Matthijs Westera

Computational linguist in Leiden

I investigate language and curiosity, using methods from experimental and computational linguistics.

I am an assistant professor in Humanities and AI at the wonderful Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, affiliated with the Leiden HumAN (Humanities AI & NLP) group), SAILS (Society, AI & Life Sciences) and the CHAOS group (Cyber-Humanities for the Advancement of Society).

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Research

Teaching

Come study Language and Cognition and/or Computational Linguistics in Leiden! I teach the following courses:

Tools

Some bare-bones command-line tools to ‘get stuff done’:

Some datasets:

Selected research papers

Implicit questions and curiosity

Semantics and deep learning

Attention and indirect communication

The meaning of intonation