Dr. Thomas Schmidt
(Ehemaliger Mitarbeiter)
Functions
Researcher in the Program Area Oral corpora of the Pragmatics Department
2012-2021
Head of the projects Archiv für Gesprochenes Deutsch (AGD) and Korpustechnologie für Mündliche Korpora
2016-2020
Head of the project SegCor - Segmentation of Oral Corpora (Projektlaufzeit:
2012-2019
Head of the project FOLK
2015-2019
Researcher in the project Lexik des Gesprochenen Deutsch
CV
1992-1998
Studies in General Linguistics / English Linguistics / Romance philology and Mathematics / Computer Science at the Universities of Kaiserslautern and Mainz
1996-1997
Studies in Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland
1998-1999
Language Resource Engineer at Philips Speech Processing, Aachen
1999-2000
Studies "European Master of Linguistics" at the Free University Berlin and the Université Paris VIII
2000-2011
Project Assistant / Principal investigator in the project "Computer-assisted creation and analysis of multilingual data", SFB 538 Multilingualism, University of Hamburg
2004
PhD in German linguistics (text technology) from the University of Dortmund on Thesis title: Computergestützte Transkription – Modellierung und Visualisierung gesprochener Sprache mit texttechnologischen Mitteln
2005-2006
DAAD Post-Doc-Researcher at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley
2007-2008
Project assistant in the Digital Dictionary of the German Language, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science
2012-2021
Researcher at the Institute for the German Language
2021-2022
Director of "Research and Infrastructure Support (RISE)" at the University of Basel
Developer of the EXMARaLDA system and FOLKER, author of Kicktionary, founding Managing Director of the HSZK (Hamburg Centre for Speech Corpora), Member of the Academic Network of Internet Lexicography
Areas of Research
Oral corpora, corpus linguistics, text technology, computational lexicography