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# Saarland University

University [Saarbrücken](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/saarbruecken/), Germanyin the agglomeration of [Saarbruecken](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/saarbruecken/)

- [Website](https://www.uni-saarland.de/)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/01jdpyv68)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I91712215)

[**86** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/saarland-university/works/) · [**41** authors with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/saarland-university/authors/) · [**15,761** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/saarland-university/works/) · [**6,110** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/saarland-university/works/)

## People (41)

Authors with a page here who worked or studied at Saarland University, confirmed by their records or by their bylines: first those whose cited work was done most here; beside each, their citations.

- [Thorsten Brants](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thorsten-brants/) — 1995–2003 on 20 papers · 5 papers here · 4,254 citations
- [Marcos Zampieri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marcos-zampieri/) — 2013–2016 on 20 papers · 15 papers here · 7,896 citations
- [Vera Demberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vera-demberg/) — current · 2011–2026 on 173 papers · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata) · 25 papers here · 2,666 citations
- [Ernie Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ernie-chang/) — 2019–2023 on 22 papers · 2 papers here · 2,206 citations
- [Jesujoba Alabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jesujoba-alabi/) — current · 2020–2026 on 60 papers · 4 papers here · 2,937 citations
- [Wei Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-shi/) — 2017–2019 on 6 papers · 7 papers here · 2,571 citations
- [Michael Wiegand](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-wiegand/) — 2007–2023 on 61 papers · 2 papers here · 2,219 citations
- [Sebastian Schuster](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-schuster/) — 2022–2023 on 8 papers · employment (ORCID) · 13 papers here · 3,738 citations
- [Alexander Koller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-koller/) — current · 1999–2026 on 135 papers · education (ORCID) · employment (ORCID) · 4 papers here · 2,084 citations
- [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/) — 2020–2024 on 87 papers · education (ORCID) · employment (ORCID) · 10 papers here · 2,351 citations
- [Georgiana Dinu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/georgiana-dinu/) — 2008–2012 on 9 papers · 4 papers here · 3,015 citations
- [Santanu Pal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/santanu-pal/) — 2010–2020 on 41 papers · 2 papers here · 1,534 citations
- [Dietrich Klakow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dietrich-klakow/) — current · 2005–2026 on 289 papers · employment (ORCID) · 8 papers here · 1,251 citations
- [Josef van Genabith](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/josef-van-genabith/) — current · 2008–2026 on 110 papers · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata) · 13 papers here · 1,971 citations
- [Xiaoyu Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaoyu-shen/) — 2017–2023 on 24 papers · 4 papers here · 2,153 citations
- [Michael Roth](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-roth/) — 2007–2019 on 12 papers · 7 papers here · 1,098 citations
- [Marco Pennacchiotti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-pennacchiotti/) — 2007–2009 on 15 papers · 5 papers here · 1,169 citations
- [Hans Uszkoreit](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hans-uszkoreit/) — 1992–2012 on 29 papers · 6 papers here · 1,643 citations
- [Israel Abebe Azime](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/israel-abebe-azime/) — current · 2022–2026 on 30 papers · 4 papers here · 1,216 citations
- [Dawei Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawei-zhu/) — 2020–2025 on 22 papers · 2 papers here · 824 citations
- [Michaela Regneri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michaela-regneri/) — 2008–2015 on 13 papers · 2 papers here · 558 citations
- [Marius Mosbach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marius-mosbach/) — current · 2019–2026 on 25 papers · 2 papers here · 606 citations
- [Caroline Sporleder](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caroline-sporleder/) — 2008–2016 on 31 papers · 2 papers here · 493 citations
- [Liling Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liling-tan/) — 2014–2020 on 17 papers · 2 papers here · 531 citations
- [Volha Petukhova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/volha-petukhova/) — current · 2013–2026 on 41 papers · 7 papers here · 657 citations

[See all 99 people →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/saarland-university/authors/)

**Also published with this affiliation (58)**

Matched by the bylines of their papers, not confirmed: few papers there, or a small part of their work.

