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The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding Michael Hahn’s research group with up to €1.4 million.

Through the Emmy Noether Programme, Michael Hahn receives a prestigious grant to establish his own research group. The project will develop new machine learning architectures for artificial intelligence.

Current large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are based on the Transformer architecture, which can fundamentally limit their logical reasoning abilities. Hahn’s group will design new…

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Erich Steiner, retired professor of English translation studies in our department, gave an invited lecture to the Philological Society of England  at University College London on 17 October 2025 on the topic of "Agency in translation: some ideological battles and their implications for (machine-) translation".

A video of the talk is available on the  society's website or here.

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Six research papers from our department have been accepted for presentation at the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL 2025).
Congratulations to all authors!

Main conference:

“Language Arithmetics: Towards Systematic Language Neuron Identification and Manipulation”
by Daniil Gurgurov, Katharina Trinley, Yusser Al Ghussin, Tanja Baeumel, Josef van Genabith, Simon Ostermann“ProofTeller:… [...]

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

“A Rigorous Evaluation of LLM Data Generation Strategies for Low-Resource Languages”.By Tatiana Anikina, Jan Cegin, Jakub Simko, Simon Ostermann. Accepted to the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Long Papers)“Reason to Rote: Rethinking Memorization in Reasoning”
By Yupei Du, Philipp Mondorf, Silvia… [...]

Beginning in the winter semester 2025/26, the Master’s degree program Translation Science and Technology will receive funding from the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) through the Integrated International Degree Programmes with Double Degrees initiative. The funding will continue until September 2027.

The funding provides full scholarships for double-degree students spending two semesters in Spain or Italy. Scholarship…

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We are happy to announce that five contributions by members of our department have been accepted at the ACL 2025 SRW (Student Research Workshop).
Congratulations to all authors!

“Unstructured Minds, Predictable Machines: A Comparative Study of Narrative Cohesion in Human and LLM Stream-of-Consciousness Writing.” by Nellia Dzhubaeva, Katharina Trinley and Laura Pissani.“Small Models, Big Impact: Efficient Corpus and Graph-Based Adaptation of Small Multilingual Language Models for Low-Resource… [...]

We are happy to announce that three contributions by members of our department have been accepted at the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) 2025.
Congratulations to all authors!

“Cross-Lingual Fact Verification: Analyzing LLMs Performance Patterns Across Languages.” by Hanna Shcharbakova, Tatiana Anikina, Natalia Skachkova and Josef van Genabith.“AIDEN: Automatic Speaker Notes Creation and Navigation for Enhancing Online Learning Experience.” by Stalin Varanasi, Umer Butt,… [...]

We are happy to announce that contributions by members of our department have been accepted at the Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) 2025.
Congratulations to all authors!

“Contextualize-then-Aggregate: Circuits for In-Context Learning in Gemma-2 2B” by Aleksandra Bakalova, Yana Veitsman, Xinting Huang and Michael Hahn.“A Meta-Evaluation of Measuring LLM Misgendering” by Arjun Subramonian, Vagrant Gautam, Preethi Seshadri, Dietrich Klakow, Kai-Wei Chang and Yizhou Sun."How Relative Input… [...]

Am 10. Juli 2025 findet eine Präsentation zum Master-Studiengang „Translation Science and Technology“ statt. Der Studiengang kann auch als internationaler Doppelabschluss in Kooperation mit den Universitäten Metz (Frankreich), Alicante (Spanien) und Brescia (Italien) absolviert werden.

Termin: Donnerstag, 10.07.2025, von 13:50 bis 14:15 Uhr (anschließend Beratung).
Ort: Gebäude A2.2, Raum 1.27.  

Der Studiengang kombiniert Inhalte aus den Bereichen Übersetzung und Sprachtechnologie. Es ist…

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We are happy to announce a new double degree partnership between the MA programme "Translation Science and Technology" and the University of Lorraine in Metz. Starting in the winter semester 2025/26, this collaboration will enable the annual exchange of two students from each institution.

At the University of Lorraine, our partner programme is Technologies de la traduction. Students from Saarland University who choose the double degree option will spend one academic year in France, where they…

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