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Proycon's Language Technology

Welcome to my website on Language Technology! My name is Maarten van Gompel, but on the internet I go by the nickname proycon. I live in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

I created this page in order to provide a better home for my interest in Language Technology. Here you will find software I wrote and you can read about projects I worked on. If you are not interested in language technology, then this site is not for you, and you are better off visiting my personal homepage, where I write about a wide variety of other interests of mine.

I have always been quite interested in both technology and language, independently. I have been programming ever since I was a young kid and since the age of about sixteen I also started to develop a great interest in learning foreign languages. It was only a short matter of time before these two interests would converge. Around October 2000 I co-founded a big international language community called UniLang, which aims to provide free language resources for people learning languages and offers a communication and learning platform. This project remains a highly popular language community to this day, and I have been able to put my passion for both language and technology into it.

My interest has been primarily in Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL), with a focus on web-based e-Learning, but other areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) or Computational Linguistics also greatly attract me, such as for example Machine Translation.

Because of this interest, I am currently enrolled in a Master study of Natural Language Processing at the University of Tilburg. The study goes by the rather vague name Human Aspects of Information Technology, but focusses mostly on language technology. Prior to this, I obtained my Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Artificial Intelligence at Utrecht University.

I am also a great supporter of the open-source philosophy, and a long-time linux user. So all software you find on these pages will be freely available under the GNU Public License.