Antal Van Den Bosch
Biographic Data
| ID | 825131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antal Van Den Bosch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antal Van Den |
| FAMILY NAME | Bosch |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DEN BOSCH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2493-656X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The implicit guides to convincingness intuitions
How intuitively convincing readers find a text appears to be influenced by the valence and intensity of the emotions it elicits, and whether it feels easy to read. However, how these factors simultaneously contribute to convincingness is unclear. Therefore, we examined the simultaneous contributions of valence, arousal, and processing fluency to texts’ perceived convincingness (how convincing readers find texts) and actual convincingness (the ext…
Who Are the Online Commenters? A Large-Scale Representative Survey to Explore the Identity and Motivation of Online News Commenters in Comparison to Non-Commenters
To better understand the demographic composition of people participating in commenting sections beneath online news articles, we conducted a large-scale survey ( n = 5,490) with a panel that is representative of the Dutch population – the LISS panel. We combined these data with demographic background variables and previously collected data on political views and values, to provide a detailed description of the identity of online news commenters i…
Understanding Narratives of Uncertainty in Fertility Intentions of Dutch Women
Uncertainty in fertility intentions is a major obstacle to understanding contemporary trends in fertility decision-making and its outcomes. Quantifying this uncertainty by structural factors such as income, ethnicity, and housing conditions is recognized as insufficient. A recently proposed framework on subjective narratives has opened up a new way to gauge factors behind fertility decision-making and uncertainty. Through surveys, such narratives…
Observe, inspect, modify
In a world increasingly shaped by generative AI systems like ChatGPT, the absence of benchmarks to examine the efficacy of oversight mechanisms is a problem for research and policy. What are the structural conditions for governing generative AI systems? To answer this question, it is crucial to situate generative AI systems as regulatory objects: material items that can be governed. On this conceptual basis, we introduce three high-level conditio…
Speech register influences listeners’ word expectations
We utilized the N400 effect to investigate the influence of speech register on predictive language processing. Participants listened to long stretches (4 - 15 min) of naturalistic speech from different registers (dialogues, news broadcasts, and read-aloud books), totalling approximately 50,000 words, while the EEG signal was recorded. We estimated the surprisal of words in the speech materials with the aid of a statistical language model in such …
Generating hypotheses for alternations at low and intermediate levels of schematicity. The use of Memory-based Learning
According to usage-based linguistics, language variation addresses a functional need of the language user. That functional need may be dependent on the lexical realization of the varying constructions. For instance, while it may be useful to have an argument structure alternation express a particular semantic distinction for particular verbs or themes, that same distinction may be less relevant for other verbs or themes. As such, it has been argu…
Modeling the auxiliary phrase asymmetry in code-switched Spanish–English
Spanish–English bilinguals rarely code-switch in the perfect structure between the Spanish auxiliary haber (“to have”) and the participle (e.g., “ Ella ha voted”; “She has voted”). However, they are somewhat likely to switch in the progressive structure between the Spanish auxiliary estar (“to be”) and the participle (“ Ella está voting”; “She is voting”). This phenomenon is known as the “auxiliary phrase asymmetry”. One hypothesis as to why this…
Modeling Conflict
This essay responds to a lack of scholarly attention for conflict as a narrative mechanism since the formalist models of Vladimir Propp and Algirdas Julien Greimas. Building on recent developments within cultural analytics, the essay argues for a new understanding of narrative conflict by integrating classic narratological models with data-driven, statistical methods. It does so by (a) proposing two computational models of conflict based on theor…
Vissen naar variatie
Belgian Dutch (BD) and Netherlandic Dutch (ND) are known to exhibit phonetic and lexical differences, but national variation in the syntax of Dutch has often been claimed to be quasi non-existent. This view is rooted in the fact that both laypersons and researchers are oblivious to national divergences in the grammar of Dutch (unless they are categorical and/or heavily mediatized), but also in the undisputed belief that BD and ND are different su…
The Canon of Dutch Literature According to Google
Literary history is no longer written in books alone. As literary reception thrivesin blogs, Wikipedia entries, Amazon reviews, and Goodreads profiles, the Webhas become a key platform for the exchange of information on literature
Do speech registers differ in the predictability of words
