talks

Invited talks are marked with ★. For co-organised events, see cv.

Forthcoming

  • Body, movement and sensation in fanfiction on Jane Austen with A. Glawion and M. Mahlberg. Corpora and Discourse International Conference, Lancaster.

  • A Multivariate Analysis of Quotation in German Parliamentary Debates. Corpora and Discourse International Conference, Lancaster.

2025

  • ★ Corpus Queries in Discourse Studies. Seminar Research Topics in Digital Linguistics, Technical University of Darmstadt. slides
  • ★ Beyond the Gold Standard: Transparency in Qualitative Corpus Analysis. Series ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas, University of Cologne. slides
  • Reading Concordances at Scale. Body Parts in English and German 19th-Century Fiction. With S. Evert, M. Mahlberg & A. Piperski. Corpus Linguistics 2025, Birmingham.
  • Digital Hermeneutics: Reading Concordances with Algorithms. With S. Evert & A. Piperski. Workshop Corpus Linguistics 2040: Which Data, Which Methods, Which Models?, Mannheim.
  • Patterns of Narrative Fiction in English and German. With M. Mahlberg. Project symposium Reading Concordances in the 21st Century, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
  • A Flexible Approach to KWIC: Grouping Concordances. With S. Evert, M. Mahlberg & A. Piperski. ICAME, Vilnius.

2024

  • Leveraging High-Precision Corpus Queries for Text Classification via Large Language Models. With S. Evert, P. Heinrich, M. Humml & L. Schröder. DELITE Workshop @ LREC-COLING 2024, Torino.
  • Finding Argument Fragments on Social Media with Corpus Queries and LLMs. With S. Evert, P. Heinrich, M. Humml & L. Schröder. Conference on Advances in Robust Argumentation Machines (CHARM), Bielefeld.
  • Automatic Identification of COVID-19-Related Conspiracy Narratives in German Telegram Channels and Chats. With P. Heinrich, A. Blombach, B.M. Doan Dang, L. Zilio, L. Havenstein, S. Evert & F. Schäfer. LREC-COLING 2024, Torino.
  • DIREGA – Building Decision Support for German Register Law. Poster with A. Adrian, A. Basaran, S. Evert, M. Gritz, M. Humml, M. Kohlhase et al. JURIX 2024, Brno.
  • The Wolf Ate Us, and the Wolf Being Cancer: A Methodological Comparison of Metaphor Retrieval Approaches. Corpora and Discourse, Innsbruck.
  • The RC21 Project: Methods and Tools for Concordance Reading. With A. Piperski. Digital Humanities Training Day, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

2023

  • A Pipeline for the Creation of Multimodal Corpora from YouTube Videos. With A. Wilson & P. Uhrig. Workshop on Linguistic Insights from and for Multimodal Language Processing (LIMO), Ingolstadt.
  • Studying Time Conceptualisation via Speech, Prosody, and Hand Gesture. With P. Uhrig, E. Payne, I. Pavlova, I. Burenko, M. Baltazani, E. Burrows, S. Hale, P. Torr & A. Wilson. Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GeSpIn), Nijmegen.
  • Automatische Anonymisierung von Gerichtsurteilen – Eine Vision scheint realisierbar. With A. Adrian, S. Evert, P. Heinrich & M. Keuchen. IRIS 2023, Salzburg.

2022

  • ★ Between Ridicule and Exasperation: A Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis of German Reddit Posts about COVID-19 Conspiracies. With A. Blombach, P. Heinrich, B. Kabashi & T. Proisl. Panel contribution, X International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics, Sevilla.
  • ★ Eine korpuslinguistische Analyse der Corona-Berichterstattung in der deutschen und französischen Presse. With S. Diwersy, S. Evert, P. Heinrich & G. Luxardo. Symposium Mots et Discours de la Pandémie, Heidelberg.
  • A Keyword Categorisation Study on COVID-19 Conspiracy Discourse. With A. Blombach, L. Havenstein, P. Heinrich, S. Evert & F. Schäfer. Corpora and Discourse, Bologna.

2020

  • Categorising Keywords in Discourse. With J. Peters & S. Evert. Corpora and Discourse, Sussex (online).
  • Social Media Discourse and Conspiracy Theories during the COVID-19 Pandemic. With S. Evert. Corpora and Discourse, Sussex (online).
  • Die palliativmedizinische Fachkultur in der Gegenwart – sprachwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. With J. Peters. Paderborn.
  • Independent Argumentation Schemes? Transferring Argument Queries from Brexit to Environment Tweets. With P. Heinrich & A. Blombach. ICAME, Heidelberg (online).

2019

  • Arguing Brexit on Twitter. A Corpus Linguistic Study. With P. Heinrich & S. Evert. European Conference on Argumentation, Groningen.
  • Multiresistenz multimodal: Die Laienperspektive zu multiresistenten Erregern in zwei Diskurskonstellationen. With J. Peters & S. Evert. DGPUK, Darmstadt.
  • Reconstructing Twitter Arguments with Corpus Linguistics. With P. Heinrich & S. Evert. ICAME, Neuchâtel.

2018

  • A Quantitative Evaluation of Keyword Measures for Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis. With S. Evert & J. Peters. Corpora and Discourse, Lancaster.
  • From Keywords to Discourse – Towards a Systematic Approach. With J. Peters. Corpora and Discourse, Lancaster.