Computational Linguistics
Brief overview of the research field
This research area is all about the automatic processing of language, whether it is the analysis of thousands of written posts in internet forums, recognition of spoken commands, or communication with an avatar. The applications are diverse, from translation of texts to support of air traffic controllers through the analysis of radio traffic.
In Saarbrücken, computational linguistics has its own degree program. Along with the Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, research in this area is also done at the Cluster of Excellence MMCI.
Professors in this field
Prof. Dr. Vera Demberg
Professor, Saarland UniversityComputer Science and Computational Linguistics
Prof. Dr. Josef van Genabith
Co-opted Professor, Saarland UniversityMultilingual Technologies
Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow
Co-opted Professor, Saarland UniversitySpoken Language Systems
Prof. Dr. Alexander Koller
Co-opted Professor, Saarland UniversityComputational Linguistics
Junior faculty in this field
PD Dr. Helmut Horacek
Group Leader, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)Multilingual Technologies
Dr. Simon Razniewski
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI INF)Knowledge Base Construction and Quality
