Kees van Deemter is per februari 2018 benoemd tot hoogleraar Natural Language Generation bij het departement Informatica. “In praktische toepassing van mijn vak gaat het om de vraag: hoe zet je data ...

Politicians and salesmen aren’t the only people who use — or even rely on — vague language. Never mind that much of the world can be measured in neatly defined units such as centimeters, milligrams ...

In his book Not Exactly, Kees van Deemter argues that the very foundations of science don’t come in black and white. Forgive the oxymoron, but how do you define vagueness? A vague concept allows ...

DESPITE our attempts to define, measure and make life black and white, the world turns out to be unexpectedly vague (see “Kees van Deemter: The importance of being vague”). It’s not just that ...

Although scientists strive for increasing clarity in their measurements and concepts, it is often uncertainty that spurs new thinking. The haziness of the species notion set the young Charles Darwin ...