Organized by Ingo Reich & Augustin Speyer.
Note that there is, amongst others, a CL poster session organized by Vera Demberg and a Session (AG1) organized by Elke Teich, Vera Demberg and Bernd Möbius.
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The Second PhD Day for SFB 1102 has six talks lasting half an hour each. Doktoranden are presenting their work before the whole SFB to receive feedback from colleagues they don’t usually interact with, providing an opportunity to strengthen their work. The talks focus on the students’ work as it relates to their thesis, rather than framing the work solely in terms of a particular SFB project.We look forward to your stimulating questions and thoughtful comments!
Location: Graduate Center (Campus, C9.3)
Date: 18 November 2016
09:45 – 10:15 Coffee + Breakfast available
10:15 – 10:30 Welcome
10:30 – 11:15 David M. Howcroft (A4)
Adaptive Generation: developing natural language generation systems with variation
11:15 – 12:00 Ekaterina Kravtchenko (A3)
Pragmatic interpretation of informationally redundant event mentions
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 13:45 Mirjana Sekicki (A5)
Cognitive Load in the Visual World: the effect of gaze
13:45 – 14:30 Mittul Singh (B4)
Inducing Rare-Word Embeddings for NLP tasks
14:30 – 14:45 Coffee Break
14:45 – 15:30 Iliana Simova (B5)
Extracting relations across sentence boundaries
15:30 – 16.15 Simon Ostermann (A3)
Text-Script alignment based on textual similarity measures and ordering information
16:15 – 16:30 Concluding remarks
Followed by an evening out
Location: Iguana (Mainzer Str. 2, 66111 Saarbrücken)
Time: 19:00 – whenever
Feel free to bring your spouse, children and best friend with you!
This twoday workshop, hosted by project B3 of the SFB 1102 “Information Density and Linguistic Encoding” and taking place on 13-14 October 2016 at Saarland University, aims at bringing together people working on the syntax, semantics, pragmatics and psycholinguistics of fragments / non-sentential utterances.
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The creation and use of digital corpora have revolutionized the study of language, signaling a shift towards a more empirical mode of investigation. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers in historical linguistics and corpus-based methods to share ideas on the many aspects of language variation and change and to propose new methods and corpora to address potential research gaps in the field. The workshop organizers are based at the Department of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University – home to Project B1 in SFB 1102 – where the role of linguistic densification in the evolution of English scientific writing is investigated from the 17th century to the present.
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„Advanced topics in using mixed-effects models“
This workshop is an event of the SFB 1102 „Information Density and Linguistic Encoding“ and focuses on advanced topics and problems in mixed-effect modelling. We are happy to have two excellent tutors that will share their experience and expertise with the audience in two full workshop days. Specifically, Christoph Scheepers, from University of Glasgow, will talk about confirmatory analyses of experimental data, while Stefan Gries, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, will talk about aspects of multilevel modeling in corpora analyses and visualization.
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While most linguistic research deals with data from widespread and well-documented European languages, experts from an increasing variety of disciplines are now working with data from low-resource languages and language varieties across the globe. Many typologists hope that these data will allow for crucial insights into language variation and evolution (e.g. Trudgill 2011). In our workshop, we will bring together researchers with different backgrounds and perspectives on the specific challenges and the unique promises these data hold, to identify common ground and explore the most pressing problems and possible solutions.
Das sprachliche System stellt uns die verschiedensten Möglichkeiten zur Kodierung von Inhalten zur Verfügung: So können wir mit „der von den Republikanern am wenigsten geliebte Präsidentschaftskandidat“ auf Donald Trump referieren, aber auch mit „der Präsidentschaftskandidat, der von den Republikanern am wenigsten geliebt wird“. Wir können mit „Einfach unglaublich!“ seinen Sieg in Florida kommentieren, aber auch mit „Das ist ja einfach unglaublich!“.
