Language Behaviour in Context - A Transdisciplinary Approach

LaBeCo is a transdisciplinary research initiative based on the observation that language use - and more generally human behaviour - forms patterns through types of situations that reflect social, cultural and material factors. The object of study of all LaBeCo members means that the context of these types of situations must be included in their research in order to adequately explain variations in their data.However, existing research approaches neglect the situation context, or analyse it exclusively within their own discipline, thus missing more comprehensive explanatory approaches by including findings from other disciplines. LaBeCo wants to close this gap with a multidisciplinary research approach.ConsortiumThe LaBeCo research initiative extends across four faculties of RWTH Aachen University - in addition to the Faculty of Philosophy, the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and the Faculty of Medicine - and also includes eight external partners from six other universities: the University of Cologne, the Brandenburg University of Technology, the University of Wuppertal, the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, the University of Salzburg and the University of Hildesheim.Our ContributionMaking context computationally tangible (Transformer/Embeddings).