About me
Alexander Koller
I am a Professor of Computational Linguistics in the Department of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University. I am also a Professor by courtesy of Computer Science and Associate Faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.
I lead the Computational Linguistics group and am the speaker of the Research Training Group “Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action”. I am an ACL Fellow.
My PhD is in Computer Science from Saarland University; my advisors were Manfred Pinkal and Gert Smolka. Before coming back to Saarbrücken, I was a postdoc at Columbia University and the University of Edinburgh and a Professor of Theoretical Computational Linguistics at the University of Potsdam. I have spent sabbaticals at Meta AI in Paris and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) in Seattle.
I am a huge fan of Typst and try to do as much of my writing as possible in Typst rather than LaTeX. I maintain the tracl template for *ACL papers and the Pergamon bibliography package. I also maintain the Typstit tool for dragging Typst formulas into other apps. In my spare time, I am a certified coach for a cappella groups and was an internationally certified contest judge in the Musicality category from 2023-2026.
News
| October 2026 10/2026 | Won an outstanding paper award at EMNLP (top ~25 out of >5000 accepted papers). |
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| December 2025 12/2025 | I was elected as an ACL Fellow. |
| September 2025 09/2025 | Gave an invited talk at IWCS 2025 (my slides). |
| February 2025 02/2025 | Spoke at the AI Action Summit about LLMs and problem solving. |
| July 2023 07/2023 | Both of my ACL papers have won outstanding paper awards. |
| May 2023 05/2023 | RTG “Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action” funded by the DFG! |
| March 2023 03/2023 | I will spend the next six months on sabbatical at AI2 in Seattle. |
| October 2022 10/2022 | I am now ELLIS Faculty in the Saarbrücken unit. |
Contact
Coordinates
Fachrichtung Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie
Universität des Saarlandes
Campus C7.2
D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Office: Campus C7.2, Room 1.09
Phone: +49 681 302 4345
Secretary (Julia Schuh): +49 681 302 4344
Email: koller at coli uni-saarland de
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