The Department of Linguistics and Philology oversees education and research within a wide range of subjects. It is the home of African and Asian languages and cultures (Assyriology, Hindi, Iranian languages, Chinese, Sanskrit, Semitic languages, Swahili, Turkic languages), the European classical languages (Greek and Latin), as well as linguistics and computational linguistics/language technology. In these areas, the research is focused on text publishing, literary studies, linguistic fieldwork, language documentation, language typology, and corpus-oriented and computationally intensive methods in grammar analysis and machine translation.