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!
please note that the talk by Wing-Yee Chow – originally scheduled for Thursday July 4th – will be postponed to a later date.
In our next LangSci talk, Wing-Yee Chow, Associate Professor in Experimental Linguistics at University College London (UCL), will give a talk on „Incremental prediction in real-time language comprehension: from meaning to pitch contour„.
The talk will take place only online on MS Teams July 4th at 16:15!
Project T1 is organising a workshop on Diversity and Change in Easy German at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGFS) taking place at the University of Mainz March 5-7 2025. More information can be found here.
We are very happy to share the news that our PI Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb has been awarded the title „Associate Professor“ by our university’s senate. Congratulations Stefania!!!
In our next LangSci talk, Christopher Sapp, Professor of Germanic Linguistics and Philology, Director of Graduate Studies, Germanic Studies and Adjunct Professor, Department of Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington, will give a talk on „Length and word order within Noun Phrases in Early New High German Noun„.
The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams June 20th at 16:15!