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2024
- 03/2024 Served on PhD opposition for Eko Rahmadian: Technologies for smart & sustainable tourism
- 03/2024 Presented at Language of the Third Millennium XIII for LITHME. Krakow, Poland.
- 02/2024 Presented at the 2nd Dutch Speech Tech Day.
- 02/2024 Final report Pilot project on VR education EDU+, submitted – financed by the CvB and conducted by CF, UCG and CIT as a collaborative interfaculty programme.
2023
- 12/2023 Invited to Program Committee of the 3rd ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL2024) at LREC-COLING 2024
- 12/2023 PhD student, Yingjie Wang, defends her dissertation at the University of Groningen, entitled: A critical discourse analysis of Chinese and US news discourse. See this post.
- 11/2023 PhD student, Zhu Li, funding awarded for “IEEE Mentoring Experiences for Underrepresented Young Researchers (ME-UYR) Program”. Project title: Yeah, right! Integrating varieties of speech data for advancing naturalness and expressiveness in sarcastic speech synthesis
- 10/2023 Program Committee, Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI: Language Attitudes, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights (TEICAI). Workshop at EACL 2024 (March 17–22, 2024, Malta)
- 09/2023 Panelist, 5th KCI Virtual Cafe dedicated to the theme “Languages, skills and technologies for economic growth” opened by Mr Johannes Hahn, EU Commissioner for Budget and Administration and Ms Genoveva Ruiz Calavera, Director General for Interpretation and Conference Organisation of the European Commission.
- 09/2023 Kick-off MSc Voice Tech cohort 3
- 08/2023 The MSc Voice Tech is a proud sponsor of Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop.
- 08/2023 Best paper award: Elsevier. Boswijk, V., Hilton, N. H., Coler, M., & Loerts, H. (2022). Salience is in the brain of the beholder: ERPs reflect acoustically salient variables. Ampersand, 9, 100085.
- 08/2023: Accepted nomination of Vice Chair for LITHME COST Action
- 05/2023: Organized 3rd International Conference ‘Language in the Human-Machine Era ‘
- 05/2023: Organized first Speech Tech Summer School
- 02/2023: Organizer + Speaker, Dutch Speech Tech Day.
- 02/2023: Speaker, Tech Update: Speech Technology. De Media Federatie.