Previous research has demonstrated that language use can vary depending on the context of situation. The present paper extends this finding by comparing word predictability differences between 14 speech registers ranging from highly informal conversations to read-aloud books. We trained 14 statistical language models to compute register-specific word predictability and trained a register classifier on the perplexity score vector of the language m…
A quantitative-theoretical analysis of syntactic microvariation
A quantitative-theoretical analysis of syntactic microvariation
This article is a case study in how quantitative-statistical and formal-theoretical (generative) approaches to language variation can be combined. We provide a quantitative analysis of word-order variation in verb clusters in 185 dialects of Dutch and map the results of that analysis against linguistic parameters extracted from the theoretical literature on verb clusters. Based on this novel methodology, we argue that verb cluster ordering in Dut…
BasiScript
This short paper introduces BasiScript, a 9-million-word corpus of contemporary Dutch texts written by primary school children. The data were collected over three years with 17,216 children contributing texts throughout this period. Each word token in the corpus is annotated with the correct orthographical form, the associated lemma and the part of speech. The most frequent polysemous words have been annotated for word meaning, while all words in…
Momfer
More than fifty years after the first edition of Thompson's seminal Motif-Indexof Folk Literature, we present an online search engine tailored to fully disclose the index digitally. This search engine, called MOMFER, greatly enhances the searchability of the Motif-Index and provides exciting new ways to explore the collection. This is enabled by our use of modern techniques from both natural language processing and information retrieval. The key …
Implicit Schemata and Categories in Memory-based Language Processing
Memory-based language processing (MBLP) is an approach to language processing based on exemplar storage during learning and analogical reasoning during processing. From a cognitive perspective, the approach is attractive as a model for human language processing because it does not make any assumptions about the way abstractions are shaped, nor any a priori distinction between regular and exceptional exemplars, allowing it to explain fluidity of l…
Digital Discoveries in Museums, Libraries, and Archives
A harmonious combination? The question that underlies this special issue is: can the arts, humanities, and sciences (in the Anglo-American sense) exist in harmony? Their perspectives on nature and culture are so different that it is not obvious that they would converge if brought together, and that the result would be harmonious. Yet, we see computer science approaching the arts and humanities and the other way around. To understand the mutual at…
Weaving a New Fabric of Natural History
Natural history offers an interestingly rich mix of traditional and modern ways of organizing data, information, and knowledge. The Linnaean tradition still defines the basis of how taxonomic knowledge of organisms is organized, while at the same time complementary perspectives on databases and ontologies are developed and implemented, to provide enhanced access to natural history collection data to researchers in taxonomy and biodiversity. Some …
Spelling space
The Dutch spelling system, like other European spelling systems, represents a certain balance between preserving the spelling of morphemes (the morphological principle) and obeying letter-to-sound regularities (the phonological principle). We present experimental results with artificial learners that show a competition effect between the two principles: adhering more to one principle leads to more violations of the other. The artificial learners,…
Observe, inspect, modify
In a world increasingly shaped by generative AI systems like ChatGPT, the absence of benchmarks to examine the efficacy of oversight mechanisms is a problem for research and policy. What are the structural conditions for governing generative AI systems? To answer this question, it is crucial to situate generative AI systems as regulatory objects: material items that can be governed. On this conceptual basis, we introduce three high-level conditio…
A quantitative-theoretical analysis of syntactic microvariation
This article is a case study in how quantitative-statistical and formal-theoretical (generative) approaches to language variation can be combined. We provide a quantitative analysis of word-order variation in verb clusters in 185 dialects of Dutch and map the results of that analysis against linguistic parameters extracted from the theoretical literature on verb clusters. Based on this novel methodology, we argue that verb cluster ordering in Dut…
Momfer
More than fifty years after the first edition of Thompson's seminal Motif-Indexof Folk Literature, we present an online search engine tailored to fully disclose the index digitally. This search engine, called MOMFER, greatly enhances the searchability of the Motif-Index and provides exciting new ways to explore the collection. This is enabled by our use of modern techniques from both natural language processing and information retrieval. The key …
Implicit Schemata and Categories in Memory-based Language Processing
