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 can be found in the article Von der linguistischen Datenverarbeitung am IDS zur “Mannheimer Schule der Korpuslinguistik”. 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)
Feix, Susanne
Text entry and text correction (Mannheim Corpus 1, Mannheim Corpus 2), marking of source texts, bibliography: DeReKo-based activities in research and teaching, scientific assistant
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)
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)
Seubert, Diana (Krenz)
Student assistant
Seubert, Eric
Development of the TEI-based text model of the IDS, development of programs for XML conversion and quality assurance of corpora, support of assistants in the correction and marking of source texts>
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!