Projects

Tracking the infodemic – Conspiracy theories in the corona crisis

I am co-working on the VW-Stiftung Project “Tracking the infodemic – Conspiracy theories in the corona crisis” at the Chair for Corpus and Computational Linguistics of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, (4/2021–…).

I worked 5/2018–4/2021 on the DFG-Projekt “Digitales philologisch-etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altalbanischen (15.-18. Jh.)” at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
I cooperate with / support the DFG-Projekt “Digitales philologisch-etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altalbanischen (15.-18. Jh.)” at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Albanology (5/2021–…).

of the Albanian language: I am working on building Albanian Corpora at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Lehrstuhl für Korpus- und Computerlinguistik. The coprora AlCo, AlCoPress 2017-2019 and Buzuku Corpus (1555) are created. Other historical Albanian corpora (15.-18. Jh.), i. e. Old Gheg Corpus and Old Tosk Corpus are in preparation.
of the German language: I am co-working on building German Corpora at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Lehrstuhl für Korpus- und Computerlinguistik. Two of them are (1) GeRedE – a Corpus of German Reddit Exchanges, created in collaboration with Andreas Blombach, Natalie Dykes, Philipp Heinrich, and Thomas Proisl, and (2) the EmpiriST Corpus 2.0, created in collaboration with Thomas Proisl, Natalie Dykes, Philipp Heinrich, Andreas Blombach, and Stefan Evert.

Also I am interested in creating corpora of other languages, especially those for members of the Romance, Germanic and Slavic language groups and Greek (e.g. for Bulgarian, Croatian, English, Greek, Italian, Serbian, Russian). I am especially interested in the creation of parallel corpora of these languages.

I am working on building different lexical resources for the Albanian language, for the German language, and for the [other] languages mentioned above, using natural language processing methods, based on language corpora.