National Geographic reporter Myrthe Prins plays guinea pig at ILS Labs ‘Soe-gi-ta-geu-bu-ti-to-ba-meu…, for ten minutes now I have been listening to a robotic voice, droning on meaningless syllables without intonation or emotion.’ National Geographic reporter Myrthe Prins visited the Institute for Language Sciences (ILS) Labs, part of the Centre for Digital Humanities. Guided by PhD candidate and psycholinguistics researcher Iris van der Wulp, Prins participated in a series of […] Read more
AI and Human Values: International Marsilius Academy Summer School The rapid development and spread of large language models (LLMs) is increasingly penetrating all areas of life and significantly shaping modern society, raising questions about the underlying values and norms …
Language Structure: an Introduction to Generative Syntax – ILS (Utrecht Summer School) In this course, students will be introduced to the basics of generative linguistics, the theoretical framework evolved from and based on Noam Chomsky’s work. Language is a structured and accessible …
Psycholinguistics – ILS (Utrecht Summer School) This elementary to intermediate level course will provide the student with a basic knowledge of psycholinguistics, a research domain on the intersection of linguistics, psychology and neuroscience, by looking at …
Research design for Experimental Linguists – ILS (Utrecht Summer School) In this course, you will learn about important aspects of a quantitative study design (research methodology), the basics of statistical (hypothesis) testing, and how methodology and statistics relate to each …
Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology – ILS (Utrecht Summer School) This course will investigate sound in language from five different perspectives: alphabet (units), acoustics, articulation, prosody and learning. This course will introduce students to various aspects of phonetics and phonology. …
CLIN35: the 35th meeting of Computational Linguistics In the Netherlands Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (CLIN) is a yearly conference on computational linguistics. Each year the conference is organised by a different insitution in the Dutch-speaking region. In 2025, CLIN …
CMC-Corpora Conference: 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora The 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) will be held at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, on 4 and 5 September, hosted by the Department …
SyntaxFest 2025 SyntaxFest is a biennial event that brings together a series of events focusing on topics such as empirical syntax, linguistic annotation, statistical language analysis, and natural language processing. SyntaxFest 2025 …
Vacature Institute for Language Sciences (ILS) Labs: Technisch student-assistent In het lab van het Institute for Language Sciences (ILS Labs) wordt experimenteel onderzoek gedaan naar hoe mensen gesproken en geschreven taal begrijpen en produceren. Voor dit lab zijn we op zoek naar een: Technisch student-assistent (12 uur per week, vanaf 3 maart) Wat ga je doen? Wat moet je kunnen? Wat levert het op? […] Read more
ILS Labs The Institute for Language Sciences (ILS) Labs provide a variety of resources for experimental linguistic research, for instance: […] Read more
GrETEL 5 A user-friendly, web-based application designed for searching through Dutch syntactically annotated corpora, or so-called treebanks. […] Read more
Excalibur Excalibur (Example sentences Calibrated for Use in Research) is a project on the database of linguistic example sentences to enable enhanced publications and accelerate linguistic research. […] Read more
NRC article about the Babylab of the Institute for Language Sciences In the linguistic labs of the Institute for Language Sciences (ILS), experiments are carried out on both adults and babies, employing methodologies such as eyetracking, EEG, and head turn preference. NRC recently published an article on the research of linguistics researcher Iris van der Wulp within the Babylab. Van der Wulp is currently engaged in […] Read more
Mind your Manner Adverbials! A linguistic database housing manner adverbials from 15 languages and dialects. […] Read more
Launch of the Frisian dialects project The Digital Humanities Lab, together with a group of researchers from Utrecht University and Fryske Akademy, launched the Frisian dialects application to collect Frisian language data in an online experiment in the form of a game. The Frisian dialects application, built by developer Ben Bonfil, tests the knowledge of language variation within Frisia (Northern part […] Read more
Frisian dialects project The Frisian dialects projects is a tool to collect Frisian language data in an online experiment in the form of a game. […] Read more
Now online: Database with Dutch dialect idioms The Digital Humanities Lab relaunches the ‘Dutch Dialect Idioms’ database, developed by linguists from Utrecht University and KU Leuven. This is a renewed version of an online database of idioms in 13 Dutch dialects. Idioms are special, linguistically speaking, because they have a meaning that does not follow from their parts: when someone ‘kicked the […] Read more
Dutch Dialect Idioms database The ‘Dutch Dialect Idioms’ database is an online database of idioms in 13 Dutch dialects, publicly accessible and easily searchable. […] Read more
LiNT LiNT provides an estimate of text difficulty based on a readability study in which text features are linked to levels of text comprehension. […] Read more
