Dr. Emmanuel Keuleers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University (The Netherlands).

His research lies at the intersection of linguistics, artificial intelligence, and psychology. His work frequently explores how novel research methods can innovate experimental and applied language research. He has played an important role in the development of methods for collecting large amounts of behavioural measures of language data, such as megastudies and massive online experiments. These studies yielded valuable insights into how age, education, and multilingualism affect vocabulary acquisition and clarified our understanding of the effects of word frequency and prevalence on language processing.

 

Dr. Keuleers’s work approaches language from the perspective that it is both a core human cognitive ability and a complex cognitive technology.  Some of his interests in this area are how scripts shape semantic representations, how network dynamics influence language change, and the effect of artificial language users on individual and group language development. In recent work, he investigates the extent to which AI research methods can be used to innovate language research, but also how these methods pose risks to reliability, validity, and explainability.