News
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.
New SFB Research Project approved
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the Research Project B6 – Aspects of Information Density in Human and Machine Translation as of August 1st 2015. The Project will be coordinated by Prof. Josef van Genabith.
More details coming soon.
UdS Graduate Centre inaugurated
On Monday, Saarland University opened its new Graduate Centre as a building in which young scientists will be able to work and organise meetings or small conferences. The opening ceremony for the Graduate Centre, which brought together researchers from all disciplines under the heading “Science and Humanities in the Digital World“, included a talk by SFB speaker Elke Teich entitled “Language – Text – Information” (Please click here for the presentation slides).
For further information on the new Graduate Centre, please click here.
Radio interview with Elke Teich
In an interview with radio station SR 2 aired on April 16, Elke Teich gave an overview of the research conducted in the SFB 1102. You can access the audio file of the interview here.
Elke Teich nominated by DFG to join AcademiaNet
AcademiaNet is an international expert database for outstanding female academics run by Robert Bosch Stiftung. It was launched by Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel in 2010 to gather the profiles of the most highly qualified women in their fields. Membership is by invitation only.