Marianne de Heer Kloots
I am a PhD candidate at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam, where I work in the clc lab supervised by Willem Zuidema.
Before this, I studied Brain & Cognitive Sciences (in Amsterdam) and Linguistics (in Leiden). You can view some publications resulting from previous research projects I have worked on at my google scholar page.
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I like making illustrations and visualizations. You can find some of them on the ILLC blog!
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March 2025:- Looking forward to attend this year's HumanCLAIM workshop in Göttingen! I will present our new work on Investigating language learning trajectories in a self-supervised speech model (poster here).
- I really enjoyed presenting my work on human-like linguistic biases in neural speech models at the Donders Centre's Sound Learning group and at the Penn Phonetics laboratory, thanks all for the interesting discussions!
- I had a great time attending Interspeech in Greece! I presented one of my PhD projects on phonetic categorization and phonotactic constraints in Wav2Vec2.0 at the main conference. I was also on the YF*RSW doctorate panel, and I attended the VIHAR workshop to present our work on bat song syllable representations in self-supervised audio encoders!
- I will be at the Highlights in the Language Sciences conference! Find me in poster session D to talk about human-like linguistic biases in neural speech models (poster here).
- Tamar Johnson and I are organizing a workshop on Using Artificial Neural Networks for Studying Human Language Learning and Processing June 10th-12th, at the ILLC in Amsterdam. Registration is open until May 24th!
- I will be TA'ing the Interpretability & Explainability in AI course in the MSc Artificial Intelligence at UvA, leading a workshop on speech perception.
- Looking forward to spend a few weeks this month at Stanford, visiting the Gwilliams Lab for Speech Neuroscience!
- Afterwards, I will be attending Evolang in Madison, where we will present our study on Learnability effects in children.
- I'm part of the programme committee for the Young Female* Researchers in Speech Workshop (YF*RSW) 2024, a satellite event to Interspeech. Abstract submissions open until May 11th! Accepted students will receive a grant to pay for travel and participation.
- Our paper on Language Models That Accurately Represent Syntactic Structure Exhibit Higher Representational Similarity To Brain Activity is accepted to CogSci!
- Excited to present my research on human-like linguistic biases in self-supervised speech models at the workshop on Using computational models to bridge between neurobiology, psychology, and linguistic theory in Nijmegen!