News
– C4 publishes new article in Computer Speech & Language
A new article by the members of project C4 entitled “Language models, surprisal and fantasy in Slavic intercomprehension” has been published in Computer Speech & Language.
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– C1 publishes new article in Frontiers in Communication
A new article by the members of project C1 entitled “Dimensions of segmental variability: interaction of prosody and surprisal in six languages” has been published in Frontiers in Communication.
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– Saarbrücker Zeitung reports on SFB 1102 IDeaL
In an interview with Saarbrücker Zeitung, Elke Teich gave an overview of the research conducted in the SFB 1102.
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– Second Phase of SFB 1102 IDeAL approved
The collaborative research centre 1102 “Information Denstity and Linguistic Encoding”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), has been granted approx. 11 million euros for a four-year extension starting in July 2018. The CRC directed by Elke Teich brings together around 60 scientists from the fields of Linguistics, Psychology and Computer Science to investigate the hypothesis that language variation and language use can be better understood in terms of a speaker’s desire to rationally distribute information across the linguistic signal.
– Published article about Katrin Menzel‘s research on the “Philosophical Transactions”
Saarland University’s online magazine „Campus“ has published an article about Katrin Menzel (Project B1: Information Density and Scientific Literacy in English – Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives) and her group’s research on how scientific English has changed over the years, based on an analysis of the first 200 editions of the “Philosophical Transactions” of the Royal Society of London, the world’s first science journal.
The full article can be found here.
Newly published overview article on IDeaL
Abstract
We introduce IDeaL (Information Density and Linguistic Encoding), a collaborative research center that investigates the hypothesis that language use may be driven by the optimal use of the communication channel. From the point of view of linguistics, our approach promises to shed light on selected aspects of language variation that are hitherto not sufficiently explained. Applications of our research can be envisaged in various areas of natural language processing and AI, including machine translation, text generation, speech synthesis and multimodal interfaces.
The full article can be found here.