2026

• Froma Lennard C., Kouwenhoven Tom, Boer Maaike H.T. de, Jonker Catholijn M., Duijn Max J. van. 2026. Seeking Information with RAG-Assistants: Does Model Size Matter in Human-AI Collaborations? Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications: HHAI 2026 441-458.
  
• Kouwenhoven Tom, Meer Michiel van der, Duijn Max J. van. 2026. Traces of Social Competence in Large Language Models. Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) 742-759.
  
• Farhana Effat, Zainab Maha, Wang Qiaosi, Mireshghallah Niloofar, Meulen Ramira van der, Duijn Max J. van. 2026. Theory of Mind and Application in Educational Context. Proceedings of the Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2026) 1-6.
  
• Wetten Fien van, Plaat Aske, Duijn Max J. van. 2026. Baba Is LLM: Reasoning in a Game with Dynamic Rules. Marcelloni F., Madani K., Stein N. van & Filipe J. (Eds.), Computational Intelligence: 17th International Joint Conference, IJCCI 2025, Marbella, Spain, October 22–24, 2025, Proceedings, Part I. Communications in Computer and Information Science no. 2827. Cham: Springer. 60-77.
  
• Haan Ian B. de, Putten Peter van der, Duijn Max J. van. 2026. Reasoning Promotes Robustness in Theory of Mind Tasks. ArXiV 2601.16853. [Preprint]
  
• Ng Yee Man, Dijk Bram van, Beynen Pieter, Boekesteijn Otto, Jansen Joris, Oortmerssen Gerard van, Duijn Max J. van, Spruit Marco. 2026. COACH meets QUORUM: A Framework and Pipeline for Aligning User, Expert and Developer Perspectives in LLM-generated Health Counselling. ArXiV 2603.08392. [Preprint]

2025

• Plaat Aske, Duijn Max J. van, Stein Niki van, Preuss Mike, Putten Peter van der, Batenburg K. Joost. 2025. Agentic Large Language Models, a Survey. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 84.
  
• Paraskeva Andreas, Duijn Max J. van, Rijke Maarten de, Verberne Suzan, Rijn Jan N. van. 2025. Data Efficient Pre-training for Language Models: An Empirical Study of Compute Efficiency and Linguistic Competence. ICLR 2025 Workshop on Navigating and Addressing Data Problems for Foundation Models.
  
• Meulen Ramira van der, Verbrugge Rineke, Duijn Max van. 2025. Towards Properly Implementing Theory of Mind in Artificial Intelligence: An Account of Four Frequent Misconceptions. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Advancing Artificial Intelligence through Theory of Mind (ToM4AI), AAAI, Philadelphia 3-4 March. 19-25. [Spotlight paper] [Longer version: Preprint]
  
• Meulen Ramira van der, Verbrugge Rineke, Duijn Max van. 2025. Finding Common Ground: Comparing Two Computational Models of Social Intelligence. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Advancing Artificial Intelligence through Theory of Mind (ToM4AI), AAAI, Philadelphia 3-4 March. 64-67.
  
• Duijn Max J. van. 2025. Introduction to Part 3: Narrative Meaning-Making. In Luuk Huitink, Vlad Glaveanu, and Ineke Sluiter (Eds.), Social Psychology and the Ancient World: 173-187. Leiden: Brill.

2024

• Meulen Ramira van der, Verbrugge Rineke, Duijn Max van. 2024. Common Ground Provides a Mental Shortcut in Agent-Agent Interaction. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications 386: Hybrid Human AI Systems for the Social Good 281-290.
  
• Dijk B.M.A. van, Duijn M.J. van, Kloostra L., Spruit M.R. & Beekhuizen B. 2024. Using a language model to unravel semantic development in children’s use of a Dutch perception verb. In Zock M., Chersoni E., Hsu Y.Y. & De Deyne S. (Eds.), Proceedings of the LREC-COLING: 98–106.

