On Friday 31 January, the Dutch Annual Linguistics Day took place in Utrecht. At this conference, linguists from the Netherlands and abroad present their latest research every year.
At the end of the Dutch Annual Linguistics Day, the annual conference of the three major linguistic organisations in the Netherlands: Anéla (the Dutch Association for Applied Linguistics), AVT (the Dutch Association for General Linguistics) and LOT (the National Research School for Linguistics), the AVT/Anéla dissertation prize for the best linguistic dissertation of year was awarded during the Language Gala.
Keynote Malvina Nissim – Are Language Models Models of Language?
During this edition of the Dutch Annual Linguistics Day, some 65 research presentations were given, which together cover the entire field – from semantics to language typology and from (second) language acquisition to language and gender. Malvina Nissim (University of Groningen) gave a keynote lecture on the role of language in language technology in times of Large Language Models and Artificial Intelligence.
The conference program (in PDF) can be found via this link. The book of abstracts (in PDF) can be found via this link.