About me

I'm dr. ir. Thomas Winters, a post-doctoral researcher in artificial intelligence and computational humor at KU Leuven.

Humor Projects

2023
Solo project

MarcelBot

Imitates Marcel from Willy's and Marjetten

2021
Solo project

Zij, maar dan met Samson

Because Gert's first solo album was lacking Samson

2020
Solo project

Samsonderzoek

Fan theory series about Samson & Gert

2018
Solo project

MopjesBot

Twitterbot making Dutch puns about the news

2017
Solo project

SamsonBots

Six mutually-interactive Twitterbots based on Samson & Gert characters

2017
Solo project

Automatic Joke Generation

My master's thesis about "Automatic joke generation: learning humor from examples"

2016
Project lead

KU Leugen

Satirical section of the student newspaper Veto

2016
Solo project

TorfsBot

Twitterbot automatically imitating Rik Torfs, the previous rector of KU Leuven

2015
Solo project

Twitterbots

Various little Twitterbots I made over the years