Scholar
Willem Zuidema
Google Scholar ID: MBkG_FYAAAAJ
Associate Professor of NLP, Explainable AI and Cognitive Modelling, University of Amsterdam
Citations & Impact
Citations
5,448
H-index
24
i10-index
46
Publications
20
Co-authors
43
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Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published work on neural parsing as early as 2008; pioneering contributions to tree-shaped neural networks (including TreeLSTM) and masked language modelling; introduced Diagnostic Classification (a.k.a. probing) in 2016; research on the integration of formal logic and deep learning; Representational Stability Analysis; attention rollout.
Research Experience
- Associate professor at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam; directs the Cognition, Language and Computation lab; supervises several PhD and MSc students; teaches in the interdisciplinary master’s programs Artificial Intelligence and Brain & Cognitive Sciences, and coordinates the Cognitive Science track in the MBCS.
Background
- Associate professor in Natural Language Processing, Explainable AI and Cognitive Modelling. Research interests include computational modelling of language processing and the biological basis of language.
Miscellany
- Worked in the Behavioural Biology group at Leiden University (2007-2008), the Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit and the Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology at the University of Edinburgh (2002-2004), the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2000-2002), and the Sony Computer Science Laboratory – Paris (2000).
