Langedijk and Dankers presented in their paper titled 'Generalising to German Plural Noun Classes, from the persepective of a Recurrent Neural Network' a meticulous analysis of how neural networks acquire the complex German plural system. This is a task historically related to broader questions about generalisation in language and the viability of neural networks as cognitive models of language. They used a variety of different techniques, some of which originally proposed at the University of Amsterdam, such as behavioural analysis, diagnostic classification, representational analysis and causal intervention.

Collaboration
The project was a collaboration with the University of Edinburgh and Facebook AI Research, and was led by UvA alumnus and former employee Dieuwke Hupkes.