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European support for Dutch-Flemish project in the fight against disinformation 05 July 2021
Dutch and Flemish partners, including Leiden University, are joining forces as the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) in the fight against the ...
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Whispering out loud 03 May 2021
Whispp, a Leiden-based speech technology start-up, is developing an app to help people who stutter express themselves more freely. Among those working...
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Linguists: crimefighters extraordinaire 11 January 2021
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and ...
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‘Academic research necessary to highlight and improve the circumstances of journalists under threat’ 03 December 2020
Jaap de Jong, Professor of Journalism and New Media, is one of the organisers of the Academic Conference (9 December) as part of the World Press Freed...
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‘Safety of Journalism – more urgent than ever’ 26 October 2020
Register now for the World Press Freedom Conference 2020 digital edition (9 – 10 December 2020)!
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FactRank: new tool brings automatic fact-checking a step closer 28 May 2020
FactRank is a new online tool that automatically detects ‘checkable’ claims made by politicians in parliamentary debates or tweets, and therefore enab...
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Understanding (the value of) machine translation 14 May 2020
Leiden University Lecturer Lettie Dorst wins a prestigious Comenius Senior Fellow grant for a project about machine translation and its use in higher ...
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Speaking a foreign language: Is fluency ‘a must’? 25 November 2019
Nivja de Jong, researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON), has wo...
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Fact-checking from the local council to the European Parliament 24 September 2019
‘Timmermans says more Polish workers are staying in Poland, but there aren’t any figures to back this up,’ was the headline of NU.nl news website duri...
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Playing Cluedo with speech sounds 15 August 2019
Using speech analysis to resolve crimes. That's what Meike de Boer (26) is aiming to do with her PhD research. 'By analysing how a person pronounces "...
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Detecting and comparing sign languages 28 June 2019
For his PhD project, computer scientist Manolis Fragkiadakis is developing a tool that can compare videos of sign language corpora. This would make it...
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‘A logical step from medieval literature to fact-checking’ 16 May 2019
Alumnus Peter Burger – along with his colleague Alexander Pleijter – is the face of fact-checking in the Netherlands. ‘My degree led straight to this.’
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Forensic speech recognition: emerging scientific field in Leiden 12 June 2018
On 4 June 2018, students of the Forensic Speech Science master’s course visited the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) in The Hague. They were prese...
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Use of nouns delays speech 15 May 2018
Why do we sometimes speak more slowly or more rapidly, and why do we sometimes have a longer pause between uttering particular words? This has to do w...
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Right brain hemisphere also important for learning a new language 16 October 2017
Novel language learning activates different neural processes than was previously thought. A Leiden research team has discovered parallel but separate ...