I am an AI and language researcher at the AI Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, with a PhD in agent-based simulations of language change (2024, supervisor: Bart de Boer).
My general interest is the use of computational methods to study language change, from a bottom-up (agent-based modelling, neural networks, crowdsourcing) and a top-down (phylogenetic reconstruction, computational historical linguistics) perspective. I studied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Utrecht and the University of Amsterdam. I previously worked as a systems developer at the Dutch Language Institute.
Contact
Mail: peter.dekker@ai.vub.ac.be
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News
- PhD thesis defended and available online
- Panel Agent-based Modelling in Historical Sociolinguistics within HiSoN 2023
- Blog Morphological simplification on Eos Wetenschap & Wtnschp.be
- Workshop “Language preservation and agent-based computer simulations”
- Contribution to Volkskrant (Dutch newspaper) article on evolution of myths