Yves Peirsman has been active in language technology for over twenty years. He obtained an MSc in Natural Language Processing from the University of Edinburgh, a PhD in Computational Linguistics from KU Leuven, and was a post-doctoral researcher in the NLP Group at Stanford University. Most recently he has been working as an NLP consultant at NLP Town and as a co-founder and CTO at Deontic. Yves also organizes the Belgium NLP Meetups, a series of informal events for NLP enthusiasts in Belgium, and likes to give workshops on AI for creative and business writing. In his free time, Yves also writes fiction, which makes him particularly interested in the impact of generative AI on literature.

Expertise:

• Language technology and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Generative AI for language professionals