--- title: "Wietse de Vries — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Wietse de Vries, University of Groningen: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2021), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wietse-de-vries/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wietse-de-vries/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Wietse de Vries # Wietse de Vries Wietse de Vries has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2021, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Malvina Nissim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/malvina-nissim/), [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/). 2 papers in our library · 2019–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5051972245) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0433-090X) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5051972245) · [28 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051972245) · [370 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051972245&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wietse-de-vries/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 255 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wietse-de-vries/cited-by/) · [5 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3547](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/36/#star-3547) 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=Wietse+de+Vries) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Wietse+de+Vries) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Wietse+de+Vries) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Wietse+de+Vries) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Groningen** Groningen · Netherlands 2020–2028 · 22 papersEmployment 2020–2028 · Scientific Staff, Computational Linguistics (CL)*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-groningen/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper Wietse de Vries's papers of 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vries-2021-as-good-as-new-how/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper Wietse de Vries's papers of 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/de-vries-2019-bertje-dutch-bert-model/) ## 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. **[As Good as New. How to Successfully Recycle English GPT-2 to Make Models for Other Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vries-2021-as-good-as-new-how/)** *(2021 · 91 citations)* The paper asks whether an English generative model can be reused for other languages instead of training a new one from scratch, which costs a lot of data and compute. ## All works 7 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. **[As Good as New. How to Successfully Recycle English GPT-2 to Make Models for Other Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vries-2021-as-good-as-new-how/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Wietse de Vries, Malvina Nissim*2021 · 91 citations* 3. **[What's so special about BERT's layers? A closer look at the NLP pipeline in monolingual and multilingual models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.389/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020 · no summary yet**Wietse de Vries, Andreas van Cranenburgh, Malvina Nissim*2020 · 90 citations* 4. **[A Multilingual Approach to Identify and Classify Exceptional Measures against COVID-19 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nllp-1.5/) Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021 · no summary yet**Georgios Tziafas et al.*2021 · 13 citations* 5. **[DUMB: A Benchmark for Smart Evaluation of Dutch Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.447/) Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Wietse de Vries, Martijn Wieling, Malvina Nissim*2023 · 8 citations* 6. **[Can Large Language Models Reliably Correct Errors in Low-Resource ASR? A Contamination-Aware Case Study on West Frisian ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19711) arXiv:2605.19711 · no summary yet**Yun Hao et al.*2026* 7. **[Evaluating Standard and Dialectal Frisian ASR: Multilingual Fine-tuning and Language Identification for Improved Low-resource Performance ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04883) arXiv:2502.04883 · no summary yet**Reihaneh Amooie et al.*2025* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Malvina Nissim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/malvina-nissim/) ×2 - [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/) - [Gertjan van Noord](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gertjan-van-noord/) - [Tommaso Caselli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tommaso-caselli/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2021/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020 - Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2021 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 255 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [28 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wietse-de-vries/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026