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Extraction of linguistic and terminological data from text
Corpus Linguistics, tools, techniques and methods
Computational Lexicography and models for electronic dictionaries
Computational Morphology
Dialogue Systems and multimodality
For recent and ongoing doctoral theses supervised, see the research programme of Graduiertenkolleg 609, Sprachliche Repräsentation und ihre Interpretation (2006 - 2009)

SFB 732, B3: Disambiguierung von Nominalisierungen bei der Extraktion linguistischer Daten aus Corpustext
TTC: Terminology extraction, translation tools and comparable corpora (STREP 248005, EU: FP-7) on data extraction from comparable corpora (start in early 2010, coordinated by Beatrice Daille, University of Nantes )
Developing a Model for electronic Dictionaries (partly financed by Stias, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Datenextraktion fuer ein juristisches Fachwoerterbuch (Verlagskooperation)
Co-Editorship of HSK-5/4 : supplementary volume of the international handbook on dictionaries, with special emphasis on computational lexicography (with R.H. Gouws, W. Schweickard and H.E. Wiegand)
WordGraph: Using graph-based methods for investigating lexical semantics on the basis of corpora (Coord.: Hinrich Schuetze, Beate Dorow, Ulrich Heid)
D-SPIN: Deutsche Sprachressourcen-Infrastruktur (coordinated by Prof. Dr. E.Hinrichs , Univerisity of Tuebingen, local responsables at IMS: Prof. Dr. H.Schuetze, PD Dr. H. Schmid, U. Heid)
Creation of a corpus infrastructure for Sepedi (Northern Sotho) : cooperation with University of Pretoria, Dept. of African Languages

Collocations en Contexte (partly financed by AUF, Agence Universitaire pour la Francophonie, coord. Prof. Amalia Todirascu (co-supervision of a PhD thesis, 2009-2012, with partial financial support from DAAD in 2010/11)
DFG-Transferbereich TFB-32: Automatische Exzerption
DECIDE (Designing and Evaluating Extraction Tools for Collocations in Dictionaries and Corpora, EU MLAP 93/19)
Deutsche Derivations- und Kompositionsmorphologie (Linguistic work towards a German computational morphology system for inflection, derivation and compounding, based on the SFST system developed by Helmut Schmid )
Text Corpora and tools for their exploration This project has produced, among others, the corpus query tool IMS CorpusWorkbench, CWB
DELIS (Descriptive Lexical Specifications and Tools for corpus-based Lexicon Building, EU LRE 61.034, coordinator)
Several application-oriented projects with publishing houses from Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, concerning the extraction of lexicographically relevant linguistic data (collocations, examples, subcategorization data, etc.) from text corpora

EAGLES (Expert Advisory Group on Linguistic Engineering Standards)
ISLE - International Standards for Language Engineering
ELSNET (European Network of Excellence in Speech and Natural Language Processing - Managing Node for Germany)
Eurotra-7 Study on Reusable Lexical and Terminological Resources for NLP (coordinator)
RELATOR (A European Network of Repositories for Linguistic Resources, EU LRE 62.056)

Member of the German mirror committee of ISO TC-37/SC-4 (NA-105, AA-6) on Language Resources (Stellvertretender Obmann)
05/2008 - 03/2010: Replacement of a full professorship (Verwalter einer Professur W3) in Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, at University of Hildesheim
Scientific committees of 'Lexicographica' and 'Lexicographica. Series Maior' and formerly of 'Terminology' (2000 - 2006)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the 'Institut fuer Fachkommunikation und Mehrsprachigkeit' of the European Academy, Bolzano
Reviewer for DFG (2008/09), SNF (2006/08/09), ISF (2008) and others;