Corpora of Written Language

Former Staff Members and Sponsors

Electronic corpus construction has a long tradition at the IDS. After laying the foundation stone (Mannheim Corpus 1, 1964), countless staff members and student assistants have been involved in these tasks. At this point, sincere thanks are given to all those, who have made a contribution. A comprehensive documentation of the history of the IDS corpora is in course of preparation by our <link oea>Public Relations Department. On this website, first of all we would like to mention as many as possible of those, who have contributed to the creation of the largest collection of electronic corpora of written German language worldwide. We would like to ask for your understanding, if the list is still incomplete or if details are incorrect. In case you can provide us with additional information, we would highly appreciate it, if you sent us an email at  <korpuslinguistik@ids-...>. The idea, which was still new in the sixties, to analyse and describe the German language on the basis of computer-stored text corpora, has been implemented by the founding directors of the IDS, Paul Grebe and Ulrich Engel. With the assistance of the first president of the IDS advisory board, Hugo Moser, they led the conceptual work and text acquisition (on punch cards and punch tape at that time). Until the beginning of 1976 Ulrich Engel has also been responsible for the addition of further corpora. Since then and until 2002, his successor as director, Gerhard Stickel, has carried the ultimate responsibility for further corpus acquisition. Stickel also participated especially in the conception and fundraising for Die Wende corpora (1989-1990) and the Mannheim German Reference Corpus (1999-2002).

IDS Staff Members Involved in Corpus Construction in the Past

al-Wadi, Doris conversion of the IDS text corpora into CES-/TEI-conform formats, development and implementation of the corpus text bibliography model; patterning, analyses for programming and data editing (belles lettres of the 20th century, biographical literature and their editor texts), analyses for programming and continual monitoring (Berliner Zeitung, Mannheimer Morgen, die tageszeitung, Die Zeit), advising (Mannheim German Reference Corpus, Die Wende Corpus Reunification, Historical Corpus), conception, coordination and data editing (Magazine Lufthansa Logbook), source bibliographies and quality improvements (all corpora until mid 2003), coordination and data editing (Marx-Engels-Corpora), text selection, writing conventions, coordination and data editing (Die Wende Corpus West), COSMAS user manual Ba, Lamine student assistant Beck, Gerda text capture and text correction (Mannheim Corpus 1, Mannheim Corpus 2) Bertsch, Wolfgang data preparation, data conversion and data backup (Mannheim Corpus 1, Mannheim Corpus 2, Handbook Corpora) Bodmer, Franck morphosyntactic annotations (Mannheimer Morgen, Der Spiegel, LIMAS-Korpus), Brecht, Petra text entry (Historical Corpus) Brinker, Klaus conception (Mannheim Corpus 1, Mannheim Corpus 2) Brückner, Tobias software conception Brunner, Annelen student assistant Bujić, Saschka student assistant Burkhardt, Margit-Ute student assistant Denissova, Marina corpus correction and bibliography research Dillinger, Peter Morphosyntactic annotations (Mannheimer Morgen, Der Spiegel, LIMAS-Korpus) Donalies, Elke Conception, text selection, text structure, correction (Historical Corpus) Endres, Brigitte O. Text model, copyright, acquisition, coordination (Mannheim German Reference Corpus) Engel, Martina Student assistant Engel, Ulrich Overall conception (see above), conception (Mannheim Corpus 1) Epp, Berthold Programming (Mannheim Corpus 1, Mannheim Corpus 2) Erbe, Anneliese Text entry and text correction (Mannheim Corpus 1, Mannheim Corpus 2) Fraas, Claudia Conception, text selection (Die Wende Corpus East, Die Wende Corpus Reunification), data editing (Die Wende Corpus East), coordination (Die Wende Corpus Reunification) Ganz, Mirko Student assistant Geelhaus, Hermann Conception (Mannheim Corpus 1, Mannheim Corpus 2) Grebe, Paul First overall conception (see above) (Mannheim Corpus 1) Gruschka, Siegmund Format analysis and development of conversion program Hagspihl, Aloys Correction (Mannheim Corpus 1) Harras, Gisela Text selection (Handbook Corpora) Haß-Zumkehr, Ulrike Text selection (Handbook Corpora), conception, organisation, copyright (Mannheim German Reference Corpus), conception, text selection, text structure, correction (Historical Corpus) Hauser-Suida, Ulrike Conception (Mannheim Corpus 1, Mannheim Corpus 2) Heinelt, Karin Student assistant Hellmann, Manfred W. Conception, text selection, writing conventions (Bonn Newspaper Corpus) Herberg, Dieter Management, conception and coordination (Die Wende Corpus East) Hoffmann, Claus Data preparation, data conversion and data backup (Handbook Corpora) Hoppe, Gabriele Conception (Mannheim Corpus 1, Mannheim Corpus 2) Jäger, Siegfried Conception (Mannheim Corpus 1, Mannheim Corpus 2) Jüttner, Irmtraud Text acquisition (Belles lettres of the 20th century, biographical literature and its publisher texts, Berliner Zeitung, die tageszeitung, Die Zeit, Corpus Magazine Lufthansa Logbook, Terminology corpus 1, Pfeffer Corpus), development of the Corpus Text Bibliography Model, Data editing (Magazine Lufthansa Logbook, Marx-Engels-Corpora), copyright (all corpora until mid 2002) Kaehler, Erna Text entry (Historical Corpus) Kolb, Dieter Programming (Mannheim Corpus 1, Mannheim Corpus 2) Kolvenbach, Monika Conception (Handbook-Corpora, Interview-Corpus, Terminology Corpus 1, Die Wende Corpus West), text selection (Handbook-Corpora), writing conventions and documentation (Marx-Engels-Corpora), organisation (Die Wende Corpus West), counselling (Die Wende Corpus East) Krallmann, Dieter Conception and management of data processing Krauß, Rainer Data preparation, data conversion and data backup (Mannheim Corpus 1, Handbook-Corpora) Krenz (Seubert), Diana Student assistant Kurbel, Karl Programming (Mannheim Corpus 1, Mannheim Corpus 2) Lauer, Meike Maintaining contact with external text providers Lindemann, Jürgen Programming (Mannheim Corpus 1, Mannheim Corpus 2) Mentrup, Wolfgang Text selection (Handbook-Corpora) Michel, Dirk Student assistant Mückenmüller, Peter Organisation (Handbook-Corpora) Neumann, Robert Organisation (Marx-Engels-Corpora, Mannheimer Morgen, Magazine Lufthansa Logbook) Nikitopoulos, Pantelis Conception (Mannheim Corpus 2) Nortmeyer, Isolde Text selection (Handbook-Corpora) Oksas, Willi Data preparation, data conversion and data backup (Handbook-Corpora) Pantić, Milanka Student assistant Ptashnyk, Stefaniya Student assistant Radeka, Michael Student assistant Schmidt, Hartmut Conception, correction (Historical Corpus) Schreckenberger, Manfred Programming (Handbook-Corpora) Schumacher, Helmut Text selection (Handbook-Corpora) Schroeder, Vladimíra Text entry (Historical Corpus) Sommer, Uwe Programming (Mannheim Corpus 1, Mannheim Corpus 2) Stanaityte, Greta Student assistant Steyer, Kathrin Conception, text selection (Die Wende Corpus East, Die Wende Corpus Reunification), data editing (Die Wende Corpus East), coordinating (Die Wende Corpus Reunification) Stickel, Gerhard Overall conception (see above), conception and coordination (Die Wende Corpora) Strauß, Gerhard Text selection (Handbook-Corpora) Teubert, Wolfgang Conception, coordination (Die Wende Corpora, Marx-Engels-Corpora) Thompson, Ann Joyce Text selection (Historical Corpus) Volz, Norbert Text entry (Historical Corpus) Weber, Yvonne Student assistant Weiß, Christian Programming, data preparation, data conversion and data backup (Mannheim German Reference Corpus) Wolfangel, Paul Conception (Mannheim Corpus 1, Mannheim Corpus 2) Ziegler, Gerhard Programming (Mannheim Corpus 1, Mannheim Corpus 2) Zifonun, Iradj Documentation (Handbook-Corpora) Ziehr, Sigrid Text entry (Historical Corpus) Zint, Ingeborg Conception (Mannheim Corpus 1, Mannheim Corpus 2)

