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
- 2024-present: Academic Director, Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence BSc, Tilburg University
- 2022-present: Assistant professor, Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD), Tilburg University
- 2022: Principal investigator Project C3 in SFB 1102, Saarland University
- 2016-2022: Scientific Staff, Saarland University
- 2015-2016: Postdoctoral researcher, SFB 1102, Saarland University
- 2015: PhD in Computational Semantics at the University of Groningen
- 2011: MSc in Logic at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam
- 2009: BSc in Artificial Intelligence at Utrecht University
Publications
- Venhuizen, N. J. and Brouwer, H. (in press). Referential Retrieval and Integration in Language Comprehension: An Electrophysiological Perspective. Psychological Review.
- Venhuizen, N. J., Hendriks, P., Crocker, M. W., and Brouwer, H. (2022). Distributional Formal Semantics. Information and Computation, 287: 104763. doi: 10.1016/j.ic.2021.104763 PDF BibTex
- Sikos, L., Venhuizen, N. J., Drenhaus, H., Crocker, M. W. (2021). Reevaluating Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Games. PLoS ONE, 16(3): e0248388. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0248388 PDF BibTex
- Brouwer, H., Delogu, F., Venhuizen, N. J., and Crocker, M. W. (2021). Neurobehavioral Correlates of Surprisal in Language Comprehension: A Neurocomputational Model. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:110. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.615538 PDF BibTex
- Venhuizen, N. J., Crocker, M. W., and Brouwer, H. (2019). Semantic Entropy in Language Comprehension. Entropy, 21(12):1159. doi:10.3390/e21121159 PDF BibTex
- Venhuizen, N. J., Crocker, M. W., and Brouwer, H. (2019). Expectation-based Comprehension: Modeling the interaction of world knowledge and linguistic experience. Discourse Processes, 56(3):229-255. doi:10.1080/0163853X.2018.1448677 PDF BibTex
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Venhuizen, N. J., Bos, J., Hendriks, P., and
Brouwer, H. (2018). Discourse
Semantics with Information Structure.
Journal of Semantics, 35(1):127-169.
doi:10.1093/jos/ffx017 PDF BibTex
Selected as part of the Linguistics article collection 2019 of Oxford University Press - Brouwer, H., Crocker M. W., Venhuizen, N. J., and Hoeks, J. C. J. (2017). A Neurocomputational Model of the N400 and the P600 in Language Processing. Cognitive Science, 41:1318-1352. doi:10.1111/cogs.12461 PDF BibTex
- 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
- Li, M., Venhuizen, N. J., Jachmann, T. K., Drenhaus, H., Crocker, M. W. (2023). Does informativity modulate linearization preferences in reference production? In: M. Goldwater et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 3048-3054. PDF BibTex
- Sikos, L., Venhuizen, N. J., Drenhaus, H., Crocker, M. W. (2021). Speak before you listen: Pragmatic reasoning in multi-trial language games. In: T. Fitch et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1465-1471. PDF BibTex
- Venhuizen, N. J., Hendriks, P., Crocker, M. W., and Brouwer, H. (2019). A Framework for Distributional Formal Semantics. In: Iemhoff, R., Moortgat, M., and de Queiroz, R. (Eds.), Logic, Language, Information, and Computation, Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop WoLLIC 2019, LNCS 11541, pp. 633-646. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-59533-6_39 PDF BibTex
- Venhuizen, N. J., Bos, J., Hendriks, P., and Brouwer, H. (2014). How and Why Conventional Implicatures Project. In Todd Snider et al. (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 24, pp. 63-83, New York, USA. PDF BibTex
- Venhuizen, N. J. and Brouwer, H. (2014). PDRT-SANDBOX: An implementation of Projective Discourse Representation Theory. In Verena Rieser and Philippe Muller (eds.), Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial-DialWatt 2014), pp. 249-251, September 1-3, Edinburgh, Scotland. PDF BibTex
