I am a linguist, interested in theoretical linguistics and in natural language processing. I am an Assistant Professor (UD1, if you know the Dutch system) at Utrecht University, working in the Language and Communication group, part of the Institute for Language Sciences. Before September 2024, I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG), Computational Linguistics Group.

I wrote up a small thing that contains notes for my ‘Linguistics for Language Technology’ 2023 course at RuG. The course is over, but people seem to like the website, so if you are here for the course notes, check them out!

News

• [This is a big one] I am joining Utrecht University (Institute for Language Sciences) as Assistant Professor in September 2024! I did my PhD there, so it feels like going home (good).
• My short research visit to Trento in April 2024 resulted in this joint work with Jaap Jumelet, Jelle Zuidema and Jakub Szymanik: “Black Big Boxes: Do Language Models Hide a Theory of Adjective Order?” (under review at TACL, preprint)
• Yasu Sudo, Stavroula Alexandropoulou and I will (virtually) present our work on linguistic acceptability priming for NPIs at ELM3
• Preprint of our survey Abzianidze, Lasha, Lisa Bylinina and Denis Paperno ‘Semantics and Deep Learning’ written for Cambridge Elements in Semantics is up on LingBuzz. We expect it to be published by CUP very soon.
• Paper detailing our (Lukas Edman’s and mine) approach to the BabyLM challenge is up on ACL Anthology: “Too Much Information: Keeping Training Simple for BabyLMs”
• Paper (with Ekaterina Garmash and Alexey Tikhonov) “Connecting degree and polarity: An artificial language learning study” accepted to EMNLP 2023 main! [preprint]
• Joint work with Alexey Tikhonov and Denis Paperno on multimodal word representations accepted to *SEM 2023 [preprint]