Areas of work
Research interests
Sociolinguistics | Multilingualism, variation, language ideologies, discourse analysis | |
Computational linguistics | NLP, low resource Languages, computational sociolinguistics | |
Culture & digitality | Cultural AI, self assertion, digital ethics | |
Participatory research | Citizen science, crowdsourcing, mobile research apps | |
Theoretical foundations | Cultural theory, theory of science, language philosophy |
Research projects
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 | STRIPS – A Semantic Search Toolbox for the Retrieval of Similar Patterns in Luxembourgish Documents. Computerlinguistic exploration and analysis of a Luxembourgish text corpus. STRIPS | |
Since 2017 | Jugendsprooch zu Lëtzebuerg. Info page | |
Since 2015 | Lingscape – Citizen Science trifft Linguistic Landscaping. pp-based survey of visible multilingualism and written Luxembourgish in public space. lingscape.uni.lu | |
Since 2013 | REACT | |
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
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 | |
2004 – 2009 | Digitaler Wenker-Atlas (DiWA). Digital version of Georg Wenker’s language atlas survey. diwa.info |
Conference/Workshop Organization
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: 07.12.2020