Areas of work
Research interests
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 |
Research projects
9/2023–8/2026 | TRAVOLTA – Tracing Attitudes and Variation in Online Luxembourgish Text Archives. FNR CORE project; computational sociolinguistics & NLP tool development for Luxembourgish. Info page | |
Since 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 2015 | Lingscape – Citizen science meets linguistic landscaping. App-based survey of visible multilingualism and written Luxembourgish in public space. lingscape.uni.lu | |
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 |
Finished Projects
2018 – 2022 | Schnëssen – Är Sprooch fir d’Fuerschung. App-based survey of regional variation and language attitudes in Luxembourg. infolux.uni.lu/schnessen | |
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 |
PhP project supervision
2023–2027 | Anne-Marie Lutgen: Variation Patterns in Written Luxembourgish (TRAVOLTA) | |
2023–2027 | Emilia Milano: Stance Detection in Online Luxembourgish Text Archives (TRAVOLTA) | |
2022–2026 | Jacques Spedener: Automatisch Prediction and Individual Perception of Code Switching in Luxembourgish |
Conference/Workshop Organization
2023 | Conference Das Andere der Zählbarkeit, 29.11.–02.12. in the Villa Vigoni, Italy, together with Till Dembeck and Harry Lehmann. | |
2023 | Conference DHd 2023 – Open Humanities, Open Culture, 13.–17.03.2023 Belval/Trier & online, as member of the organization committee. Link | |
2022 | Conference “Humanities and the Rise of AI. Implications of Cultural and Societal Engeneering” at the World Expo Dubai, Luxembourg Pavillon, 6.–10.02.2022, tigehter with Isabell Baumann, Till Dembeck, Georg Mein, Johannes Pause and Christoph Schommer. Link | |
2021 | Anniversary conference “15 Joer Institut fir Luxemburgistik op der Uni.lu. Aktuell Fuerschung an der Sprooch- a Literaturwëssenschaft” at the University of Luxembourg, Esch/Belval, 18.–19.11.2021, together with the Institute for Luxembourgish Language and Literature. Link | |
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) |
Last updated: 10.03.2023