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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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!
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
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!