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The Research Committee of the UdS is funding Dr. Andrea Wurm's book project on the Saarlor Coal Union with over 8,000 euros. It is a project in the Digital Humanities, specifically the processing of bilingual French-German meeting minutes from the council of the binational coal sales company of the state mining industry in Saarland and Lorraine. With the support of research assistants these are to be transcribed, annotated, aligned and made searchable as an electronic corpus. In addition,…

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The project led by Prof. Dr. Tania Avgustinova was supported by the UdS Internationalization Fund with 25,000 EUR to further develop and consolidate academic cooperation within the Transform4Europe alliance, where Dr. Irina Stenger is the contact person and coordinator for the LST department. The goal is to uncover, empirically support and dynamically shape multimodal multilingual communicative skills in students. A central concern is to optimize the individual potential for successful…

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We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Tania Avgustinova’s research project SaarLing (01.05.2025-31.12.2025) is approved within the LFFP Open Call. SaarLing will contribute to the exploration of linguistic diversity in our border region. At the same time it provides scientific and practical insights for the efficient promotion of academic and everyday multilingualism in the context of social and technological transformations in Saarland. At the heart of the project is the endeavor to…

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Our delegates Rainer Egler, Léon Jost and Fadia Sauerwein represented the department for a second time at the EXPOLINGUA language fair in Berlin, a hub for language enthusiasts in education and training, for cultural exchange and for international opportunities to learn and work.
The many visitors had the chance to talk to more than 50 exhibitors in total, including the European Commission, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the German Federal Association of Interpreters and Translators, as well…

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On November 21–22, 2024, a workshop on Slavic prosody will be held at the department. The event aims to bring together researchers in this field to present their current projects and findings and to discuss new ideas and proposals for the development of academic networks.

The workshop is organized by Bistra Andreeva and has been made possible through the financial support of the Mangold Fund. Further details about the program and participants can be found here.

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Following the admission of the Master's program Translation Science and Technology into the prestigious EU network European Master's in Translation (EMT), the official certificate was presented in Brussels on October 24.

Dr. Mihaela Vela accepted the certificate on behalf of the “Translation Science and Technology” program from Christos Ellinides, Director-General for Translation at the European Commission.

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After last year's extremely positive experience, Fadia Sauerwein and Rainer Egler will once again be representing our department at EXPOLINGUA (November 15th - 16th in Berlin), the event dedicated to languages, cultures, and international education. This time our team will be strengthened by our student Léon Jost. We will be promoting our study programs in general and especially the Master's program in Translation Science and Technology. Click here for the highlights of the trade fair.

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We are happy to announce that four papers by members of our department have been accepted at the  SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) 2024 and the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024.
Congratulations to all authors, especially to our Master students Yash Sarrof and Yana Veitsmann!

CoNLL:

“Lossy Context Surprisal Predicts Task-Dependent Patterns in Relative Clause Processing” by Kate McCurdy and Michael Hahn.

NeurIPS: 

“Separation… [...]

Numerous scientific publications from our department were accepted at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2024.
Congratulations to all authors!

"Strengthening Structural Inductive Biases by Pre-training to Perform Syntactic Transformations." by Matthias Lindemann, Alexander Koller and Ivan Titov.
Proceedings (EMNLP)."Toward Compositional Behavior in Neural Models: A Survey of Current Views." by Kate McCurdy, Paul Soulos and Paul Smolensky.
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We are proud to announce that the paper "InversionView: A General-Purpose Method for Reading Information from Neural Activations." by Xinting Huang, Madhur Panwar, Navin Goyal and Michael Hahn has won second prize at the ICML 2024 Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop. 

Congratulations to all authors!

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