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.L.J.M. & Schiller N.O. (2025), A knowledge-based language model: deducing grammatical knowledge in a multi-agent language acquisition simulation, Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 14: 167-189.
- Shakouri D.P., Cremers C. & Schiller N.O. (2025), Unsupervised acquisition of discrete grammatical categories, Computing Research Repository : 2503.18702.