We are pleased to announce that Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Associate Professor at the Department of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University, has been elected President of the Special Interest Group on Humanities Computing (SIGHUM, website: https://sighum.wordpress.com/, mailing list: https://groups.google.com/g/sighum/) within the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

In her new role, Stefania will lead efforts to bridge computational analysis and humanistic inquiry, advancing the innovative intersection of these fields. Her extensive experience in Digital Humanities and interdisciplinary projects will be instrumental in driving SIGHUM’s mission forward.

In our next LangSci talk, Luigi Grisoni, post-doctoral researcher, Brain Language Laboratory, Department of Philosophy Humanities at the Freie Universität Berlin, will give a talk on „Brain correlates of perceptual, semantic, and action prediction„.

The online talk will take place on MS Teams July 18th at 16:15!

In our next LangSci talk, Wing-Yee Chow, Associate Professor in Experimental Linguistics at University College London (UCL), will give a talk on „Incremental prediction in real-time language comprehension: from meaning to pitch contour„.

The talk will take place only online on MS Teams July 4th at 16:15!

Project T1 is organising a workshop on Diversity and Change in Easy German at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGFS) taking place at the University of Mainz March 5-7 2025. More information can be found here.

We are very happy to share the news that our PI Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb has been awarded the title „Associate Professor“ by our university’s senate. Congratulations Stefania!!!

In our next LangSci talk, Christopher Sapp, Professor of Germanic Linguistics and Philology, Director of Graduate Studies, Germanic Studies and Adjunct Professor, Department of Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington, will give a talk on „Length and word order within Noun Phrases in Early New High German Noun„.

The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams June 20th at 16:15!

Conference on Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS)
13-15 February 2025, Saarbruecken, Germany

We are delighted to announce the upcoming 2nd edition of the conference on „Rational Approaches in Language Science“ (RAILS), which will be organized by the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1102 „Information Density and Linguistic Encoding“. The central theme of this conference is (bounded) rational communication, i.e. the idea that language users continuously strive to optimize their means of communication to effectively convey their intended messages. Thus, rational communication has consequences on how recipients encode and remember information, and it also impacts language variation and change.

More information can be found here.

In our next LangSci talk, Svetlana Vetchinnikova, University Researcher, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at University of Helsinki, will give a talk on „Individual variation in perceptual and usage-based chunking„.

The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams June 13th at 16:15!

The programme for the Multilingual Modelling Workshop has been published. The workshop will take place on 7 June 2024, from 9.30 to 15.30 (room 1.20.1, building A 2.2).

In our next LangSci talk, Shubhra Kanti Karmaker, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University, Alabama, will give a talk on „Democratizing AI through Controlled Narrative Generation and Knowledge Grounding„.

The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams June 6th at 16:15!