- [Ivan Titov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivan-titov/) — 2010–2024 on 16 papers · 14 papers here · 6,932 citations
- [Rui Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rui-wang/) — 2008–2010 on 15 papers · 8 papers here · 7,123 citations
- [Raphael Rubino](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raphael-rubino/) — 2016–2018 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 2,057 citations
- [Sebastian Padó](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-pado/) — 2003–2007 on 13 papers · 8 papers here · 3,632 citations
- [Verena Rieser](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/verena-rieser/) — 2005–2006 on 6 papers · education (Wikidata) · 4 papers here · 2,328 citations
- [Katrin Erk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katrin-erk/) — 2000–2006 on 53 papers · 5 papers here · 1,594 citations
- [Niranjan Balasubramanian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/niranjan-balasubramanian/) — 2024 on 2 papers · 5 papers here · 1,558 citations
- [Harsh Trivedi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/harsh-trivedi/) — 2024 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 1,289 citations
- [Olga Uryupina](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/olga-uryupina/) — 2003–2006 on 4 papers · 9 papers here · 1,894 citations
- [Alisa Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alisa-liu/) — 2023 on 2 papers · 5 papers here · 1,880 citations
- [Anette Frank](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anette-frank/) — 2005–2007 on 4 papers · 7 papers here · 943 citations
- [Aljoscha Burchardt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aljoscha-burchardt/) — 2004–2010 on 8 papers · 5 papers here · 1,328 citations
- [Johan Bos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/johan-bos/) — 1994–2000 on 11 papers · 14 papers here · 2,420 citations
- [Fatemeh Torabi Asr](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fatemeh-torabi-asr/) — 2012–2020 on 4 papers · 3 papers here · 191 citations
- [Sabine Schulte im Walde](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sabine-schulte-im-walde/) — 2004–2007 on 8 papers · 8 papers here · 1,213 citations
- [Alexis Palmer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexis-palmer/) — 2009–2014 on 20 papers · 6 papers here · 555 citations
- [Jakob Prange](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakob-prange/) — 2016–2025 on 3 papers · 3 papers here · 174 citations
- [Natalia Skachkova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/natalia-skachkova/) — 2017–2018 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 61 citations
- [Tianai Dong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianai-dong/) — current · 2021–2022 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 41 citations
- [Kaveri Anuranjana](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaveri-anuranjana/) — 2023 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 30 citations
- [Tatsuya Aoyama](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tatsuya-aoyama/) — current · 2025 on 1 paper · 4 papers here · 83 citations
- [Diego Alves](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diego-alves/) — 2024–2025 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 29 citations
- [Arofat Akhundjanova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arofat-akhundjanova/) — current · 2025 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 7 citations
- [Dirk Hovy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dirk-hovy/) — education (Wikidata) · 18 papers here · 6,681 citations
- [Yang Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-zhang/) — 2016–2020 on 7 papers · 4 papers here · 6,468 citations

[All of them →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/saarland-university/authors/)

