--- title: "Gertjan van Noord — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1990–2019), h-index 30 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gertjan-van-noord/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gertjan-van-noord/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Gertjan van Noord # Gertjan van Noord Gertjan van Noord has 2 papers in our library, in 1990–2019, most of them on [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Andreas van Cranenburgh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andreas-van-cranenburgh/), [Arianna Bisazza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arianna-bisazza/), [Fernando C. N. Pereira](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fernando-c-n-pereira/). 2 papers in our library · 1990–2019 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5047337772) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5564-6341) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85091161) · [**h-index 30**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5047337772) · [257 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5047337772) · [3,129 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5047337772&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gertjan-van-noord/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 300 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gertjan-van-noord/cited-by/) · [13 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3151](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/32/#star-3151) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Gertjan+van+Noord) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Gertjan+van+Noord) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Gertjan+van+Noord) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Gertjan+van+Noord) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Groningen** Groningen · Netherlands 1992–2026 · 93 papersEmployment 1992–1999 · Assistent Professor, Alfa-informaticaEmployment 1999–2010 · Associate Professor, Alfa-informaticaEmployment since 2011 · Professor of Language TechnologyEmployment since 2014 · Scientific Staff, Computational Linguistics (CL)Employment since 2017 · Director, Center for Language and Cognition*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-groningen/) · [🎓**Utrecht University** Utrecht · Netherlands 1989–2017 · 7 papersEducation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/utrecht-university/) · [🎓**Charles University** Prague · Czechia 2017–2018 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/charles-university/) 🏛️**University of Utrecht** Utrecht · [Netherlands](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/netherlands/) 1986–1993Education until 1993 · Doctor (PhD)Education until 1987 · drs, Algemene TaalwetenschapEmployment 1986–1987 · student-assistent, Algemene TaalwetenschapEmployment 1987–1990 · Researcher, Algemene Taalwetenschap 🏛️**University of the Saarland** Saarbrücken · [Germany](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/germany/) 1991Employment 1991 · Researcher, CoLi From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper Gertjan van Noord's papers of 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/de-vries-2019-bertje-dutch-bert-model/) ### 1990s [**1990** 1 paper Gertjan van Noord's papers of 1990](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shieber-1990-semantic-head-driven-generation/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[BERTje: A Dutch BERT Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/de-vries-2019-bertje-dutch-bert-model/)** *(2019 · 360 citations)* Multilingual BERT covers Dutch, but it was trained only on Wikipedia, which is a narrow domain, and it shares its capacity across 104 languages. 2. **[Semantic-Head-Driven Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shieber-1990-semantic-head-driven-generation/)** *(1990 · 205 citations)* The paper addresses tactical generation: producing a sentence from a logical-form encoding of its meaning using unification-based or logic grammars, such as DCG, PATR-II and HPSG-style grammars. ## All works 15 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**BERTje: A Dutch BERT Model arXiv:1912.09582**Wietse de Vries, Andreas van Cranenburgh, Arianna Bisazza, et al.*2019 · 360 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/de-vries-2019-bertje-dutch-bert-model/) 2. **[Semantic-Head-Driven Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shieber-1990-semantic-head-driven-generation/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Stuart M. Shieber, Gertjan van Noord, Fernando C. N. Pereira, et al.*1990 · 205 citations* 3. **[From D-Coi to SoNaR: a reference corpus for Dutch ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1226/) Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08) · no summary yet**Nelleke Oostdijk et al.*2008 · 38 citations* 4. **[Increasing Return on Annotation Investment: The Automatic Construction of a Universal Dependency Treebank for Dutch ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-0403/) Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2017 Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2017) · no summary yet**Gosse Bouma, Gertjan van Noord*2017 · 34 citations* 5. **[UDapter: Typology-based Language Adapters for Multilingual Dependency Parsing and Sequence Labeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.cl-3.3/) Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Ahmet Üstün et al.*2022 · 31 citations* 6. **[Self-Monitoring with Reversible Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C92-2105/) COLING 1992 Volume 2: The 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Gunter Neumann, Gertjan van Noord*1992 · 23 citations* 7. **[Are Character-level Translations Worth the Wait? Comparing ByT5 and mT5 for Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.tacl-1.22/) Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Lukas Edman et al.*2024 · 17 citations* 8. **[Unsupervised Translation of German–Lower Sorbian: Exploring Training and Novel Transfer Methods on a Low-Resource Language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wmt-1.104/) Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation · no summary yet**Lukas Edman et al.*2021 · 8 citations* 9. **[ROB: Using Semantic Meaning to Recognize Paraphrases ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S15-2007/) Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015) · no summary yet**Rob van der Goot, Gertjan van Noord*2015 · 6 citations* 10. **[Comparison of Coreference Resolvers for Deep Syntax Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-2502/) Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation · no summary yet**Michal Novák, Dieke Oele, Gertjan van Noord*2015 · 6 citations* 11. **[An Approach to Sentence-Level Anaphora in Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/E89-1040/) Fourth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Gertjan van Noord et al.*1989 · 6 citations* 12. **[Unsupervised Translation of German — Lower Sorbian: Exploring Training and Novel Transfer Methods on a Low-Resource Language ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.12012) arXiv:2109.12012 · no summary yet**Lukas Edman et al.*2021 · 4 citations* 13. **[Data Selection for Unsupervised Translation of German–Upper Sorbian ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.130/) Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation · no summary yet**Lukas Edman, Antonio Toral, Gertjan van Noord*2020 · 4 citations* 14. **[Evaluating Pre-training Objectives for Low-Resource Translation into Morphologically Rich Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.527/) Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yet**Prajit Dhar, Arianna Bisazza, Gertjan van Noord*2022 · 2 citations* 15. **[Getting Close to Cloze: Investigating Language Model and Human Cloze-test Performance in Afrikaans ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.11/) Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026 · no summary yet**Susan Lotz, Rik van Noord, Gertjan van Noord*2026* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Andreas van Cranenburgh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andreas-van-cranenburgh/) - [Arianna Bisazza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arianna-bisazza/) - [Fernando C. N. Pereira](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fernando-c-n-pereira/) - [Malvina Nissim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/malvina-nissim/) - [Robert C. Moore](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-c-moore/) - [Stuart M. Shieber](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stuart-m-shieber/) - [Tommaso Caselli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tommaso-caselli/) - [Wietse de Vries](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wietse-de-vries/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/) ×2: [Computational Linguistics 1990](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1990/) - Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation ×2 - COLING 1992 Volume 2: The 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Fourth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026 - Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015) - Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2017 Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2017) - Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08) - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 300 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [34 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gertjan-van-noord/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026