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Best Poster Award for #Plapper at #P&P last week!
A first peak at our results shows complex patterns of regional and sociodemographic variation in the phonetic realization of German vowels. More coming soon!
www.leibniz-zas.de/de/plapper
home.uni-leipzig.de/pundp2025

Photos: Stefanie Jannedy and Christoph Draxler

Daniel Duran Sep 3, 2025

Heimspiel! #bialogue 2025, the 29th edition of the #semdial workshop series, starts today at Bielefeld University. Looking forward to three packed days of presentations, posters and discussions. Don’t miss our presentation “Does it take two to do an articulatory tango?” today!

Daniel Duran Aug 21, 2025

We are living in a time (again) when not all researchers are free to travel to international conferences. Thanks to everybody who stepped in (maybe last-minute) to present work on behalf of the original authors who could not attend #interspeech2025!

Daniel Duran Aug 17, 2025

What a wonderful theme for this year’s #Interspeech2025: “Fair and Inclusive Speech Science and Technology”. Curious to see how many contributions will address this issue.

Daniel Duran Aug 10, 2025

How can children learn all the complex structures and patterns of language? Some theories argue they can't. Instead the fundamental structures of language must be hard wired into the human brain, they claim.

Can we use language models to understand which parts of language can be learned from the input that is available to children? We created a German data set and presented a study with #BabyLM models at this year's #CoNLL2025

Check out our paper: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.conll-1.12

Daniel Duran Aug 1, 2025

Day two at the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2025)