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Valentin Kany received the best student paper award at the ESSV conference 2025 for his paper "Annotation of disfluencies in child speech", co-authored by Valentin and Jürgen Trouvain.

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From the 4th of March to the 7th of March, the 47th conference of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) took place at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz. Our Jun.-Prof. Dr. Annemarie Verkerk, delivered one of the plenaries on the topic of "The evolutionary dynamics of language: universals, rates of change, and explanations.".

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On February 13, 2025 Felicitas Kleber received the appointment letter to become a university professor and will officially take over from Prof. Bernd Möbius on April 1. 

The Ministry of Finance and Science and Campus-Magazin have reported on this. 

We congratulate her sincerely and look forward to the new contributions in research and teaching!

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We are happy to announce that several contributions by members of our department have been accepted at NoDaLiDa and LLMs for HPSS. Congratulations to all authors!

“Predictability of Microsyntactic Units across Slavic Languages: A translation-based Study” by Maria Kunilovskaya, Iuliia Zaitova, Wei Xue, Irina Stenger and Tania Avgustinova (NoDaLiDa, Paper).“Diachronic Analysis of Phrasal Verbs in English Scientific Writing” by Diego Alves (NoDaLiDa, Paper).“Towards Interpretable Models: Bridging… [...]

In an article in the Saarbrücker Zeitung on 10.02.2025, Prof. Josef van Genabith highlights the growing role of AI-supported translations, which are intended to supplement but not replace human translators. Prof. van Genabith conducts research at DFKI in Saarbrücken on the optimization of machine translation, particularly in the field of neural language models. His team is investigating efficient methods for less common languages and the explainability of AI models in order to make their…

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Several papers of our department were accepted at the  Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025 (NAACL 2025).
Congratulations to all authors!

“ProverbEval: Exploring LLM Evaluation Challenges for Low-resource Language Understanding.” by Israel Abebe Azime, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Yonas Chanie, Bontu Fufa Balcha, Negasi Haile Abadi, Henok Biadglign Ademtew, Mulubrhan Abebe Nerea, Debela Desalegn Yadeta,… [...]

We are happy to announce that papers by members of our department have been accepted at the 23rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2025) and the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025).
Congratulations to all authors!
 

PerCom 2025

“MuJo: Multimodal Joint Feature Space Learning for Human Activity Recognition.”  by Stefan Gerd Fritsch*, Cennet Oguz*, Vitor Fortes Rey, Lala Ray, M Kiefer-Emmanouilidis and Paul Lukowicz.
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Members of our department have presented their work at UniDive 3rd general meeting. Congratulations to the authors!

"UD-compound treatment vs. treatment of compounds in UD vs. Udcompoundtreatment: Cross-linguistic and diachronic effects in English, German (and Dutch)" by Marie-Pauline Krielke, Diego Alves and Luigi Talamo [...]

The Research Committee of the UdS is funding Dr. Andrea Wurm's book project on the Saarlor Coal Union with over 8,000 euros. It is a project in the Digital Humanities, specifically the processing of bilingual French-German meeting minutes from the council of the binational coal sales company of the state mining industry in Saarland and Lorraine. With the support of research assistants these are to be transcribed, annotated, aligned and made searchable as an electronic corpus. In addition,…

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The project led by Prof. Dr. Tania Avgustinova was supported by the UdS Internationalization Fund with 25,000 EUR to further develop and consolidate academic cooperation within the Transform4Europe alliance, where Dr. Irina Stenger is the contact person and coordinator for the LST department. The goal is to uncover, empirically support and dynamically shape multimodal multilingual communicative skills in students. A central concern is to optimize the individual potential for successful…

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