Dr. Noortje J. Venhuizen

I am an assistant professor (universitair docent) in the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD), Tilburg University. I am currently the Academic Director of the Bachelor program in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University.

Short Bio

Publications

  • Journal Articles

  • Book Chapters

  • Backus, A., Cohen, M., Cohn, N., Faber, M., Krahmer, E., Laparle, S., Maier, E., van Miltenburg, E., Roelofsen, F., Sciubba, E., Scholman, M., Shterionov, D., Sie, M., Tomas, F., Vanmassenhove, E., Venhuizen, N. J., and de Vos, C. (2023). Minds: Big questions for linguistics in the age of AI. In Leufkens, S. and Bril, M. (eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands, 40(1):301-308. John Benjamins. doi:10.1075/avt.00094.bac PDF BibTex
    Recipient of the second prize in the LOT Grotevragenprijs essay contest
  • Bos, J., Basile, V., Evang, K., Venhuizen, N. J., and Bjerva, J. (2017) The Groningen Meaning Bank. In Ide, N. and Pustejovsky, J. (eds.), Handbook of Linguistic Annotation, pp. 463-496. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht. doi:10.1007/978-94-024-0881-2_18 PDF BibTex
  • Brouwer, H., Crocker, M. W., and Venhuizen, N. J. (2017). Neural Semantics. In: Wieling, M., Kroon, M., van Noord, G., and Bouma, G. (eds.), From Semantics to Dialectometry: Festschrift for John Nerbonne, pp. 75-83. College Publications. PDF BibTex

  • Conference Proceedings

  • Software

  • Theses

  • Venhuizen, N. J. (2015). Projection in Discourse: A data-driven formal semantic analysis. PhD thesis, University of Groningen. (Supervisors: Prof. dr. J. Bos and Prof. dr. P. Hendriks; Jury: Prof. dr. N. M. Asher, Prof. dr. J. Hoeksema, and Prof. dr. R. A. van der Sandt; Opposition: Prof. dr. L. B. W. Geurts, Prof. dr. J. A. W. Kamp, dr. E. Maier, and dr. H. W. Zeevat) PDF BibTex
  • Venhuizen, N. J. (2011). Negation in Questions. Master's Thesis, ILLC, University of Amsterdam. (Supervisors: dr. Floris Roelofsen and dr. Galit Weidman Sassoon) PDF

Selected presentations

For a full list of presentations and posters, please ask for my CV. Selected slides and posters can also be found on ResearchGate.

  • Recent talks

  • Venhuizen, N.J. (2024). Expectation-based Semantics in Language Comprehension. Invited talk presented at 3rd Workshop on Processing and Evaluation Event Representations (PEER2024), Cornell University, March 29, Online talk.
  • Venhuizen, N.J. (2023). Expectation-based Semantics in Language Comprehension. Invited talk presented at the CLASP seminar, Centre for linguistic theory and studies in probability, University of Gothenburg, November 8, Online talk.
  • Li, M., Venhuizen, N. J., Jachmann, T. K., Drenhaus, H., Crocker, M.W. (2023). Does informativity modulate linearization preferences in reference production? Talk presented at the 29th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference (AMLaP 2023), August 31 - September 2, Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain.

  • Selected posters

Teaching

  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence 1, Pre-master/BSc., Dept. Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University. Spring 2024, Fall 2024
  • Statistics for CSAI II, BSc., Dept. Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University. Fall 2023.
  • Bachelorthesis CSAI, BSc., Dept. Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University. Ongoing (since Spring 2023).
  • Research Workshop CSAI, BSc., Dept. Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University. Spring 2023.
  • Semantic Theory, MSc, Dept. Language Science and Technology, Saarland University. Yearly: Summer 2015 - Summer 2022.
  • Foundations of Linguistics: Semantics, MSc, Dept. Language Science and Technology, Saarland University. Winter 2020, 2021.
  • Information Theory (Guest Lecturer), MSc, Saarland University. Summer 2019.

Contact details

  • Work:
  • Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University
    Dante Building, Room D 133
    Warandelaan 2, 5037 AB Tilburg