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InDeep Principal Investigator Iris Henrickx presented with master student Daan Brugmans a new speech-based Demo at the Speech Science Festival – Interspeech2025, August 17, Rotterdam. Our demo had the form of a game where the user talks with the system in Dutch or English and the system tried to guess the emotions of the user on the basis of the speech signal.
The demo showcased what the state of the art is in speech technology, and which type of information is still very hard for current systems to make interpretable for users. Many researchers from all over the world took part in the Speech Science Festival and the event attracted a few hundred visitors, with over 50 participants to our InDeep Demo.
Our own PhD student Marcel Vélez Vásquez co-organised the AI Song Contest 2025 at the Melkweg in Amsterdam, with support from John Ashley Burgoyne collecting and verifying jury and public voting results. After an electrifying award show featuring performances from all ten finalists, GENEALOGY emerged as this year’s winner, claiming both the public vote and the overall award. Visit aisongcontest.com to watch the full awards show and to learn more about all of the contest entries.
Our InDeep member Afra Alishahi has been appointed Professor of Computational Linguistics within the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence of Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences. Congratulations Afra! Read more here.
Exciting news! InDeep has made a video series that explains and explores how to open the Black Box of Large Language Models. We hope to make more video’s as there’s plenty more in the world of interpretability and circuits beyond this. Go to our video series page to view them.
The paper “ChatGPT: Five priorities for research” from InDeep member Willem Zuidema and colleagues, published in Nature, was listed as #15 in the most cited papers in all of AI in 2023, in an analysis by Zeta-Alpha.
InDeep principal investigator Arianna Bisazza was recently awarded a Vidi, a prestigious personal grant funded by NWO. The project is starting in February 2024 and aims to improve language modeling for low-resource languages, taking inspiration from child language acquisition insights.
Arianna Bisazza, together with Jirui Qi and Raquel Fernandez, was awarded an Outstanding Paper Award at 2023 EMNLP and a Best Data Award at the GenBench Workshop 2023 for the paper Cross-Lingual Consistency of Factual Knowledge in Multilingual Language Models
And, also at the EMNLP conference, InDeep PhD candidate Hossein Mohebbi received together with his supervisors Grzegorz Chrupała, Jelle Zuidema, and Afra Alishahi the Outstanding Paper Award for Homophone Disambiguation Reveals Patterns of Context Mixing in Speech Transformers.
Read the award winning paper here.
Following the launch and media storm on ChatGPT , several InDeep members worked hard to inform the general public about developments in AI and NLP.
InDeep members Arianna Bisazza and Gabriele Sarti were among the presenters in the event “An Evening with ChatGPT” by the GroNLP group, an open event about risks and opportunities of new language technologies. You can watch the presentations of Arianna Bisazza and Gabriele Sarti, or go the full event and see the slides.
And project leader Jelle Zuidema appeared in various Dutch popular media to comment on developments, including the tv program Nieuwsuur, and national newspapers NRC and Volkskrant, and in ‘An Afternoon with ChatGPT’ at the University of Amsterdam, modelled after the Groningen initiative.
Computer says no, but why? NWO published in February 2022 a feature on the InDeep project in their magazine, with quotes from Jelle Zuidema, Ashley Burgoyne and Jurjen Wagemakers (Floodtags).