The Department of Language Science and Technology at the Saarland University is gaining a new professor: On October 1, 2026, Marius Mosbach will join the department as Professor of Language Science and Technology and build a new research group.

Of the mere five ERC Starting Grants awarded to Germany in the field of computer science, one has gone to Saarbrücken-based computational linguist Michael Hahn. With his research project “REALM: Found...

Die drei Top-Themen der Sendung im Überblick: Saarland Versicherungen bereiten Alternativangebote zur Riester-Rente vor, Martin Grasmück bleibt Intendant des Saarländischen Rundfunks und Neuer „Saar P...

Prediction is central to both expectation-based theories of human language processing (such as Surprisal Theory), and the objective of neural network-based causal language models, where upcoming token...

Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) aim to emulate human face-to-face interaction through speech, gestures, and facial expressions. Current large language model (LLM)-based conversational agents lac...

Bilingual speakers show cross-lingual activation during reading, especially for words with shared surface form. Cognates (friends) typically lead to facilitation, whereas interlingual homographs (fals...

Even the most advanced AI language models – known as large language models – can go badly astray on logic-based tasks. Calculations may be wrong, sequences misordered, or the AI may hallucinate and fa...

Prof. Dr. Vera Demberg brings new perspectives

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KI-Modelle à la ChatGPT machen trotz ihrer enormen Qualitäten noch bemerkenswerte Fehler. Der Saarbrücker Computerlinguist Michael Hahn glaubt zu wissen, woran das liegt.

saarland_informatics_campus🔥 Last week, students from Computer Science and Language Science and Technology came together for a torchlight procession to show their support for Prof. Dr. Alexander Koller, who has received a call from another university.💬 “I am extremely grateful to the students for this remarkable sign of appreciation,” says Alexander Koller. “Torchlight processions are a beautiful tradition in Saarbrücken computer science, and I feel deeply honored that so many students have taken up this tradition in our field as well.”📷 🔗 Swipe left for more impressions from the evening and read more from the link in our bio!@fs_info_uds @uni_saarland @cbi_saar @dfki_official @mathematik_uds @fsmatheuds #saarlandinformaticscampus #saarlanduniversity #computationallinguistics

Vor einigen Jahren schrieb Alexander Koller, Saarbrücker Professor für Computerlinguistik, mit einer US-Kollegin ein berühmtes Paper, in dem sie die Grenzen von KI-Sprachmodellen aufzeigten. ChatGPT &...

Despite their great diversity, human languages are shaped by recurring grammatical universals. Verkerk et al. show that about one-third of the proposed universals hold cross-linguistically through ana...

Die Bayern sind bekannt für ihr gerolltes Zungenspitzen-R. Vor 300 Jahren war das noch anders: Da wurde im gesamten deutschsprachigen Raum noch fleißig gerollt. Dann wanderte das R von der Zungenspitz...