Leibniz ScienceCampus for the Analysis of Digital Linguistic Data Officially Opens

Joint research project of the Department of Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University and the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim. The official opening ceremony of the new Leibniz ScienceCampus "Empirical Linguistics and Computational Language Modeling" - a research project of the Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim and the Department of Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University - will be held on 18 November 2015. The four-year joint research project will focus on developing new methods, models and tools to compile and analyse digital language data. Leibniz Association President Matthias Kleiner and Baden-Württemberg Minister of Science Theresia Bauer are both scheduled to attend the ceremony at Ruperto Carola. "Together, the Institute for the German Language and the department of Computational Linguistics of Heidelberg University make up an extremely successful partnership at the intersection of German linguistics and computational linguistics. The Leibniz ScienceCampus blends their complementary expertise in a new and exciting way. It is precisely this type of interdisciplinary research cooperation that we expect will produce the most amazing results in the future," says Minister Bauer.