Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Former names | Instituut voor Taal Logica en Informatie |
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Established | 1991 |
Director | Robert van Rooij |
Address | Science Park 107 , , 1098 XG , |
Website | illc |
The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) is a
Research at the ILLC is interdisciplinary, and aims at bringing together insights from various disciplines concerned with information and information processing, such as logic, mathematics, computer science, computational linguistics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and philosophy. It is organized in the three groups Logic & Computation (project leader: Yde Venema), Logic & Language (project leader: Robert van Rooij), and Language & Computation (project leader: Jelle Zuidema) united by the key themes Explainable and Ethical AI, Interpretable Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing, Cognitive Modelling, Logic, Games and Social Agency and Quantum Information and Computation. The ILLC is involved in several international collaborations among which we highlight the Joint Research Centre for Logic (JRC), a special collaborative partnership between Tsinghua University and the University of Amsterdam.
In addition to its research activities, the ILLC is running the Graduate Programme in Logic with a PhD programme and the
History
The ILLC started off in 1986 as Instituut voor Taal, Logica en Informatie (ITLI; Institute for Language, Logic and Information). In the beginning, it was an informal association of staff members from the Faculty of
The ILLC is rooted in the Amsterdam logic research tradition dating back to the early twentieth century (including researchers such as
Directors
Name | Term of office | |
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1st Director | Johan van Benthem | 1991-1998 |
2nd Director | Martin Stokhof | 1998-2003 |
3rd Director | Frank Veltman | 2003-2009 |
4th Director | Jeroen Groenendijk | 2009 |
5th Director | Leen Torenvliet | 2009-2011 |
6th Director | Yde Venema | 2011-2016 |
7th Director | Sonja Smets | 2016-2021 |
8th Director | Robert Van Rooij | since 2021 |
Members
Other notable members and past members include:
See also
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