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Eight scientific contributions of our department were accepted for COLING. Congratulations to all authors! Ernie Chang, Jeriah Caplinger, Alex Marin, Xiaoyu Shen and Vera Demberg. “DART: A Lightweight Quality-Suggestive Data-to-Text Annotation Tool” Lucia Donatelli, Jonas Groschwitz, Matthias Lindemann, Alexander Koller and Pia Weißenhorn. “Normalizing Compositional Structures Across Graphbanks” Lucia Donatelli, Kenneth Lai and James Pustejovsky. “A Two-Level Interpretation of Modality in… [...]

Six scientific contributions of our department were accepted for EMNLP. Congratulations to all authors!

"Self-Induced Curriculum Learning in Self-Supervised Neural Machine Translation" (Long Paper)
Authors: Dana Ruiter, Josef van Genabith and Cristina España-Bonet "HUMAN: Hierarchical Universal Modular ANnotator" (Demo-Track) 
Authors: Moritz Wolf, Dana Ruiter, Ashwin Geet D'Sa, Liane Reiners, Jan Alexandersson and Dietrich Klakow, Demo “Translation Quality Estimation by Jointly… [...]

Our student, Christin Weiß, reports in the online magazine Campus about her decision to study “Language Science” and about her experiences with it. [...]

From September 8th to September 10th our department is represented at the student fair, which this year takes place virtually with an impressive offer. At the university stand you will find presentations, video lectures and chats.

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There have been numerous media reports on the prestigious "ERC starting grant" of the European Research Council, received by Prof. Dr. Vera Demberg.

Reports in German:

Press release on the SIC website Article by the University Press Office, second article by the University Press Office Press release of the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft Article in the Saarbrücker Zeitung

Reports in English:

Press release on the SIC website News release EurekAlert [...]

Further details:  UdS article in German, UdS article in English. [...]

On 20 July, the Saarbrücker Zeitung newspaper reported on the machine translation system of the German EU Council Presidency, on which the team of Prof. Dr. Josef van Genabith worked.

Read more in the article. [...]

The Erasmus Mundus European Master in Language and Communication Technologies (LCT) will hold a virtual summer school for all incoming students of intake 2020. It will take place online from August 24-28, 2020. [...]

Four papers submitted by members of the Phonetics and Language and Digital Signal Processing teams have been accepted for publication and presentation at the Interspeech conference 2020 (Shanghai). [...]

Two Saarbrücken dissertations are among the runners-up for the Beth Award this year:
Jonas Groschwitz, "Methods for taking semantic graphs apart and putting them back together again", Saarland University and Macquarie University.
Merel  Scholman, "Coherence relations in discourse and cognition: Comparing approaches, annotations, and interpretations", Saarland University.
Congratulations to both for this achievement! [...]