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Rens Bod

As a Vici-laureate I investigate the humanities from

a computational perspective as well as their history.

rens.bod@gmail.com

Professor of Computational and Digital Humanities

Head Language and Computation Group

Vice-director ILLC, University of Amsterdam

Visiting Address: Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, room C3.115

Postal Address: P.O. Box 94242, 1090 GE Amsterdam, NL

Tel: +31 20 5256086 Mobile: +31 6 30380162 Fax: +31 20 5255206

NEWS: My book “De Vergeten Wetenschappen” (“The Forgotten Sciences”) has appeared. English version follows soon.

Recent Books

R. Bod, 2010. De Vergeten Wetenschappen: Een Geschiedenis van de Humaniora (“The Forgotten Sciences: A History of the Humanities”), Prometheus, 2010.

R. Bod, J. Maat and T. Weststeijn (eds.), 2010. The Making of the Humanities – Vol.I: The Humanities in Early Modern Europe, AUP, 2010.

R. Bod, J. Hay and S. Jannedy (eds.), 2003. Probabilistic Linguistics. The MIT Press.

R. Bod, R. Scha and K. Sima'an (eds.), 2003. Data-Oriented Parsing. University of Chicago Press.

R. Bod, 1998. Beyond Grammar: An Experience-Based Theory of Language CSLI Publications, Cambridge University Press.

Recently organized events

Workshop Computational Humanities, International Conference on Computational Science 2010, 1^st June 2010, Amsterdam.

The Making of the Humanities II: 2^nd International Conference on the History of the Humanities, 21-23 October 2010, Amsterdam.

Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition (PsychoCompLA’09), CogSci 2009, July 29^th, Amsterdam.

Interview op VRT Radioprogramma BABEL, over “De Vergeten Wetenschappen”, 26 november 2010.

Interview in Elsevier, over “De Vergeten Wetenschappen”, 20 november 2010.

Radio/TV-interview met Max Pam en Theodor Holman, 29 oktober 2010.

“Geesteswetenschappen vaak gezien als luxe tijdverdrijf”, Folia, 20 oktober 2010.

“Iedereen kent Newton en Darwin, niemand Bopp en Panini”, NRC Handelsblad, 14 oktober 2008.

“Hé nerds, alfa’s hebben de wereld óók veranderd!”, NRC Next, 13 oktober 2008.

“Taaltheorie onderuit”, Vrij Nederland, Week 31, 2008.

De Unificatie van Menselijke Cognitie. R. Bod, 2008. ANTW (Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte), 100(2), 129-137.

Het Wetenschappelijk Werk als Kunstwerk. R. Bod, 2008. BLIND!, 11 januari 2008. (uitgesproken bij Opening SPUI25)

Taalverwerving: De Wetenschap van de Kleine Wetenschapper. G. Borensztajn, J. Zuidema and R. Bod, 2008. Kunst en Wetenschap, 17(4).

“Taalrevolutie”, Didaktief, Oktober 2008.

“Goed onderzoek, dan ook meer geld”, NRC Handelsblad, 7 juni 2007.

“Gaandeweg werd ik opgezogen door de computerlinguïstiek”, Geestesoog, maart 2007.

Recent and Key Publications (click here for all publications)

Computational Linguistics and Cognition

S. Frank and R. Bod, 2011. Insensitity of the Human Sentence-Processing System to Hierarchical Structure, Psychological Science (paper, supplementary material)

F. Sangati, W. Zuidema and R. Bod, 2010. Efficiently extract recurring tree fragments from large treebanks. Proceedings LREC10.

R. Gayler, S. Levy and R. Bod, 2010. Biologically Inspired? Cognitive Architecture! Proceedings BICA 2010, Washington D.C.

R. Bod, 2009. From Exemplar to Grammar: A Probabilistic Analogy-based Model of Language Learning. Cognitive Science, 33(5), 752-793.

G. Borensztajn, W. Zuidema and R. Bod, 2009. Children’s Grammars Grow More Abstract with Age. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1, 175-188.

R. Bod, 2009. Constructions at Work or at Rest? Cognitive Linguistics, 20(10, 129–134.

R. Bod, 2009. Probabilistic Linguistics. Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis, edited by Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog (Oxford University Press).

R. Bod, G. Borensztajn and E. Morgan, 2009. Empiricist Solutions to Nativist Puzzles, Proceedings CogSci 2009.

G. Borensztajn, W. Zuidema and R. Bod, 2009. The hierarchical prediction network: towards a neural theory of grammar acquisition. Proceeding CogSci 2009.

F. Sangati, W. Zuidema and R. Bod, 2009. A generative re-ranking model for dependency parsing. Proceedings IWPT 09.

R. Bod, 2007. Is the End of Supervised Parsing in Sight? Proceedings ACL 2007, Prague, 400-407.

R. Bod, 2007. Unsupervised Syntax-Based Machine Translation: The Contribution of Discontiguous Phrases. Proceedings MT Summit 2007, Copenhagen, 51-57.

R. Bod, 2006. An All-Subtrees Approach to Unsupervised Parsing. Proceedings ACL-COLING 2006, Sydney.

R. Bod, 2006. Exemplar-Based Syntax: How to Get Productivity from Examples. The Linguistic Review 23, Special Issue on Exemplar-Based Models in Linguistics.

Computational Musicology

A. Honingh and R. Bod, 2011. In search of universal properties of musical scales. Journal of New Music Research, (paper, press release).

A. Honingh and R. Bod, 2010. Pitch class set categories as analysis tools for degrees of tonality. Proceedings ISMIR 2010.

A. Honingh and R. Bod, 2006. Convexity and the Well-formedness of Musical Objects. Journal of New Music Research, 34(3), 293-303.

R. Bod, 2002. A Unified Model of Structural Organization in Language and Music. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 17(2002): 289-308.

R. Bod, 2002. Memory-Based Models of Melodic Analysis: Challenging the Gestalt Principles. Journal of New Music Research, 31(1): 27-37.

Computational Reasoning

R. Gayler, S. Levy and R. Bod, 2010. Explanatory Aspirations and the Scandal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Proceedings BICA 2010, Washington D.C.

R. Bod, 2007. Getting Rid of Derivational Redundancy or How to Solve Kuhn's Problem. Minds and Machines, 17(1), 47-66.

R. Bod, 2006. Towards a General Model of Applying Science. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 20(1), 5-25. Symposium on Applying Science.

Computational Aesthetics

R. Bod and R. Scha, 1993. Deriving Optimal Network Diagrams by means of Structural Information Theory. In R. Bod et al. (eds.), HCI from a Discourse Perspective, HCRC Edinburgh, 48-60.

R. Scha and R. Bod, 1993. Computational Aesthetics. Informatie en Informatiebeleid, 11(1), 54-63.

History of the Humanities

R. Bod, 2010. De Vergeten Wetenschappen: Een Geschiedenis van de Humaniora (“The Forgotten Sciences: A History of the Humanities”), Prometheus, 2010.

R. Bod, J. Maat and T. Weststeijn, 2010. The Making of the Humanities – Vol.I: The Humanities in Early Modern Europe, AUP, 2010.

Conference on The Making of the Humanities II, 21-23 October 2010, Amsterdam

Conference on The Making of the Humanities, 23-25 October 2008, Amsterdam.

Symposium on Erudition and Empiricism: The Intertwining of the Humanities and the Sciences in Early Modern Europe, 4-6 July 2008, Oxford.