Conference Presentations
"The GerManC project: Creating an Annotated Historical Corpus of German". To appear in Proceedings of the Sixth Corpus Linguistics Conference, Birmingham, UK, July 2011.
"Evaluating an 'off-the-shelf' POS-tagger on Early Modern German text". To appear in Proceedings of the ACL-HLT 2011 Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2011), Portland, Oregon, June 2011.
"A Gold Standard Corpus of Early Modern German". To appear in Proceedings of the ACL-HLT 2011 Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW V), Portland, Oregon, June 2011.
"The GerManC Corpus: A Representative Corpus of Early Modern German
from 1650-1800". Poster presented at the "New Methods in Historical Corpora" conference, 29-30 April 2011, University of Manchester."Zum Abbau der Stellungsvarianten der Verbformen im Nebensatz im Laufe der Kodifizierung des geschriebenen Deutsch im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. Belege aus dem GerManC-Corpus". Paper given at the 12. Internationaler Germanistenkongress, University of Warsaw, 30 July - 7 August 2010.
"Zum Abbau der regionalen Varianten im Standardisierungsprozess 1650-1800. Belege aus dem GerManC-Korpus". Paper given at the 12. Internationaler Germanistenkongress, University of Warsaw, 30 July - 7 August 2010.
"Annotating a historical corpus of German: A case study". Proceedings of the LREC 2010 workshop on Language Resources and Language Technology Standards", Valletta, Malta, 18 May 2010. 64-68 .
"Grammaticalization, Prescriptivism, and the Status of the würde + Infinitive Construction in Early Modern German: Evidence from the GerManC Corpus". The Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable 2010. Berkeley, California: April 2010.
"Explorations in the GerManC Corpus: The Status of the würde + Infinitive Construction in Early Modern German". Paper given at Forum for Germanic Language Studies, Gregynog, Wales, University of Wales, 8-9 January 2010.
"Investigating diachronic grammatical variation in Early Modern German. Evidence from the GerManC corpus". Third International Conference Grammar and Corpora. Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany, 22-24 September 2009.
"Annotating a Multi-Genre Corpus of Early Modern German" . Proceedings of the Fifth Corpus Linguistics Conference, University of Liverpool, 21 -23 July 2009.
" The GerManC Project. Developing a Representative Corpus of Early Modern German ". Paper read at Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 15, Banff (Alberta), 30 April 2009." The GerManC Project: A Representative Corpus of Early Modern German (1650-1800) ". Paper read at the Annual Conference of University Teachers of German, University of Ulster, 7 April 2009.
"Humanities computing; challenges and opportunities". Panel session with Dr. Scheible and Dr. Whitt as panellists at the "Variationist corpora online" symposium, University of Glasgow, 23 May 2009.
"Das GerManC-Projekt . Aufbau und Konzept eines repräsentativen Korpus der deutschen Sprache 1650-1800". Paper read at a workshop Kumulatives Arbeiten mit Textarchiven. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin 27 March 2009." 'Im Unterhause abscheulich gross Getoese' - Representations of England and Brit ". Paper accepted at the Anglo-German Linguistic Relations Conference. Queen Mary, University of London, 9 November 2007 and published in 'Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, Reihe A: Kongressberichte', vol. 98 (2008).
" GerManC. An annotated, spatialised, multi-genre corpus of Early Modern German ". Poster presented at conference on Corpus Linguistics 2007, University of Birmingham.
" The GerManC Project ". Paper read at a workshop Diachrone Corpora und Texttechnologie. University of Frankfurt, 21 April 2007. (subsequently published in Sprache und Datenverarbeitung 31 [2007]).
" GerManC. Towards a methodology for constructing and annotating historical corpo ". Paper read at a seminar Digital Historical Corpora- Architecture, Annotation, and Retrieval. Schloss Dagstuhl (Germany)." Tracing Variation in Standardisation: A Corpus-Based Methodology " [pdf]. Poster presented at a Colloquium, The Future of Historical Sociolinguistics. Brugge, Belgium, 2 December 2006.
" Towards a Methodology for Constructing and Annotating Historical Corpora: Tackl " [pdf]. Paper read at the conference 4th Days of Swiss Linguistics, University of Basel, Switzerland, 21 November 2006 (Also presented at the Forum for Germanic Language Studies, University of Nottingham, 6 January 2007).