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Prof. Dr. Andreas Witt

Prof. Dr. Andreas Witt studied Linguistics, Informatics and Psychology at the University of Bielefeld. He is Head of the Department of “Digital Linguistics” at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, university professor for Computational Humanities & Text Technology at the University of Mannheim as well as honorary professor for Digital Humanities at the University of Heidelberg. From 2017 until 2019, he was professor for Digital Humanities at the University of Cologne.

His research interests focus on: 

  • Text Technology
  • Digital Humanities
  • Information Modeling
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Markup Languages

There are alternating courses offered corresponding to these research interests.

Selected courses:

  • Digitale Sprachdaten: Ressourcen und Standards  
  • Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft 

Supervisor and examiner for: BA, LA, MA, dissertation


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