Research Projects

Ongoing projects

To be updated soon.

Recently concluded projects

•  ESSENCE: Evolution of Shared Semantics in Computational Environments

  Applicant: Dr R.A.M. van Rooij
  Grant: European Commission 7th Framework Programme (link)
  Team members: Dr R.A.M. van Rooij (project leader), J.J. Schlöder (PhD Student), T.B. Brochhagen (PhD Student)
  Duration: 1 November 2013 - 31 October 2017
  Budget: 739441 EUROs

• Formal analysis of multi-agent learning

  Applicant: Dr N. Gierasimczuk
  Grant: NWO VENI
  Team members: Dr N. Gierasimczuk (Postdoc)
  Duration: 1 January 2014 - 1 January 2017
  Budget: 250000 EUROs

•  Kant and Wittgenstein on ethics: Rethinking the normative foundations of ethical and legal responsibility

  Applicant: D. Yamali
  Grant: NWO Mozaiek
  Team members: D. Yamali (PhD Student)
  Duration: 1 November 2012 - 1 November 2016

•  How psychological and social factors influence the evolution of language

  Applicant: Dr M. Franke
  Grant: NWO VENI
  Team members: Dr M. Franke (Postdoc)
  Duration: 1 April 2012 - 1 April 2015
  Budget: 250000 EUROs

•  Interpreting questions: fine-grained compositional semantics

  Project website: http://www.illc.uva.nl/inquisitivesemantics
  Applicant: Dr F. Roelofsen
  Grant: NWO GW VENI
  Team members: Dr F. Roelofsen
  Duration: 1 March 2012 - 29 February 2016
  Budget: 250000 EUROs

•  Reasoning about quantum interaction

  Project website: https://sites.google.com/site/vidiquantum
  Applicant: Dr S.J.L. Smets
  Grant: NWO VIDI
  Team members: Dr S.J.L. Smets (project leader), Dr J Sack (Postdoc), Dr K. Kishida (Postdoc until 16-8-2013 ), Dr N. Gierasimczuk (Postdoc until 1-2-2012), J. Bergfeld (PhD Student until 1-10-2014)
  Duration: 1 January 2012 - 31 May 2015
  Budget: 555000 EUROs

•  The Logical Structure of Correlated Information Change

  Project website: https://sites.google.com/site/logicicproject
  Applicant: Dr S.J.L. Smets
  Grant: EU ERC
  Team members: Dr S.J.L. Smets (project leader, Associate Professor), Dr S. Rafiee Rad (postdoc), Dr N. Gierasimczuk (Postdoc until 1-1-2014), P. Galeazzi (PhD Student), Z.L. Christoff (PhD Student)
  Duration: 1 January 2012 - 31 December 2016
  Budget: 1380650 EUROs

•  Understanding and Misunderstanding: Cognition, Communication and Culture (EuroUnderstanding)

  Applicant: Dr R.A.M. van Rooij
  Grant: NWO GW Eurocores
  Team members: Dr E.O. Wagner (Postdoc), Dr M. Franke (Postdoc until 1-3-2012)
  Duration: 1 November 2011 - 1 November 2014

•  Computing Implicatures in Incremental Dialogue Processing

  Applicant: Dr R. Fernández Rovira
  Grant: NWO EW Meervoud (link)
  Team members: Dr R. Fernández Rovira (Assistant Professor)
  Duration: 1 October 2011 - 30 September 2015
  Budget: 205000 EUROs

•  The semantic anatomy of conditional sentences

  Applicant: Dr K. Schulz
  Grant: NWO GW VENI (link)
  Team members: Dr K. Schulz (Assistant Professor)
  Duration: 1 February 2011 - 31 January 2015
  Budget: 241000 EUROs

•  The Inquisitive Turn. A New Perspective on Semantics, Logic, and Pragmatics

  Project website: http://www.illc.uva.nl/inquisitivesemantics
  Applicants: Prof.dr J.A.G. Groenendijk and Dr F. Roelofsen
  Grant: NWO GW NWO VC (link)
  Team members: Dr F. Roelofsen (Postdoc), I.A. Ciardelli (PhD Student), M. Mameni (PhD Student until 15-2-2011), M. Westera (PhD Student), M.J.A.C. Aldewereld (PhD Student until 30-6-2012)
  Duration: 1 June 2010 - 31 October 2014
  Budget: 598657 EUROs