A new journal article by the members of project A1 has been published in Frontiers in Psychology, Section Language Sciences, Research Topic: Rational Approaches in Language Science

„Neurobehavioral Correlates of Surprisal in Language Comprehension: A Neurocomputational Model“ by Harm Brouwer, Francesca Delogu, Noortje J. Venhuizen, Matthew W. Crocker

Read more: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/13422/rational-approaches-in-language-science

Many Congratulations to Jörg Hoffmann (Project A7)! He has been honored as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for his outstanding research contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Read the full article here.

A manuscript by members of Project B1 has been published in Frontiers in Communication, Section Language Sciences, Research Topic: Rational Approaches in Language Science

“Less is more/more diverse: On the communicative utility of linguistic conventionalization” by Elke Teich, Peter Fankhauser, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Yuri Bizzoni

Read more: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/13422/rational-approaches-in-language-science

Project A5 has joined a promising project of research groups from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The online platform „Kinder schaffen Wissen“ provides online studies for children (as well as parents and grandparents). Participants can take part easily and and safely from home! Studies differ concerning age group of interest, duration, tasks and structure.

Everyone – especially every child – will find a matching study!

Indeed, project A5 provides two exciting language studies at „Kinder schaffen Wissen“. They are called „ESEL“ and „HASE“ and include eading tasks as well as word and picture puzzles to investigate how pictures or texts influence childish reading behavior.

Check out the website https://kinderschaffenwissen.eva.mpg.de/ for more information and be part of research!

In our LangSci Colloquium on December 10th 2020, Søren Wichmann from Leiden University will talk about the „Advances in computational historical linguistics“.

Please contact us if you are interested in joining the Zoom Meeting!

Friday, December 4th, from 9 am – 3pm in the SFB gather space (link will be sent via e-mail).

Program

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Principle Investigators of SFB 1102 are at the top of the ranking for research in the field of Artificial Intelligence (https://airankings.professor-x.de/9).

Jörg Hoffmann (Project A7) takes first place in the category „Core“ for his publications in the central international AI venues (AAAI, IJCAI, ECAI, JAIR, AIJ).

Matthew Crocker (Projects A1, C3) takes second place in the category „Cognitive AI“.

In our LangSci Colloquium on November 12th 2020, Frank Seifart from Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS)  will talk about „Studying speech rate cross-linguistically: Resource building and case studies on final lengthening and pause probabilities“.

Please contact us if you are interested in joining the Zoom Meeting!

We are very proud to announce that Iona Gessinger and Eran Raveh (Project C1) received a best student paper award at Interspeech 2020. Many Congratulations to both of you!

Read the full paper on „Phonetic accommodation of L2 German speakers to the virtual language learning tutor Mirabella“ here.