People

Areas of Expertise

The consortium includes world-class expertise in computational and theoretical linguistics, natural language processing, machine translation, dialogue modelling, transparent AI methods, cognitive modelling, sign language linguistics and technology, cognitive language disorders, speech impediments, philosophy of language, computer vision, and virtual reality.

International Reputation

All consortium members have an outstanding international reputation, witnessed by 6 NWO Vici awards, 10 NWO Vidi awards, 6 ERC Starting/Consolidator awards, among many other distinctions.

Board

Floris Roelofsen

Director

Semantics, Sign Language

Lab: SignLab

Jeannette Schaeffer

Lead Inclusive Society

Language Acquisition, Language Disorders, Syntax-pragmatics Interface

Lab: Language in Autism

Katia Shutova

Lead Safe Society

Computational Semantics, Natural Language Processing

Lab: Natural Language Understanding

Jelle Zuidema

Lead Responsible Methods

Cognitive Modelling, Explainable AI, Natural Language Processing

Lab: Cognition, Language & Computation

Senior researchers

Maria Aloni

Formal Semantics and Pragmatics, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Language

Lab: Nothing is Logical

Sible Andringa

Bilingual Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Pedagogy

Lab: Language Learning, Literacy and Multilingualism

Wilker Aziz

Bayesian Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Lab: Probabilistic Language Learning

Robert G. Belleman

Computer Graphics, Virtual/Augmented Reality, Visualisation

Lab: Visualisation Lab

Titia Benders

Infant-directed Speech, Language Acquisition, Phonetics & Phonology

Lab: Language Learning, Literacy and Multilingualism, Speech Lab

Arianna Betti

Data-Driven History of Ideas, Natural Language Processing, Philosophy of Language

Lab: Concepts in Motion

Paul Boersma

Phonetics & Phonology, Speech Processing, Stochastic Learning Theory

Lab: Speech Lab

Raquel Fernández

Dialogue Modelling, Natural Language Processing, Visually Grounded Language

Lab: Dialogue Modelling Lab

Federico Gobbo

Argumentation, Linguistic Justice, Multilingualism

Lab: Language and Cognition in Argumentation

Kees Hengeveld

Linguistic Typology, Theoretical Linguistics

Luca Incurvati

Philosophy of Language, Reasoning and Mental Attitudes, Semantics

Christof Monz

Machine Translation, Multilingualism

Lab: Language Technology Lab

Marloes Oomen

Sign Language, Theoretical Linguistics

Lab: SignLab

Sandro Pezzelle

Cognitive Modelling, Semantics, Visually Grounded Language

Lab: Dialogue Modelling Lab

Roland Pfau

Linguistic Typology, Sign Language, Theoretical Linguistics

Lab: SignLab

Judith Rispens

Developmental Language Disorders, Language Acquisition, Natural Language Processing

Lab: Language Learning, Literacy and Multilingualism

Robert van Rooij

Bias and Stereotyping, Causal Reasoning, Formal Semantics and Pragmatics

Lab: Causal Inference Lab

Marieke Schouwstra

Cognitive Modelling, Gesture, Language Evolution

Lab: SignLab

Katrin Schulz

Bias and Stereotyping, Causal Reasoning, Cognitive Modelling

Khalil Sima’an

Domain Adaptation, Language Modeling and Morphology, Machine Translation

Lab: Statistical Language Processing and Learning Lab

Beyza Sümer

Language Acquisition, Language and Cognition, Sign Language

Lab: SignLab, Language in Autism

Ivan Titov

Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Lab: Language Technology Lab

Jean Wagemans

Argumentation, Philosophy of Language, Rhetoric

Lab: Language and Cognition in Argumentation

Junior researchers

Our research labs currently host around 75 Postdocs and PhD students.