Gilles Jacobs' Blog

PhD obtained and dissertation published.

Gilles Jacobs has succesfully defended his doctoral dissertation.

Posted on December 10, 2021

Yesterday, I successfully defended his PhD on Extracting Fine-Grained Event and Sentiment from Economic News. I was supervised by prof. Véronique Hoste, prof. Els Lefever and prof. Diane Breesch. The actual defence was preceded by a workshop on “NLP for Economics” with around 40 people attending. [Read More]

Public PhD Defense Gilles Jacobs

You are cordially invited the Gilles Jacobs' public defense on Thursday 09 December 2021 of the doctoral thesis "Fine-Grained Extraction of Events and Sentiment in Economic News".

Posted on November 17, 2021

!Click here to attend virtually to the public defense livestream (start at 16:30 on Thursday 09 December). [Read More]

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Workshop on NLP for Economics

You are cordially invited the Workshop on NLP for Economics.

Posted on November 16, 2021

Click here to attend virtually to the workshop livestream (start at 14:00 on Thursday 09 December). [Read More]

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New publications on extracting events and sentiment for financial news

Two recent publications on fine-grained information extraction in company-specific news using deep learning.

Posted on October 26, 2021

I am happy to announce two new open access publications in the SENTiVENT project marking the end of my PhD and culminating in my dissertation. [Read More]

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CLIN31: Join our session on COVID19 Stance and Opinion and poster on financial polar facts.

Chairing session and poster on economic NLP research.

Posted on July 8, 2021

Our research group organizes the 31st edition of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN31) this year. Join me as I chair the session on COVID-19: Stance and Opinion in Room B to get the latest research on sentiment analysis, stance and topic detection related to the coronavirus pandemic. [Read More]

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