Marianne de Heer Kloots
mdhk.net
Marianne de Heer Kloots
@mdhk.net
Linguist in AI & CogSci 🧠👩‍💻🤖 PhD student @ ILLC, University of Amsterdam

🌐 https://mdhk.net/
🐘 https://scholar.social/@mdhk
🐦 https://twitter.com/mariannedhk
Today we are time-travelling with @stefanfrank.bsky.social 😎
December 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This is in response to the recent target article by @futrell.bsky.social & @kmahowald.bsky.social, a wonderful read! Thanks to the authors for writing such a clear and inspiring piece to start this discussion. doi.org/10.1017/S014...
December 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Thanks to all co-authors in the Dutch SSL training team @hmohebbi.bsky.social @cpouw.bsky.social @gaofeishen.com @wzuidema.bsky.social + Martijn Bentum

And to @itcooperativesurf.bsky.social (EINF-8324) for granting me the resources that enabled this project 👩‍💻✨
August 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Check out the paper for more details:
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2506.00981

Or the model, dataset and code released alongside it:
🤗 huggingface.co/amsterdamNLP...
🗃️ zenodo.org/records/1554...
🔍 github.com/mdhk/SSL-NL-...

We hope these resources help further research on language-specificity in speech models!
August 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM