News Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences
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22 million euros for research new treatments for blindness
03rd April 2024Researchers aim to develop groundbreaking new treatments for blindness by repairing faulty genes, printing new retinas with a bio-printer, investigating how zebrafish manage to repair their own retinas, and by developing artificial intelligence to determine who is eligible for which treatment. The consortium led by Radboudumc has received 22 million euros for this purpose from the NWO Gravity program of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
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Saving sign language for the future by AI and machine learning
28th March 2024More than three hundred sign languages have been registered in the world. But despite the advances in Artificial Intelligence and language technology, only a small number of them have been supported by AI tools and language technology. In order to improve this, linguistics expert Mirella De Sisto, artificial intelligence specialist Dimitar Shterionov, and PhD student Lisa Lepp have been working on automatic recognition and translation of sign language through machine learning and computational linguistics approaches in the SignON project.
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Dutch labor market has a significant discrimination problem caused by the government
20th March 2024Sociologist and anthropologist Hans Siebers has conducted research on workplace discrimination for the past two decades. He examined access to jobs, promotion opportunities, and daily exclusion, considering both employers and applicants, with and without migration backgrounds. Ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21, he discusses widespread workplace discrimination.