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:
- Kupietz, Marc / Diewald, Nils / Herzberg, Laura (2026):
- The Enhanced German Wikipedia Talk Pages Corpus: New Annotations for Emojis and Gender Sensitive Language. In: Coats, Steven (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities. CMC-Corpora 2026, 27–28 August 2026, University of Oulu, Finland. Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache. S. 8-10.
→Verlag - Lüngen, Harald / Herzberg, Laura / Beißwenger, Michael / Witt, Andreas (2026):
- TEI SIG CMC: Infrastructure and Resources for the Encoding of CMC Corpora. In: Coats, Steven (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities. CMC-Corpora 2026, 27–28 August 2026, University of Oulu, Finland. Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache. S. 46-47.
→IDS-Publikationsserver →Verlag - Lüngen, Harald / Herzberg, Laura (2026):
- An Approach to LLM-Based Annotation of Reply Relations. In: Coats, Steven (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities. CMC-Corpora 2026, 27–28 August 2026, University of Oulu, Finland. Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache. S. 74-82.
- Herzberg, Laura (2026):
- Sprache entdecken und gestalten: Didaktische Möglichkeiten der Wiki-Wörterbucharbeit. In: Der Deutschunterricht 1/2026. Hannover: Friedrich. S. 17-25.
→IDS-Publikationsserver →Text - Beißwenger, Michael / Lüngen, Harald / Meier-Vieracker, Simon / Steinsiek, Sarah / Storrer, Angelika / Herzberg, Laura (2025):
- Korpusgestützte Analyse internetbasierter Kommunikation. Eine Einführung. Stuttgart: Metzler.
Talks
Current selection:
- Herzberg, Laura:
- Textdaten am IDS – Wie wir aus geschriebener Sprache Forschungsdaten machen. Vortrag im Rahmen des ZfS-Kurses „Data Literacy“ der Universität Mannheim 20.4.2026, Mannheim.
16.11.2026, Mannheim - Herzberg, Laura / Witt, Andreas / Squadrito, Elisa:
- Plain Language and CLARIN. CLARIN Annual Conference 2026.
29.9.2026, Brighton, UK - Lüngen, Harald / Herzberg, Laura:
- An Approach to LLM-Based Annotation of Reply Relations. 13th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2026).
28.8.2026, Oulu, Finnland - Kupietz, Marc / Diewald, Nils / Herzberg, Laura:
- The Enhanced German Wikipedia Talk Pages Corpus: New Annotations for Emojis and Gender-Sensitive Language. 13th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2026).
27.8.2026, Oulu, Finnland - Lüngen, Harald / Herzberg, Laura / Beisswenger, Michael / Witt, Andreas:
- TEI SIG CMC: Infrastructure and Resources for the Encoding of CMC Corpora. 13th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2026).
27.8.2026, Oulu, Finnland