Jeannine Beeken

Jeannine Beeken is a linguist with a background in lexicology and lexical semantics, morphology and formal syntax.  She received her PhD in 1991 from University of Leuven. She initiated the Dutch / Flemish agency for Human Language Technology and was the scientific and managing director of the (now called) Institute for the Dutch Language in Leiden. She currently works as Senior Metadata and Ontologies officer at the UK Data Service at the University of Essex where she serves as the key liaison between discovery and technical staff, communicating requirements, evolving rules and ensuring implementation of metadata and resource discovery systems, including ontologies and (controlled) vocabularies.