2,035 search results for “computational linguistics” in the Public website
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ALICE Leiden Computer Cluster
ALICE is Leiden University's newest computing miracle. The computing cluster is a first step in the development of infrastructure for computational and data-intensive research that is accessible to everyone within Leiden University and the LUMC. This includes both experienced users of high-performance…
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Politiques, Education et Identités Linguistiques, le collège des Frères des écoles chrétiennes de Jérusalem (1922-1939)
This dissertation sheds light on politics, education and linguistic identity by studying the case of the College of Jerusalem, founded by the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
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The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic: origin and accentuation
This dissertation provides a thorough review of the words belonging to the oldest layer of Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic and answers the question of how these words were adapted to the Proto-Slavic accentual system.
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Unknown 18th-century Dutch: language variation in private letters
How did common people write in the late eighteenth century? Little is yet known on this topic, since our knowledge is mainly based on printed texts written by a small part of the (male) elite population. This dissertation – written from a sociolinguistic point of view – gives us new insights into late-…
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Innovation in tradition
This dissertation explores the history of the language of a manuscript known as Tönnies Fonne's Russian-German Phrasebook (Pskov 1607).
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The Tocharian subjunctive (2004-2010)
In this study, the formation of the Tocharian subjunctive is described, its use and meaning are analysed and its origins are investigated.
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The syntax of verbal pseudo-coordination in English and Afrikaans
This dissertation provides a systematic description of English and Afrikaans verbal pseudo-coordination and a formal analysis couched in the Minimalist program.
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A Web of Relations: A grammar of rGyalrong Jiăomùzú (Kyom-kyo) dialects
This dissertation is a comprehensive description of the Jiăomùzú dialects. These dialects belong to the Tibetan-Birmese language of the rGyalrong spoken in the province Sìchuā, China.
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Temporal Construals of Bare Predicates in Mandarin Chinese
This study presents the first systematic investigation and detailed theoretical analysis of the temporal interpretations of sentences with bare (aspectually unmarked) predicates in Mandarin.
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Fons Verbeek on computational bio-imaging at SleutelstadFM
Professor Fons Verbeek of the computer science and biology institutes at Leiden University has the fascination to visualize everything we can not see immediately. At SleutelstadFM he tells us that by converting 2 dimensional (2D) images to 3 dimensional (3D) structures, research is carried out into…
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Royal distinction for linguist Ingrid Tieken
Professor of Sociohistorical Linguistics Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade was appointed Knight in the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands on 11 September in her home city of The Hague. Deputy Mayor Bert van Alphen presented her with the decoration.
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Martijn Lemmen
Faculty of Humanities
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Arie Verhagen
Faculty of Humanities
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Siavash Rafiee Rad
Faculty of Humanities
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M. Y. Priscilla Lam
Faculty of Humanities
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Benjamin Storme
Faculty of Humanities
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Maarten Kossmann
Faculty of Humanities
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Michaël Opgenhaffen
Faculty of Humanities
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Amos van Baalen
Faculty of Humanities
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Michaël Peyrot
Faculty of Humanities
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Benjamin Suchard
Faculty of Humanities
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Janet Grijzenhout
Faculty of Humanities
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Martine Bruil
Faculty of Humanities
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Yiya Chen
Faculty of Humanities
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Kan een computer rechtspreken?
Kan een computer in de rechtszaal net zo goed uitspraak doen als een rechter? Hoogleraar Recht en informatica Jaap van den Herik vindt volmondig van wel. Hij legt het uit in een college van de Universiteit van Nederland.
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The Syntax of Object Marking in Sambaa: A comparative Bantu perspective
This thesis investigates the syntax of object marking in Sambaa and the Bantu languages in general, with particular focus on Swahili and Haya, as points of comparison.
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Resumptive Prolepsis. A Study in Indirect A'-Dependencies
This dissertation investigates A'-dependencies in Standard German, Zurich German and Dutch where the dislocated constituent is indirectly, i.e. not transformationally, related to the position where it is interpreted. The analysis is carried out within the Principles & Parameters framework.
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Word order and information structure in Makhuwa-Enahara
This dissertation investigates the grammar of Makhuwa-Enahara, a Bantu language spoken in the north of Mozambique. The information structure is an influential factor in this language, determining the word order and the use of special conjugations known as conjoint and disjoint verb forms.
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Yes/no question-marking in Italian dialects - A typological, theoretical and experimental approach
This dissertation provides an account of polar questions in Italian dialects from a typological, theoretical and empirical perspective.
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Mutual intelligibility of Chinese dialects: an experimental approach
This study examines the mutual intelligibility between all 225 pairs of 15 Chinese dialects, in two main branches, i.e., six Mandarin dialects and nine non-Mandarin (Southern) dialects.
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Leiden University agrees to guarantee open access for linguistics
Dutch universities involved in lingusitics research and teaching have been asked through the VSNU to provide financial guarantees for the transition of linguistics research to open access. The universities, including Leiden, have agreed.
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Aspect and Subjectivity in Modal Constructions
This dissertation investigates the interaction of aspect and subjectivity in modal constructions.
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Applications of quantum annealing in combinatorial optimization
Quantum annealing belongs to a family of quantum optimization algorithms designed to solve combinatorial optimization problems using programmable quantum hardware. In this thesis, various methods are developed and tested to understand how to formulate combinatorial optimization problems for quantum…
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Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World
This volume offers a multidisciplinary view of cutting-edge research on bilingualism in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, with the aim of building a bridge between sub-fields and approaches that often find themselves isolated from one another.
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The Non-Verbal Clause in Qumran Hebrew
The present study comprises a classification and analysis of the syntax of the non-verbal clause in Qumran Hebrew, i.e. the linguistic variety (or varieties) found in the so-called Dead Sea Scrolls. The corpus consists of the non-biblical texts written in Hebrew; biblical texts and texts written in…
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Algorithms for quantum software
Top scientists of three Dutch universities are working on software and systems for quantum computers. Researchers of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) and the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) are developing new algorithms to make those super computers work. The coming years,…
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Going Dutch. The construction of Dutch in policy, practice and discourse (1750-1850)
The project Going Dutch investigates why the link between being or becoming Dutch, and knowledge of Standard Dutch is so often taken for granted in public discourse, by diving into its historical roots.
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Celebrating 50 years of African Languages and Linguistics in Leiden
Maarten Mous, Professor of African Linguistics at Leiden University, looks back on the 50th edition of the Colloquium of African Languages and Linguistics (CALL) and explains why this birthday was a celebration like no other.
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Saskia Dunn
Faculty of Humanities
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Arend Quak
Faculty of Humanities
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Enrico Odelli
Faculty of Humanities
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Tian Yang
Faculty of Humanities
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Xuan Tang
Faculty of Humanities
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Anikó Lipták
Faculty of Humanities
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Colin Ewen
Faculty of Humanities
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Egbert Fortuin
Faculty of Humanities
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Astrid Vandendaele
Faculty of Humanities
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Jiaqi Wang
Faculty of Humanities
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New professor Vedran Dunjko finds real-world problems that a quantum computer can solve
Vedran Dunjko appointed to full professor of quantum computing at Leiden University, the Netherlands.
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Pluractionality in Hausa
This dissertation addresses the semantics of pluractional verbs in Hausa.