Areas of work


Sociolinguistics		Multilingualism, variation, attitudes & ideologies, discourse analysis
Computational linguistics		NLP, low resource languages, computational sociolinguistics
Culture & digitality		Cultural AI, self assertion, politics of classification
Participatory research		Citizen science, crowdsourcing, mobile research apps
Theoretical foundations		Cultural theory, theory of science, language philosophy


Seit 2021		DilCo – Digital Language Variation in Context. Research network on variation in digital communication led by Jannis Androutsopoulos & Heike Zinsmeister (both Hamburg). https://www.dilco.uni-hamburg.de
Since 2019		Spellux. Automatic text correction for Luxembourgish. https://github.com/questoph/spellux/
Since 2018		Schnëssen – Är Sprooch fir d’Fuerschung. App-based survey of regional variation and language attitudes in Luxembourg. infolux.uni.lu/schnessen
Since 2017		Jugendsprooch zu Lëtzebuerg. Info page
Since 2015		Lingscape – Citizen science meets linguistic landscaping. App-based survey of visible multilingualism and written Luxembourgish in public space. lingscape.uni.lu
Since 2013		REACT. Pragmatic-constructivist theoretical framework for attitudes, exploration of new quantitative methods in empirical studies.
Since 2012		Soziale Präsenz. Eine Philosophie der Selbstbehauptung. Theoretical framework for the analysis of language and digital representations of self in cultural practice.
Since 2012		Das Lautdenkmal reichsdeutscher Mundarten. Rekonstruktion, Edition, Analyse. Reconstruction, edition, and analysis of a historical German audio corpus, the so called “Sound Monument of German Dialects”. lautdenkmal.de


2017 – 2020		STRIPS – A Semantic Search Toolbox for the Retrieval of Similar Patterns in Luxembourgish Documents. Computational linguistic exploration and analysis of a Luxembourgish text corpus. STRIPS
2008 – 2014		regionalsprache.de (REDE). An interactive linguistic GIS for the German regional languages. regionalsprache.de
2004 – 2010		Regionalsprache und Hörerurteil. Grundzüge einer perzeptiven Variationslinguistik (Dissertation project)
2004 – 2009		Digitaler Wenker-Atlas (DiWA). Digital version of Georg Wenker’s language atlas survey. diwa.info


2018		Conference “Sprooch(en) am berufflechen Alldag zu Lëtzebuerg” at the University of Luxembourg, Esch/Belval, 22.11.2018, together with Peter Gilles, Jeanne Glesener, Mélanie Wagner
2018		Workshop “New Methods in Computational Sociolinguistics” at Lorentz Center, Leiden, 5.–9.11.2018, together with Nanna Hilton, Dirk Hovy and Dong Nguyen
2017		Conference “Linguistic Landscapes 9 – Movement and Immobilities” at the University of Luxembourg, Esch-Belval, 29.–31.03.2017, together with Kasper Juffermans. Link
2015		Conference “Räume, Grenzen, Übergänge” of the International Society for Dialectology of German e.V. at the University of Luxembourg, Esch/Belval, 10.–12.09.2015, together with Peter Gilles and Caroline Döhmer
2013		Workshop “Determinanten linguistischer Salienz: Theoretische Konzepte, methodische Probleme, empirische Evidenzen” at the University of Vienna, 15.–16.11.2013, together with Andrea Kleene (Bremen)
2013		Conference “5. Tagung des Forums Sprachvariation” in Marburg, 10.–11.10.2013, together with Hanna Fischer (Marburg) and Robert Langhanke (Flensburg)
2010		Conference “3. Tagung des Forums Sprachvariation” in Erlangen, 14.–15.10.2010, together with Sebastian Kürschner (Erlangen) and Cornelia Lorenz (Paderborn)