Franciska de Jong

Franciska de Jong is full professor of e-Research for the Humanties and executive director of CLARIN ERIC, the governing body of CLARIN which has its statutory seat at Utrecht University. CLARIN (Common LAnguage Resources and Technology INfrastructure) has the objective is to provide scholars in the humanities and social sciences seamless access to digital language data and processing tools all across Europe.
Franciska de Jong studied Dutch language and literature at the University of Utrecht, did a PhD in theoretical linguistics and started to work on language technology in 1985 at Philips Research where she worked on machine translation.
Currently, her main research interest is in the field of access technology for digital libraries, text mining, cross-language retrieval, the disclosure of cultural heritage collections (in particular spoken audio archives), and e-research at large.
From 2008 till 2016 she was a member of the Governing Board of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). As of 2010 she has been a member of the Governing Board of the National Library of the Netherlands (KB). Since 2018 she is a member of the EOSC-hub project management board and of the NWO Permanent Committee for Large-Scale Scientific Infrastructure.
For more details: https://www.uu.nl/staff/FMGdeJong/0