Projects
Area A
Situational Context and World Knowledge
| Project | Title | Keywords | Principal Investigators |
|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | Script-based Surprisal in On-Line Comprehension | comprehension, scripts, schemas, events, discourse, surprisal, event-related potentials, eye-tracking | Matthew Crocker |
| A2 | Script Knowledge for Modelling Semantic Expectation | computational linguistics, crowdsourcing, script knowledge, world knowledge, script mining, distributional models | Manfred Pinkal Stefan Thater |
| A3 | Modelling the Information Density of Event Sequences in Texts | psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, crowdsourcing, script knowledge, world knowledge, cognitive modeling, predictability | Stefan Thater Vera Demberg Manfred Pinkal |
| A4 | Language Comprehension and Cognitive Control Demands: Adapting Information Density to Changing Situations and Individual Users | ID and channel capacity, language comprehension, aging, dual tasking, driving simulation, natural language generation, dialog systems, psycholinguistics | Jutta Kray Vera Demberg Dietrich Klakow |
| A5 | Distributing Referential Information across Modalities | psycholinguistics | Maria Staudte |
Area B
Discourse and Register
| Project | Title | Keywords | Principal Investigators |
|---|---|---|---|
| B1 | Information Density and Scientific Literacy in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives | diachronic linguistics, scientific discourse, register variation, relative information density | Elke Teich Hannah Kermes |
| B2 | Cognitive Modelling of Information Density for Discourse Relations | psycholinguistics, computational modelling, discourse relations | Vera Demberg |
| B3 | Information Density and Fragments in German | corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, ellipsis, fragments, German linguistics | Ingo Reich |
| B4 | Modeling and Measuring Information Density | language modelling, long range dependencies, memory | Dietrich Klakow |
| B5 | The Extraction of Complex Information and Encoding Density (EXCITED) | computational linguistics, relation extraction, distant supervision | Hans Uszkoreit |
| B6 | Aspects of Information Density in Human and Machine Translation | machine translation | Josef van Genabith |
Area C
Variation in Linguistic Encoding
| Project | Title | Keywords | Principal Investigators |
|---|---|---|---|
| C1 | Information Density and the Predictability of Phonetic Structure | phonetics, speech processing, syllable structure, collocations | Bernd Möbius |
| C3 | Information and Encoding Density in Comprehension and Production | comprehension, production, encoding, linear order, syntactic variation, surprisal, event-related potentials, eye-tracking | Matthew Crocker Ingo Reich |
| C4 | Mutual Intelligibility and Surprisal in Slavic Intercomprehension (INCOMSLAV) | intercomprehension, Slavistiks, cross-lingual surprisal | Tania Avgustinova Roland Marti Dietrich Klakow |
| C5 | Information Density Aware Text-to-Speech Synthesis | text-to-speech synthesis, voicebuilding, acoustic correlates of information density | Ingmar Steiner |