Digital Linguistics

(c) Photo by Andreas Baumann

Digital Linguistics is a scientific subfield in the intersection of Linguistics, Digital Humanities, and Data Science. It is concerned with (i) digital data used in linguistic research, (ii) digital and computational methods to address linguistic research questions, and (iii) the study of digitization and how it interacts with language, a topic that is also central to Digital Humanism.

At the Department of German Studies, Andreas Baumann is assistant professor of German language science with a focus on Digital Linguistics. He teaches courses on the topic in the BA and MA German Philology, and contributes to the MA Digital Humanities. We also collaborate with the Research Network Data Science @ Uni Vienna.

Current and former projects:

  • In the DIGILINGDIV project (WWTF ICT23-012), we investigate the relationship between ongoing digitization and linguistic diversity on a global scale. It is coordinated by Andreas Baumann with Hannes Fellner (Uni Wien) and Julia Neidhardt (TU Wien) as Co-PIs. Project start: 10/2024
  • DYLEN (go!digital Next Generation grant GDNG 2018-020) was a project on modeling diachronic dynamics of lexico-semantic networks in Austrian German. It was lead by Tanja Wissik (ACDH-CH) with Julia Neinhardt (TU Wien) and Andreas Baumann as Co-PIs. Project duration: 05/2019-12/2021
  • DYSEN (Digital Humanism MA7–737909/19) was a project on dynamic sentiment analysis using Austrian media data. It was lead by Julia Neinhardt (TU Wien) with Tanja Wissik (ACDH-CH) and Andreas Baumann as Co-PIs. Project duration: 02/2020-12/2021

A list of student projects can be found here.