Teaching
Multilingual Computational Linguistics targets four core areas, namely Comparative Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Scientific Problem Solving, and Scientific Programming. With these four areas as background, we contribute to the education at bachelor and master level at the University of Passau.
Research
Our research focuses on computer-assisted language comparison in all its breadth, with a specific emphasis on evolutionary, typological, and cognitive aspects of linguistic variation. We embrace interdisciplinarity and collaborate with a wide range of research areas.
Chair
Prof. Dr. Johann-Mattis List studied Comparative Linguistics, Russian Philology, and Sinology at HU and FU Berlin, wrote his dissertation at the HHU Düsseldorf in General Linguistics and his habilitation at FSU Jena in Comparative Linguistics. In his work he uses computational method to formalize classical approaches to the comparison of language and to increase their efficiency.
News
Transkribus-Workshop, May 6th
As part of the preparatory work for the establishment of a Centre for Methodological Basic Research at the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies (https://www.uni-passau.de/methodikum), the Chairs of Multilingual Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities are organizing an online tutorial on Transkribus (https://www.transkribus.org/), a widely used tool for the automated digital editing of texts, which specializes above all in the automated digitisation of manuscripts. The tutorial will take place online on Monday, 06.05.2024 from 10 am to 2 pm. It will be conducted by Mirjam El Attal, who works for Transkribus and can therefore not only provide direct insights into the software, but also has an overview of planned developments to the tool. Employees of the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies are cordially invited to attend. If you are interested, please register via the administration office of the Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics (mcl-admin@uni-passau.de). Access information will then be communicated individually.