Francesca Padovani

I'm back from Brazil!⁣ ⁣ Pictures from my first 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗦𝗰𝗶 conference, held in late July in Rio de Janeiro.⁣ ⁣

Unfortunately, I'm left feeling quite disappointed and disheartened by the organization of the conference, for a number of reasons related to the venue and what I saw as its failure to be socially inclusive.

I'm back from Brazil!⁣ ⁣ Pictures from my first 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗦𝗰𝗶 conference, held in late July in Rio de Janeiro.⁣ ⁣

I had the opportunity to present the second main paper of my thesis, "𝘐𝘴 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥-𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘖𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨? 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘣 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘤𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯."

Last week, the 46th edition of 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗗𝗔𝗚 took place, the long-standing linguistics conference organized by the Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG) at the @rug.nl. This year, I had the pleasure of being part of the organizing committee!

We're looking for enthusiastic native-speaker annotators who would like to get their hands dirty with Universal Dependencies relations and the syntactic structures typical of developmental and conversational language data. If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, feel free to reach out!

Last week, the 46th edition of 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗗𝗔𝗚 took place, the long-standing linguistics conference organized by the Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG) at the @rug.nl. This year, I had the pleasure of being part of the organizing committee!

I also had the chance to present our 𝗖𝗔𝗜𝗧 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗶𝘁 🪁 (arxiv.org/abs/2605.19718) to the conference participants for the first time, and to share some of the work we're currently doing to extend Universal Dependencies annotations to the Dutch portion of CHILDES.

Last week, the 46th edition of 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗗𝗔𝗚 took place, the long-standing linguistics conference organized by the Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG) at the @rug.nl. This year, I had the pleasure of being part of the organizing committee!

I’m very happy to share that my latest paper on the 𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, tested on models trained under CDL data vs ADL data , has been accepted for an 𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 at the upcoming edition of 𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐒𝐜𝐢, which will take place at the end of July in Rio de Janeiro.💃

Infinite thanks to @arianna-bis.bsky.social , @jumelet.bsky.social and @yevgenm.bsky.social Best supervisors out there!!😍

Interested in analyzing 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱-𝗔𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 with computational tools? Then the 𝗖𝗔𝗜𝗧 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗶𝘁 🪁 (pronounced [kaIt]) might be just what you’re looking for! It includes a brand-new i𝗻-𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗿, 𝗣𝗢𝗦 𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿, and 𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿.

We also demonstrate the practical utility of CAIT through a case study :) This show how valuable this tool is for empirical studies of language development that rely on large-scale syntactic analysis. Check out the pre-print at: arxiv.org/abs/2605.19718

Interested in analyzing 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱-𝗔𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 with computational tools? Then the 𝗖𝗔𝗜𝗧 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗶𝘁 🪁 (pronounced [kaIt]) might be just what you’re looking for! It includes a brand-new i𝗻-𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗿, 𝗣𝗢𝗦 𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿, and 𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿.

I’m very happy to share that my latest paper on the 𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, tested on models trained under CDL data vs ADL data , has been accepted for an 𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 at the upcoming edition of 𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐒𝐜𝐢, which will take place at the end of July in Rio de Janeiro.💃

See you in Brazil! I’m really looking forward to discussing the results and possible extensions of this work with all of you.🤗

📈Join us for the CDH Guest Lecture - Enrico Daga: Humanities Knowledge Graphs: opportunities and challenges with gen-AI 📅Date: March 4th, 2026 ⏰Time: 11:00-12:30 🏫Location: Turft06 (Turftorenstraat, room 06)

💬Description: The talk explores the intersection of semantic technologies and historical research within the context of initiatives like the Listening Experience Database (LED) (lnkd.in/efCzWwgQ)

We are thrilled to officially announce the dates of the 46th edition of 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗗𝗔𝗚! Save the date for 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟭–𝟭𝟮 💫⁣

⁣ This year I’m part of the organizing team, and I’m incredibly excited to work on and plan this historic event for the linguistics community in Groningen and across Northern Europe.⁣

Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a fantastic friend and researcher, @mdhk.net , who came to visit us in Groningen for a couple of days from Amsterdam! 🎉

Then at our weekly @gronlp.bsky.social Reading Group she talked about “𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡?”, which is also part of an ongoing research project. 📊

Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a fantastic friend and researcher, @mdhk.net , who came to visit us in Groningen for a couple of days from Amsterdam! 🎉