How do human languages emerge and evolve?
How are they acquired and used to communicate?
And could machines learn language the way humans do?
HERMES programme
Discover the HERMES research programme and find out how machines can bootstrap their own languages that emerge and evolve to fit their tasks and environment.

News
- Towards a New Generation of Human-Inspired Language ModelsCan a computer learn a language the way a child does? A recent study published in the leading journal Computational Linguistics by professors Katrien Beuls… Read more: Towards a New Generation of Human-Inspired Language Models
- FNRS-FWO Funding for Hermes IThe first HERMES core project – appropriately named HERMES I – has been awarded 702,748 EUR from the F.R.S.-FNRS and FWO under the interregional WEAVE funding scheme.