Hello! We're the NLP and Society lab, part of the Natural Language Processing group at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University (NL). We're interested in:
- Analyzing and modeling the relation between language and society using computational methods (computational sociolinguistics).
- The development of NLP methods to study social phenomena (NLP and computational social science). We focus on the analysis of online data and measurement in the social sciences.
- The impact of data diversity on NLP (ERC DataDivers project).
People
PhD theses
- Melody Sepahpour-Fard "Performing, Transforming, and Amplifying Identity Online: Computational Insights into the Dynamic Interplay between Language, Audience, and Events" (2025)
- Anna Wegmann "Say the Same but Differently: Computational Approaches to Stylistic Variation and Paraphrasing" (2025)
- Qixiang Fang "Leveraging Measurement Theory for Natural Language Processing Research" (2024)
Visitors
Hongyu Chen (2026), Sanne Hoeken (2025), Gianluca Sperduti (2023)Past members
Yupei Du (PhD; now postdoc at Saarland University); Melody Sepahpour-Fard (PhD at the University of Limerick); Qixiang Fang (PhD; now postdoc at Utrecht University) Shane Kaszefski Yaschuk (PhD student)Software
See our GitHub repository! 
Funded projects
ERC Stg DataDivers: Diving into Data Diversity for Fair and Robust NLP" (2025-2029), NWO Veni (2020-2024), NWO digital society 'Digitale samenleving - de geïnformeerde burger' (2020-2024),