Our meeting meeting on 07.05 brought together NLP researchers from across borders and oceans. Walter Daelemans, Ine Gevers, and Verna Dankers told us about LLMs as statistical chameleons🦎, abductive reasoning in LLMs, and tiered language models, respectively. As ever, we were delighted to see both familiar and new faces and to reconnect over research!

The international conference on language generation, INLG 2026, is coming to Utrecht 17 to 21th of October. Endorsed by SIGGEN, the conference will be hosted by Utrecht University. Further details about the venue and calls for papers are expected soon, follow the official website and SIGGEN’s social media for more information.

The 2025-2026 period-3 meeting of NLP@U will be hosted by the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Below you will find information about the speakers, titles and abstracts. After the talks, there will be a round of short pitches (see information below), and lunch. In addition, there will be a coffee break and plenty of…

Our long-awaited period-2 meeting finally arrived and opened with invited talks by Jelle Zuidema and Hosein Mohebbi. They gave our community an exciting account of how state-of-the-art language and speech models can be interpreted in an actionable manner. A plentitude of questions following the talks showed that these engaged a great part of the audience,…

The 2025-2026 period-2 meeting of NLP@U will be hosted by the Faculty of Science. There will be presentations by Jelle Zuidema and Hosein Mohebbi. After the talks, there will be a round of short pitches (see information below), and lunch. In addition, there will be a coffee break and plenty of time to network and…

The third DeMeVa workshop, organized by Massimo Poesio, took place in the unusual setting of the UU Botanic Gardens’ biggest greenhouse. The choice of the location turned out to be fitting, as the motto of the day was preservation — not of natural species, but of dissenting voices in natural language data. This goal has…

Massimo Poesio and the NLP group at the Computer Science department are organizing a workshop on the topic of dealing with meaning variation on 28.10.2025. The workshop is the 3d yearly meeting of the DeMeVa project marking its third year of activity. This event will bring together both Utrecht based and invited researchers from a…

We’re marking a milestone: the first anniversary of the Utrecht NLP Hub, aka NLP@U. We’re pleased to report that our initial goal of fostering cross-faculty collaboration at Utrecht University, UMCU, and beyond is now a reality. To celebrate, the Faculty of Humanities hosted our 2025-2026 anniversary meeting, featuring a compelling presentation by Esam Ghaleb on…