Press

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 [...]

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. [...]

On 10 September, the Saarbrücker Zeitung newspaper reported on the B.A. Language Science and the M.A. Translation Science and Technology in the article called "Specialists in Foreign Languages". [...]

On 06 August 2019, the Saarbrücker Zeitung newspaper reported about the funding extension of the Master's programme "Language and Communication Technologies".
A similar article on this topic can be found on the UdS page. [...]

Saarbrücker Zeitung newspaper [...]

Have a look behind the scenes of speech technology
Nowadays, translators must be able to do much more than "just" translate from one language into another. They need to know how to use translation programs, which do part of the work in these times of digitalization. Understanding this technology is a key skill for today's translators. In the Saarbrücken "Translation Science and Technology" Master's degree course specialising in linguistics and language technology, students learn exactly that.… [...]

Read more in the CAMPUS article. [...]

Vera Demberg and Heiner Drenhaus explained all kinds of tricks that our brain plays when processing language at the Children's University on 6 May 2015. [...]