Dr. Sascha Wolfer

Function

Researcher in the Department for Lexical Studies

Task area

Board activities

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:

Statistik in der Linguistik: Eine kurze Einführung, Workshop, WS 2023/2024, U Leipzig, Germanistik (Online)
Advanced Module A4 'Research into Dictionary Use', European Master in Lexicography (EMLex), Blockseminar, SoSe 2023, KRE Budapest
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

Publications

Current selection:

Wolfer, Sascha / Koplenig, Alexander (2024):
Does corpus size influence normalised frequencies? In: OSF Preprints. 16 S.
Verlag
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
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:

Wolfer, Sascha:
Ist mehr immer besser? Der Addition Bias im Deutschen. Expert*innen-Workshop Projekt KompAS (SNF-Projekt M. Luginbühl).
26.10.2023, Universität Basel
Lew, Robert / Wolfer, Sascha:
The Dark Side of the Dictionary. eLex 2023.
27.6.2023, Brno, Tschechien
Wolfer, Sascha:
Wer schreibt was an wen und warum? Verständliche Kommunikation in der Sozialen Arbeit. Schriftpraktiken Sozialer Arbeit.
17.5.2023, TH Köln
Rüdiger, Jan Oliver / Wolfer, Sascha / Cotgrove, Louis / Koplenig, Alexander / Michaelis, Frank / Müller-Spitzer, Carolin / Ochs, Samira:
Day-to-day collection, exploration, analysis, and visualization of n-gram frequencies in German (online press) language: OWIDplusLIVE.
14.7.2022, Mannheim
Hein, Katrin / Wolfer, Sascha:
German affixes of negation: productivity and affective content. 44. Jahrestagung der DGfS: "Sprache verpflichtet".
23.2.2022, Tübingen (Online-Tagung)