Xiang)Unlearning for Sequential Recommender SystemsRen, dr. Z., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2024‑2025Hettini, A.A. (Abed Alrahman)Leveraging AI for the Development of a Standardized Multilingual Educa...Weeren van, drs. N., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2024‑2025Jalilian, S. (Samaneh)An AI Approach to Automated Job Evaluation: Reference Job Classificati...Weeren van, drs. N., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2024‑2025Kooten, B. van (Bram)Reference Attribution in AI-powered Voting GuidesPutten van der, dr. P.W.H., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2024‑2025Li, S. (Shupei)Rethinking Conversational Recommender Systems: A Reproducibility Inves...Ren, dr. Z., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2024‑2025Rong, X. (Xiaoran)Exploring Influencing Factors and Application Scenarios in Recommendat...Ren, dr. Z., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2024‑2025Franchi, K. (Kilian)Analysis of Time Aspects in Patient-Doctor ConversationsVerberne, prof.dr. S., dr. A. H. PieterseCS
2024‑2025Kattenberg, T. (Tristan)Generating a Synthetic Dutch Medical Data SetVerberne, prof.dr. S., Dr. L. HanCS
2024‑2025Lindscheid, J. (Jakob)Domain-adversarial Moral Foundation Prediction for Long EU Legal Docum...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Prof.dr.mr. A. CuyversCS
2024‑2025Nonea, V. (Victor)Machine Learning for Regulation of Media Platforms: A Case Study of Po...Verberne, prof.dr. S., dr. S. SchumannCS
2024‑2025Pourghasem, H. (Hedieh)Generating Natural Language Explanations for Deep Time Series Classifi...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Stein van, dr. N.CS
2024‑2025Schamhart, M. (Milou)Large-scale Analysis of Multilingual Financial News with LLMsVerberne, prof.dr. S., dr. M. BaakCS
2024‑2025Strijker, J. (Jonathan)Legal Question-Answering in the Age of Large Language ModelsVerberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2024‑2025Wang, X. J. (Xue Jun)LLMs for Biomedical NER: Comparing Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and Instructio...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Dr. L. HanCS
2024‑2025Wheeler, M. (Michael)Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Answering IT Helpdesk QuestionsVerberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2024‑2025Yuan, H. (Haoxiang)Enterprise Question Answering System on Technical Documents with a Lar...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2024‑2025Michielsens, E. (Emma)Analyzing Narratives about Cancer Screening on Social MediaVerberne, prof.dr. S., Spruit, prof.dr. M.R.I&E
2023‑2024Paraskeva, A. (Andreas)Resource-constrained Neural Architecture Search on DistilBERT for the ...Rijn van, dr. J.N., J.P. Correia dos Reis, Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2023‑2024Bijl, T. (Thijmen)Strategies for Effective Course Recommendations with Transformers - CO...Weeren van, drs. N., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2023‑2024Fan, S. (Shuang)Big Five Personality Trait Prediction from Text Using Language Technol...Broekens, dr.ir. D.J., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2023‑2024Reijtenbach, R. (Rob)Dataset Creation for Visual Entailment using Generative AIWijnholds, dr. G., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2023‑2024Schmelczer, A. (András)GreatAI: an Easy-to-Adopt Framework for Robust End-to-End AI Deploymen...Visser, prof.dr.ir. J.M.W., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2023‑2024Soni, S. (Swati)Gender and cultural bias in text-based emotion assessment: A critical ...Broekens, dr.ir. D.J., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2023‑2024Zhou, L. (Lingling)Tree Transformer’s Disambiguation Ability of Prepositional Phrase At...Wijnholds, dr. G., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2023‑2024Bliek, S. van der (Sophie)Assessing the Interpretability of Word-Based Authorship Verification M...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Stein van, dr. N.CS
