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ACL 2024 Awards for LST Contributions!

Two contributions from our department were awarded prizes at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024).

Best Paper Award: “Why are Sensitive Functions Hard for Transformers?” by Michael Hahn and Mark Rofin Best Resource Paper Award: „AppWorld: A Controllable World of Apps and People for Benchmarking Interactive Coding Agents“ by Harsh Trivedi, Tushar Khot, Mareike Hartmann*, Ruskin Manku, Vinty Dong, Edward Li,… [...]

There have been changes to the administrative team of the Erasmus Mundus Master's degree program "Language and Communication Technologies" (LCT). The management of the global coordination has changed from Tanja Bäumel to Evgeniya Ustinova. There has also been a change in administration: from Anna Felsing to Caroline Schuler. Evgeniya and Caroline now work in building A2.2. in R. 3.19.

A big thank you to Tanja and Anna for their work and a warm welcome to Evgeniya and Caroline!

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We are pleased to announce that Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb has been elected President of the Special Interest Group on Humanities Computing (SIGHUM) within the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

In her new role, Stefania will lead efforts to bridge computational analysis and humanistic inquiry, advancing the innovative intersection of these fields. Her extensive experience in Digital Humanities and interdisciplinary projects will be instrumental in driving SIGHUM's mission…

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We are proud to announce that the paper
"AAdaM at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Augmentation and Adaptation for Multilingual Semantic Textual Relatedness" from Miaoran Zhang, Mingyang Wang, Jesujoba O. Alabi and Dietrich Klakow has won the Best System Description Paper Award at NAACL 2024

Congratulations to all authors!

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The 33rd edition of the Conference for Computational Linguistics Students (TaCoS) was successfully held at the UdS in 2024. From May 16 to 18, more than 60 participants were able to exchange ideas, listen to 12 exciting lectures and attend 4 keynote talks by professors and lecturers as well as a panel discussion.

The speakers provided an exciting and wide-ranging program, from the automatic generation of source code to language transformation and language models. The keynote talks by scientists…

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On June 13, 2024 the president's office awarded PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb the title " Apl. professor". Our warmest congratulations!

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We are very proud to announce that the MA programme ‘Translation Science and Technology’ has been admitted to the renowned European Master’s in Translation network (EMT). EMT is a network of master’s degree programmes in the field of translation that aims at improving the quality of translator training and providing graduates with assistance for a successful career start. The membership in the EMT network is a quality mark for translation-related master’s degree programmes since the European…

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Starting from the winter term 2024/25, the M.A. programme “Translation Science and Technology” will be available as an international double degree. The students of the double degree will study at the University of Saarland during the first two semesters and then spend the second academic year at one of the partner universities. After completing their studies, they will receive two independent degrees. At the moment, the following universities participate in the double degree programme:…

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In collaboration with the National High Performance Computing (NHR), Saarland University will hold a In-Context Learning workshop on June 12th from 2 pm to 5 pm, organized by Paloma García de Herreros García, Israel A. Azime and Miaoran Zhang. This workshop can help people from all backgrounds explore the capabilities of LLMs. There will be a brief introduction on the topic focusing on a multilingual approach, followed by a hands-on session,  where people can utilize several NLP tasks to analyze…

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We are proud to announce that the paper "When your Rich Cousin Has the Right Connections: Unsupervised Bilingual  Lexicon Induction for Related Data-Imbalanced Languages." from Niyati Bafna, Cristina España-Bonet, Josef van Genabith, Benoît Sagot and Rachel Bawden has won the best student paper award at LREC-Coling 2024.

Congratulations to Niyati Bafna and her co authors!

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