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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] Academic disciplines involved include linguistics, computer science, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence.


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]

  1. Logic and Language: a philosophical programme of research, involving empirical linguistics and cognitive science
  2. Language and Computation: computational models of how people process information, e.g., natural language
  3. Logic and Computation: the use of logic to better understand processes and behaviours involving computation


References

  1. ^ See About the ILLC
  2. ^ See the research web page


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