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Multilinguality and Language Technology

The research department Multilinguality and Language Technology (MLT) in Saarbrücken is headed by Prof. Dr. Josef van Genabith.

MLT covers the following main topics: Machine Translation (MT), Question Answering and Information Extraction Systems (QAIE), Talking Robots (TR), and Efficient and Explainable Natural Language Processing (E&E).

  • MT group: Machine translation between texts and from text to sign language;
  • QAIE group: Highly scalable text analysis and, based on this, question-answering and information extraction systems;
  • TR group: Dialog processing for human-robot collaboration and for teamwork support. Basic dialog technologies as well as applications, e.g., for disaster response management and health care;
  • E&E group: Efficient and explainable NLP models.

We work with machine learning and knowledge-based approaches. Besides basic research, MLT is strongly involved in contract research and industrial projects. 

At Saarland University, members of the MLT group are involved in leading positions in SFB 1102 (Information Density and Linguistic Encoding, subproject B6), a DFG project on multi-modal interfaces for post-editing of MT results (MMPE), and the “Erasmus Mundus European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies” (LCT).

Talks at MLT-Meetings

2023/24

Referent Zugehörigkeit Titel Datum
Reinhard Karger DFKI There is no wisdom ex machina February 13, 2024
Nils Feldhus, Eleftherios Avramidis DFKI A (very) biased Overview of the Hot & Odd at EMNLP 2023 (pt. 2) February 6, 2024
Anna Kenter Universität des Saarlandes DagGER-BERT: On the representation of derivational morphology in German pretrained language models January 30, 2024
Michael Hahn Universität des Saarlandes Theoretical Limitations of Transformers January 23, 2024
Cennet Oguz, Tanja Bäumel, Soniya Vijakkumar DFKI A (very) biased Overview of the Hot & Odd at EMNLP 2023 January 16, 2024
Axel Pichler, Janis Pagel Universität Stuttgart Evaluating In-Context Learning for Computational Literary Studies: A Case Study Based on the Automatic Recognition of Knowledge Transfer in German Drama January 9, 2024
Gokul Srinivasagan DFKI Extreme model compression for large-scale transformer-based language models December 19, 2023
Noon Goldstein DFKI Towards Understanding the Role of Graph Structures in Medical Codes Classification December 5, 2023
Nils Feldhus DFKI InterroLang: Exploring NLP Models and Datasets through Dialogue-based Explanations November 28, 2023
Rricha Jalota Universität des Saarlandes Translating away Translationese without Parallel Data November 21, 2023
Xudong Hong Universität des Saarlandes Do large language models and humans have similar behaviors in causal inference with script knowledge? November 14, 2023
Chia-Chien Hung NEC Labs Europe Adapting Language Models for Domains, Languages, and Social Dimensions November 7, 2023
Cennet Oguz DFKI Find2Find: Multitask Learning for Anaphora Resolution and Object Localization Ocotber 31, 2023
Annalena Kohnert Universität des Saarlandes Exploring Mention Representations for Coreference Resolution in Dialogue October 24, 2023
Wissam Antoun Inria Unmasking Artificial Content: Experiments in AI-generated Text Attribution Ocotber 17, 2023
Tatiana Anikina, Natalia Skachkova DFKI Multilingual Coreference Resolution: Adapt and Generate – CRAC 2023 Shared Task Ocotber 10, 2023
Angana Borah Universität des Saarlandes Measuring Spurious Correlation in Classification: "Clever Hans" in Translationese September 26, 2023
Guiling Niu Zhengzhou University Auto-Encoding Questions with Retrieval Augmented Decoding for September 12
Stalin Varanasi DFKI Unsupervised Passage Retrieval and Zero-shot Question Generation September 5, 2023

Management

 

Head:
Prof. Dr. Josef van Genabith
josef.van_genabith@dfki.de
Phone.: +49 681 85775 5287

Deputy Head:
Prof. Dr. Günter Neumann
guenter.neumann@dfki.de​​​​​​​
Phone.: +49 681 85775 5298

 

Contact

Office:
Phone: +49 681 85775 5292

Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI)
Campus D3 2
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany