Rico Sennrich takes over dual Professorship
Rico Sennrich, Head of Text Technology at the Institute for Computational Linguistics (CL), will be offering his lectures in both the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics from the spring semester of 2026. Warmly welcome, Rico!
Computational linguistics deals with the processing of human language by computers. How can spoken or written language be modeled in a meaningful way? How can it be correctly recognized and processed? And how can it be generated?
The dual professorship enables the integration of this computer science-related research area into the Department of Informatics (IfI) and promotes permeability between the faculties. This makes it easier for students to attend modules at the other Department.
Rico Sennrich's research focuses on natural language processing, with a special focus on machine translation and multilinguality, low-resource and efficient methods, interpretability and model analysis, and multimodal language processing.
At the Department of Informatics, Rico will teach selected topics in natural language processing, including machine translation and the analysis and interpretability of language models.