2023

• Dijk B.M.A. van, Duijn M.J. van, Verberne S. & Spruit M. 2023. ChiSCor: a corpus of freely-told fantasy stories by Dutch children for computational linguistics and cognitive science. Jiang J., Reitter D. & Deng S. (red.), Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL). 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) 6 december 2023 – 7 december 2023. Singapore: Association for Computational Linguistics. 352–363. [Best paper award]
  
• Dijk B.M.A. van, Kouwenhoven T., Spruit M. & Duijn M.J. van. 2023. Large language models: the need for nuance in current debates and a pragmatic perspective on understanding. Bouamor H., Pino J. & Bali K. (red.), Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 6 december 2023 – 10 december 2023. Singapore: Association for Computational Linguistics. 12641–12654.
  
• Duijn M.J. van, Dijk B.M.A. van, Kouwenhoven T., Valk W. de, Spruit M. & Putten P.W.H. van der. 2023. Theory of mind in large language models: examining performance of 11 state-of-the-art models vs. children aged 7-10 on advanced tests. Jiang J., Reitter D. & Deng S. (red.), Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL). 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) 6 december 2023 – 7 december 2023. Singapore: Association for Computational Linguistics. 389–402.
  
• Dijk B.M.A. van, Spruit M.R. & Duijn M.J. van. 2023. Theory of mind in freely-told children’s narratives: a classification approach. Rogers A., Boyd-Graber J. & Okazaki N. (red.), Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics 9 juli 2023 – 13 juli 2023. Toronto: Association for Computational Linguistics. 12979-12993.

2022

• Duijn M.J. van, Dijk B.M.A. van & Spruit M.R. 2022. Looking from the inside: how children render character’s perspectives in freely told fantasy stories. Clark E., Brahman F. & Iyyer M. (red.), ACL Proceedings of the 4th workshop of narrative understanding (WNU2022). Seattle 66-76.
  
• Visser M., Duijn M.J. van, Tong S. & Lamers M.H. 2022. Love language: dating app biographies as indicator for mate choice criteria. European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association (EHBEA) Annual Conference, Leipzig. 19-22 april.

2020

• Towns R.J., Gómez-Maureira M.A., Sommer K., Duijn M.J. van & Verhoef T. 2020. The evolution of spatial devices in gestural storytelling. Ravignani A., Barbieri C., Jadoul Y., Lattenkamp E., Martins M., Flaherty M., Mudd K., Little H. & Verhoef T. (red.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference (Evolang13). 13th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EvoLang13) 14 april 2020 – 17 april 2020. Nijmegen, The Netherlands: The Evolution of Language Conferences. 454-456.

2019

• Gómez Maureira M.A., Kniestedt I., Duijn M.J. van, Rieffe C. & Plaat A. 2019. Shinobi Valley: Studying curiosity for virtual spatial exploration through a video game. Arnedo J. & Nacke L.E. (red.), CHI PLAY ’19 Extended Abstracts: Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts. CHI Play’19. Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction 22 oktober 2019 – 25 oktober 2019: Association for Computing Machinery. 421–428.

For more publications see Max van Duijn’s profile at Leiden University.

Talks

2023

• Van Duijn, Max J. and Bram van Dijk. “She loved the waves but never came back.” Perceptions, emotions, speech and thought in children’s spontaneous stories. Namur Institute of Language, Text and Transmediality.
  
• Van Duijn, Max J., Tom Kouwenhoven, Bram M.A. van Dijk, Werner M. de Valk, and Peter W.H. van der Putten. 2023. Theory of Mind in Children aged 5-7, GPT3, and GPT4. EHBEA 2023, UCL.
  
• van Dijk, Bram M.A., Marco R. Spruit, and Max J. van Duijn. Unraveling Children’s Language and Theory of Mind Competence in Freely-Told Narratives Using Computational Linguistics. EHBEA 2023, UCL.

2022

• Van Dijk, Bram M.A., Max J. van Duijn, and Marco R. Spruit. ChiSCor: A Corpus of Freely-Told Dutch Fantasy Narratives for Research in Linguistics, Developmental Psychology, and Natural Language Processing. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, Tilburg University.
  
• van Duijn, Max J., Bram M.A. van Dijk, and Marco R. Spruit. ‘Looking from the Inside: How Children Render Character’s Perspectives in Freely Told Fantasy Stories’. Workshop Narrative Understanding @ NAACL 2022.