Project B3 starts a new SFB-wide working group on the relation between information structure and information theory. Our kickoff meeting is going to take place on January 12 at 4:15 pm in Room 2.02 in Building A2.2 and online on MS Teams. We invite everybody who is interested in this topic to join us!
Project B3 warmly welcomes Bozhidara Hristova (know as „Dari“) to its team, who joined us as a PhD student in October 2022. Dari has recently obtained a master’s degree in Language Theory and Comparative Linguistics from the University of Stuttgart. There, her research focused on phenomena at the syntax-semantics interface, particularly on the meaning and structure of existential sentences. Dari is especially interested in the topic of syntactic alternations (e.g., ellipses, argument alternations) and in the interaction between the linguistic and extralinguistic factors that influence our choice of sentence structure.
We are very proud and happy to announce that a member of Project C1 was awarded her PhD degree in December!
Omnia Ibrahim defended her thesis „Speaker adaptations as a function of message, channel and listener variability“ on 19 December 2022.
Many congratulations to Omnia!
The C1 project and former postdoc James Whang (Seoul National University) will organize a workshop on August 25 2023 in conjunction with Interspeech 2023 in Dublin.
Title: Limits and benefits of information-theoretic perspectives in spoken communication
https://lbit2023.lst.uni-saarland.de/
Invited speakers: Ann Bradlow (Northwestern University) and Okko Räsänen (Tampere University)
We’re very proud and happy to announce that a member of Project A4 was awarded his PhD thesis in December!
Pratik Bhandari defended his thesis “Interaction of top-down and bottom-up processes in spoken language comprehension” on December 7th.
Many congratulations to you!
In our next LangSci colloquium, Natalia Levshina from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics will give a talk on „Communicative Efficiency: Language Structure and Use„.
The virtual talk will take place via Zoom on Thursday (8th December) at 16:15!
New publication by members of project A4 has been accepted to SLT 2022.
„A Data-Driven Investigation of Noise-Adaptive Utterance Generation with Linguistic Modification“ by Anupama Chingacham, Vera Demberg, Dietrich Klakow.
In our next LangSci colloquium, Jacob Eisenstein from Google AI will give a talk on „Detecting Intellectual Influence from Dynamic Word Embeddings: Applications to Historical Newspapers and Contemporary Research Articles„.
The virtual talk will take place via Zoom on Thursday at 16:15!
In our next LangSci colloquium, Carola Trips, Chair of English Linguistics at University of Mannheim, will give a talk on „Becoming selfish: The rise of reflexivity and self compounds in Middle English under the contact hypothesis„.
The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams this Thursday at 16:15!
In our next LangSci colloquium, Preslav Nakov from the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence will give a talk on “Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic: from Fake News to Harmful Content„.
The talk will take place as a hybrid event in A2.2 room 2.02 and via MS Teams tomorrow at 14:30!