566 search results for “computational linguistics” in the Student website
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Jos SchaekenFaculty of Humanities
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Tim LamérisFaculty of Humanities
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Arend-Jan QuistFaculty of Science
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Johanneke CaspersFaculty of Humanities
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Leticia Pablos RoblesFaculty of Humanities
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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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Carlo BeenakkerFaculty of Science
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Marina TerkourafiFaculty of Humanities
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Niels SchoubbenFaculty of Humanities
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Martine BruilFaculty 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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Brenda AssendelftFaculty of Humanities
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Diego Barbosa Arize SantosSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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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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Akrati SaxenaFaculty of Science
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S. ValdezFaculty of Humanities
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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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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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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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Crit CremersFaculty of Humanities
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Henrike JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Hannah De MulderFaculty of Humanities
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Natasja DelbarFaculty of Humanities
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Tom O'BrienFaculty of Science
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Milco WansleebenFaculty of Archaeology
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Alan Kai HassenFaculty of Science
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André Mesquita Fery AntunesFaculty of Science
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Hongchang ShanFaculty of Science
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Jaap van den HerikFaculty of Law
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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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Carmen KleinherenbrinkFaculty of Humanities
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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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Gamal Adel ElgamalFaculty of Science
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Michael LewFaculty of Science
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Bert BotmaFaculty of Humanities
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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van OstadeFaculty of Humanities
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Claudio Di FeliceFaculty of Humanities
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Maarten van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
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Longming ShichuanFaculty of Humanities
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Jorge Duran SolorzanoFaculty of Humanities
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Nuno De Mesquita César de SáFaculty of Science
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Melissa Hernandez VindasFaculty of Law
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Francesco BudaFaculty of Science
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Dirk BouwmeesterFaculty of Science
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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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Gijsbert RuttenFaculty 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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Levon AmatuniFaculty of Science
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Franz WurmSocial & Behavioural Sciences