Lehrstuhl Demberg

Prof. Demberg gave a talk to Korean visiting students from the University of Seoul as part of UoS career Expedition.
Our lab are hosting a guest PhD student Yiyi Chen from Aalborg University (Denmark) from February to April 2026.
New PhD lab member from September 15, 2025: Welcome to Guifu Liu!
Our lab hosted guest student Ema Marušić from the University of Zagreb (Croatia) in September 2025.
Asad Sayeed (Gothenborg University, Sweden) gave a presentation "Political dogwhistles in the context of semantic change" on August 22, 11 a.m. in room 2.11, building C7 2.
Cesare Spinoso (McGill University and Mila, Canada) gave a talk “(RSA)²: A Rhetorical-Strategy-Aware Rational Speech Act Framework for Figurative Language Understanding” on July 24, 10 a.m. in room 2.11, building C7 2.
New PhD lab member from July 1st, 2025: Welcome to Ana Celmare!
Marian Marchal successfully defended her thesis today (March 13, 2025)! Congratulations, Dr. Marchal!
The Workshop on Individual Differences in Reading (IndiREAD) organized by our lab will take place at Saarland University on November 26-27, 2025. Fore more information, please, visit the workshop website.
Prof. Vera Demberg has been elected as a member of the academy of sciences and literature Mainz.
Prof. Vera Demberg has been awarded a Max Planck Fellowship at the MPI for Informatics -- from Jan 2024, she will also lead the research group on "Multimodal Language Processing" there.

Please see our new episode on the Podcast "As I see IT" and a newspaper article about it
Podcast "Kleins Sprachgespräch" features Vera Demberg in its new episode "Wenn Algorithmen texten -- Wie spricht KI mit uns?" (via spotify)
We're on TV! (in German)
Lecture at the children's university (Kinderuni)

Computational Cognitive Modelling
Experimental Psycholinguistics
Information-theoretic Models of Language Processing
Coherence Relations in Text, Pragmatics
Natural Language Generation
Multimodal Language Processing (Language and Vision / Language and Body Language)

Individualized Interaction in Discourse, (newspaper article) (ERC-STG 948878; Feb 2021- Jan 2026)
Cognitive Modelling of Information Density for Discourse Relations (SFB 1102, B2; Oct 2014 - June 2026)
Adapting text generation to individual users (SFB 1102, A8; July 2022 - June 2026)
Safe Handover in Mixed-Initiative Control (SFB - TR 248, E2; Jan 2019 - Dez 2026)
Cooperative User Interfaces as Rational Agents (SFB - TR 248, E6; Jan 2023 - Dez 2026)
DFG Research Training Group on Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action (RTG 2853; Oct 2023 - Sep 2028)

Modelling the Information Density of Event Sequences in Texts (SFB 1102, A3; Oct 2014 - June 2022)
Language Comprehension and Cognitive Control Demands:
Adapting Information Density to Changing Situations and Individual Users (SFB 1102, A4; Oct 2014 - June 2022)