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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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:
- Wolfer, Sascha / Lew, Robert (2025):
- Supplementing CEFR-graded vocabulary lists for language learners by leveraging information on dictionary views, corpus frequency, part-of-speech, and polysemy. In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, vol. 12. Berlin: Springer Nature. 11 S.
→IDS-Publikationsserver →Verlag - 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 - Wolfer, Sascha (2024):
- Lukas Podolski, Birgit Prinz und Joseph Haydn. Unbestimmt stehen sie für mehr. In: Meier-Vieracker, Simon (Hg.): Reingegrätscht. Eine kleine Linguistik des Fußballs. Tübingen: Narr. S. 155-165.
→IDS-Publikationsserver →Text - Lew, Robert / Wolfer, Sascha (2024):
- What Lexical Factors Drive Look-Ups in the English Wiktionary? In: SAGE Open 14(1). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
→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
Talks
Current selection:
- Hansen, Sandra / Lang, Christian / Wolfer, Sascha / Konieczny, Lars:
- Large Language Models als gebrauchsbasierte Modelle von Sprachproduktion und -verarbeitung? Eine mit erheblichem, interdisziplinärem Aufwand durchgeführte Studie zur Flexionsvariation in Doppel-Adjektiv-Konstruktionen. Kognitionswissenschaftliches Kolloquium.
23.7.2025, Freiburg im Breisgau - Wolfer, Sascha:
- Machine learning from look-up statistics: An approach to supplement CEFR vocabulary lists. EMLex-Kolloquium, "Interdisziplinäre Lexikographie".
22.5.2025, IDS Mannheim - Hansen, Sandra / Ribeiro Silveira, Maria / Wolfer, Sascha:
- Das Projekt Bürgernahe Sprache. Foreign language learning and proficiency-rated reading materials: SLA research and AI methods supporting analysis and effective didactics in real-life education.
21.3.2025, Universität Tübingen - 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 - Klosa-Kückelhaus, Annette / Storjohann, Petra / Wolfer, Sascha:
- Preferences in the use of neologistic synonyms and their lexicographic treatment. XXI. EURALEX International Congress – Lexicography and Semantics.
9.10.2024, Cavtat/Dubrovnik (Kroatien)