Dr. Maria Berger attended the kick-off meeting for LaSTing, which took place on 8-9 October 2026 in Tübingen. The Priority Area “Robust Assessment & Safe Applicability of Language Modeling: Foundations for a New Field of Language Science & Technology” (acronym: LaSTing; SPP 2556) aims to advance our understanding of language technology, in particular language modeling, for safer use, especially in applications in the (computational / cognitive) language sciences.
The kick-off event was the official start of the new program, which is led by Prof. Michael Franke and consists of 20 projects
across Germany, working on robust assessment and safe applicability of language modeling. The kick-off event aimed to foster
collaborations between the projects.