Memory-based language processing (MBLP) is an approach to language processing based on exemplar storage during learning and analogical reasoning during processing. From a cognitive perspective, the approach is attractive as a model for human language processing because it does not make any assumptions about the way abstractions are shaped, nor any a priori distinction between regular and exceptional exemplars, allowing it to explain fluidity of l…
Understanding Narratives of Uncertainty in Fertility Intentions of Dutch Women
Uncertainty in fertility intentions is a major obstacle to understanding contemporary trends in fertility decision-making and its outcomes. Quantifying this uncertainty by structural factors such as income, ethnicity, and housing conditions is recognized as insufficient. A recently proposed framework on subjective narratives has opened up a new way to gauge factors behind fertility decision-making and uncertainty. Through surveys, such narratives…
Do speech registers differ in the predictability of words
Previous research has demonstrated that language use can vary depending on the context of situation. The present paper extends this finding by comparing word predictability differences between 14 speech registers ranging from highly informal conversations to read-aloud books. We trained 14 statistical language models to compute register-specific word predictability and trained a register classifier on the perplexity score vector of the language m…
Digital Discoveries in Museums, Libraries, and Archives
A harmonious combination? The question that underlies this special issue is: can the arts, humanities, and sciences (in the Anglo-American sense) exist in harmony? Their perspectives on nature and culture are so different that it is not obvious that they would converge if brought together, and that the result would be harmonious. Yet, we see computer science approaching the arts and humanities and the other way around. To understand the mutual at…
Spelling space
The Dutch spelling system, like other European spelling systems, represents a certain balance between preserving the spelling of morphemes (the morphological principle) and obeying letter-to-sound regularities (the phonological principle). We present experimental results with artificial learners that show a competition effect between the two principles: adhering more to one principle leads to more violations of the other. The artificial learners,…
Digital Discoveries in Museums, Libraries, and Archives
A harmonious combination? The question that underlies this special issue is: can the arts, humanities, and sciences (in the Anglo-American sense) exist in harmony? Their perspectives on nature and culture are so different that it is not obvious that they would converge if brought together, and that the result would be harmonious. Yet, we see computer science approaching the arts and humanities and the other way around. To understand the mutual at…
Weaving a New Fabric of Natural History
Natural history offers an interestingly rich mix of traditional and modern ways of organizing data, information, and knowledge. The Linnaean tradition still defines the basis of how taxonomic knowledge of organisms is organized, while at the same time complementary perspectives on databases and ontologies are developed and implemented, to provide enhanced access to natural history collection data to researchers in taxonomy and biodiversity. Some …
Implicit Schemata and Categories in Memory-based Language Processing
Memory-based language processing (MBLP) is an approach to language processing based on exemplar storage during learning and analogical reasoning during processing. From a cognitive perspective, the approach is attractive as a model for human language processing because it does not make any assumptions about the way abstractions are shaped, nor any a priori distinction between regular and exceptional exemplars, allowing it to explain fluidity of l…
Momfer
More than fifty years after the first edition of Thompson's seminal Motif-Indexof Folk Literature, we present an online search engine tailored to fully disclose the index digitally. This search engine, called MOMFER, greatly enhances the searchability of the Motif-Index and provides exciting new ways to explore the collection. This is enabled by our use of modern techniques from both natural language processing and information retrieval. The key …
BasiScript
This short paper introduces BasiScript, a 9-million-word corpus of contemporary Dutch texts written by primary school children. The data were collected over three years with 17,216 children contributing texts throughout this period. Each word token in the corpus is annotated with the correct orthographical form, the associated lemma and the part of speech. The most frequent polysemous words have been annotated for word meaning, while all words in…
The Canon of Dutch Literature According to Google
Literary history is no longer written in books alone. As literary reception thrivesin blogs, Wikipedia entries, Amazon reviews, and Goodreads profiles, the Webhas become a key platform for the exchange of information on literature
Do speech registers differ in the predictability of words
Previous research has demonstrated that language use can vary depending on the context of situation. The present paper extends this finding by comparing word predictability differences between 14 speech registers ranging from highly informal conversations to read-aloud books. We trained 14 statistical language models to compute register-specific word predictability and trained a register classifier on the perplexity score vector of the language m…
