New SemDial publication
TTLab publishes its VR-based human–human directions dialogue corpus mediated by avatars.
Giuseppe Abrami
ESSLLI advanced course on iconic gesture semantics!
The ViCom project GemDiS offers the ESSLLI 2025 advanced course on the semantics of iconic gestures. This is how the AI Mistral advertises the course:“Unravel the mysteries of non-verbal communication in our upcoming advanced course on Spatial Gesture Semantics at…
Student tutors for the “Programming Practical Course (PPR)” (winter semester 25 / 26)
The Institute of Computer Science is recruiting tutors for the winter semester 2025 / 2026 to assist in various courses. The chair of Computational Humanities / Text Technology is responsible for the basic course “Programming Practical Course (PPR)” and we…
Project video of the DFG-Project “Virtual Reality Sustained Multimodal Distributional Semantics for Gestures in Dialogue (GeMDiS)”
New publications accepted
The following publications were accepted at the related conferences: ACM Hypertext 2025 (36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media) KONVENS 2025 (21th Conference on Natural Language Processing)
New publication accepted in ACL Findings 2025
Our paper, “Filling the Temporal Void: Recovering Missing Publication Years in the Project Gutenberg Corpus Using LLMs“, has been accepted to the Findings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025).
Best Demo Award at NAACL 2025
We are delighted that our paper “Towards Unified, Dynamic, and Annotation-based Visualizations and Exploration of Annotated Big Data Corpora with the Help of Unified Corpus Explorer” has been awarded the Best Demo Paper at this year’s annual conference of the…
New publication in the proceedings of “Sinn und Bedeutung” coming soon
Referential Transparency Theory (RTT) now also covers mass nouns! The authors argue that much of the work on pluralities and mass nouns in in so-called modern semantic theories primarily seeks to mitigate the effects of mereotopological domains. They therefore abandon…
RTT at WSK
Referential Transparency Theory, mainly developed by lab member Andy Lücking, is honored with its own entry in the upcoming Dictionary on Semantics and Pragmatics Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) — Semantik und Pragmatik. Watch out for updates!
New publication accepted at SoftwareX
The following article was published in the journal SoftwareX: Docker Unified UIMA Interface: New perspectives for NLP on big data