SFB 1102

"Time to move on": As of today we are joining Saarland University and are withdrawing from the platform X. You can stay up to date through our website sfb1102.uni-saarland.de or follow us on BlueSky bsky.app/profile/1102sf….

Looking forward to our first #LangSci talk of 2025: Shiri Lev-Ari @shirilevari from Royal Holloway, University of London @RoyalHolloway will give a talk on "Language from a social networks perspective" Thursday, January 23rd, at 16:15! #colloquium

Our next talk in the #LangSci series by Wing-Yee Chow from University College London @ucl will be online only on Thursday, December 12th! The title of the talk is "Incremental prediction in real-time language comprehension: from meaning to pitch contour". #colloquium

We are looking forward to our next talk in the #LangSci series: "The Role of Joint Embodiment in Situated Language-Based Interactions" by Alane Suhr @alsuhr from UC Berkeley EECS @Berkeley_EECS on Thursday, November 28th! #colloquium

We are happy to announce our next talk in the special RAILS #LangSci series by Yang Xu from University of Toronto @UofT on "Evolution of the lexicon" Thursday, November 14th at 16:15! #colloquium

Looking forward to our next #LangSci talk: Livio Gaeta from Università di Torino @unito will give a talk on "Between Productivity and Creativity: Snowclones we live by" November 7th at 16:15! #colloquium

We are happy to announce our next talk in our special RAILS series by Benjamin Bergen from UC San Diego @UCSanDiego on Thursday, October 24th at 16:15! The topic is "Large Language Models are impressive but we still need grounding to explain human cognition". #colloquium

Looking forward to our first #LangSci talk of the semester: Amalia Arvaniti @AmaliaArvaniti from Radboud University @CLSRadboud will give a talk on "What can cross-linguistic research on spontaneous speech tell us about intonation meaning?" October 17th at 16:15! #colloquium

Don't forget to submit your abstract to the 2nd edition of the conference on "Rational Approaches in Language Science" (RAILS)! Submission deadline is 16th September! ⏰ More information: sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/sfb-conference… For inquiries, please send an email to rails2025@lst.uni-saarland.de

Congratulations to @OrtliebStefania for her election as President of the Special Interest Group on Humanities Computing within the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)! More information here: sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/news/stefania-…

We are happy to announce our next talk in the #LangSci series by Luigi Grisoni from Freie Universität Berlin @FU_Berlin on Thursday, July 18th! This talk will take place only online! #colloquium

Looking forward to our next #LangSci talk: Christopher Sapp from Indiana University Bloomington @IUBloomington will give a talk on "Length and word order within Noun Phrases in Early New High German Noun" next week, June 20th at 16:15! #colloquium

We are happy to announce our next talk "Individual variation in perceptual and usage-based chunking" in the #LangSci series by Svetlana Vetchinnikova @s_vetchinnikova from University of Helsinki @HCollegium next Thursday, June 13th! #colloquium

Looking forward to our next #LangSci talk: Shubhra Kanti Karmaker @karmake2 from Auburn University @AuburnU will give a talk on "Democratizing AI through Controlled Narrative Generation and Knowledge Grounding" Thursday, June 6th, at 16:15! #colloquium

We are happy to announce two #LangSci talks next week: Pr. Dr. Niels Taatgen from University of Groningen @univgroningen on Wednesday, April 24th at 10 am, and Byung-Doh Oh @byungdoh from The Ohio State University on Thursday, April 25th at 4pm! #colloquium

Looking forward to our first #LangSci talk of the semester: Steffen Eger @egere14 from University of Mannheim will give a talk on "Syntactic language change in English and German" April 18th at 16:15! #colloquium

🌟PhD Alert 2 ‘Diachronic development of text types in the English language’ 🗓️Deadline to apply: April 15th 2024 Please share! @SighumSocial @LstSaar @1102Sfb @DHCooperation @C2DH_LU @DH_FBK @mcgilldigihum

We are happy to announce the next talk in the #LangSci series by Michael Franke from University of Tübingen @uni_tue on Tuesday, March 19th at 10:00 am! The topic is "Cognitive & Language Sciences in the age of Large Language Models". #colloquium

Many thanks to our Mercator Fellow Arielle Borovsky from Purdue University @LifeAtPurdue for today's great talk on „Building semantic networks in the early lexicon“ in our LangSci series! #LangSci #colloquium

Many thanks to James Michaelov @jamichaelov from Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego @CogSciUCSD for the great talk in our most recent #LangSci colloquium. #colloquium