The ILLC is home to a leading research group in Computational Linguistics with a long history in statistical natural language processing since the early 1990s.
Research
Current research includes probabilistic parsing and grammar induction (Tejaswini Deoskar), computational pragmatics and dialogue modelling (Raquel Fernández), statistical morpho-syntactic parsing and machine translation (Khalil Sima’an), and neural semantic and syntactic parsing (Willem Zuidema).
Teaching
ILLC’s computational linguists teach the following courses:
- Taaltheorie & Taalverwerking (Bachelor Artificial Intelligence)
- Natural language models & Interfaces (Bachelor Artificial Intelligence)
- Language, Speech & Dialogue Processing (Bachelor Artificial Intelligence)
- 2nd year AI projects (Bachelor Artificial Intelligence)
- Evolution of Language and Music (Bachelor Psychobiology)
- Leading Questions in CLC (Bachelor Cognition, Language and Communication)
- Human Cognition (Bachelor Cognition, Language and Communication)
- Project CLC (Bachelor Cognition, Language and Communication)
- Higher Cognitive Functions (Master Brain & Cognitive Sciences)
- Foundations of Neural and Cognitive Modelling (Master Brain & Cognitive Sciences)
- Cognitive Models of Language and Music (Master Brain & Cognitive Sciences)
- Natural Language Processing 1 (Master Artificial Intelligence)
- Natural Language Processing 2 (Master Artificial Intelligence)
- Unsupervised Language Learning (Master Artificial Intelligence)
- Computational Semantics & Pragmatics (Master of Logic)
Official course descriptions can be found on the UvA’s online course catalogue.