378 search results for “language processing” in the Staff website
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Machine Translation Literacy for (language) teachers
Workshop
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Prof. dr. Holger Gzella elected as member of the Academia Europaea
LUCL member prof. dr. Holger Gzella has been elected as member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).
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Tijmen Baarda
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
t.c.baarda@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Benjamin Suchard: ‘The more you send out into the world, the more likely it will stick’
How do you make niche subjects interesting and accessible? Benjamin Suchard, historical linguist and researcher, seems to have created the perfect recipe, which consists of his various projects alongside his regular research, including a Twitter account and a major international film.
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Lunchtime Speaker Series: Between Logic, Language and Information: adventures in understanding large language models in hybrid settings
Lecture
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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Exhibition on scripts at Oude UB: Pseudo or Don’t
What is writing? And what looks like writing, but isn’t? The Pseudo or Don’t pop-up exhibition explores the boundaries of scripts. The exhibition will run at Oude UB from 9 to 26 October.
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Personal experience narratives in three African sign languages
PhD defence
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What influence did French really have on Dutch?
Just as some people today dislike English influences on the Dutch language, in early modern times people also criticised the Frenchification of Dutch. But to what extent did French actually leave its mark in our language? PhD student Brenda Assendelft made a surprising discovery. PhD defence 24 May.
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Research-Concert: Songs and Languages across hemispheres
Music concert
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How Cicero’s ruined reputation can be a lesson for politicians today
Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero is still used as an intellectual example by politicians and speech writers today. But, he did not go unchallenged in his own day, as a statesman in particular. Classicist Leanne Jansen conducted research into how classical historians judged Cicero’s…
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Exhibition of sound installation 'Bird language' by Helena Nikonole
Exhibition, Exhibition
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Maarten Jansen compares ancient Mexican writing systems as Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Bonn
Maarten Jansen, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Archaeology, was appointed as Distinguished Emeritus Professor for two years at the University of Bonn. In this position, Jansen, a world-renowned specialist on ancient Mexican pictorial manuscripts, will further expand upon the long-standing collaboration…
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Turning the tide from language endangerment to ethnolinguistic vitality
Inaugural lecture
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Cortical contributions to cognitive control of language and beyond
PhD defence
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Chris Riddell is new Face of Science: 'Can't wait to share research'
Have you ever seen your friend smiling, and suddenly you started grinning too? PhD student Chris Riddell is researching how and why we copy body language. As a new Face of Science, he will take us along on his research journey for the coming year.
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A History of East Baltic through Language Contact
PhD defence
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Spiritual Corporeality: Towards Embodied Gnosis through a Dancing Language
PhD defence
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about'
Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she enjoys being involved with music.
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Heritage languages in the Netherlands: Scholars, teachers, and students in dialogue
Lecture, Workshop
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
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Computational modeling of non-native phonetic learning and spoken word processing
Lecture
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Bioorthogonal chemistry to unveil antigen processing events
PhD defence
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Linguistics and AI Discussion Series: "Using machine translation for language learning in the classroom"
Lecture, Discussion
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Quantity expressions on nominal and verbal domain in underrepresented languages spoken in Brazil
Lecture
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Anglophone Islam: English-language Islamic curriculum in post-Apartheid South Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Meet Dr. Jonathan Stökl, LJSA Member
Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Stökl was Reader in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at Kings College London.
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From a rapper to an elegy: students of Italian make videos for a wide audience
A course that concludes with a video pitch, instead of a paper or examination: Italian Language and Culture students each recorded their own knowledge clip, speaking to a wide audience about Italian cultural expressions. We asked Goran Bouaziz, Cameron-May Bosch and Katja Timmer what they thought of…
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LUCDH Workshop: An Introduction to Large Language Models in the Humanities
Lecture
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Lecture by geneticist David Reich about the spread of the Indo-European languages
Lecture
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Alumni interview with Marleen Hogendoorn
Marleen Hogendoorn (36) studied Dutch Language and Culture at Leiden University and is now editor-in-chief of the feminist monthly OPZIJ.
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Meet Dr. Rebekka Grossmann, LJSA Member
Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Grossmann worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She first did her PhD and then she joined the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History and the Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective…
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A Matter of Speech: Language of Social Interdependency in the Early Islamicate Empire (600-1500)
Conference
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The Secondary Homelands of the Indo-European Languages (IG-AT2022)
Conference
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Protecting the Peace Process in Post-Brexit Northern Ireland
Lecture
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Leiden Translation Talk 20 April: Telops and language learning - Experiences and insights from conducting a PhD study
Lecture
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Photoinduced Processes in Dye-Sensitized Photoanodes under the Spotlight
PhD defence
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Exploring the relationship between metacontrol and global/local processing
PhD defence
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: MacBERTh: A Historically Pre-Trained Language Model for English (1450-1950)
Lecture
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Speaking the same language: De invoering van de Anglo-Amerikaanse trust in het Nederlandse recht
PhD defence
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Digital Tools for Sign Language Research: Towards Recognition and Comparison of Lexical Signs
PhD defence
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Modes of Human Becoming: Towards a Process Archaeology of Mind
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Lunchtime Speaker Series: From the Archive to the Internet: digitizing the Language of the Poor in Late Modern Scotland
Lecture
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Research finds WiFi isn’t the only thing connecting us during video calls: so are our bodies
Can we truly connect with each other through video calls? Yes, according to a recent study. Psychologists found our bodies synchronise almost as much in digital conversations as in real life. But this doesn’t mean we should skip in-person meetings altogether, says researcher Fabiola Diana.
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connections between things, you immediately see the logic behind the processes.’ Her career has taken her from Leiden to Delft and back to Leiden
The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice word. If you see the connections between things, you immediately see the logic behind the processes.’ Her career has taken her…
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Learning to perceive: Psychological and neural processes underlying placebo and nocebo effects on cutaneous sensations
PhD defence
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ChatGPT has left-wing bias in Stemwijzer voting advice application
The AI chatbot ChatGPT has a clear left-liberal bias when filling in the Stemwijzer voting advice application. This was discovered by master's student Merel van den Broek during an assignment for the Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing course.
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SAILS researcher Anne Meuwese awarded PDI-SSH grant
The PDI-SSH grant will be used by Meuwese to create a web portal and collection of tools and resources, named ‘WetSuite’, that will help researchers apply Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to legal textual data from public bodies.
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A History of East Baltic through Language Contact: A Seminar on the Occasion of Anthony Jakob’s Defense
Conference
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Student Aline-Priscillia: ‘I am an odd academic, I’m not very attached to outcomes’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and academics talk about their passion for their field. Student Aline-Priscillia is particularly curious about how language is processed in the brain.