Dr. Sascha Wolfer
Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache
R 5, 6-13
D - 68161 Mannheim
Zimmer: 4.22
Tel.: +49 621 / 1581 - 439
Fax: +49 621 / 1581 - 200
E-Mail: Adresse anzeigen
ORCiD: 0000-0002-8893-8153
Mastodon: Fediscience
Chronologien:
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Organisationseinheit:
Dr. Sascha Wolfer
Function
Researcher in the Department for Lexical Studies
Ombudsperson at the IDS (together with Annelen Brunner)
Task area
- Project leader of the project Dynamics of the lexicon
- Researcher in the project Quantitative linguistics
- Researcher in the project Lexicological information systems
- Researcher in the project Comprehensibility of administrative language (Dept. 'Zentrale Forschung')
Board activities
- Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Lexicography
- Member of the editorial committee of Lexikos
- Member of the editorial team of lingdrafts - Linguistische Werkstattberichte
- Member of the scientific committees of the EURALEX and eLex conferences
- Reviewer for the following organizations/publications (since 2023): Cogent Arts & Humanities; Communications Psychology; Data; Deutsche Sprache; Entropy; Humanities and Social Sciences Communication; International Journal of Lexicography; Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics; Germanistische Mitteilungen: Zeitschrift für deutsche Sprache, Kultur und Literatur; Reihe "Germanistische Linguistik"; Nature Scientific Reports; Language and Speech; Language Matters; Lexikos; Reihe "Linguistik in Empirie und Theorie"; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik
Personal data
- Since 2013: Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language
- 2010-2014: Researcher in the project PopSci – Understanding Science at the University of Freiburg in cooperation with the University of Mainz-Germersheim, funded by the Volkswagen foundation
- 2008-2010: Doctoral scholarship from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
- 2008-2015: Associated member of the Research Training Group 'Empirical Linguistics' at the Hermann Paul School for Language Sciences Basel – Freiburg
- 2008-2015: Dissertation project 'Optimization of comprehensibility of jurisdictional-terminological texts' at the Center for Cognitive Science, University of Freiburg, disputation in October 2015
- 2007: Magister Artium (M.A.) thesis: Semantic processing in connectionist networks
Research interests
- Psycholinguistics
- Quantitative methods
- Text comprehensibility
- Corpus-linguistic methods and analyses
- Visualizations of linguistic data
- Studies on the use of linguistic resources (e.g., dictionaries)
Lectures
Current selection:
- Advanced Module A4 'Research into Dictionary Use', European Master in Lexicography (EMLex), Blockseminar, SoSe 2025, Universidade do Minho Braga
- Statistik in der Linguistik: Eine kurze Einführung, Workshop, WS 2023/2024, U Leipzig, Germanistik (Online)
- Statistik mit R in der Linguistik: Eine Einführung, Vorlesung mit Übung, HS 2022, Universität Basel
- Statistics and Language Processing with R: An introductory Workshop (EMLex), Workshop, SoSe 2022, Universidade do Minho Braga, Portugal
- Programmierung, Text- und Kulturanalyse mit R, Workshop, WS 2019/2020, Greifswald
Publications
Current selection:
- Koplenig, Alexander / Wolfer, Sascha / Rüdiger, Jan Oliver / Meyer, Peter (2025):
- Human languages trade off complexity against efficiency. In: PLOS Complex Systems 2(2). San Francisco, CA: PLOS. S. 42.
→IDS-Publikationsserver →Verlag - Lew, Robert / Ptasznik, Bartosz / Wolfer, Sascha (2024):
- The effectiveness of ChatGPT as a lexical tool for English, compared with a bilingual dictionary and a monolingual learner’s dictionary. In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11, 1324. Berlin: Springer Nature. 10 S.
→IDS-Publikationsserver →Verlag - Wolfer, Sascha / Koplenig, Alexander / Kupietz, Marc / Müller-Spitzer, Carolin (2023):
- Introducing DeReKoGram: A novel frequency dataset with lemma and part- of-speech information for German. In: Data2023 8(11). Basel: MDPI. 10 S.
→IDS-Publikationsserver →Verlag - Wolfer, Sascha / Klosa-Kückelhaus, Annette (2023):
- Tracking the acceptance of neologisms in German: Psycholinguistic factors and their correspondence with corpus-linguistic findings. In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10. Springer Nature. 10 S.
→IDS-Publikationsserver →Verlag - Wolfer, Sascha (2023):
- Is More Always Better? Testing the Addition Bias for German Language Statistics. In: Cognitive Science 9. Hoboken: Wiley. 13 S.
→IDS-Publikationsserver →Verlag
Talks
Current selection:
- Klosa-Kückelhaus, Annette / Wolfer, Sascha:
- “Newbies” vs. Alteingesessene: Ein Multimethodenansatz zur Untersuchung von Neologismenakzeptanz und deren Wandel. 61. Jahrestagung des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache, "Deutsch im Wandel".
11.3.2025, Rosengarten, 68161 Mannheim - Wolfer, Sascha / Lew, Robert:
- Leveraging Dictionary Look-Up Behaviour to Supplement CEFR Vocabulary Lists. EURALEX 2024.
8.10.2024, Cavtat, Kroatien - Wolfer, Sascha:
- Is More Always Better? Testing the Addition Bias for German Language Statistics. Kognitionswissenschaftliches Kolloquium.
8.2.2024, Universität Freiburg - Wolfer, Sascha:
- Wer schreibt was an wen und warum? Verständliche Kommunikation in der Sozialen Arbeit. Schriftpraktiken Sozialer Arbeit.
17.5.2023, TH Köln