## Works in our library (86)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

- [A Survey on Hate Speech Detection using Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schmidt-2017-survey-hate-speech-detection-natural/) — Anna Schmidt, Michael Wiegand · 2017 · 1,799 citations
- [TnT – A Statistical Part-of-Speech Tagger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brants-2000-tnt-statistical-part-speech-tagger/) — Thorsten Brants · 2000 · 1,756 citations
- [Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bender-2020-climbing-nlu-meaning-form-understanding/) — Emily M. Bender, Alexander Koller · 2020 · 1,371 citations
- [Findings of the 2016 Conference on Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bojar-2016-findings-2016-conference-machine-translation/) — Ondřej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, et al. · 2016 · 936 citations
- [Findings of the 2019 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT19)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barrault-2019-findings-2019-conference-machine-translation/) — Loïc Barrault, Ondřej Bojar, Marta R. Costa-jussà, et al. · 2019 · 839 citations
- [Looking Beyond the Surface: A Challenge Set for Reading Comprehension over Multiple Sentences](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khashabi-2018-looking-beyond-surface-challenge-set/) — Daniel Khashabi, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Michael Roth, et al. · 2018 · 669 citations
- [The CoNLL-2009 Shared Task: Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies in Multiple Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hajic-2009-conll-2009-shared-task-syntactic/) — Jan Hajič, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Richard Johansson, et al. · 2009 · 631 citations
- [Using Semantic Roles to Improve Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2007-semantic-roles-improve-question-answering/) — Dan Shen, Mirella Lapata · 2007 · 522 citations
- [Inducing Crosslingual Distributed Representations of Words](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/klementiev-2012-inducing-crosslingual-distributed-representations-words/) — Alexandre Klementiev, Ivan Titov, Binod Bhattarai · 2012 · 501 citations
- [MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2021-masakhaner-named-entity-recognition-african/) — David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jade Abbott, Graham Neubig, et al. · 2021 · 429 citations
- [75 Languages, 1 Model: Parsing Universal Dependencies Universally](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kondratyuk-2019-75-languages-1-model-parsing/) — Dan Kondratyuk, Milan Straka · 2019 · 415 citations
- [An Annotation Scheme for Free Word Order Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/skut-1997-annotation-scheme-free-word-order/) — Wojciech Skut, Brigitte Krenn, Thorsten Brants, et al. · 1997 · 408 citations
- [Findings of the 2020 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT20)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barrault-2020-findings-2020-conference-machine-translation/) — Loïc Barrault, Magdalena Biesialska, Ondřej Bojar, et al. · 2020 · 401 citations
- [A Survey on Recent Approaches for Natural Language Processing in Low-Resource Scenarios](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hedderich-2021-survey-recent-approaches-natural-language/) — Michael A. Hedderich, Lukas Lange, Heike Adel, et al. · 2021 · 399 citations
- [Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nekoto-2020-participatory-research-low-resourced-machine/) — Wilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, Tshinondiwa Matsila, et al. · 2020 · 333 citations
- [Experiments on the Automatic Induction of German Semantic Verb Classes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/walde-2006-experiments-automatic-induction-german-semantic/) — Schulte im Walde, Sabine · 2006 · 259 citations
- [The SALSA Corpus: a German Corpus Resource for Lexical Semantics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/burchardt-2006-salsa-corpus-german-corpus-resource/) — Aljoscha Burchardt, Katrin Erk, Anette Frank, et al. · 2006 · 255 citations
- [Humanity's Last Exam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/phan-2025-humanity-s-last-exam/) — Long Phan, Alice Gatti, Ziwen Han, et al. · 2025 · 235 citations
- [Not what you've signed up for: Compromising Real-World LLM-Integrated Applications with Indirect Prompt Injection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/greshake-2023-ve-signed-up-compromising-real/) — Kai Greshake, Sahar Abdelnabi, Shailesh Mishra, et al. · 2023 · 220 citations
- [Adapting Pre-trained Language Models to African Languages via Multilingual Adaptive Fine-Tuning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alabi-2022-adapting-pre-trained-language-models/) — Jesujoba O. Alabi, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Marius Mosbach, et al. · 2022 · 195 citations
- [Learning Morphology with Morfette](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chrupala-2008-learning-morphology-morfette/) — Grzegorz Chrupala, Georgiana Dinu, Josef van Genabith · 2008 · 189 citations
- [LawBench: Benchmarking Legal Knowledge of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fei-2023-lawbench-benchmarking-legal-knowledge-large/) — Zhiwei Fei, Xiaoyu Shen, Dawei Zhu, et al. · 2023 · 184 citations
- [A Report on the DSL Shared Task 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zampieri-2014-report-dsl-shared-task/) — Marcos Zampieri, Liling Tan, Nikola Ljubešić, et al. · 2014 · 183 citations
- [Unsupervised Recognition of Literal and Non-Literal Use of Idiomatic Expressions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sporleder-2009-unsupervised-recognition-literal-non-literal/) — Caroline Sporleder, Linlin Li · 2009 · 173 citations
- [Overview of the DSL Shared Task 2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zampieri-2015-overview-dsl-shared-task/) — Marcos Zampieri, Liling Tan, Nikola Ljubešić, et al. · 2015 · 164 citations

[See all 86 works →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/saarland-university/works/)

## Topics

What its works here are about; the number is its works on the topic.

[Discourse analysis 18](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP 10](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks 10](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Machine translation 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Coreference resolution 6](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Semantic role labeling 6](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Universal Dependencies 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Dialogue systems 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Language models & pretraining 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Question answering 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Low-resource languages 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Named entity recognition 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Treebanks 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) · [Sentiment & emotion 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/)

**18 more topics**

[Text generation 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Reasoning 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Legal AI 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [Historical linguistics & language change 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/) · [Implicature 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/implicature/) · [Word sense disambiguation 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Part-of-speech tagging 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Summarization 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Speech & spoken language 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Lexical semantics & word embeddings 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) · [Morphology 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Semitic languages 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) · [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/) · [Interpretability 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Bias, fairness & safety 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/)

Fields: [Linguistics & languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) (64) · [Natural language processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) (17) · [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/) (10) · [AI & machine learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/ai/) (2) · [Computing & GPUs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computing/) (2) · [Mathematics & statistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) (1) · [Law](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/law/) (1) · [History & humanities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/history/) (1)

## Collaborates with

Institutions on the bylines of the same works here; the number is the works they share.

[Google 8](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) [Stanford University 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) [University of California, Berkeley 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) [University of Washington 6](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) [University of Oxford 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oxford/) [Carnegie Mellon University 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) [University of Cambridge 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) [Microsoft 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) [Johns Hopkins University 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) [New York University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) [University of Amsterdam 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) [Google DeepMind 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/)

## Parent and units

**Units** Leibniz-Institute for New Materials

**Related** Klinikum Saarbrücken Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes

From the Research Organization Registry (ROR); those with a page here are linked.

Works and people from the bylines of the papers (OpenAlex): a person listed here worked or studied at Saarland University; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.