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Our master programmes combine language and technology and qualify our students for a successful career start as well as for academic research. Find out more in two presentation videos that will give you some insights about our master programmes. Both videos are available on YouTube.

M.A. Translation Science and Technology

M.Sc. Language Science and Technology [...]

The public relations department of the Saarland University has published an article about Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow and his research group. On the occasion of the International Mother Language Day, celebrated this year on 21 February, Prof. Dr. Klakow explains why AI-based systems still render the best performance when used in English. He gives two reasons that have led to this situation and makes forecasts about the future development. Moreover, Prof. Dr. Klakow presents a method developed by… [...]

We are happy to announce that eight papers by members of our department were accepted at EACL 2023 and TACL 2023. Congratulations to all authors!

"Fractality of informativity in 300 years of English scientific writing" by Yuri Bizzoni and Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb. EACL, LaTeCH-CLfL 2023 2023. "Revisiting dependency length and intervener complexity minimisation on a parallel corpus in 35 languages" by Andrew Thomas Dyer. EACL, SIGTYP 2023. “Exploring Paracrawl for Document-level Neural… [...]

SFB 1102 "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding" will begin its third funding period with a colloquium which will be held on 10 February 2023 (C7 4, Saarland University Campus).

Date: Friday 10/02/2023

Location: C7.4 (Conference room 1.17 and other rooms in C7.4)

Preliminary programme:

10:30 – 11:00 Arrival and Registration 11:00 - 11:30 Welcome and Introduction (Room 1.17) Welcome by Jakob von Weizsäcker (Minister der Finanzen und für Wissenschaft, Saarland) Welcome by… [...]

After eight years in the Department’s Psycholinguistics group, Noortje Venhuizen and Harm Brouwer have been appointed to faculty positions (assistant professor and associate professor) in the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University. Harm and Noortje made an immense contribution to the group, the department, and to the SFB over the years, for which we wish to convey our utmost thanks. While they will be missed, their remote presence continues through…

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Our colleague Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski has been appointed Professor for Multilingual Technical Specialised Communication at the University of Hildesheim. We congratulate her on this professorship, which started on 1 October 2022 and is a well-deserved recognition of her outstanding achievements in research and teaching. We would also like to thank Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski for many years of her successful work at our department and wish her all the best for her future scientific and…

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In collaboration with the Office for Knowledge and Technology Transfer, our lecturer and professional translator Claudia Lenke will hold a workshop on freelance translation and starting a career after studies. The workshop is scheduled for 29 and 30 November from 1.30 pm to 6 pm. It is intended for the students of MA Translation Science and Technology and will discuss career opportunities on the translation market, with a special focus on freelance translation. Students of other study programmes…

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We are happy to announce that a paper by members of our department has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Phonetics. Congratulations to all authors!

"Special issue: Vocal accommodation in speech communication" by Jennifer Pardo, Elisa Pellegrino, Volker Dellwo, and Bernd Möbius. [...]

Our student, Anna Spasiano, reports in the online magazine Campus about her way into the computational linguistics and about her experiences with this study programme. [...]

In May, the research group of Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow, in collaboration with two German companies Kauz GmbH and Aristech GmbH specialised in language technologies, launched the SLIK project (synthesis of linguistic corpus data). The goal of this project is to make it possible to generate large domain-specific corpora out of a very restricted input data by using the data augmentation technique. This technology will be especially beneficial for small and medium-sized companies, as it will enable…

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