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On November 21–22, 2024, a workshop on Slavic prosody will be held at the department. The event aims to bring together researchers in this field to present their current projects and findings and to discuss new ideas and proposals for the development of academic networks.

The workshop is organized by Bistra Andreeva and has been made possible through the financial support of the Mangold Fund. Further details about the program and participants can be found here.

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Following the admission of the Master's program Translation Science and Technology into the prestigious EU network European Master's in Translation (EMT), the official certificate was presented in Brussels on October 24.

Dr. Mihaela Vela accepted the certificate on behalf of the “Translation Science and Technology” program from Christos Ellinides, Director-General for Translation at the European Commission.

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After last year's extremely positive experience, Fadia Sauerwein and Rainer Egler will once again be representing our department at EXPOLINGUA (November 15th - 16th in Berlin), the event dedicated to languages, cultures, and international education. This time our team will be strengthened by our student Léon Jost. We will be promoting our study programs in general and especially the Master's program in Translation Science and Technology. Click here for the highlights of the trade fair.

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We are happy to announce that four papers by members of our department have been accepted at the  SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) 2024 and the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024.
Congratulations to all authors, especially to our Master students Yash Sarrof and Yana Veitsmann!

CoNLL:

“Lossy Context Surprisal Predicts Task-Dependent Patterns in Relative Clause Processing” by Kate McCurdy and Michael Hahn.

NeurIPS: 

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Numerous scientific publications from our department were accepted at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2024.
Congratulations to all authors!

"Strengthening Structural Inductive Biases by Pre-training to Perform Syntactic Transformations." by Matthias Lindemann, Alexander Koller and Ivan Titov.
Proceedings (EMNLP)."Toward Compositional Behavior in Neural Models: A Survey of Current Views." by Kate McCurdy, Paul Soulos and Paul Smolensky.
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We are proud to announce that the paper "InversionView: A General-Purpose Method for Reading Information from Neural Activations." by Xinting Huang, Madhur Panwar, Navin Goyal and Michael Hahn has won second prize at the ICML 2024 Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop. 

Congratulations to all authors!

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ACL 2024 Awards for LST Contributions!

Two contributions from our department were awarded prizes at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024).

Best Paper Award: “Why are Sensitive Functions Hard for Transformers?” by Michael Hahn and Mark Rofin Best Resource Paper Award: „AppWorld: A Controllable World of Apps and People for Benchmarking Interactive Coding Agents“ by Harsh Trivedi, Tushar Khot, Mareike Hartmann*, Ruskin Manku, Vinty Dong, Edward Li,… [...]

There have been changes to the administrative team of the Erasmus Mundus Master's degree program "Language and Communication Technologies" (LCT). The management of the global coordination has changed from Tanja Bäumel to Evgeniya Ustinova. There has also been a change in administration: from Anna Felsing to Caroline Schuler. Evgeniya and Caroline now work in building A2.2. in R. 3.19.

A big thank you to Tanja and Anna for their work and a warm welcome to Evgeniya and Caroline!

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We are pleased to announce that Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb has been elected President of the Special Interest Group on Humanities Computing (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…

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We are proud to announce that the paper
"AAdaM at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Augmentation and Adaptation for Multilingual Semantic Textual Relatedness" from Miaoran Zhang, Mingyang Wang, Jesujoba O. Alabi and Dietrich Klakow has won the Best System Description Paper Award at NAACL 2024

Congratulations to all authors!

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