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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

2024/25

Referent Zugehörigkeit Titel Datum
Günter Neumann DFKI AtLas: AI based Natural Language Processing of Low Quality and Multilingual Data in Defence Applications with User Adaptation February 18, 2025
Daniil Gurgurov DFKI GrEmLIn: A Repository of Green Baseline Embeddings for 87 Low-Resource Languages Injected with Multilingual Graph Knowledge February 11, 2025
Cennet Oguz DFKI MuJo: Multimodal Joint Feature Space Learning for Human Activity Recognition February 4, 2025
Vitalii Hirak Universität des Saarlandes Explaining Machine Translation Difficulty in the Age of Massively Multilingual Models: A Study of the Impact of Fine-Grained Typological Features and Beam Size on State-of-the-Art NMT (MSc Thesis Defense) January 28, 2025
Prajvi Saxena DFKI Streamlining LLMs: Adaptive Knowledge Distillation for Tailored Language Models. January 21, 2025
Julian Schlenker DFKI On the Efficacy of Language Adapters for Cross-lingual Transfer in English-centric LLMs (MSc Thesis Defense) January 14, 2025
Bangyao Tang DFKI Analysis of Calibrated Confident Text Classification (MSc Thesis Defense) December 10, 2024
Gabriele Merlin Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Language models and brains align due to more than next-word prediction and word-level information November 19, 2024
Xinting Huang Universität des Saarlandes InversionView: A General-Purpose Method for Reading Information from Neural Activations November 12, 2024
Vagrant Gautam Universität des Saarlandes Understanding "Democratization" in NLP and ML Research November 5, 2024
Ivan Vykopal Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT) Soft Prompts for Language Transfer October 22, 2024
Johannes Ruf, David Riebschläger DFKI Workshop: Efficient Hosting of Large Language Models with GH200 and vLLM October 15, 2024
Robert Belanec Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT) Multi-Task Soft-Prompt Transfer for LLMs via Task Prompt Vectors October 8, 2024
Tatiana Anikina, Arne Binder DFKI DFKI-MLST at DialAM-2024 Shared Task: System Description (+ more experimental results) October 1, 2024
Shakib Yazdani DFKI Continual Learning in Multilingual Sign Language Translation September 24, 2024
Yasser Hamidullah DFKI Sign Language Translation with Sentence Embedding Supervision September 17, 2024
Miaoran Zhang Universität des Saarlandes The Impact of Demonstrations on Multilingual In-Context Learning: A Multidimensional Analysis September 10, 2024
Vagrant Gautam, Marius Mosbach Universität des Saarlandes From Insights to Actions: The Impact of Interpretability and Analysis Research on NLP September 3, 2024
Jenny Kunz Linköpings Universiteit Properties and Challenges of LLM-Generated Explanations August 27, 2024
Daniil Gurgurov DFKI Adapting Multilingual LLMs to Low-Resource Languages with Knowledge Graphs via Adapters August 20, 2024
Noon Pokaratsiri DFKI Towards Understanding Attention-based Reasoning through Graph Structures in Medical Codes Classification August 6, 2024
Yusser Al Ghussin DFKI Semantic Search with DAM July 30, 2024
Martin Courtois DFKI Symmetric Dot-Product Attention for Efficient Training of BERT Language Models July 23, 2024
Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Maria Kunilovskaya Universität des Saarlandes Symmetric Dot-Product Attention for Efficient Training of BERT Language ModelsMitigating Translationese with GPT-4: Strategies and Performance July 16, 2024
Johannes Leveling Fraunhofer IAIS Training Large Language Models in OpenGPT-X July 9, 2024
Ivana Beňová Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT) Beyond Image-Text Matching: Probing Understanding in Multimodal Transformers July 2, 2024
Michal Gregor, Ivan Vykopal Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT) Introducing KInIT and Our Work in NLP June 18, 2024
Rafael Tolosana Calasanz Universidad Zaragoza The AI4Europe Reproducibility Initiative & The AI on Demand Platform June 11, 2024
Kurt Micallef, Kurt Abela University of Malta NLG & MT Developments for Maltese June 4, 2024
Philipp Müller DFKI Multi-modal Conversation Analysis May 28, 2024
Tatiana Anikina, Nils Feldhus DFKI LLMCheckup: Conversational Examination of Large Language Models via Interpretability Tools and Self-Explanations May 21, 2024
Koel Dutta Chowdhury Universität des Saarlandes A Representation Learning Based Approach To The Study of Translationese May 14, 2024
Yuekun Yao Universität des Saarlandes Simple and effective data augmentation for compositional generalization May 7, 2024
Yasser Hamidullah DFKI Gloss-free Spatio-Temporal Sign Language representation April 30, 2024
Jan Niehues Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Multilingual Support in the Era of Foundation Models April 23, 2024
Fabrizio Nunnari DFKI Representation and Synthesis of Sign Language: the MultiModal Signstream concept April 16, 2024
Stalin Varanasi, Umer Butt DFKI AIden: A Student Assistant for navigating course material April 9, 2024
Doreen Osmelak Universität des Saarlandes Code-Switching in German-English: The Role of Shared Lexical Items (MSc Thesis Defense) March 12, 2024

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