Research

Interests

• Corpus linguistics: historical corpus linguistics
• Morphology: word formation, morphological productivity, neoclassical word formation, morphological change
  
• similarity-based processes vs. rule-based processes

Current projects

• Forschungsverbund Linguistik - Bioinformatik/network linguistics - bioinformatics
• HSK - Handbuch zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / handbook on corpus linguistics
• Deutsch Diachron Digital - a historical corpus of German
• Falko - an error annotated learner corpus of German as a foreign language

Completed projects

• DeKo, a word-formation analyzer for German (Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Stuttgart)
• Verbmobil, machine translation (Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Stuttgart)