Arjan van Dalfsen MA

PhD Candidate
Dutch
Comparative Literature
j.a.vandalfsen@uu.nl

I use AI to investigate what the Dutch historically thought about plants and animals.

The questions I ask range from methodological questions such as:

  • How can we use transformer models to detect attitudes in text?
  • Can we use Large Language Models to train other models?

 

To more practical questions:

  • What attitudes towards plants and animals existed in the period 1500-2000?
  • Is biodiversity in texts decreasing?
  • When did the rabbit change from food to pet?