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,…

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…