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Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang Participates in YAE Panel on Language as a Biomarker

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang will take part as a discussant in the upcoming interdisciplinary webinar titled: “Speaking Minds: Detecting Neurological Disorders through Language” This session is part of the YAE Member Talk Series, designed to showcase current research among members and spark interdisciplinary dialogue.

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang Nominated for HHU Teaching Award

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang has been nominated for the HHU Teaching Award (Lehrpreis) by the university’s Service Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (SeLL). As part of the nomination, students praised Prof.

Univ-.Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang Explores Alcohol’s Effect on Speech at Pint of Science

As part of the international Pint of Science festival, Kevin Tang presented on the effects of alcohol on speech, bringing linguistics into Düsseldorf’s pub culture. In his talk titled “A Slip ’Twixt the Pint and the Tongue: The Link Between Alcohol and Speech,” Kevin Tang explored how alcohol influences speech, showing that these slip-ups are more than just amusing mistakes—they offer meaningful insights into the cognitive processes behind language production.

The project “AI Literacy for Machine Translation: Critical Reflection of Biases and Parallel Corpora for Multilingual Literary Texts (Continuation)” by Dr. Hannah Pardey and Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang is funded by the E-Learning Förderfonds

Project summary: Our project seeks to familiarise students with the various pitfalls of employing digital tools to translate multilingual literatures. Offering hands-on experiences of the social, political and cultural implications of machine translation (MT), it fosters students’ AI literacy by engaging them in:

Univ-.Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang Accepted as a Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE)

The Speech, Lexicon, and Modeling Lab is pleased to announce that Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang has been accepted as a Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) as of January 3, 2025.

Science Communication at the Brain Awareness Week 2025

Prof. Tang contributed a talk to the Brain Awareness Week 2025 As part of the annual Brain Awareness Week 2025, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang delivered an invited talk titled: “What’s in a Slip of the Tongue?

Two Publications Accepted to Findings of ACL at NAACL 2025

We are pleased to announce that two papers authored by members of our research group have been accepted for publication in the Findings of ACL at the 2025 North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) conference, to be held in New Mexico.

The project “Computational Methods for the Study of Multilingual Literary Texts” by Dr. Hannah Pardey and Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang will be funded by the E-Learning Förderfonds

Project summary: A range of recent Anglophone novels are located at the edge of English, fostering connections to other languages such as French, Hindi, Italian, Kiswahili, Mandarin or Spanish. The project seeks to introduce students in the Master’s degree programmes “Comparative Studies” and “Literary Translation” to the potentials of approaching multilingual narratives by employing computer-based digital humanities methods derived from corpus linguistics and natural language processing.

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang: Nominated again for the Lehrpreis of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang was nominated for the second time for the Lehrpreis by SELL at HHU. The teaching award of SELL at Heinrich-Heine-Universität With the teaching awards, HHU recognizes outstanding achievements in teaching.

Paper accepted to LREC-COLING 2024

The paper “Leveraging syntactic dependencies in disambiguation: the case of African American English” by Wilermine Previlon, Alice Rozet, Jotsna Gowda, Bill Dyer, Kevin Tang and Sarah Moeller has been accepted to The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024).