Heming Strømholt Bremnes

About

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the SCRIBE-project, where I am primarily involved in workpackages 2, on handling dialectal variation, and 3, on evaluation metrics. Additionally, I investigate the algorithms we use to solve linguistic tasks, why some meanings are universal across languages, and the relationship between language and mathematical cognition.

Before coming to IES, I was a doctoral research fellow in linguistics at the Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab (LALP) at the Department of Language and Literature. The project was also affiliated with the Cognitive Semantics and Quantities project funded by the European Research Council and based out of the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. In my PhD (2023), I studied whether mathematically demonstrable differences in computational complexity was reflected in detectable changes in brain activity during verification of sentences containing quantifiers ('all', 'most', etc.).

Furthermore, I have an MA (2013) in Scandinavian linguistics from NTNU and an MSc (2015) in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh. Moreover, I have studied Scandinavian language at Uppsala University and philosophy at the University of Oslo.

Research interests

Large language models
Artificial intelligence
Cognitive neuroscience
Neurolinguistics
Formal semantics
Philosophy of (cognitive) science
Metaphysics
Philosophy of language

Media

I can occasionally be heard in the panel of NRK P2's Språksnakk, where I answer listener questions about (the Norwegian) language. You can find the episodes where I contribute here (Norwegian only).

Publications

Report

Baggio, Giosuè; Szymanik, Jakub; Bremnes, Heming Strømholt. (2023) Quantifiers and Complexity: The distinct neural signatures of verification algorithms for natural language quantifiers. Doctoral theses at NTNU (204)
Doctoral dissertation

Outreach

2024

Academic lecture

Parsons, Phoebe Luree Turner; Bremnes, Heming Strømholt; Kvale, Knut; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Salvi, Giampiero. (2024) Norwegian dialect identification: is prosody enough?. Fonetik , Stockholm 2024-06-03 - 2024-06-05
Programme participation

Sjo, Klara; Eide, Kristin Melum; Bremnes, Heming Strømholt. (2024) Holdt på å si - daier, olabukser og sjulliser. NRK NRK [Radio] 2024-02-16
Programme participation

Aa, Leiv Inge; Bremnes, Heming Strømholt; Hårstad, Stian. (2024) Nære på nyanseforskjeller og leven. Språksnakk NRK Radio Språksnakk NRK Radio [Radio] 2024-03-01
Programme participation

Bremnes, Heming Strømholt; Husby, Olaf Anders; Opsahl, Toril; Zahl, Hilde. (2024) Feil eller galt, rutte og alkoholist. Språksnakk, NRK P2 Språksnakk, NRK P2 [Radio] 2024-04-26

2023

Programme participation

Eide, Kristin Melum; Bremnes, Heming Strømholt; Solheim, Randi; Sonstad, Klaus. (2023) Vaps, luta lei og 577 milliarder: Språksnakk. NRK NRK [Radio] 2023-04-21

2021

Academic lecture

Bremnes, Heming Strømholt. (2021) Algorithms of sentence processing. Universitetet i Bergen NoSLiP 2021 , Digitalt 2021-03-11 - 2021-03-12
Academic lecture

Bremnes, Heming Strømholt. (2021) (Quantity) Superlatives and their Interaction with Double Definiteness: A symmetric semantics for 'most' and 'fewest'. Institutt for språk og litteratur Skogselskapet , NTNU 2021-02-24 -

2019

Academic lecture

Bremnes, Heming Strømholt. (2019) The impact of complexity on the procedural semantics of quantifiers: An EEG study. Cognitive Semantics and Quantities Lab Meeting , Amsterdam 2019-12-05 -
Academic lecture

Bremnes, Heming Strømholt. (2019) En norsk kvantortypologi. NTNU MONS 18 - Møte om norsk språk , Trondheim 2019-11-27 - 2019-11-29

Språkvelger

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