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
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 …
KONVENS 2025: International Conference on Natural Language Processing KONVENS (KOnferenz zur VErarbeitung Natürlicher Sprache) is an annual conference series on computational linguistics organized under the auspices of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, the Special …
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 …
Data Science: Applied Text Mining, from Foundations to Advanced (Utrecht Summer School) In this course, students will learn how to apply text mining and NLP methods on text data and analyse them in a pipeline with machine learning and deep learning algorithms. The …
RANLP conference 2025 The Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) 2025 conference will be held in Varna, Bulgaria from 8 to 10 September 2025. The conference will be preceded by a summer …
ERC Starting Grant awarded for UU research into data diversity in Natural Language Processing In September, Dong Nguyen received an ERC Starting Grant of €1.5 million for her research on the impact of data diversity on the quality of language models. In her DataDivers project, she aims to develop methods to accurately measure the diversity of a dataset and investigate how this diversity influences the behavior of a language model. The […] Read more
Vacancy: Postdoctoral position in NLP for Historical Research (Copenhagen) The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), has announced an opening for a Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) with a focus on multilingual historical texts from 1600 to 1900. The position is full-time and fixed-term for 2 years starting from 1 February 2025, or as soon as […] Read more
Join the launch of the NLP@UU Special Interest Group On Thursday, May 16th, Utrecht University launches its newest Special Interest Group (SIG) NLP@UU. This SIG is an expansion of the existing SIG Text Mining, and welcomes a broader community of colleagues in Natural Language Processing (NLP) from across Utrecht University’s campuses. At the launch meeting, researchers from different domains and groups will share insights […] Read more
