Current Projects

BIOfid (FID Biodiversity Research) aims to make both historical and contemporary biodiversity literature available to researchers in modern, machine-readable formats across Germany. The Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library leads the project in collaboration with the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research and the Text Technology Working Group at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Scope and Objectives In…

https://core.uni-mainz.de About CORE Approximately three million students at more than 420 institutions of higher education in Germany use the Internet daily to obtain information to complete assignments and prepare for exams. Studies reveal that students lack the skills to properly search, filter, evaluate, and integrate information gained from the highly diverse and overabundant online content. The need to understand, evaluate and consequently strengthen the skills…

Negation is a fundamental property of human language that is tightly intertwined with human cognitive capacity. Negation allows speakers and hearers to reason about what is not the case, a unique property of human language. Thus, negation not only expresses a clearly defined and well-circumscribed grammatical function, it also interacts with various aspects of grammar…

The New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences programme aims to drive a surge in innovation by improving, enhancing and combining existing panel data infrastructures and emerging data sources to develop new data spaces for social science research. It integrates and consolidates skills, knowledge and expertise from different fields of empirical social research and computer…

This DFG-funded project (project number: 531750631) develops new methods for the thematic classification of very large text corpora in the digital humanities and social sciences. Focusing on the German Reference Corpus (DeReKo), the world’s largest collection of German-language texts, it addresses the lack of reliable topic-based metadata for heterogeneous and rapidly growing corpora. By combining…

ViCom investigates the special features and linguistic significance of visual communication. This comprises sign languages as fully developed natural languages which exclusively rely on the visual channel for communication, but also visual means that enhance spoken language such as gestures. It aims at disclosing the specific characteristics of the visual modality as a communication channel…