Infrastructure

The following equipment / services are available at CLaCC:

Spoken language research:

• recording studio for professional quality speech recordings
• sound recording booth suitable for dialogue recordings
• digital mixer and control software multi-channel recordings (e.g., speech, laryngograph and respiration signals
• dialogue lab equipped with microphone arrays and dedicated audio processing devices to research new algorithms for spoken human-computer interaction

Psycholinguistics / Psychology:

• three EyeLink 1000+ and a head-mounted eye tracker, also from EyeLink
• two EEG labs with up to 64 channels (MES); one of the labs is equipped with a recording booth
• one EEG lab without a cabin, access to EEG lab equipped with a cabin

Corpus Linguistics

• Numerous corpora for various languages (e.g. English, German, Russian, Ukranian, Kyrgyz), time periods and registers
• Access to free corpora from https://corpora.clarin-d.uni-saarland.de/cqpweb/ (upon registration)
• Analysis and visualization tools (see word cloud below: spoken vs. written language, EU Parliament)

Computing:

• Access to several GPU clusters
• Access to UdS HPC (https://hpc.uni-saarland.de/)

Research Data Management:

• NFDI: https://text-plus.org/
• Open Science: https://www.uni-saarland.de/verwaltung/open-science.html