Leibniz Institute for the German Language
Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache
The Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) is the central non-university institution for the study and documentation of the contemporary usage and recent history of the German language. Most of the lexicographic activity at the IDS is concentrated in the Department for Lexical Studies. The dictionary portal OWID (https://www.owid.de) is maintained there. The portal contains several corpus-based dictionaries covering selected areas of the vocabulary of contemporary German (dictionaries of paronyms, neologisms, and spoken German – in cooperation with the Pragmatics department). Furthermore, the IDS provides lexicographic resources on lexical language contact and recent language (dictionary of German foreign words, German loanwords in other languages, discourse dictionaries for the concept of “guilt” after WW2 and student protests of 1968). Apart from compiling dictionaries, the IDS also does meta-lexicographic research, especially usage studies. In the grammar department, “grammis” (https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de) is maintained and expanded. grammis is a scientific information system for the German grammar presenting research results, explanations and background knowledge.
Sascha Wolfer
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Researcher
Simon Krek (PhD) is a researcher and project manager in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He received a PhD in linguistics from the University of Ljubljana. The topic of his PhD was automatic extraction of lexicographic data from corpora. His main areas of research are lexicography and lexicogrammar, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, language technology infrastructure and computer-aided language learning and teaching. He is one of the representatives in the CLARIN.SI consortium (http://www.clarin.si) from JSI. He is a member of EURALEX board and the chair of the Innovative e-dictionaries Working Group in European Network of e-Lexicography COST action.
wolfer(at)ids-mannheim.de