Dass für die Wahl einer konkreten sprachlichen Realisierung verschiedene kontextuelle Faktoren relevant sind, vom direkt vorangehenden Kontext bis hin zum Kontext der Situation und der Textsorte bzw. des Registers, dürfte nicht weiter kontrovers sein. Unklar bleibt jedoch, wie diese unterschiedlichen kontextuellen Faktoren Sprachprozesse beeinflussen. In dieser AG gehen wir von der Hypothese aus, dass Sprache eine für die menschliche Kommunikation optimale Kodierung approximiert, indem sie Anpassungen an kontextuelle Bedingungen ermöglicht, sei es an den unmittelbaren Kotext oder den Situationskontext. Zur Modellierung der Beziehung zwischen sprachlicher Kodierung und Kontext werden in neuerer Zeit informationstheoretische Ansätze verfolgt, die auf Shannons Informationsbegriff zurückgehen (Shannon, 1948) und ihn methodisch erweitern (siehe z. B. Informationsdichte/Surprisal). Die Perspektive der Information erweist sich hier in Bezug auf die Modellierung ganz unterschiedlicher Sprachprozesse als sehr fruchtbar, angefangen vom menschlichen Sprachverstehen über Sprachwandel und -evolution bis hin zur maschinellen Sprachverarbeitung, und zieht dabei alle sprachlichen Ebenen (Phonetik, Lexik, Syntax, Semantik, Diskurs) sowie ihre Interaktion in Betracht.
Wir bieten mit diesem Workshop eine Plattform für den Austausch derjenigen linguistischen Fachgebiete, die informationstheoretische Ansätze einsetzen bzw. weiterentwickeln, um die Beziehung von sprachlicher Kodierung und Kontext in unterschiedlichen Sprachprozessen zu modellieren. Die AG knüpft an die Ergebnisse der Kurz-AG ‚Information Density and Linguistic Variation‘ der DGfS 2012 in Frankfurt an und wird thematisch getragen durch den Saarbrücker SFB 1102 „Information Density and Linguistic Encoding“.
Shannon C., 1948. A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Bell System Technical Journal 27:379-423
Invited Speakers:
Tal Linzen (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Hinrich Schütze (LMU, München)
List of accepted papers:
Robin Lemke, Ingo Reich & Eva Horch (Universität des Saarlandes)
Information density constrains article omission. An experimental approach
Rory Turnbull (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (ENS, EHESS, CNRS)) & Sharon Peperkamp (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Lexical representation in phonological neighbourhood networks reveals limits of lexical organization
Fabian Tomaschek & Benjamin V. Tucker (Universität Tübingen)
Modeling segmental durations using the Naive Discriminative Learner
Jessie Nixon (Universität Potsdam) & Catherine Best (Western Sydney University)
High-variability distributions lower perceptual certainty during acoustic cue acquisition
Geertje van Bergen (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen)
Expectation management in interaction: Discourse particles signal surprisal of upcoming referents
Ekaterina Kravtchenko, Ashutosh Modi, Vera Demberg (Unviersität des Saarlandes), Ivan Titov (University of Amsterdam) & Manfred Pinkal (Universität des Saarlandes)
Does UID affect rate of pronominalization?
Olga Seminck & Pascal Amsill (Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7)
Predicting processing cost of anaphora resolution
Ayush Jain, Vishal Singh, Sumeet Agarval & Rajakrishnan Raijkumar (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)
Uniform Information Density Models for Language Production: A Comparative Study of Hindi and English
Elli Tourtouri, Francesca Delogu & Matthew Crocker (Universität des Saarlandes)
Over-specifications efficiently manage referential entropy in situated communication
Eric Meinardt (USC, San Diego)
Non-stationarity and other critical mathematical problems for channel coding-based explanations of variation in language production
Maria Pinango, Ashwini Deo & Muye Zhang (Yale University)
Accessing locative interpretations in „have“ sentences: Context-sensitive variability
Aaron Steven White & Kyle Rawlins (Johns Hopkins University)
Entropy predicts uncertainty in subcategorization frame distributions
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Merel Scholmann, Stefan Fischer, Elke Teich & Vera Demberg (Universität des Saarlandes)
An Information-theoretic Account on the Diachronic Development of Discourse Connectors in Scientific Writing
David Howcroft (Universität des Saarlandes), Cynthia A. Johnson (Ghent University) & Rory Turnbull (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (ENS, EHESS, CNRS))
German morphosyntactic change is consistent with an optimal encoding hypothesis
Elke Teich, Bernd Möbius, Vera Demberg (Saarbrücken)
Sprache approximiert eine für die Kommunikation optimale Kodierung, indem sie Anpassungen an kontextuelle Bedingungen (Kotext, Situationskontext) ermöglicht. Wir fokussieren informationstheoretisch-basierte Ansätze zur Modellierung von unterschiedlichen sprachlichen Prozessen (menschliches Sprachverstehen, maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Sprachwandel u. –evolution) auf allen linguistischen Ebenen (Phonetik, Lexik, Syntax, Semantik, Diskurs) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Beziehung von sprachlicher Variation im Kontext.
