Position

Head of Programme Area Language Information Systems within the IDS Grammar Department.

Personal Details

• 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).

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

• 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.
• 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 Administrative Services

• 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 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.