A quantitative-theoretical analysis of syntactic microvariation
A quantitative-theoretical analysis of syntactic microvariation
This article is a case study in how quantitative-statistical and formal-theoretical (generative) approaches to language variation can be combined. We provide a quantitative analysis of word-order variation in verb clusters in 185 dialects of Dutch and map the results of that analysis against linguistic parameters extracted from the theoretical literature on verb clusters. Based on this novel methodology, we argue that verb cluster ordering in Dut…
Vissen naar variatie
Belgian Dutch (BD) and Netherlandic Dutch (ND) are known to exhibit phonetic and lexical differences, but national variation in the syntax of Dutch has often been claimed to be quasi non-existent. This view is rooted in the fact that both laypersons and researchers are oblivious to national divergences in the grammar of Dutch (unless they are categorical and/or heavily mediatized), but also in the undisputed belief that BD and ND are different su…
Modeling the auxiliary phrase asymmetry in code-switched Spanish–English
Spanish–English bilinguals rarely code-switch in the perfect structure between the Spanish auxiliary haber (“to have”) and the participle (e.g., “ Ella ha voted”; “She has voted”). However, they are somewhat likely to switch in the progressive structure between the Spanish auxiliary estar (“to be”) and the participle (“ Ella está voting”; “She is voting”). This phenomenon is known as the “auxiliary phrase asymmetry”. One hypothesis as to why this…
Modeling Conflict
This essay responds to a lack of scholarly attention for conflict as a narrative mechanism since the formalist models of Vladimir Propp and Algirdas Julien Greimas. Building on recent developments within cultural analytics, the essay argues for a new understanding of narrative conflict by integrating classic narratological models with data-driven, statistical methods. It does so by (a) proposing two computational models of conflict based on theor…
Speech register influences listeners’ word expectations
We utilized the N400 effect to investigate the influence of speech register on predictive language processing. Participants listened to long stretches (4 - 15 min) of naturalistic speech from different registers (dialogues, news broadcasts, and read-aloud books), totalling approximately 50,000 words, while the EEG signal was recorded. We estimated the surprisal of words in the speech materials with the aid of a statistical language model in such …
Generating hypotheses for alternations at low and intermediate levels of schematicity. The use of Memory-based Learning
According to usage-based linguistics, language variation addresses a functional need of the language user. That functional need may be dependent on the lexical realization of the varying constructions. For instance, while it may be useful to have an argument structure alternation express a particular semantic distinction for particular verbs or themes, that same distinction may be less relevant for other verbs or themes. As such, it has been argu…
Observe, inspect, modify
In a world increasingly shaped by generative AI systems like ChatGPT, the absence of benchmarks to examine the efficacy of oversight mechanisms is a problem for research and policy. What are the structural conditions for governing generative AI systems? To answer this question, it is crucial to situate generative AI systems as regulatory objects: material items that can be governed. On this conceptual basis, we introduce three high-level conditio…
Understanding Narratives of Uncertainty in Fertility Intentions of Dutch Women
Uncertainty in fertility intentions is a major obstacle to understanding contemporary trends in fertility decision-making and its outcomes. Quantifying this uncertainty by structural factors such as income, ethnicity, and housing conditions is recognized as insufficient. A recently proposed framework on subjective narratives has opened up a new way to gauge factors behind fertility decision-making and uncertainty. Through surveys, such narratives…
Who Are the Online Commenters? A Large-Scale Representative Survey to Explore the Identity and Motivation of Online News Commenters in Comparison to Non-Commenters
To better understand the demographic composition of people participating in commenting sections beneath online news articles, we conducted a large-scale survey ( n = 5,490) with a panel that is representative of the Dutch population – the LISS panel. We combined these data with demographic background variables and previously collected data on political views and values, to provide a detailed description of the identity of online news commenters i…
The implicit guides to convincingness intuitions
How intuitively convincing readers find a text appears to be influenced by the valence and intensity of the emotions it elicits, and whether it feels easy to read. However, how these factors simultaneously contribute to convincingness is unclear. Therefore, we examined the simultaneous contributions of valence, arousal, and processing fluency to texts’ perceived convincingness (how convincing readers find texts) and actual convincingness (the ext…
Computer Science (16 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Artificial Intelligence (9 works) · Natural language processing (9 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Topic Modeling (4 works)