Institute of Language Logic and Computation
The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) is a research institute of the University of Amsterdam in Amsterdam in which researchers from the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities collaborate.[1]
History
1986: Began life as the Instituut voor Taal, Logica en Informatie (ITLI; Institute for Language, Logic and Information). An informal association of staff from mathematics, computer science, and computational linguistics.
1991: officially established as a university research institute.
1991-1996: programming research group of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science was also part of the institute
1996: The Applied Logic Lab (Faculty of Social Sciences) joined ILLC, as did other groups in computer science and cognitive science.
2004: The Language and Inference Technology group left ILLC.
Research
Research is organised into three main themes.[2]
- Logic and Language: a philosophical programme of research, involving empirical linguistics and cognitive science
- Language and Computation: computational models of how people process information, e.g., natural language
- Logic and Computation: the use of logic to better understand processes and behaviours involving computation
References
- ^ See About the ILLC
- ^ See the research web page