LangSci talk by Sebastian Padó on April 15th!

In the first LangSci talk of Summer Semester 2021, Sebastian Padó from the University of Stuttgart will talk about „Words, Categories, and Entities“.

Please contact us if you are interested in joining the Zoom meeting.

New paper by project C3 in PLOS ONE

A new journal article by members of project C3 has been published in PLOS ONE.

Reevaluating pragmatic reasoning in language games” by Les Sikos, Noortje J. Venhuizen, Heiner Drenhaus, Matthew W. Crocker

Workshop „Good Scientific Practice and Communication“

On March 25, (14.00-18.30) Roland Bennewitz, the Ombudsperson of the INM Leibniz Institute for New Materials will hold a seminar on „Good Scientific Practice and Communication“.

Abstract:
In this seminar we will discuss the foundations of good scientific practice. We will attempt to link the respective guidelines of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft with our personal experiences. What are the rules for scientific work and what is scientific misconduct? A key to good scientific practice is good communication. We will discuss general strategies for successful discussions and identify partners such as the Ombudsperson. The seminar will be held online and include discussions. Participants are therefore expected to join from an environment which allows for active participation and to switch on microphones and cameras.

Roland Bennewitz works at the INM Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken and is professor for experimental physics at Saarland University. He has acted as Ombudsperson for good scientific practice for many years.

B3: Article published in PLOS ONE

A new journal article by members of project B3 has been published in PLOS ONE.

Modeling the predictive potential of extralinguistic context with script knowledge: The case of fragments” by Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Ingo Reich

Manuscript by project B1 published!

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

New paper by project A1 in Frontiers in Psychology

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

B3: Robin Lemke receives Wilhelm von Humboldt Award!

A7: Jörg Hoffmann named AAAI Fellow!

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.

Manuscript by project B1 published!

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

A5: Now part of „Kinder schaffen Wissen“

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!

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