Dr. Laura Herzberg

Function

  • Academic staff member in the Department of Digital Linguistics

Board activities

  • Steering Committee Member of the International Conference Series on CMC and Social Media Corpora (cmc-corpora).

Personal data

  • Since September 2024: Academic staff member at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in the Department of Digital Linguistics
  • September 2016-August 2024: Academic staff member at the Chair of German Linguistics at the University of Mannheim
  • March 2023: Doctorate at the University of Mannheim; Title: “OKAY: Form, Position, Function and Dissemination of an Internationalism in the Digital World.”

Research interests

  • Text technology, language data annotation and linguistic annotation standards
  • Corpus building & corpus-based language analysis
  • Corpora as digital educational technologies
  • Corpus linguistics and corpus linguistic methods: Analyzing interaction in internet-based communication

Lectures

Current selection:

Witt, Andreas / Herzberg, Laura:
Einfache Sprache und Leichte Sprache: Konzepte und ihre Anwendung auf das Deutsche, Master-Hauptseminar, HWS 2025, Mannheim
Witt, Andreas / Herzberg, Laura:
Video-Tutorials in der und für die Germanistische Linguistik, Masterseminar, FS 2025, Mannheim
Cotgrove, Louis / Herzberg, Laura:
Empirische Untersuchung der Jugendsprache, Seminar, FSS 2024, Universität Mannheim

Publications

Current selection:

Cotgrove, Louis / Herzberg, Laura / Lüngen, Harald (Hg.) (2025):
Exploring digitally-mediated communication with corpora. Methods, analyses, and corpus construction. (= Digital Linguistics 2). Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter.
Cotgrove, Louis / Herzberg, Laura / Lüngen, Harald (2025):
From CMC to DMC: Digital writing beyond the keyboard. In: Cotgrove, Louis / Herzberg, Laura / Lüngen, Harald (Hrsg.): Exploring digitally-mediated communication with corpora. Methods, analyses, and corpus construction. (= Digital Linguistics 2). Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter. S. 1-32.
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Flinz, Carolina / Gredel, Eva / Herzberg, Laura (2025):
The negotiation of pronominal address on talk pages of the German, French, and Italian Wikipedia. In: Cotgrove, Louis / Herzberg, Laura / Lüngen, Harald (Hrsg.): Exploring digitally-mediated communication with corpora. Methods, analyses, and corpus construction. (= Digital Linguistics 2). Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter. S. 421-452.
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Beißwenger, Michael / Gredel, Eva / Bartz, Thomas / Flinz, Carolina / Hamdi, Antonia / Herzberg, Laura / Lemnitzer, Lothar / Lüngen, Harald / Radtke, Nadja / Rebhan, Lena / Rüdiger, Jan Oliver / Schmidt, Thomas / Steinsiek, Sarah (2025):
Sprachkorpora im Deutschunterricht. (= Sprachlich-Literarisches Lernen und Deutschdidaktik (SLLD) 5). Bochum: Universitätsbibliothek der Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
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Herzberg, Laura / Lüngen, Harald (2024):
Investigating reply relations in Wikipedia talk pages to reconstruct interactional strategies of Wikipedia authors. In: Poudat, Céline / Lüngen, Harald / Herzberg, Laura (Hrsg.): Investigating Wikipedia. Linguistic corpus building, exploration and analysis. (= Studies in Corpus Linguistics 121). Amsterdam: Benjamins. S. 107-133.
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Talks

Current selection:

Witt, Andreas / Herzberg, Laura:
Standardization and AI in Language Simplification: The Example of Leichte Sprache (German Easy Language) and Einfache Sprache (Plain Language). The 22nd Annual EFNIL Conference.
24.10.2025, Wien
Roth, Melissa / Herzberg, Laura:
Wissenschaftstransfer als Forschungsaufgabe an der Hochschule. 4. Text+ Community-Plenary 2025.
17.6.2025, Göttingen
Herzberg, Laura:
Sprache unter der digitalen Lupe – Wörter am Computer analysieren. Girls Day – Mädchenzukunftstag.
3.4.2025, Mannheim
Herzberg, Laura / Cotgrove, Louis:
Corpus based didactics in higher educational settings: Empirically investigating online german youth language phenomena. 11th Conference on Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora.
6.9.2024, Universität Nizza, Frankreich
Müller-Spitzer, Carolin / Möhrs, Christine / Radtke, Nadja / Herzberg, Laura:
Methoden zur digitalen empirischen Wortschatzanalyse und wikibasierte Wörterbucharbeit in der Schule. Fachtagung Lehrerbildung Baden-Württemberg: Digitalisierung in der ersten Phase der Lehrerbildung. Chancen, Herausforderungen, Risiken.
7.11.2019, Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg