Welcome to mike-kestemont.org! On this website you can find all information about my academic activities and research. I am currently employed as a predoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), enjoying a generous scholarschip as aspirant from the FWO (Research Foundation - Flanders). I am working as a PhD student on a research project about end rhyme in medieval Dutch (Middle Dutch) narrative poetry. My supervisors in this project are Frank Willaert and Walter Daelemans. My activities are mainly embedded in two research groups: the language technological issues of my research are situated with the CLiPS language technology group, whilst the literary-historic part of my acitivities lies with the medieval group of the Institute for the Study of Literature in the Netherlands (ISLN).
My main research interest is historical literature, more specifically the field of traditional stylistics in semi-literate cultures (such as Middle Dutch epic poetry). On the basis of e.g. rhyme words, I analyse the style of texts and the so-called 'stylomes' of their authors. An important novelty of my research is that it turns to the most modern computational techniques to investigate to oldest extant Dutch poetry. Another important interest of mine concerns AI-based language technology, using Machine Learning for Stylometry.
Feel free to have a look around on this site and learn more about my recent publications and involvements! Should you have any further questions, here is my contact info:
Mike Kestemont
Institute for the Study of Literature in the Netherlands
CLiPS Language Technology Group
University of Antwerp
Stadscampus
Prinsstraat 13, kamer D.118
2000 Antwerpen
mike[dot]kestemont[at]ua[dot]ac[dot]be
tel: +32 3/265.42.54
