Position

Senior Researcher for Computational Linguistics within the Grammar Department of the Institute for the German Language (IDS), Head of Programme Area Language Information Systems.

Personal details

• 2018-2020 Interim Professor for Applied and Computational Linguistics at the Justus Liebig University Giessen.
• 2017 Habilitation 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.
• Spokesman of the Special Interest Group "Hypermedia" of the German Society for Computational Linguistics & Language Technology (GSCL), with Prof. Dr. Angelika Storrer and Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schröder.
• 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
• DFG Networks Empirische Erforschung internetbasierter Kommunikation (empirikom) and Internetlexikografie
• 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).
• GSCL Information Officer and editor of the GSCL Newsletter.

Research interests

• Computational Linguistics, NLP, ML
• Empirical Methods in Corpus Linguistics and for specialized corpora (e.g. Song Lyrics)
• Text Technology, markup technologies and standards for semi-structured content
• Semantic and terminological concepts for knowledge representation
• Digitalization, Datafication, Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
• Digital Humanities, management and linkage of digital data repositories
• Digital Lexicography
• Linguistic cases of doubt, language variation, language change

Recent publications

• 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 (Hg.) (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

Administrative services (excerpt)

• 2007-2009 and 2011/2012 member of the IDS steering committee, since 2018 of the extended steering committee.
• 2005-2009 member of Panel of IDS researchers (spokesman from 2007-2009).
• Member of the scientific advisory committee of the FID Linguistik.
• Member of the executive board 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.