News | SFB1102: Information Density and Linguistic Encoding

– New website of the projects IGEL and EULE

Aug 5, 2019

Project A5 has a new website on their projects IGEL and EULE: https://kindersprachlabor.wordpress.com/

– B1 publishes new article in Corpus Linguistics and Lingustic Theory

Jun 19, 2019

New journal article by members of project B1 “Toward an optimal code for communication: The case of scientific English” published in Corpus Linguistics and Lingustic Theory.

The full article can be found here.

– Welcome to Prof Marc Swerts (Tilburg University)

Jun 6, 2019

SFB 1102 proudly welcomes Marc Swerts, professor in the Department of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University, recipient of the Humboldt Research Award, which funds his current and return visits to Saarbrücken and collaborations with the Department of Language Science and Technology and SFB 1102.

Marc Swerts is an international authority in speech communication research. He analyzes spoken language in conjunction with visual communicative expressions (face, hand, body), using innovative methods to elicit natural conversational speech data and studying the social and contextual factors that cause variation in linguistic systems. During his stay in Germany, he focuses on functional and interactive approaches to model both human-human and human-machine interactions.

– Conference RAILS 2019: Submissions open 1 May

Apr 30, 2019

Submissions for the conference on Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS) open on 1 May!

Submission will be considered for either oral or poster presentation.
Details on the submission format and procedure are available at the conference web-page.

– Conference RAILS 2019: First Call for Papers

Mar 14, 2019

Conference on

Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS)

24-26 October, 2019

Saarbruecken, Germany

For more information, please click here.

– Welcome to Assoc. Prof. Dr Aida Kasieva (Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University)

Feb 14, 2019

Assoc. Prof. Dr Aida Kasieva teaches Translation at Manas University in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. During her stay (15 Dec – 11 Mar) she plans to research Translation Quality Assessment and Register Analysis of the Pragmatic Aspects of Kyrgyz and German Lit-erature into English. As a concrete and sustainable output of her stay Kyrgyz data will be hosted at our certified CLARIN-D centre. Her stay is supported by the DAAD.