2023‑2024Darabi, L. (Leila)Medical Question Answering for PersianVerberne, prof.dr. S., Spruit, prof.dr. M.R.CS
2023‑2024Kluiver, S. (Sem)Zero-shot Strategies and Cosine Similarity in Selectical: a Technology...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2023‑2024Mallya, E. (Ektha)Analyzing Narratives in the Social Housing Domain Using Large Language...Verberne, prof.dr. S., dr. Ossokina I. (Ioulia)CS
2023‑2024Redelaar, F. (Felicia)Attributed Question Answering for the Dutch Law Using Retrieval Augmen...Verberne, prof.dr. S., M. de Boer, R. van DrieCS
2023‑2024Sai, N. (Nan)Optimizing the Linear Interpolation of Sparse and Dense Retrieval Mode...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2023‑2024Schamhart, M. (Milou)Large-scale Analysis of Multilingual Financial News with LLMsVerberne, prof.dr. S., dr. M. BaakCS
2023‑2024Wu, J. (Jie)Improving QA for low-resource languages with language alignmentVerberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2022‑2023Boef, B.M. (Bart) denGenerating metadata for UML class models from natural language require...Ramackers, dr. G.J., Verberne, prof.dr. S.DSAI
2022‑2023Roussou, AnnaUML Use Case generation from textual requirements using NLP techniques...Ramackers, dr. G.J., Verberne, prof.dr. S.IiB&PS
2022‑2023Barreiro Clemente, DiegoPredicting care plan goals using a knowledge graph-based recommender s...Spruit, prof.dr. M.R., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2022‑2023Gao, YaqiongCross-Modal Food Retrieval with Vision-Language Pre-trainingKononova, dr. A.V., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2022‑2023Mahdavi, R. (Rana) A NLP-Based Solution for Estimating the Seniority Level of Jobs Using ...Weeren van, drs. N., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2022‑2023Schmelczer, A.GreatAI: An easy-to-adopt framework for robust end-to-end AI deploymen...Visser, prof.dr.ir. J.M.W., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2022‑2023Wang, RundaA Multilingual Solution for Mental Health Evaluation with Full Context...Spruit, prof.dr. M.R., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2022‑2023Arnesto Sitorus, BrianNatural Language Processing Methods for Supporting Indonesian Fact Che...Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2022‑2023Chen, LanGe‘I Feel You’: Enhancing conversational agents with empathyVerberne, prof.dr. S., Broekens, dr.ir. D.J.CS
2022‑2023Kafetzaki, MariannaCarbon Footprint Information Extraction from Businessses Annual Report...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Spruit, prof.dr. M.R.CS
2022‑2023Kousathana, EiriniOpinionated content summarization with Transformer ArchitecturesVerberne, prof.dr. S., Wijnholds, dr. G.CS
2022‑2023Michels, RicardoThe geographical distribution of Covid (mis)information on TwitterVerberne, prof.dr. S., Takes, prof.dr. F.W.CS
2022‑2023Yang, ZihuiImprove Answer Retrieval in the Legal Domain with Structured Inputs fo...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z., Arian AskariCS
2022‑2023Zakkas, PavlosAbstractive Summarization for Large Collections of Scientific ArticlesVerberne, prof.dr. S., Jakub ZavrelCS
2022‑2023Braams, V. (Viola)Fake news during the Dutch elections: automatic classification and go...Gadyatskaya, dr. O., Verberne, prof.dr. S.I&E
2022‑2023Koçak, Y. (Yasin)The Correlation between Market and Public Sentiment; the Intercommunic...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Knobbe, dr. A.J.I&E
