PD Dr. Roman Schneider
Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache
R 5 6-13, 68161 Mannheim
E-Mail: schneider(at)ids-mannheim.de
Tel.: +49 621 / 1581 – 217
Fax: +49 621 / 1581 – 200

Position
Head of Programme Area Language Information Systems within the IDS Grammar Department.
Academic Background
- 2017 Habilitation and Venia Legendi at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Leipzig.
- 2002 Dr. phil. in Media Sciences and Computational Linguistics, University of Trier.
- 1997 Master's degree (M.A.) in Computational Linguistics and Phonetics from the University of Trier.
Research Interests
- Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
- Empirical Methods in Corpus Linguistics and for specialized corpora (e.g. Song Lyrics)
- Text Technology, markup technologies and standards for semi-structured content
- Digital Humanities, management and linkage of digital data repositories
- Semantic and terminological concepts for knowledge representation
- Digital Lexicography
- Linguistic cases of doubt, language variation, language change
Recent Publications
- Schneider, Roman / Lang, Christian (2022): Das grammatische Informationssystem grammis – Inhalte, Anwendungen und Perspektiven. In: Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik, 50(2). Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 407-427.
- Schneider, Roman (2022): Das Songkorpus – Perspektiven einer korpuslinguistischen Nutzung deutschsprachiger Popmusik für die Fremd- und Zweitsprachenvermittlung. In: Korpora Deutsch als Fremdsprache 2(2). 149–153.
- Heyer, Gerhard / Schneider, Roman (2022): Text und Big Data. In: Biemann, Chris / Heyer, Gerhard / Quasthoff, Uwe (2022): Wissensrohstoff Text. Wiesbaden: Springer Vieweg, 14-15.
- Biemann, Chris / Heyer, Gerhard / Schneider, Roman (2022): Datenparallelität. In: Biemann, Chris / Heyer, Gerhard / Quasthoff, Uwe (2022): Wissensrohstoff Text. Wiesbaden: Springer Vieweg, 114-117.
- Schneider, Roman (2022): Zwischen Schriftlichkeit und Mündlichkeit: Songtexte in der deskriptiven Sprachforschung. In: Sprachreport 1/2022. 38-50.
- Schneider, Roman / Hansen, Sandra / Lang, Christian (2022): Das Vokabular von Songtexten im gesellschaftlichen Kontext – ein diachron-empirischer Beitrag. In: Kämper, Heidrun / Plewnia, Albrecht (Ed.): Sprache in Politik und Gesellschaft: Perspektiven und Zugänge. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 295-304.
- Amin, Miriam / Fankhauser, Peter / Kupietz, Marc / Schneider, Roman (2021): Shallow Context Analysis for German Idiom Detection. In: Proceedings of the Shared Task on the Disambiguation of German Verbal Idioms at KONVENS 2021.
- Falke, Stefan / Ripp, Saskia / Schneider, Roman / Waßner, Ulrich Hermann (2021): Das Informationssystem grammis als Ressource für die internationale Germanistik. In: Lobin, Henning / Witt, Andreas / Wöllstein, Angelika (Ed.): Deutsch in Europa. Sprachpolitisch, grammatisch, methodisch. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 295-300.
- Amin, Miriam / Fankhauser, Peter / Kupietz, Marc / Schneider, Roman (2021): Data-driven Identification of Idioms in Song Lyrics. In: Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2021), Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 13–22.
- Lang, Christian / Schneider, Roman / Schwinn, Horst / Suchowolec, Karolina / Wöllstein, Angelika (Ed.) (2020): Grammatik und Terminologie. (= Studien zur deutschen Sprache Band 82). Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.
- Schneider, Roman (2020): A Corpus Linguistic Perspective on Contemporary German Pop Lyrics with the Multi-Layer Annotated "Songkorpus". In: Proceedings of LREC 2020 (Language Resources and Evaluation Conference), Marseille.
More publications: see catalog
Teaching
- Since 2011 lectures and seminars at the Institute for Computer Science at Leipzig University.
- 2018-2020 Interim Professor for Applied and Computational Linguistics at the Justus Liebig University Giessen.
- Various seminars on Computational Linguistics at the Universities of Augsburg, Mannheim, and Trier.
Current Committee Work
- 2007-2009 and 2011/2012 member of the IDS steering committee, since 2018 of the extended steering committee.
- Member of the scientific advisory committee of the FID Linguistik.
- Member of the scientific advisory committee of the German Society for Computational Linguistics & Language Technology (GSCL).
- Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL).
- Co-editor of the book series amades - Arbeiten und Materialien zur deutschen Sprache.
- Spokesman of the Special Interest Group "Text Technology" of the German Society for Computational Linguistics & Language Technology (GSCL), with Dr. Gertrud Faaß.
- Co-founder and editor of the Computational Linguistics Portal.
- TEI Special Interest Group Computer-Mediated Communication
- Memberships in Scientific Societies: Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik (GSCL), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (Dhd), Internationale Vereinigung für Germanisten (IVG).