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Kee Colloque den 30.3.26 um 12:00

AktualitéitenVon Caroline Döhmer 29. März 2026

Et deet mer leed, Iech matzedeelen, dass de Colloque-Virtrag vum Fernand Fehlen iwwer déi franséisch Alphabetiséierung muer, den 30. Mäerz 2026, leider ausfält. Wéinst anere kuerzfristege Verpflichtungen op der Uni hu mer decidéiert, de Virtrag no hannen ze verréckelen. Mir soen dem Fernand e grousse Merci fir säin Entgéintkommen an halen Iech um Lafenden, soubal…

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Introducing LuxMT: Automatic Translations for Luxembourgish

AktualitéitenVon Nils Rehlinger 20. Februar 2026

Introducing LuxMT: an automatic translation system specialised to translate Luxembourgish to French, English, and German! Built on Gemma 3 and fine-tuned on data provided by RTL and the Chambre des Deputés, LuxMT delivers high quality, privacy-focused automatic translations. The model is hosted at Uni.lu and it is also coupled with our popular LuxASR interface. …

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De Colloque vun der Luxemburgistik (9.3. – 18.05.2026) elo ëmmer méindes mëttes um 12:00

AktualitéitenVon Caroline Döhmer 16. Februar 2026

Mam Start vum neie Semester invitéiere mer Iech alleguer ganz häerzlech op eisen hybride Fréijoerscolloque vun der Luxemburgistik. Wéi gewinnt diskutéiere mer iwwer literatur- a sproochwëssenschaftlech Theemaen am Beräich vum Lëtzebuergeschen! Nei ass vun dësem Semester un d’Auerzäit: Mir gesinn eis elo ëmmer méindes vun 12:00 bis 13:00, entweeder op der Plaz am Aquarium (an…

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Forced Alignment for Luxembourgish

AktualitéitenVon Peter Gilles 6. Februar 2026

We are happy to announce the release of the first forced alignment model for Luxembourgish, now openly available on GitHub: 👉 https://github.com/PeterGilles/Luxembourgish_in_Montreal_Forced_Aligner Forced alignment is a key technology in speech and corpus linguistics, allowing researchers to automatically align audio recordings with their transcriptions at the level of utterances, words and phones. About the model The…

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Trauer ëm den Joshgun Sirajzade

AktualitéitenVon Caroline Döhmer 29. Januar 2026

D’Luxemburgistik trauert ëm hire fréiere Mataarbechter a Kolleeg Joshgun Sirajzade. Den Josh huet als Computerlinguist (Postdoc) an de Projete PhraseoLux, WB-Lux a STRIPS matgeschafft. Hie war eng grouss Beräicherung fir d’Luxemburgistik, mat senger Kreativitéit, senger Kompetenz a senger onverännert positiver Astellung. D’Noriicht vu sengem vill ze fréien an onerwaarten Doud huet eis all getraff a…

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