Just two more days until the Weekend of Science and the start of Simone and Jacolien’s ‘publieksonderzoek’ on Dutch idioms! Here is a video from the organizers of Weekend van de Wetenschap in which presenter Anna Gimbrère visits our minister of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), Ingrid van Engelshoven, to see how much she knows […]
Idiom project at the Weekend of Science!
We are excited to announce that this year’s Weekend of Science project will be a large scale idiom rating study by Simone Sprenger and Jacolien van Rij – we wish them lots of data!
Noorderzon 2019
During the art festival of Noorderzon, the members of the SemCogKids team took part in the organization of the “University of Noorderzon”: in collaboration with the Young Academy Groningen and researchers of other departments, they created interactive games and funny experiments, thanks to which children had the opportunity to experience the thrill of doing scientific […]
Groningen-Oldenburg Workshop 2019
The annual Groningen-Oldenburg Workshop on Language Processing and Acquisition took place at the Harmony Building on August, 19th, 2019. After a nice lunch together, the six speakers gave us plenty of food for thought, too. Our meeting was concluded at the performing art festival of Noorderzon, where we spent a couple of hours together, talking […]
Writing weekend 2019
We had a very productive and enjoyable writing weekend in Noord Holland! Between writing sessions we let our minds be blown free again at the beach – two PhD candidates even dared to take a swim in the chilly North Sea in hope for a cum laude. Over dinner we further developed our possibly ground […]