Luuk Suurmeijer

[ˈlyk ˈsyːɹmɛjəɹ] | he/him

NLP Engineer interested in computational semantics, cognitive modelling, and language evolution who is a firm believer the bitter lesson will stop holding for NLP. Professionally I also do a lot of software engineering, and I am learning every day! Climbs, is a music nerd, and writes poetry sometimes.

Publications

Suurmeijer, L., Venhuizen, N.J., Brouwer, H. (in prep). Compositionality in Distributional Formal Semantics. [email]
Suurmeijer, L., Parafita Couto, M., Gullberg, M. (2020). Structural and Extralinguistic Aspects of Code-Switching: Evidence From Papiamentu-Dutch Auditory Sentence Matching. Frontiers in Psychology

Talks

Suurmeijer, L. Build your own Semantle-clone: Introduction to Distributional Semantics for Linguistis. 72nd Student Conference on Linguistics (StuTS)
Suurmeijer, L., H. Filip, N.J. Venhuizen. Probabilities in language and the world: Modeling syllogistic reasoning. Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics, European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2022
Suurmeijer, L. Compositionality in Distributional Formal Semantics. Meaning in Language Colloquium, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf

Other

Master thesis

Suurmeijer, L. (2021). Compositionality in Distributional Formal Semantics. Universität des Saarlandes. [pdf]

Bachelor thesis

Suurmeijer, L. (2018). R-coloring interactions in Element Theory. Universiteit Leiden. [pdf]

Recently & Upcoming

01.07.2024 I will be attending Highlights in Language Science 2024 in Nijmegen!
29.03.2024 I went climbing in nature for the first time. Super scary, but so cool.
23.11.2023 Attended InDeep: Explaining Foundation Models
15.09.2023 Attended Transformers At Work 2023