- Venhuizen, N. J., Bos, J. and Brouwer, H. (2013). Parsimonious Semantic Representations with Projection Pointers. In Katrin Erk and Alexander Koller (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS'13) -- Long Papers, pp. 252-263, Potsdam, Germany. PDF BibTex
- Venhuizen, N. J., Basile, V., Evang, K. and Bos, J. (2013). Gamification for Word Sense Labeling. In Katrin Erk and Alexander Koller (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS'13) -- Short Papers , pp. 397-403, Potsdam, Germany. PDF BibTex
- Roelofsen, F., Venhuizen, N. J. and Weidman Sassoon, G. (2013). Positive and negative polar questions in discourse. In Emmanuel Chemla, Vincent Homer and Grégoire Winterstein (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 17, pp. 455-472, Paris, France. PDF BibTex
- Basile, V., Bos, J., Evang, K. and Venhuizen, N. J. (2012). UGroningen: Negation detection with Discourse Representation Structures. In Eneko Agirre, Johan Bos and Mona Diab (eds.), Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM'12), pp. 301-309, Montréal, Canada. PDF BibTex
- Basile, V., Bos, J., Evang, K. and Venhuizen, N. J. (2012). Developing a large semantically annotated corpus. In Nicoletta Calzolari et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pp. 3196-3200, Istanbul, Turkey. PDF BibTex
- Basile, V., Bos, J., Evang, K. and Venhuizen, N. J. (2012). A platform for collaborative semantic annotation. In F. Segond (ed.), Proceedings of the Demonstrations at the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'12), pp. 92-96, Avignon, France. PDF BibTex
- PDRT-SANDBOX: A Haskell NLP library implementing (Projective) Discourse Representation Theory (in collaboration with H. Brouwer). Available under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
- DFS Tools: A Prolog implementation of Distributional Formal Semantics (in collaboration with H. Brouwer). Available under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kenjeeva, S., Cassani, G., Venhuizen, N. J., Alishahi, A. (2024). From grounded spaces to linguistic prediction: multimodal word meaning in context. Poster presented at at the sixteenth Embodied and Situated Language Processing conference (ESLP 2024), October 3-5, Berlin, Germany. PDF
- Schulz, M., Venhuizen, N. J., Jachmann, T. K., Drenhaus, H., Crocker, M.W. (2023). Coordination of referring expressions in visually situated communication: maximal informativity or uniform encoding? Poster presented at the fifteenth Embodied and Situated Language Processing conference (ESLP 2023), September 29--30, Messina, Italy. PDF
- Li, M., Venhuizen, N. J., Jachmann, T. K., Drenhaus, H., Crocker, M.W. (2023). Does informativity modulate linearization preferences in reference production? Poster presented at the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2023), July 26--29, Sidney, Australia. PDF
- Sikos, L., Venhuizen, N. J., Drenhaus, H. and Crocker, M. W. (2021). Speak before you listen: Pragmatic reasoning in multi-trial language games. Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: CogSci 2021 (Virtual meeting), July 26–29, Vienna Cognitive Science Hub. PDF
- Sikos, L., Venhuizen, N. J., Drenhaus, H. and Crocker, M. W. (2019). Reevaluating Pragmatic Reasoning in Online Language Games. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 29-31, Boulder, CO, USA. PDF
- Brouwer, H., Venhuizen, N. J. and Crocker, M. W. (2018). Indexing the N400 and the P600 in a Computational Model of Sentence Comprehension. Poster presented at the 31st CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 15-17, Davis, CA, USA. PDF
- Venhuizen, N. J. and Brouwer, H. (2014). PDRT-SANDBOX: Implementing Projective Discourse Representation Theory. Poster presented at the 18th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial-DialWatt 2014), September 1-3, Edinburgh, Scotland. PDF
- Venhuizen, N. J., Bos, J., Hendriks, P., and Brouwer, H. (2014). How and Why Conventional Implicatures Project. Poster presented at the 24rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT 24), May 30-June 1, New York University, New York, USA. PDF
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.