Sponsors, Data Providers and Data Typists From Outside the Institute

Adolf, Dieter (Redaktion Mannheimer Morgen, Mannheim) Mannheimer-Morgen-Corpora Bennett, Scott (Firma LOGOS in Mt. Arlington, N.J., USA) Morphosyntactic annotations Engel, Gerd (Institut for Erhversforskning, Kolding, Denmark) Terminology Corpus 2 Finelli, Roberto (Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy) Marx-Engels-Corpora Fussy, Herbert (öbv & hpt VerlagsgmbH, Vienna, Austria) Austrian Newspaper Corpus Giancotti, Emilia (Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy) Marx-Engels-Corpora Gianquinto, Alberto (Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy) Marx-Engels-Corpora Gube, Gabi (Zentralinstitut für Sprachwissenschaft, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR) Die Wende Corpus East Higuchi, Prof. (Universität Kyushu, Japan) Goethe-Corpus Hopfer, Reinhard (Zentralinstitut für Sprachwissenschaft, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR) Die Wende Corpus East Jappe, Anselm (Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy) Marx-Engels-Corpora Lindner, Ulrich (Zentralinstitut für Sprachwissenschaft, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR) Die Wende Corpus East Nakayama, Junko (Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan) Grimm-Corpus Teichmann, Christine (Zentralinstitut für Sprachwissenschaft, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR) Die Wende Corpus East Yamada, Yoshihisa (Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan) Grimm-Corpus At this point we would like to thank all those, who have contributed to the compilation of this information and to the creation of this website mostly in painful spade-work! <link kl projekte korpora>Back to Project                                  Sitemap     Suche     Impressum     Kontakt    Drucken