2022‑2023Liu, J. (Jingwen)Evaluating the Zero-shot Performance of Three Transformer Models in Re...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.Inf
2022‑2023Tseng, R. (Rayden)Comparing human opinions to GPT-3.5 generated opinions on Dutch news a...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Putten van der, dr. P.W.H.Inf
2022Dirkson, A.R. (Anne)Knowledge Discovery from Patient Forums: Gaining Novel Insights from P...Kraaij, prof.dr.ir. W., prof.dr. A.J. Gelderblom, Verberne, prof.dr. S.PhD
2022Wang, X. (Xue)Multi Modal Representation Learning and Cross-Modal Semantic MatchingVerbeek, prof.dr.ir. F.J., dr. Y. Du, Verberne, prof.dr. S.PhD
2021‑2022Grauwde, MichaëlCorrelating Emotional Content in Journalists’ Personal and Professio...Lamers, dr. M.H., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CrIT
2021‑2022Schouten, MartijnA System for Preprocessing Requirements Documents for Automatic UML Mo...Ramackers, dr. G.J., Verberne, prof.dr. S.IiB&PS
2021‑2022Congleton, C.[Tracing Political Positioning]Putten van der, dr. P.W.H., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2021‑2022Poslavsky, V.Classifying skills in high-profile skill taxonomies, using Sentence-BE...Weeren van, drs. N., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2021‑2022Bozik, M.Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis on Dutch Patient Experience Survey Dat...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Ilse KantCS
2021‑2022Hou, Y.Stance Detection on Twitter for COVID-19 MisinformationVerberne, prof.dr. S., Putten van der, dr. P.W.H.CS
2021‑2022Koole, M.The automatic labelling of medical entities in Dutch endoscopy report...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Prof.dr. D. HommesCS
2021‑2022Nolden, L.Scanning Latin poetry with machine learningVerberne, prof.dr. S., Matthew PayneCS
2021‑2022Zhang, X.Deep learning for stance detection in the news domainVerberne, prof.dr. S., Johan BosCS
2021‑2022Baar, R. van Predicting sentiment on written medical self-assessments by elderly pe...Spruit, prof.dr. M.R., Verberne, prof.dr. S.I&E
2021‑2022Haasnoot, F. Predicting Fake News via Stance DetectionVerberne, prof.dr. S., Gadyatskaya, dr. O.I&E
2021‑2022Heertum, V. (Vincent) van Clustering Financial Transactions on Inference-Accelerator HardwareVerberne, prof.dr. S., E. WeenkInf
2020‑2021Aldabergenov, OlzhasBroad Language Support for Automatic Translation Insight Extractors of...Stein van, dr. N., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2020‑2021Abukari, MarcusClassifying general practitioner notes using support vector machines a...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Leeuwen van, prof.dr. M.CS
2020‑2021Barbouch, MohamedIntegration of BERT and WordNet for improving Natural Language Underst...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Verhoef, dr. T.CS
2020‑2021Bovo, FrancescoClinical Temporal Relation Extraction: Towards a Patient’s Timeline ...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Veysel KocamanCS
2020‑2021Guo, ZhenyuWhen can BERT beat SVM? Replication of four text classification papers...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Putten van der, dr. P.W.H.CS
2020‑2021Jin, KeyanPredicting Stock Price Movement with Multi-source InformationVerberne, prof.dr. S., Wang, dr. J.CS
2020‑2021Sun, JiakunAutomatic Named Entity Recognition for ASR output in the Political Dom...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Spruit, prof.dr. M.R.CS
2020‑2021Suryadikara, RayanFalse News Classification and Dissemination Analysis: The 2019 Indones...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Takes, prof.dr. F.W.CS
2020‑2021Wang, ChenUsing ensemble models with structural information in social media to a...Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2020‑2021Strijker, J.L.S. Analysis of extracted references to case law in Dutch court decisionsVerberne, prof.dr. S., G. van DijkI&E
