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We try to understand the computational principles underlying natural language understanding by humans and machines. We investigate the neural implementation of these principles in the human brain, their evolutionary origins and their usefulness in language technology.

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On May 16th, ILLC’s Computational Linguistics Seminar and the CLClab will host Melanie Mitchell, American AI researcher from the Santa Fe Institute and key voice in the discussions on the abilities and inabilities of Large Language Models. She will give a lecture in the second edition of the Amsterdam Lectures in AI and Society. ALiAS.
So much happened in 2024! Ana Lucic and Martha Lewis joint UvA as assistant professors. Alban Bastiaan joint as a part-time PhD student. We published papers at Interspeech, in Computational Linguistics, in JAIR, at ISMIR and elsewhere. Jaap Jumelet finished his PhD and moved to Groningen for a postdoc position.
So much happened in 2023! Erman Acar joint UvA as assistant professor. Angela van Sprang joint as PhD student. We published papers at EMNLP, CogSci, Nature, ISMIR, Findings EMNLP & ACL and elsewhere.
Charlotte Pouw joined us as a new PhD-student! She will work on interpretability methods as part of the InDeep consortium.
We have a paper accepted at ISMIR2021 where we introduce a new representation for melodic contour: cosine contours. The representation is motivated by an interesting observation: the principal components of melodies are shaped as cosines.
We are very happy that Marianne de Heer Kloots is continuing as a PhD student in our lab! Welcome, Marianne!
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Amsterdam Lectures in AI and Society

Amsterdam Lectures in AI and Society

ALiAS 2025

clclab and ILLC's Computational Linguistics Seminar (CLS)

Melanie Mitchell, leading AI researcher from the Santa Fe Institute and key voice in the discussions on the abilities and inabilities of Large Language Models, will speak at Amsterdam Science Park.

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