The First SFB 1102 PhD Day
(a colloquium organized by the PhD students of SFB 1102)
Location: Graduate Center (Campus, C9.3)
Date: 5 February 2016
Program
10:00 Welcome
10:15 Eva Horch (B3)
Article missing? Corpus and information-theoretic approaches to article omission in German
10:45 Merel Scholmann (B2)
Predictions of upcoming discourse structure based on “On the one hand”
11:15 Simon Ostermann (A3)
Project A3: Mapping texts to scripts
11:30 Lunch
13:00 Irina Stenger (C4)
Cyrillic script intelligibility in reading intercomprehension among Slavic languages
13:30 Klara Jagrova (C4)
Adaptation towards a target language: the potential of improving intercomprehension of Polish for Czech Readers
14:00 Coffee Break
14:15 Andrea Fischer (C4)
MDL-based modeling of regularity in parallel linguistic sequences
14:45 Robin Lemke (B3)
Sentential or not? Some experiments on the syntactic information encoded in fragments
15:15 Discussion
16:00 Wrap-up + Reception
On the occasion of its first anniversary, SFB 1102 will be hosting a science slam and Halloween dance party for Saarland University’s PhD students on October 30.
Science Slam
16:00 Welcome Slam from the “birthday child” – SFB 1102
Prof. Dr. Elke Teich (Speaker of SFB 1102)
16:10 SFB 1102: Information Density and Linguistic Encoding
Mirjana Sekicki & Christine Ankener (PhD students, Project A5: Distributing Referential Information across Modalities)
“Prediction is not crystal ball gazing”
Clayton Greenberg (PhD student, Project B4: Modelling and Measuring Information Density)
“A new language model architecture”
David Howcroft (PhD student, Project A4: Language Comprehension and Cognitive Control Demands)
“Steering while Hearing”
Alessandra Zarcone (Postdoc, Project A2: Script Knowledge for Modelling Semantic Expectation)
““How to feed a dog?” or the rules of script knowledge”
16:30 GRK 2021 European Dream-Cultures
““The Dreamers”– Who we are and what we do (besides dreaming)”
Prof. Dr. Christiane Solte-Gresser (Speaker of GRK 2021)
Jonas Nesselhauf (associated PhD student)
Mert Akbal (associated PhD student)
16:45 Coffee break
17:15 IGK 1864: Diversity. Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces
Svetlana Seibel (PhD student, North American Literary and Cultural Studies)
““Personal Totems”: Indigenous Popular Culture in North America”
17:20 SFB 894: Ca2+signals: Molecular Mechanisms and Integrative Functions
Prof. Dr. Jens Rettig (Speaker of SFB 894)
“Ca2+signals: Molecular Mechanisms and Integrative Functions”
Hawraa Bzeih (PhD student, Project A10: Molecular mechanisms of maturation, Ca2+-dependent fusion and endocytosis of lytic granules)
“Cytotoxic T lymphocytes, the killers of our immune system”
Viktoria Götz (PhD student, Project A18: GnRH-induced Ca2+ signals in pituitary go- nadotrope cells)
“Central control of reproduction: from the brain to the gonads – and back”
17:35 Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland
Hanzey Yasar (PhD student, Drug Delivery)
“Trojan horses as needle-free vaccine delivery against influenza”
17:40 SFB 1027: Physical Modelling of Non-Equilibrium Processes in Biological Systems
Prof. Dr. Dr. Karsten Kruse (Theoretical Biological Physics)
“The zombie principle”
Nicolas Thewes (PhD student, Experimental Physics)
“Biology meets physics to study bacterial adhesion”
Sarah Klein (PhD student, Theoretical Physics)
“Tug-of-war game: When small motors pull fat cargos”
17:55 SFB/TRR 14: Automatic Verification and Analysis of Complex Systems
Prof. Dr. Holger Hermanns (Dependable Systems and Software)
“When pigs are sweating”
Halloween Party
Location: Graduate Center (Campus, Geb. C9.3) Time: 19:30 – open end
Entrance free of charge!
Snacks & Drinks will be provided for a small price.
Feel free to bring your spouse, children and best friend with you! A costume is highly recommended!