2020‑2021Bouter, D. (David)Knowing the difference between news and opinion An explorative researc...Putten van der, dr. P.W.H., Verberne, prof.dr. S.Inf
2020‑2021Bax, P. (Pim)Can a rule-based algorithm accurately correct whitespace errors?Verberne, prof.dr. S., H. de VosInf
2020‑2021Ebing, W. (Wouter)Analysing Classification Of Episodes From Electronic Health Records Wi...Verberne, prof.dr. S., M. de WaalInf
2020‑2021Heath, C. (Cheyenne)Depression prediction using twitter data: Comparing LIWC and Bag-of-Wo...Verberne, prof.dr. S., A. DirksonInf
2019‑2020Heijmans, P.Exploring Relationships Between Political Orientation and Language Use...Lamers, dr. M.H., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CrIT
2019‑2020Offerijns, J.Better Distractions: Transformer-based Distractor Generation and Multi...Verhoef, dr. T., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CrIT
2019‑2020Etoeharnowo, TeddyA Random Forest Approach for Dealing with Missingness: a Case Study in...Leeuwen van, prof.dr. M., Verberne, prof.dr. S., Mr. H.J.A. van OsCS
2019‑2020Chios, IoannisInvestigating the Explainability Potentials of the Deep Relevance Matc...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Prof.dr. S.A. RaaijmakersCS
2019‑2020Hu, YutingNamed Entity Recognition on Chinese Biomedical Patents using Pre-train...Verberne, prof.dr. S., M. PalmbladCS
2019‑2020Louwe, AnneloesUtilizing unstructured information from Electronic Medical Records for...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Leeuwen van, prof.dr. M., H.J.A. van OsCS
2019‑2020Deve, C.Classifying Medical Misinformation on Health ForumsVerberne, prof.dr. S., A. DirksonI&E
2019‑2020Laros, J.Originality in News Media Compared to University PressVerberne, prof.dr. S., I. SmeetsI&E
2019‑2020Meurs, M.G.M. vanClassifying Film Scripts by Genre Using Word Features and Structured F...Verberne, prof.dr. S.I&E
2019‑2020Plas, N. (Niek) van derClassifying Citizen Complaints using Pre-trained Language ModelsVerberne, prof.dr. S., P. VegerInf
2019‑2020Poot, T. (Tim)Deep Text Matching in E-CommerceVerberne, prof.dr. S., T. PengInf
2019‑2020Zoete, B. (Bart) deImproving Twitter Stream Filtering using Pseudo-Relevance FeedbackVerberne, prof.dr. S., Takes, prof.dr. F.W.Inf
2018‑2019Rashid, RajaTrend Research and Strategic ForecastingStettina, dr. C.J., Verberne, prof.dr. S.IiB&PS
2018‑2019Draijer, WilcoThe Creation and Integration of a Legal Information Retrieval System w...Verberne, prof.dr. S., K.C.M. NuijtenIiB&PS
2018‑2019Hader, MounirBayesian Optimization for Automatic Configuration of Convolutional Neu...Stein van, dr. N., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2018‑2019Kanhai, SoeradjReach and content of Dutch junk news on FacebookVerberne, prof.dr. S., Dr. J.P. BurgerCS
2018‑2019Ramgolam, RenukaData Visualization Without Privacy ViolationVerberne, prof.dr. S., Knobbe, dr. A.J.CS
2018‑2019Oosterhoorn, T.Data Science in the Field of Heart Disease PLNA.R. Dirkson, Verberne, prof.dr. S.I&E
2018‑2019Duyn, M. vanVisual Classification of E-discovery Images with Neural NetworksVerberne, prof.dr. S., J.C. ScholtesI&E
2018‑2019Zandbelt, R.A.Analyzing Referral Letters Using Text MiningVerberne, prof.dr. S., S. AydinI&E
2018‑2019Nolden, L.S.J. (Luuk)Finding Seneca in SenecaVerberne, prof.dr. S., A. WesselsInf
2017‑2018Prikkel, ThomasReducing Manual Labor in Technology-Assisted ReviewVerberne, prof.dr. S., J.C. ScholtesIiB&PS
2017‑2018Abukari, MarcusPredicting Tax codes using Machine LearningVerberne, prof.dr. S., Offerman, T.I&E
2016‑2017Yuan, Y. (Yuan)Medical Entity Recognition from Patient Forum DataVerberne, prof.dr. S., Kraaij, prof.dr.ir. W.CS