LangSci talk by Alane Suhr on November 28th!

In our next LangSci talk, Alane Suhr, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley EECS, will give a talk on „The Role of Joint Embodiment in Situated Language-Based Interactions„.

The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams November 28th at 16:15!

LangSci *Special Series* Yang Xu on November 14th!

In our next LangSci colloquium, Yang Xu, Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Cognitive Science at the University of Toronto, will give a talk on „Evolution of the lexicon„.

The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams November 14th at 16:15!

LangSci talk by Livio Gaeta on November 7th!

In our next LangSci talk, Livio Gaeta, Professor for German Language and Linguistics from the University of Turin, will give a talk on „Between Productivity and Creativity: Snowclones we live by„.

The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams November 7th at 16:15!

C6: Postdoctoral position available!

Project C6 „ Information Management as a Factor for Syntactic Variation in the History of German is pleased to invite applications for a postdoctoral position. Details on the vacant position can be found here!

Small Grant Scheme 2024 awarded to Margarita Ryzhova

We are happy to announce that this year’s Small Grant Scheme has been awarded to Margarita Ryzhova. Reviewers and submission board were convinced by the proposed research visit to the University of Lille to continue collaborative research on the effects of simplification strategies in French medical texts, examining differences between domain expert and non-expert readers. Congratulations and all the best for the research project!

LangSci *Special Series* Benjamin Bergen on October 24th!

In our next LangSci colloquium, Benjamin Bergen, Professor at the Department of Cognitive Science and Director of the Language and Cognition Lab at UC San Diego, will give a talk on „Large Language Models are impressive but we still need grounding to explain human cognition„.

The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams October 24th at 16:15!

LangSci talk by Amalia Arvaniti on October 17th!

In our first LangSci talk of the semester, Amalia Arvaniti, Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Radboud University, will give a talk on „What can cross-linguistic research on spontaneous speech tell us about intonation meaning?„.

The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams October 17th at 16:15!

RAILS 2025: Call for submissions closing on September 30th!

The submission deadline for the 2nd edition of the conference on „Rational Approaches in Language Science“ (RAILS) is approaching soon (Sep 30th).

Don’t forget to submit your abstract!

More information can be found here.
For inquiries, please send an email to rails2025@lst.uni-saarland.de.

Best Paper Award at ACL: „Why are Sensitive Functions Hard for Transformers?“ by Michael Hahn and Mark Rofin

We are very proud to announce that Michael Hahn and Mark Rofin received the Best Paper Award at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

You can find the paper here.

Many Congratulations!

RAILS 2025: Call for Submissions!

Don’t forget to submit your abstract to the 2nd edition of the conference on „Rational Approaches in Language Science“ (RAILS)!
Submission deadline is 30th September! ⏰

More information can be found here.
For inquiries, please send an email to rails2025@lst.uni-saarland.de

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