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
• Member of the Association for Diversity in Linguistics (e.V.)
• 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; Journal of the Linguistic Society of Germany; 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)