Vortrag von Stephan Busemann (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz)

Wir freuen uns einen Vortrag von Stephan Busemann (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz) anzukündigen. Titel: Warum Maschinelle Übersetzung das kann, was sie kann Zeit: 13. Dezember, 14-16 Raum: IG 4.301 (IG Farben Haus)   Alle sind herzlich eingeladen. Abstrakt: Maschinelle Übersetzung (MÜ) ist eine Abbildung von Texten einer natürlichen Sprache in eine andere natürliche Sprache durch Computer. Sie muss mit zahlreichen sprachlichen Phänomenen umgehen, z. B. Mehrdeutigkeiten, wie etwa Birne (frz. poire oder ampoule). Dabei hilft meist der Zusammenhang (Kontext), in dem die zu übersetzenden Wörter stehen. Wir betrachten, wie sich die Technologien zur MÜ im Kontext in den letzten 10 Jahren drastisch verändert haben, wie heutige auf maschinellem Lernen basierende MÜ funktioniert und welche gewaltigen Fortschritte MÜ in dieser Dekade gemacht hat. Um die Euphorie nicht überborden zu lassen, schauen wir auch darauf, was noch gar nicht gut geht und geben einen kleinen Ausblick, wohin die Reise geht.  ...
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Roundtable discussion by Cécile Meier (Frankfurt), Carla Umbach (Cologne), and Louise McNally (Barcelona)

We are happy to announce a roundtable discussion by Cécile Meier (Frankfurt), Carla Umbach (Cologne), and Louise McNally (Barcelona) in the Semantics Colloquium. The talk will take place on campus in IG 4.301. Title: Ways of adjectival modification Date: November 24 Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct Abstract: This week we will have a round table discussion on the topic of nominal modification. Participants are Louise McNally, Carla Umbach and me, Cécile Meier. Louise McNally is currently a Mercator Fellow at Frankfurt University and Carla Umbach is a Goethe Teaching professor at Frankfurt University. We are all concerned with the semantics of noun phrases, modification and reference to kinds. Semantic research states that there are different types of kinds. Carlson introduced well-established kinds, Dayal and Krifka discuss regular kinds, atomic kinds and sub-kinds, and taxonomic readings of kind-referring expressions (see also Pelletier’s work).  What is not well-researched is the effect of modification. McNally argues that there are so-called relational adjectives modifying kinds instead of tokens, and Umbach argues that ad-hoc kinds...
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Talk by Janne Lorenzen (Köln University)

We are happy to announce the next talk in the Phonology Colloquium by Janne Lorenzen (Köln University) Title: Exploring individual variability in prominence production Date: Wednesday, 02.11.2022 Time: 16-18 Location: in person on campus IG 4.301 (if necessary, we will stream the talk via Zoom) If you are registered in Olat you'll find the Zoom link there. If you want to participate via Zoom, please register via email to Alina Gregori: gregori AT lingua.uni-frankfurt.de Abstract: Prosodic prominence is known to be multifaceted, encompassing a variety of cues related to timing, spectral properties and the F0 contour (Baumann & Winter 2018, Roessig et al 2022). It is therefore a reasonable assumption that speakers differ in which of these cues they prioritize in their prominence production. This has been shown to be true, for example, in the case of focus-marking (Cangemi et al. 2015). In this talk, I will present an exploratory analysis of inter-speaker variability in the prosodic encoding of information status in German, looking at several prominence cues...
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Workshop on Word Order in the Nominal Domain (WONDo), November 10-11, 2022

The doctoral researchers of RTG ’Nominal Modification' are organising a two-day Workshop on Word Order in the Nominal Domain (WONDo): Factors, Perspectives & Approaches. The workshop will take place between November 10-11, 2022 on Campus Westend (Cas 1.811) of Goethe University (https://sites.google.com/view/wondo2022/homepage). The workshop will host talks both by doctoral researchers, GK alumni and invited speakers. Participation is free of costs but please make sure to register here by October 31, 2022: https://sites.google.com/view/wondo2022/registration. Keep an eye on the homepage for the program. WONDo_2022_description...
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Guest Professor Seunghun J. Lee (Christian University, Tokyo) in July 2022

We welcome Seunghun J. Lee (Christian University, Tokyo) as this year's guest professor We are happy to welcome our guest Prof. Dr. Seunghun J. Lee from Christian University, Tokyo (https://sites.google.com/info.icu.ac.jp/linglab/home), who will be a guest researcher and lecturer at the Department of Linguistics in July 2022 as part of the International Campus Programme  (https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/56181581/International_Campus).    In the MA Programme "Linguistics", he will teach a course on "Prosody-Syntax-Interface: Theoretical and practical applications" - and everybody is welcome to participate. Registration for the course is via Olat. Here is the link to his class. https://qis.server.uni-frankfurt.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=334409&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung   Seunghun will be here the whole month of July. He is more than happy to discuss linguistic issues with colleagues and students. If anybody is interested in meeting him, just send him an email to s.lee@em.uni-frankfurt.de He can be reached in person in office IG 4.315....
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