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. 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 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…
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…
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…
At the beginning of May, the Department of Language Science and Technology joined the International Network of Simulated Translation Bureaus (INSTB). The INSTB is a partnership of currently 23 universities from all over Europe with the goal of exchanging and further developing know-how and ideas on the topic of practice-oriented translator training. All members have modules in their study programmes that simulate real-life conditions in a translation project, from customer contact, project…
We are happy to announce that our department has 7 contributions accepted at Syntax Fest, R2CASS (International Workshop on Computational Reproducibility in Social Sciences), DISS Workshop (Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech) and UCCTS conference (Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies). Congratulations to all authors!
"Syntactic complexity in Scientific English: A diachronic perspective" by Marie-Pauline Krielke, Diego Alves and Luigi Talamo (Syntax Fest 2025, Paper)."The Interplay… [...]
On 30 May 2025, an article appeared in the Süddeutsche Zeitung which explores the question of why speech sounds change in some regions and remain stable in others. Felicitas Kleber, Professor of Speech Science at Saarland University's Language Science and Technology Department, has been interviewed for this article given her expertise in phonetics, diachronic sound change in general and synchronic variation in Bavarian in particular.
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