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).
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
mlt-sek@dfki.de
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI)
Campus D3 2
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
