Franciska de Jong is full professor of language technology at the University of Twente since 1992. She is also affiliated to the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, where she is director of the Erasmus Studio. She studied Dutch language and literature at the university of Utrecht, did a PhD track in theoretical linguistics and started to work on language technology in 1985 at Philips Research where she worked on machine translation. Currently, her main research interest is in the field of multimedia indexing, text mining, semantic access, cross-language retrieval and the disclosure of cultural heritage collections (in particular spoken audio archives), and she coordinates a research programme in this area within the Human Media Interaction group. She is frequently involved in international programme committees, expert groups and review panels, and has initiated a number of EU-projects. In 2001-2003 she was a member of the EU/NSF 'spoken word archives' working group. She is project leader of the MultimediaN-project on semantic multimedia access (2004-2009), principal investigator of the NWO-CATCH project CHoral (2006-2010) and coordinator of IST project PuppyIR (2009-2012). Since 2008 she is a member of the Governing Board of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).  

Detailed overview of memberships/bestuurslidmaatschappen:
2009 - now      Governing Board Koninklijke Bibliotheek

2009 - now      TWINS Raad , KNAW
2008 - now      Governing Board NWO
2007 - now      Governing Board Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie INL
2006 - now      Board Stichting Samenleving en Lettteren Rotterdam
2004 - now      Editiorial Board Willem Frederik Hermans Website (portal WFHi)
2004 - 2008     Board NWO council for the Humanities
2004 - 2008     Board Taal- en Spraaktechnologie (Taalunie)
2003 - now       Steering Committee CLEF (Cross-Language Evaluation Forum)
2002 - 2008     Steering Committee NWO programme IMIX (chair)
2001 - 2002     EU/NSF working group Spoken Word Archives
1999 - 2002     Supervisory Board Q-go Nederland BV
1995 - 2000     Stichting MOOI, Nijmegen (chair)
1992 - 1993     Steering Committee project Machine Readable Records, Minsterie BiZa/Rijksarchiefdienst
1979 - 1980     SNAR (Sectie Nederlands van de Academische Raad)

Detailed overview of advisory roles/adviesfuncties:
1995 - now       evaluator/reviewer Europese Commissie
1996 - 2007     advisor multimediatechnologie TNO
2003 - 2005     advisor Q-go Nederland B.V.
2002 - 2004     lid adviescommissie Investeringen NWO Geesteswetenschappen
2001 - 2003     voorzitter raad van advies van Van Dale Lexicografie
2000 - 2003     raad van advies van Irion Technologies BV.
2001 - 2003     adviseur/reviewer Senter
1998 - 2001     advisor Het Expertisecentrum (ICT-consultancy for the public adminitration)
1998 - 2000     lid van de adviescommissie Taalwetenschap NWO-G
1998 - 1999     platform ICT van het Nationaal Bureau Vreemde Talen (NaB)
1997 - 2000     adviseur Stichting Taaltechnologie