I'm looking for a few more native English speakers to fill in a ~10-min-long questionnaire (rating sentences) for a Master student's research. DM me or leave a comment below if you'd like to get a link! (You'll also get a $5 Amazon voucher.)
Dear international colleagues, repression in the Netherlands is worsening. We can really use your support. Please join me in signing this open letter demanding accountability from our Executive Board for the wrongful arrest of six students and staff at my university docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐โ ๐ก๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฒ๐พ๐๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ผ๐ผ๐ป! ๐
Here are some photos of our GroNLP station at the Forum, where we welcomed high school classes and potential future researchers. ๐งโ๐ฌ๐ค
Quizzes, puzzles, demos, card games, and of course, lots of chocolate! ๐ซ
Iโm very happy to share that my latest paper on the ๐๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ , tested on models trained under CDL data vs ADL data , has been accepted for an ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง at the upcoming edition of ๐๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ข, which will take place at the end of July in Rio de Janeiro.๐
I really think it's time to move all the conferences out of the US. It's very expensive, it's very hard to get a visa for many nationals, and now you can also be turned away at the border because of your political views.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Apply for our PhD position in language acquisition / computational linguistics in Groningen until 24 April! Job ad is here:
www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
โChild-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Modelsโ
Iโm happy to share that the preprint of my first PhD project is now online!
๐ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23689
Interested in a paid PhD position in the Netherlands? Join me, Annemarie van Dooren, and @arianna-bis.bsky.social on a project to develop computational models of modal verb acquisition. A job ad will be out soon, but here's a preview: yevgen.web.rug.nl/phd.pdf
Last week to apply for our PhD position!
Seminal work by Huebner et al. (2021) showed that language models (LMs) trained on English Child-Directed Language (CDL) can reach similar syntactic abilities as LMs trained on much larger amounts of ...
To the Radboud College van Bestuur,
On Monday December 16, six staff and students from the Radboud University were wrongfully accused of property damage and held overnight in jail on the grounds of s...
