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.

PROGRAM

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!

Abstract

We introduce IDeaL (Information Density and Linguistic Encoding), a collaborative research center that investigates the hypothesis that language use may be driven by the optimal use of the communication channel. From the point of view of linguistics, our approach promises to shed light on selected aspects of language variation that are hitherto not sufficiently explained. Applications of our research can be envisaged in various areas of natural language processing and AI, including machine translation, text generation, speech synthesis and multimodal interfaces.

The full article can be found here.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the Research Project B6 – Aspects of Information Density in Human and Machine Translation as of August 1st 2015. The Project will be coordinated by Prof. Josef van Genabith.

More details coming soon.

On Monday, Saarland University opened its new Graduate Centre as a building in which young scientists will be able to work and organise meetings or small conferences. The opening ceremony for the Graduate Centre, which brought together researchers from all disciplines under the heading „Science and Humanities in the Digital World„,  included a talk by SFB speaker Elke Teich entitled „Language – Text – Information„.

For further information on the new Graduate Centre, please click here.

In an interview with radio station SR 2 aired on April 16, Elke Teich gave an overview of the research conducted in the SFB 1102.

AcademiaNet is an international expert database for outstanding female academics run by Robert Bosch Stiftung. It was launched by Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel in 2010 to gather the profiles of the most highly qualified women in their fields. Membership is by invitation only.

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The workshop Identification and Annotation of Discourse Relations in Spoken Language (DiSpoL 2015) is part of the COST Action TextLink „Structuring Discourse in Multilingual Europe“.

The overall goal of the workshop is the development of a unified annotation framework for discourse-relational devices (DRDs) that is applicable to different languages and text types, including spoken and written dimensions.

For more information, please click here.

PROGRAM

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At this workshop, we aim to bring together people from data mining, language modeling, linguistics and digital humanities to further enhance collaborations between these fields.

PROGRAM

09:00-09:20    Elke Teich and Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Welcome and Introduction (presentation slides)
09:20-10:00    Jon Dehdari, An Overview of Language Modeling and its Applications (presentation slides)
10:00-10:40    Dietrich Klakow, Practical applications for language models (mehr …)