231 search results for “computational linguistics” in the Student website
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PhD candidate Camil Staps figured out what ‘out’ means
Words originally intended to indicate space, such as ‘out’, are also regularly used to indicate cause and effect. Why does this happen? And how does it work in other languages? PhD candidate Camil Staps decided to find out.
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Leonid Kulikov
Faculty of Humanities
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Marijke van der Wal
Faculty of Humanities
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Emi Yamamoto
Faculty of Humanities
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Stan van der Burght
Faculty of Humanities
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Mahmood Yenkimaleki
Faculty of Humanities
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Sarah von Grebmer zu Wolfsthurn
Faculty of Humanities
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Jos Schaeken
Faculty of Humanities
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Tim Laméris
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen Sylvia Spiers
Faculty of Humanities
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What does it actually say? Linguist launches video series on wall poems
The city centre of Leiden is covered in them: wall poems. When roaming around, you come across poetry written in the Latin alphabet, but also in scripts that might be more difficult to understand for the average person living in Leiden. In a new series of videos, Tijmen Pronk talks more about this.
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Maarten Mous: ‘Your language is part of the world’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. Professor of African Linguistics Maarten Mous explains the importance of hearing your language at school.
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Meike de Boer: ‘The word 'uh' can help track down suspects’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. PhD candidate Meike de Boer knows everything about the word ‘uh’.
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Talent for languages test: National Linguistics Olympiad puts language sense to the test for high school students
How would you convert Egyptian hieroglyphs into Latin script? And what is actually the correct translation of dishes on a Vietnamese menu? On Saturday 28 January, high school students from all over the Netherlands will come to Leiden to ponder a series of language-related puzzles. Their goal? To win…
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Digging for treasure in archives: what did spoken Scots sound like?
How did Scottish speakers sound hundreds of years ago? University lecturer Mo Gordon thinks the answer to that question can be found in church archives. 'It can be a boost to your identity to know the history of your language.'
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Alex Reuneker awarded Frans van Eemeren prize
University lecturer Alex Reuneker has won the Frans van Eemeren Prize for his paper 'Assessing classification reliability of conditionals in discourse'.
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Axel Palmér
Faculty of Humanities
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Martine Bruil
Faculty of Humanities
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Hai Lin
Science
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Tom O'Brien
Science
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Milco Wansleeben
Faculteit Archeologie
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Alan Kai Hassen
Science
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Franz Wurm
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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André Mesquita Fery Antunes
Science
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Akrati Saxena
Science
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Hongchang Shan
Science
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Jaap van den Herik
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Nils Thonemann
Science
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Sebastian Fajardo Bernal
Science
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Michael Lew
Science
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Levon Amatuni
Science
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Justin Lian
Science
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PhD candidate Alex Reuneker’s research: What do we mean when we use ‘if’?
‘If it rains later, then I’ll take the car.’ In order to reason, we use sentences containing ‘if’ every single day. But how does that work exactly in the Dutch language? Alex Reuneker wrote his 628 page dissertation on the subject. Ceremony on 26 January.
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How language reveals what you're really saying: 'Interesting if it's language-independent'
In a conversation, you provide all sorts of information to the listener. For example, you can indicate that you're certain about something, or that you heard it through someone else. Associate Professor Jenneke van der Wal has been awarded a Vici grant to investigate whether the way people do this is…
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Nuno De Mesquita César de Sá
Science
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Aris Politopoulos
Faculteit Archeologie
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Evert van Nieuwenburg
Science
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Eduard Fosch Villaronga
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto: ‘I have to speak to my cats in Galician’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. University lecturer Maria Del Carmen Parafita Couto speaks about bilingualism.
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Henrike Jansen
Faculty of Humanities
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Dunja Wackers
Science
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S. Valdez
Faculty of Humanities
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Leticia Pablos Robles
Faculty of Humanities
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Irina Morozova
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen Kleinherenbrink
Faculty of Humanities
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Hannah De Mulder
Faculty of Humanities
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Natasja Delbar
Faculty of Humanities
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Cattle, rather than geometric shapes, determine how the Hamar see the world
Sara Petrollino, a university lecturer in linguistics, strongly believes that language influences the way we see the world. An NWO Open Competition (XS) grant will enable her to test this hypothesis among the Ethiopian Hamar people. ‘The idea that everyone thinks in geometric shapes is culturally de…
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SAILS Workshop: AI and LLMs: Keeping the Linguist in the Loop