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Dr. Nurgul Karybekova and Dr.  Jumagul Nurakun Kyzy, lecturers from Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), have visited our department and given two lectures during their stay at the UdS:

‘DH and Kyrgyz Oral Literature: New Perspectives Enabled by the Kyrgyz Corpus Project at Saarland University’ (Dr Nurgul Karybekova);‘Kyrgyz NLP in the Era of AI: Opportunities and Obstacles’ (Dr Jumagul Nurakun Kyzy).

The visit was part of the KA171 ERASMUS cooperation between the two…

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Led by Dr. Marie-Pauline Krielke and in collaboration with Dra. María López-Medel from the University of Alicante and two student assistants, the new research project “GILDEES” funded with nearly €20,000 from internationalization grants is being launched. Building on the successful cooperation from the previous project “Gender Bias in Translation,” this study now focuses on examining the use of gender-inclusive language (GIL) in a Spanish-German comparison.

During the funding phase, a…

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Our department has five contributions accepted at ICAME46, SIGHUM2025 and DH2025. Congratulations to all authors!

“Automatic identification and functional classification of multi-word expressions for diachronic analysis of scientific English” by Diego Alves, Stefan Fischer and Elke Teich (ICAME46, Abstract).“Does Text Simplification Affect the Use of Multi-word Expressions? A Corpus-Based Analysis of English Biomedical Abstracts” by Sergei Bagdasarov, Elke Teich and Diego Alves (ICAME46,… [...]

Valentin Kany received the best student paper award at the ESSV conference 2025 for his paper "Annotation of disfluencies in child speech", co-authored by Valentin and Jürgen Trouvain.

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From the 4th of March to the 7th of March, the 47th conference of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) took place at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz. Our Jun.-Prof. Dr. Annemarie Verkerk, delivered one of the plenaries on the topic of "The evolutionary dynamics of language: universals, rates of change, and explanations.".

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On February 13, 2025 Felicitas Kleber received the appointment letter to become a university professor and will officially take over from Prof. Bernd Möbius on April 1. 

The Ministry of Finance and Science and Campus-Magazin have reported on this. 

We congratulate her sincerely and look forward to the new contributions in research and teaching!

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We are happy to announce that several contributions by members of our department have been accepted at NoDaLiDa and LLMs for HPSS. Congratulations to all authors!

“Predictability of Microsyntactic Units across Slavic Languages: A translation-based Study” by Maria Kunilovskaya, Iuliia Zaitova, Wei Xue, Irina Stenger and Tania Avgustinova (NoDaLiDa, Paper).“Diachronic Analysis of Phrasal Verbs in English Scientific Writing” by Diego Alves (NoDaLiDa, Paper).“Towards Interpretable Models: Bridging… [...]

In an article in the Saarbrücker Zeitung on 10.02.2025, Prof. Josef van Genabith highlights the growing role of AI-supported translations, which are intended to supplement but not replace human translators. Prof. van Genabith conducts research at DFKI in Saarbrücken on the optimization of machine translation, particularly in the field of neural language models. His team is investigating efficient methods for less common languages and the explainability of AI models in order to make their…

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Several papers of our department were accepted at the  Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025 (NAACL 2025).
Congratulations to all authors!

“ProverbEval: Exploring LLM Evaluation Challenges for Low-resource Language Understanding.” by Israel Abebe Azime, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Yonas Chanie, Bontu Fufa Balcha, Negasi Haile Abadi, Henok Biadglign Ademtew, Mulubrhan Abebe Nerea, Debela Desalegn Yadeta,… [...]

We are happy to announce that papers by members of our department have been accepted at the 23rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2025) and the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025).
Congratulations to all authors!
 

PerCom 2025

“MuJo: Multimodal Joint Feature Space Learning for Human Activity Recognition.”  by Stefan Gerd Fritsch*, Cennet Oguz*, Vitor Fortes Rey, Lala Ray, M Kiefer-Emmanouilidis and Paul Lukowicz.
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