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Face to Face – David Schlangen wants to enable artificial intelligence to interact with us in real time
Whether in an online help chat or when calling a service provider on the phone: communication with dialogue systems has become omnipresent. Most of... more
Instructive Babble of Voices – Inside the Potsdam BabyLAB – Lab Visit (instead of) Self-experimentation
Little Mathilde is the star of the day: Laboratory coordinator Tom Fritzsche welcomes her and her mother. Afterwards, Dr. Alan Langus, a member of... more
How Diplomats Debate – Prof. Manfred Stede and Karolina Zaczynska Research the Trajectories of Conflicts in the UN Security Council
“We have made significant progress in the fifteen years since the Security Council passed its landmark resolution on women, peace and security,”... more
In the Blink of an Eye – Eye movements can reveal a lot – A junior research group investigates what exactly
Eye movements have long been a subject of research. For decades, cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics have been analyzing eye movements to... more
“It’s time for an Excellence Cluster at Potsdam …” – Vice President Prof. Dr. Barbara Höhle is highly determined
Barbara Höhle has a passion for science: With curiosity and experiments, she keeps advancing her subject psycholinguistics with great strides. Calm in... more
Tinder with language learning for the elderly – The project “Digital Language Learning” has developed a mobile app for linguistic community builing
Birgit S. recently turned 70 and lives in Berlin-Charlottenburg by herself. The retired teacher misses the lively contact and exchange with her... more
“The Sound of a Generation” – Professor for Romance Linguistics Annette Gerstenberg analyzes language in old age.
Annette Gerstenberg has an unusual hobby. She is interested in language. As a professor of Romance linguistics for French and Italian at the... more
Interculturality in the Digital World – Interview with Dr. Milene Mendes de Oliveira on the Research Project ReDICo
The universities of Potsdam, Jena, and Mainz established a joint project group called Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively (ReDICo) in... more
About Searching and Finding Words – A psycholinguistic experiment
Authors are rich people. Their wealth lies in the words they have collected over the course of their lives: heard from mum and dad, heard in stories,... more