Dr. Sascha Wolfer
Function
Researcher in the Department for Lexical Studies
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 conferences
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)