Alexander Koller has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the world’s largest professional society for computational linguistics. Among the eleven new ACL Fellows this year, the Saarbrücken professor of computational linguistics is the only European. Alexander Koller was honored “for his fundamental contributions to computational semantics,…
How do we create AI systems that facilitate learning rather than dictating it? Meet Saarland University’s LaLa Lab. Directed by Professor Tomohiro Nagashima, LaLa Lab explores how we learn, how AI can improve learning, and how to make sure learners keep their agency in a society where automated learning is…
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics develop techniques for creating photorealistic, three-dimensional full-body and head avatars. Realistic digital avatars are becoming increasingly relevant, for example in virtual and augmented reality applications, video conferencing, films and computer games, or in medicine. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for…
In keeping with a long-standing tradition in Saarbrücken computer science, the student councils of Computer Science and of Language Science and Technology (LST) jointly organized a torchlight procession to honor Professor Doctor Alexander Koller, supported by the Freunde der Saarbrücker Informatik (FdSI) and Friends of LST. The aim was to…
Researchers from Saarland University and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems have, for the first time, shown that the reactions of humans and large language models (LLMs) to complex or misleading program code significantly align, by comparing brain activity of study participants with model uncertainty. Building on this, the…
