The group of Prof. Dr. Vera Demberg is affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Language Science and Technology. 

Aktuelles / News:

  • Runyi Yao (Oxford University, UK) will give a talk “Establishing causal relations in discourse processing” within the ERC-IDDISC project on November 25th, 2024, from 13:00 to 14:00 in building C7.2, conference room 2.11. The talk details are here.
  • The workshop “Generalized additive mixed-effects modeling” taught by Joshua Krause (University of Groningen, Netherlands) within the ERC-IDDISC project took place on November 5th and 6th, 2024 from 9:00 to 14:30 in C7.2, meeting room 2.11. The workshop details are here.
  • Joshua Krause (University of Groningen, Netherlands) gave a talk on Unraveling latent cognitive progresses: A new Approach for modeling experimental effects within the ERC-IDDISC project on November 5th, 2024, from 15:00 to 16:00 in building C7 4, conference room 1.17. The talk details are here.
  • Our lab are hosting a guest master student Florence Yiming Liu from the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) from November 2024 to January 2025.
  • A new lab member since October 2024: Welcome to Maryam Esfahani!
  • Our lab are hosting a guest doctoral student from the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) from September to November 2024: Welcome to Kata Naszádi!
  • A new lab member since September 2024: Welcome to Anisha Saha!
  • Our lab hosted guest doctoral student Oksana Ivchenko from Université de Lille (France) from June to July  2024!
  • New lab members since March 2024: Welcome to Dr. Laura Pissani, Dr. Varsha Suresh and Anwesha Das!
  • Our lab hosted guest doctoral student Markéta Ceháková from Charles University (Czech Republic) in March 2024!
  • Prof. Vera Demberg has been elected as a member of the academy of sciences and literature Mainz.
  • Prof. Vera Demberg has been awarded a Max Planck Fellowship at the MPI for Informatics -- from Jan 2024, she will also lead the research group on "Multimodal Language Processing" there.
  • Change at the lab: we are sad to see Dr. Sebastian Schuster, Dr. Jia Loy and Dr. Marjolein van Os leave at the end of the year -- we will miss them! Also we are welcoming Dr. John (Jack) Duff to our lab from Jan 2024!
  • Nov 2023: Fangzhou Zhai successfully defended his thesis! Congratulations Dr. Zhai!
  • Aug 2023: Marjolein van Os successfully defended her thesis! Congratulations Dr. van Os!
  • Research Training Group 2853 “Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action” has been accepted for funding by DFG! It is set to start in Oct 2023 -- see https://www.neuroexplicit.org/ for details and job openings!
  • The Workshop on Individual Differences in Pragmatics and Discourse (IndiPRAG) organized by our lab took place at Saarland University on September 18-19, 2023. Fore more information, please visit the workshop website.

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Research Topics

  • Computational Cognitive Modelling
  • Experimental Psycholinguistics
  • Information-theoretic Models of Language Processing
  • Coherence Relations in Text, Pragmatics
  • Natural Language Generation
  • Multimodal Language Processing (Language and Vision / Language and Body Language)

Current Projects

Completed Projects

Jobs

  • W2561: Our lab at the Language Science and Technology Department invites excellent students holding a master's degree to pursue a PhD (3 years) in the field of Psycholinguistics. The application deadline is 15.12.2024. The details of the position announcement are here. Please, quote reference number W2561 when applying.
  • We are currently hiring through the RTG "Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action". Please see the job ad for more details.