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Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1102 Information Density and Linguistic Encoding: investigating linguistic expectations and surprisal at Saarland University.
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SFB 1102 @1102sfb.bsky.social · Feb 25
This is the official account of SFB 1102 where we will keep you updated about coming events and talks.
For more information follow our website sfb1102.uni-saarland.de.
Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (IDeaL)
A collaborative research center that investigates the hypothesis that language use may be driven by the optimal use of the communication channel.
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We are proud to announce that the paper by Ariun-Erdene Tumurchuluun, Yusser Al Ghussin, David Mareček, Josef Van Genabith, Koel Dutta Chowdhury won the best paper award at the Multilingual Representation Learning 2025 WS at EMNLP 2025.

Many Congratulations!

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TenseLoC: Tense Localization and Control in a Multilingual LLM - SFB 1102
Multilingual language models excel across languages, yet how they internally encode grammatical tense remains largely unclear. We investigate how decoder-only transformers represent, transfer, and con...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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As part of its Emmy Noether program, the German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding Michael Hahn’s work with 1.4 million euros. Many congratulations to Michael Hahn on this great accomplishment!

More information here:
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Emmy Noether Grant awarded to Michael Hahn - SFB 1102
As part of its Emmy Noether program, the German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding Michael Hahn’s work with 1.4 million euros. The project entitled
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November 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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We are happy to announce our first talk of the semester in the #LangSci series by George Walkden from University of Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de on Thursday, November 6th!
The topic is "Implicational universals and a self-actuating gradient model of morphosyntactic change".
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October 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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We are proud to announce that the paper "MultiCoPIE: A Multilingual Corpus of Potentially Idiomatic Expressions for Cross-lingual PIE Disambiguation" by Uliana Sentsova, Debora Ciminari, Josef Van Genabith and Cristina España-Bonet won best paper award at MWE WS @ NAACL 2025.
Many Congratulations!
May 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Looking forward to our first #LangSci talk of the semester which is also part of our RAILS series: Micha Heilbron @mheilbron.bsky.social from the University of Amsterdam will give a talk on "Language models for cognitive neuroscience: Two success stories and a warning" May 8th at 16:15! #colloquium
April 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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We are happy to announce two #LangSci talks next week: Haim Dubossarsky from Queen Mary University of London on Tuesday (March 11th) at 3.30pm and
Jet Hoek from Radboud University Nijmegen on Friday (March 14th) at 9.15am!
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March 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Keynote by Annemarie Verkerk on "The evolutionary dynamics of language: universals, rates of change, and explanations" at 47th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society this week (March 4–7 2025).
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Verkerk – 47. DGfS-Jahrestagung: Vielfalt und Wandel
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March 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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This is the official account of SFB 1102 where we will keep you updated about coming events and talks.
For more information follow our website sfb1102.uni-saarland.de.
Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (IDeaL)
A collaborative research center that investigates the hypothesis that language use may be driven by the optimal use of the communication channel.
sfb1102.uni-saarland.de
February 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM