Four academic publications have received awards

We are proud to announce that four papers from our department have won awards in various categories.
Congratulations to all the authors!

• Best Paper Award bei CMCL  2026
  “Correlating Language Model Surprisal With Cloze and Plausibility: Getting the Best of Both Measures”. By
  Kate Rebecca Belcher, Matthew W. Crocker. 
   
• Honorable Mention Award at  CMCL 2026
  “Is Cross-Lingual Transfer in Bilingual Models Human-Like? A Study with Overlapping Word Forms in Dutch and English” By
  Iza Škrjanec, Irene Elisabeth Winther, Vera Demberg, and Stefan L. Frank.
   
• Best Student Paper Award at AAMAS 2026 
  Planning Ahead with RSA: Efficient Signalling in Dynamic Environments by Projecting User Awareness across Future Timesteps". By
  Anwesha Das, John Duff, Jörg Hoffmann, and Vera Demberg.
   

• Best Paper Award at the 1st International Workshop on IPA 2026 workshop at CVPR 2026 
  “MIBURI: Towards Expressive Interactive Gesture Synthesis”. By
  M. Hamza Mughal, Rishabh Dabral, Vera Demberg, and Christian Theobalt.