David Shakouri
PhD candidate
- Name
- D.P. Shakouri MA
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- d.p.shakouri@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9091-7976
Fields of interest
- Language Models
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Language Modelling
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Computational Linguistics
- Mathematical Linguistics
- Formal Linguistics
- Language Acquisition
I work on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics. My PhD project is on two language models, which provide a computational experimental model of language acquisition based on a conversation between a mother agent and a daughter agent. This enables a laboratory approach to first language acquisition experiments by implementing machine learning techniques to build a knowledge-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) model of a child acquiring his or her first language.
PhD candidate
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
- Shakouri D.P., Cremers C. & Schiller N.O. (18 December 2025), Providing a Multi-Agent Computational Laboratory for Language Acquisition Experiments (peer-reviewed). Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting. Utrecht University. [lecture].
- Shakouri D.P. (2015), MODOMA Project. (Sleutelstad FM). [interview].
- Shakouri D.P. 2025 - 2025. Reviewer for Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal.