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Maithe van Noort

@maithevannoort.bsky.social

πŸŽ“ graduate MSc Brain & Cognitive Sciences πŸ‘©πŸΌβ€πŸ’» language, AI, and cognitive (neuro)science

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I’m very grateful to have received the ELLIS unit Amsterdam travel grant, which enables me to attend the conference in-person. πŸ™πŸΌ

06.11.2025 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Mapping semantic networks to Dutch word embeddings as a diagnostic tool for cognitive decline Maithe van Noort, Michal Korenar, Jelke Bloem. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2025.

πŸ“Ž You can find the full paper here: aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...

06.11.2025 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Our results lay the foundation for improving diagnostic tools with computational methods. Additionally, our work confirms a link between the properties of semantic networks and cognitive health for the Dutch language.

06.11.2025 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We find that these semantic network-based metrics are more sensitive predictors of cognitive health than the mere tallying of words uttered during the verbal fluency task is.

06.11.2025 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The metrics we explored are based on semantic networks that are estimated via language models. This ensures that the meaning of the words is incorportard into the scoring of, in our case, the verbal fluency task.

06.11.2025 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ”Ž In short: we investigated whether cognitive decline can be assessed more granularly with metrics grounded in semantics.

06.11.2025 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’« I’m in China attending the EMNLP conference, where I'll present our paper with Jelke Bloem and Michal Korenar tomorrow!

If you’re attending #EMNLP2025, come find me during poster session 6! πŸ˜„πŸ‘‹πŸΌ

πŸ“… Friday November 7, 10:30-12:00 @Hall C3

06.11.2025 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This research was conducted as my first big research project in my masters, making it extra special that this will be my first (first-author) publication.

Camera-ready version coming soon!

23.08.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thrilled to share that our paper β€œMapping semantic networks to Dutch word embeddings as a diagnostic tool for cognitive decline” has been accepted for publication at #EMNLP2025 (Main) πŸŽ‰

A huge thanks to my co-authors (and supervisors): @michalkorenar.bsky.social and Jelke Bloem

23.08.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Poster Presentation

This work was a collaboration with Luke Korthals, Giacomo Aldegheri, @mdhk.net, and @mheilbron.bsky.social. Special thanks to Marianne and Micha for supervising me during this project.

Check out our extended abstract here: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=1...

23.08.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A little over a week ago, I presented my thesis work on compositional meaning in vision-language models and the brain at #CCN2025 in Amsterdam! 🧠

It showcases the first results of a larger project on visual and linguistic meaning

23.08.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Huge congrats to @maithevannoort.bsky.social on her very popular poster! πŸŽ‰ She is now also on bluesky (and looking for a PhD position πŸ‘€)

13.08.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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